Please do insist on a work up on him. Even if your vet tells you it's behavior - insist he does further testing (Blood panel etc) Even an MRI of the brain. We lost our Jersey in August. She was 17 months old. Like your guy she was a little odd even as a 10 week old pup. Our vet kept telling us it was just her personality. A few months before we lost her she became very aggressive. It seemed towards our other Yorkies but she would also attack me as well. Almost instantly after it was like it never happened, as if she didn't remember doing it. I will tell you that if you have pictures of your guy when you got him and now PLEASE do look at his eyes. Jersey's eyes became distant - almost dead. In the end I really insisted - crying on the phone that the vet has to find out what is wrong and that it was not behavioral. We did do testing etc. It was not conclusive and we were told we could spend $5,000 and still never have an answer but that the vet at this time felt she was only going to get sicker. In the end she seemed unhappy, sad, and at times even in some pain. The best conclusion the vet came up with was that it was either organic or a brain tumor. He found an abnormalty in her brain. I'm still haunted by all of this and for a long time would stay up all night searching for answers - to give me peace that I did the right thing in putting her down. I came up with Hydrocephelus. A lot of symptoms Jersey experienced seemed to fit that. I'm sorry that I did not get my little girl the help she needed early enough and I don't ever want to see that happen to someone else. I can't tell you how horrible it was to have to put a 17 month old baby down. We had lost our 10 year old Yorkie to cancer a year earlier my boys brought Jersey home to me to mend my heart. Losing our 10 yr. old I thought was the hardest but some how when you have to bring a little baby in and say good - bye the pain is unbearable. Please, keep searching and don't let anyone tell you something if your gut says different.
Elaine |