[My Dog Emma]

I think Paris went into heat for the first time @ 8 months... She has been acting weird along wiht it. I'm a little concerned... here's why...

the other night she was yelping in her cage... after I couldn't take much more of it, I let her out and she jumped into my bed and went to sleep... She's very good about staying in the cage, but whatever.. I needed to get rest.

Well, in the morning i realized why she was crying. She had pooped in her cage?! I thouht to myself.. well, that's why she didn't want to stay in there.

WELL... yesterday I decided to give her a bath. She was looking a little scraggley. when I put her in the tub, I noticed what I thought was mud??? Well, caught up in her butt hairs was a glob of POOP! I felt soooo bad that the little thing was going around for a day and a half with poop in her butt.

That explains why she kept trying to clean herself down there - complicted by being in heat! I feel soooo bad that I didn't notice earlier...

Anyway, she isn't doing too well right now. She's not herself... Could she be ill or is it just that she is not sure what's going on with her 'heat' kicking in for the first time?

Did your female act different during her first season?? Should I be concerned?

thanks,
Al