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Originally Posted by Teapup-Cup-Pup  We got a teacup yorkie 4 days and have not had this happen till today. She wakes up from her sleep and gets tense and her eyes open wide and look forward. She starts whimpering & crying then she starts spasming. We pet her to give her some comfort and she spreads her legs behind her and off to the side while still crying. She then runs trying to hide her face in something. A few second later when she has burrowed into a spot or is tired out we hold her and pet her and talk to her but she still continues to whimper and cry about every 3 seconds. She's completely worn out. She occasionaly does some loud cries.. without opening her mouth she just sits still and stretches out her neck/throat upwards, keeping her eyes closed, and makes the noise. She still drinks her water and can walk but still makes the noises until she is asleep. But then she wakes up and repeats =/
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She has not eaten solid food on her own but we have force fed her on the 3rd and 4th day. We feed her twice a day with a syringe, once in the AM and PM. We mix soft food (Cesar pink label) with NutriCal & water. After each meal (once for AM, once for PM) we use another syringe to drop 1/2mL of Albon in her mouth (which she fought the first day but swallows it within seconds now). She cried & fought the first two times force feeding her but on the 4th day she didn't make a noise either meal but did fight it a little. (So she got more comfortable with all that)
She sleeps a lot and has just started to really explore and walk around the apartment more (she is a very very shy puppy). She walked around more today than all her days combined by far.
Besides not eating on her own and the spasms/spasm-affects she has been great, healthy, curious, shy, loving, all-those-things, & mostly sleeping for her first days here.
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Her first spasm happened hours after her first meal for the day. The rest of them happened hour(s) after her second meal when she sleeps with us for the rest of the night. |
if it is happening after meals it is probably liver shunt
get blood work NOW and if not liver shunt then you need to get her to a neurologist as she is too young for epilepsy it could be encephalitis type thing but you have to rule out liver shunt first
poor baby is having seizures
she is refusing to eat as she knows it makes her sick as food has to be very low in protein for liver dogs
my concern is she is probably real tiny and bats take a lot of blood so hopefully the full panel will tell you what is going on by a high alt