shaking without apparent reason?
The only thing that has changed is that I had to place both of them in a bathroom for a 30 minutes because I had to empty the room where Mariaelena will be sleeping and is the room where we sleep, but they left OK from there and were very quiet in there. What's scaring me is how sudden the shaking and his scared look started, we threw him a ball and he paid some attention to it but he's still shaking like he does when he's scared. Any ideas on what could it be? |
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| Seizure?
Anything disturbed in the bathroom? As into something non-edible? Overheating? |
| With a seizure...at least with Peanuts, He shakes and can't see.
Was he able to focus on you? He also drools during one. |
| Sounds like a seizure. Definitely check for cleaning products that may have been disturbed. If you use the things that hang in the toilet, that may be it. If the room was recently cleaned they could be licking it off of their paws. Scan the room and think outside the box.
Monitor how long the shaking lasts and any other symptoms associated with the shaking (like the drooling). Check to see quality and type of breathing. Seizures impair the bodies ability to breath and that is the biggest problem with them, grand mal (big shakes) are worse than petite mal (little shakes like what you are describing). Call your vet for advice about what to do next. Keep him calm and warm in somewhere dark and quiet. That may help stop the seizures. |
| Thanks for the advise everyone! I'll keep an eye on Lennon just in case, but seems that the shaking and fear had a much simpler explanation:
When I emptied the room, I put the clothes hamper in a place where it blocked his den behind the couch. For some reason he got terrified because of the hamper and we had a scared doggie 
After a while when I started shifing things to get to the living room, I moved the hamper and as soon as it no longer blocked the way, his mood changed completely, he bolted to his den and stayed there happily chewing a toy (You cold see the immediate change on his body language and facial expression). Then he came when called, performed some tricks and caught a ball just as he does every day. He has not shown any other type of strange behabiour and I just played with him a few minutes ago. Just to be on the safe side, I looked around in the bathroom to see if we had any disturbed products but everything is okay, locked under the cabinet out of the doggie's reach. Now... if Lennon had never had seizures before, what could trigger them? Lennon seemed very concious all the time while he was shaking, his expression was more of fear than of confussion, as he walked around very anxious and shaking. The breathing was of the exitement pant, more than troubled breathing. Shaking and fear lasted for about 30 minutes, give or take and it was about 30 minutes after they left the bathroom, but right after he returned from an exploration trip to check on his den. Drooling was consistent on how he drools when he's exited... Now you've got me thinking. If it was a seizure, I think it was a hell of a coincidence that it stopped right after I moved the hamper from his den, but one can never rule out the possibility. Given the symptoms I just described, could a seizure be triggered because he ate something? |
| Wow, that must have been scary, Saul! I'm glad he's feeling better... I was very worried. |
| WHEW!! Glad it wasn't anything serious. It's funny how our big brave sheepies will sudenly decide to be terrified of something. Tasker will do that outside on occassion. We'll be outside and he'll spy something that makes him cower and cringe. Other times he's the most ferocius best that ever walked the planet. |
| Yeah... That was a close call. I'm glad that everything turned out to be just him being a silly dog. I had a loooong talk with the clothes hamper and he promised not to scare Lennon any more.
What are your sheepies afraid of? |
saulmr wrote: What are your sheepies afraid of?
Rags gets freaked out if something drops, or if someone yells... Also she is deathly afraid of my fly swatter. She also shook like a leaf today when I brought her to the groomer and had her nails trimmed. I think she was scared of the noose around her neck and the table....and this guys she's never met trimming her nails. |
| Have no idea about what to look for re: seizures, but so glad Lennon is OK now - phew |
| Barney has done similar things to that, although not as bad, it sounds. Like if put something new in the room (usually something big) he'll do all he can to avoind going near it and he'll just stop and shake a little and not come to us (if we are near it)...eventually he'll make a mad dash to run past the object and usually if the object is left there, he'll get used to it and be okay... |
| Glad to hear Lennon is doing better....Panda has never been that shakey, but she will hunker her back legs and butt down and run like the wind to get past the tall fan we have in the hallway....she also does that with shadows...... |
| Our Katrina used to be afraid of the chirping of low batteries in the smoke alarm. She would absolutely freak and tremble and everything that you described. It took a few hours for her to calm down and she wouldn't want to be in the house. It was pitiful she would be so scared. No matter how much you tried to comfort her it wouldn't help. |
| When Dixie first came she was afraid and ran to hide when we opened the fridge door, or even changed the channel on the TV. Now she is quite brazen, and is more inclined to challenge strange things than run from them.
But both Bosley and Dixie both don't like it when critters like ferocious bunnies are in the back yard. The other morning Bosley was barking and refused to go out to do his business when there was mallard duck walking around back. Tough guy or what! |
lol...Barney doesn't like bunnies in the backyard, either...  |
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