Hello everyone. I'm Kristy. I just got my first yorkie three days ago from a breeder near my home. Everything there seemed to check out ok and he seemed relatively healthy (the breeder told me upfront he had a cough and gave me a prescription that he had for it). Anyway, all he does is scratch himself and bite his paws.
He also "army crawl" around. He does laps around the living room table on his belly. At first I laughed until I cried because I thought it was so cute/funny, but now I am worried he is just doing that to scratch the spots on his belly he can't reach w/ his paws.
I sprayed his paws w/ bitter apple spray and that seemed to help. I put an anti-itch cream on his stomach that worked temporarily. He woke me up twice last night with a cough. He got worked up because he was alone on the floor by my bed and was crying; then he started coughing. I got up and gave him some of his medicine with a med dropper, then I gave him some water to wash it down via the dropper, too.
He is inherently playful, I think. He just stops all the time to scratch himself. He seems fine when he's on my lap and I'm petting him, but otherwise he's a wreck and its making me scared!
Any advice or encouragement would be appreciated.
***update*** just made a vet appt; hopefully they can give me some solid advice and not charge me too much
