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Originally Posted by JoeyP  Hmmm..... is he barking at or toward any particular thing?
Yes have him checked at the vet
when dogs have pain they sometimes start barking like this
Does he stop when you pick him up and hold him?
The shaking is what is out of the ordinary here
My guys will get themselves into a tear and it will take me a good minute or two to quiet them down sometimes
But they never shake ...... when that happens they usually have hurt themselves in some way
and they will immediately jump into my lap
When this happens give him a little squeeze thru ... check his back his legs and see if there is any tenderness anywhere |
I wouldn't say the shaking is out of the ordinary, it is one of the fairly normal submissive fear responses. I thought about the idea that it could be from pain but neither I or two of the vets I've seen in the last week can find anything wrong with him. The shaking is the typical fear response, especially when grouped with his ears, the whinning/barking, lowered body and tail and the occasional urination. The big thing that really concerned me was the duration and that fact that he becomes pretty inconsolable.
He hasn't done it in the last couple days. I've talked to our maintenance guys about the apt underneath us trying to come up with what he could be reacting to. The only reasoning I've come up with at this point is that the people under us who recently moved out might have had one of those ultrasonic training devices. It makes sense the more that I think about it, because while he's a huge loud dog I've never heard him bark for more then a few seconds. Would make sense, since apparently it was confined pretty much under the area Winston goes crazy over. Far fetched, but its the only thing I can come up with to explain it (beyond my other family members insisting we have a ghost.)