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Originally Posted by AlwaysTexas

I'm hoping someone can offer some advice or perhaps have had this happen to them.

Last evening, my 4 year old male yorkie went to bed with me as usual - along with my 6 year old female biewer (she's been with us for 2 months now). All was well, then I was awakened by a scratching sound on my pillow, I thought at first it was my female, but no, it was my male - then he starts a reversed sneezing attack. I finally get him settled from that and then he lays next to me and he is trembling/shaking for what seems like 1/2 an hour - we both went to sleep but I don't know if he was frightened or what. A little while later, he wanted off the bed, so I put him off the bed, when I woke up, he was sitting in the bathroom, next to the toilet, just sitting there, like scared.

I will also say, he's done this before, but not during the evening or night but sometimes during the day (BEFORE I even got my female), he will follow me in to the bathroom and just sit by the toilet as if he's scared. And even when I leave the bathroom - he will stay there just sitting by the toilet.

I might add, though my female has been with us 2 months - he's never seemed to really care for her. I've had my male since he was 13 weeks so he was resident dog for a long long time. She is pretty bossy with him and she does demand a lot of attention. She will bark at him if he walks in front of her, or if he's barking at another dog, she barks at him, or if I'm playing with him, she will jump right in the middle as she wants all the attention - when this happens, my male just walks away as if he's sad.

What could have caused the trembling in the middle of the night? Why does he go sit by a toilet as if he's hiding?

I really don't have any advice because not knowing your baby, I'm not really sure what may have caused this behavior. He could be experiencing some kind of pain and maybe a visit to the vet is best. Once we go to bed at night, my dogs are not allowed off the bed. If they get up, I get up with them and stay with them because it's out of the ordinary for them to be up at night unless something is wrong and at that point I am worried about them and wouldn't be able to sleep anyway. I hope your vet can tell you what's going on with your baby. Poor fella.