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12-21-2005, 08:28 PM | #1 |
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| What happened? I am fairly new to Yorkie talk, and this is my first time asking a question. I apologize in advance if this question or anything like it was already posted but I've been looking for hours and if it is I cant find it. Anyway, lately my 5 yr old yorkie Gingy (Ginger) has been gnawing at her paws and rolling on her back alot. Not so much that it is bleeding, and she isnt really losing any fur, but she does do it occasionally during the day and at night sometimes too. This is just the first thing of a couple that I've noticed lately though. I am pretty sure that she has many common allergies that went along with the summer but now that it is winter I am wondering if her new problem could be from dry skin.?. I think that it started when I brought her over my parents house (who have 2 cats). Could it have anything to do with the cats? Also, she has been very distant maybe even sad when it comes to hanging out with me lately. Which is a stab in the heart for me because she always used to cuddle with me and follow me around the house, but now she is still excited when I get home from work, but after about 5 mins, she walks away and sits in the spare bedroom by herself. I will call her out to come and sit with me and she will walk over to the couch and look at me then walk back into the bedroom. I dont notice this when she is with my husband though! She sits with him now more than me, which is the complete opposite to how she used to be. Now... last but not least. I recently happened to look under our kitchen table and I found 2 lil poopies (which is not completely uncommon for her, because we are still having a hard time keeping her from pooping in the house, we've only had her less than a year, and we adopted her from a shelter, that got her from a groomer that was raided for falsifying vet documents, and we are pretty sure she was cage kept and only used for breeding, then put back in the cage) back to the poopie though, it was surrounded by this thick looking yellowish brown liquid, that seemed too thick to be urine. I was just reading about anal glands and was wondering if hers could have expressed themselves. Can anyone help me with any or all of my poor Gingy (and her mommy's) problems???? I am heart broken that my baby seems to not love her mommy anymore and I dont know if these things are related in anyway. Sorry for making this so long but I think that the details are important. Please give any advice that you can. |
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12-21-2005, 08:53 PM | #2 |
Princess Poop A Lot Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado
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| Poor baby, sounds like she has alot of problems right now. I will try and give you my opinion in a shorter version: 1. She might have food allergies, what are you feeding her, is there a lot of corn in the food? What do you wash your floors with? My dogs had a lot of problems until I started to only use Ivory Dishsoap on my tile floors. 2. She might have an intestinal problem (yellowish liquid) so I would take her to the vet with a stool sample. Do you take her for walks, doggy park or have you taken her to the vet lately. She easily could have picked up something with any of these places. 3. She might be staying away because she is afraid what you might do to punish her for the pooping. Not sure if she was already potty trained or not but her first owner (maybe a woman) might have been very cruel to her. Rescues never foret their past, then just move on from it. 4. You have to go so very slow with rescue's because you really don't know what happened to them but if she was raised in a pen then it is very difficult to housetrain. I have one like this and I don't know if she will every learn. I can't crate train her because she panics in the cage. For most of the day she lives in my closet and comes out for breakfast and dinner but is happy to be outside with me and the gang. Maybe she feels that she can run if something happens to her. I also have had her for a year and she has come along way but she was found in the desert just barely alive. The couple that found her wanted to keep her but she was scared out of her mind by the husband and you can never were tennis shoes in front of her. She would never come into the house and they had to pick her up each time. They tried for 5 months but then gave her to me. We know she was a breeder because they had carved a number in her ear and when I had her spade she was a mess inside. Let me know your thoughts.
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12-21-2005, 08:53 PM | #3 |
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| First stop for me would be a vet check up. It sounds like the itching could be an allergy (may be the cats, or could be food), and if that think yellow isn't the anal glands - she could have a real bad urinary infection or something. I'd get her in for a check up asap. If she's not feeling well, maybe she's just lethargic and not her usualy happy self?
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