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Originally Posted by docmartin  Took her out this afternoon, we went about half a mile each way and stopped at our usual little shelter on the sea-front. She was up on the bench next to me immediately and was very affectionate. Back home she's also paying attention again. Her mood change could be down to my being physically unable to have these little strolls recently? Perhaps they have meant a lot to her and in excess of what I'd imagined? Although not so long, or rigorous as her Mom's morning workouts; it could be she's missed these little sojourns and chats more than I'd appreciated? Maybe the first heat's still having effect. Five weeks since she first showed and her little teats and vulva are still quite swollen? |
Remember, terriers take everything so personally and the fact that you changed, that weren't keeping up your old schedule, your sudden, odd hospital smells, your pain and discomfort that she obviously sensed as a weakness, your relative inactivity, her heat cycle and your wife being there to fill in all probably conspired to cause her to re-think her place in the pack and who she owed her best allegiances to for the time being. Dogs always look out for themselves and go with the flow that's flowing, if you get my drift! lol. She moved away from you perhaps thinking you had withdrawn and weren't her bestie anymore while your wife was taking her for long, off-leash "freedom" walks and she naturally gravitated toward her. But this girl obviously loves her daddy and is always going to.
Sounds like a typical terrier reaction to changes in her daily life. My sister told me she went to the doctor two weeks back and was gone a great portion of the day and when she came home, her Westie-Schnauzer mix terrier wouldn't greet her, didn't eat dinner, avoided her the rest of the day and slept in the den that night instead of in the bed next to her as he usually does. The next morning, he wolfed down his food but still avoided her for the rest of that day. It was the third day before he was "her dog" and back to normal again.