Hello, This is my first time to post here, never had a reason til now...
I have a yorkie who will be 13 on the 14th. His name is Harley, and let me say he has never been a "normal" dog.
He has always been a nervous nelly as I call him. He hates loud noises, hates car rides, ok he bascially shakes alot. He will turn tail if there is any loud talking, I have always said he needed to be on valium. But he is always around whenever there is any kind of food....my mother started that! He will sit beside me looking like he hasn't eaten in days, which of course is not true. I only let him lick my plate....he constantly follows me wherever I go, and of course I can never figure out what it is he wants when he looks at me and does his little woofing thing.
So my dilema, I am in TX and of course we had our worse ever ice storm yesterday, now Harley hates to go pp n the rain let alone ice, but I carry him out to the grass and he does his business and I pick him up, nothing out of the norm, but today he has been under the bed all day, when I look under there he turns his head like I'm going to scold him for something (which he does all the time too, even though there has never been a hand raised to him) so I got him out and he was shaking horribly almost as bad as when we go to the groomer, but even weirder is the fact of me in the kitchen cooking, and then eating and nothing, he didn''t budge, this is the really freaky part. I even took something into him and nope. So when I got him I wrapped him in a blanket and held him on lap for awhile which he only shook a little. So I put him down and he ran straight back under the bed and has been there all night. I just don't know what to think.
His nose is wet, he really doesn't act like he is sick, can't tell bout his eyes because he has cataracts on both eyes. I really hate taking him to the vet, the last time they tried to give him cushings disease....I knew what that problem was , but $500 later it was fixed. My ever loving husband had fed him 2 bowls of orange juice....yea I know why? Ok he's a man and said he liked it, well 2 pepcid ac's and we were back to normal, cushing's disease my rear. I do not trust them when it comes to my baby. He just acts frightened. I do know that because of the ice he has not poopoo'd in 2 days, could that be the problem?
I would really appreciate any advice on this, I know my time is limited with him after all he is almost 13, and I can't even imagine life without him, but I'm not ready for that yet.
