All young dogs are subject to stresses and traumas and our quiet confident response while not feeding their anxieties with our worry and pity(which is there big time, believe me, I know and understand but we have to get over it to help our babies) is the best treatment we can give them. Try to distract her with a squeaky toy, tugowar, suggesting a game, taking her outside - any change of state of mind, when she goes into a panic state and when sheh's distracted, saying positive words like "Hero!" "Soldier!" "Big Dog!" "Rock Star!" always seemed to build up my Tibbe and he would pretty soon be puffing out his tiny chest and acting himself again. Just taking him to the vet and leaving him a matter of hours would cause this panic reaction after he got back home. It was like his world had been rocked and nothing was the same. But just distracting him, redirecting his energy and building him up with those words that we usually say with some amount of built-in positive emphasis seemed to bring him around. Life with a Yorkie can be work at times but the wages are the best in the world - a happy, healthy Yorkie. |