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10-02-2013, 07:19 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: north kingstown
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| question regarding my yorkie Not sure if this is related to other posts. But I have a concern with my Yorkie. (2 years old). He seems to want to try and bite his back side, but has trouble, maybe a little too much weight on him, and he just goes from side to side and falls down, don't know what could be causing this, I bathe him all the time, I've tried advantx, the last vet even tried prednizone on him, but it just made him groggy. I try brushing him, but nothing seems to help. Just wondering if it sounds like something to anyone, Any suggestion would help. Thanks. |
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10-02-2013, 07:29 PM | #2 |
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| Get him to still another vet. Tibbe does this when his anal glands are full and hurting. He doesn't scoot his rear on the floor hardly at all, just bites at his read and looks at me woefully. Could be other pain from a little anal tumor or cyst or something, too or a pinched nerve in his low back radiating pain there. If he's chronically constipated or something, could be an impacted stool, something like that, which he feels and is trying to do something about it. Itching in the anal area can make them do this, too. I'd just get another vet, perhaps an internist, to examine him this time. You likely need a vet a step up from others, a specialist, if he's seen more than one vet for this.
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10-02-2013, 07:30 PM | #3 |
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| Have you considered the itching/biting to possibly be a skin irritation due to a food allergy? Has your vet ruled out a neurological disorder or a tumor in regard to the falling down? Just my initial thoughts..,
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10-02-2013, 07:33 PM | #4 | |
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10-02-2013, 07:40 PM | #5 |
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| Seems far-fetched though, doesn't it? You'd think the vet would have found full anals and expressed them, not just suggested Pred. Still, guess they can miss it if they aren't that full but still bothering him, hurting or itching or something. I'd be worried about low back or a little cyst/tumor near rectum or something, too. I'd get him to an internist and go from there. Isn't flank biting a symptom of a possible seizure, too? I know fly-biting can be.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
10-02-2013, 07:54 PM | #6 |
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| Did they x-ray his hips for some type of hip problem? He could have hip disease and the pain is what he's biting at.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
10-02-2013, 08:00 PM | #7 |
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| Not far fetched so much but does leave the question of why the little guy is falling over? I felt like the answer to that was the potentially overweight issue though. I hesitate to over react but I am curious what the theory was when the vet prescribed prednisone. I noted flea treatment and then the prednisone and I am wondering: does the skin appear to be irritated? I like simple answers not neurological disorders. That does bring me to skin condition an possible allergies. And if course to the original question of the food. But dietary management and general wellness such as expressed anal glands are a great place to start and hopefully before medication is introduced
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10-02-2013, 08:07 PM | #8 |
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| He might just tilt himself so as he's intent on turning and biting that if he's overweight, he could just have somewhat compromised reactions and falls over. I've seen dogs do that before, just get so intent on their rear-biting they went down. Had one rescue riddled with fleas he did that over and over when we first got him here as he was so intent on just trying to stop the stinging/biting until we could get him bathed and treated. Have seen a couple of dogs in the pound biting at their rear-end itching so badly they fell over too.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
10-03-2013, 11:55 AM | #9 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: north kingstown
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| the problem seems to be on the left hand side of his tail area. if you start scratching the area, you can tell by his reactions this is the spot. I tried feeling around, it seems a little raised in a certain spot, and you can tell if you rub the area, it is comforting to him. and that this is the spot that is causing the problem, but what could it possibly be? he doesn't have any problem going to the bathroom, he goes every day and its a good decent amount he goes. so I'm not sure, if maybe he was bitten by something, and it irritated it.? |
10-03-2013, 12:01 PM | #10 | |
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There are many threads on YT about itching, scratching, rear-biting and paw-chewing as an allergic reaction to food develops.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis Last edited by yorkietalkjilly; 10-03-2013 at 12:03 PM. | |
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