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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  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... sounds like a typical terrier reaction to changes in her daily life. |
May have a partial answer today? I went for an MRI scan early this morning and the removal of a small plaster I had over the entry point of the keyhole op from three weeks ago
(I'd forgotten this alien object, which had to stay in place anyway).
Crystal had apparently been in a right old state as I'd been gone four hours and all that time she'd sat by the elevator
(only my wife and I can access this story by car-key). Whine-barking quite pitifully when the elevator kept stopping 1 floor down.
When I arrived there was an explosion of a welcome, with accompanying minor pee pees! I immediately had a shower to get rid of the 'hospital smell'.
She then came to me straight away, got down inside the freshly laundered bed and hasn't moved since! We're then off for a little half mile stroll this evening, when all the kids have gone home!
Amazing that as you said Jeanie, such a small collective of what to me are minor events, can attain such exponential significance in
'Yorkieland'.
I went yesterday to see the little
'Daschie' I'd referred to in earlier posts here. She is nearly 7 weeks old weighs just under 1.7kg and is a long haired mid brown miniature version. Absolutely beautiful to behold and I fell in love with her straight off - but then I tend to with all dogs and they definitely seem to know it! This little girl was hand raised when her mom couldn't produce enough milk for her 5 babies and my friend has fostered her. The breeder is a life-long friend of this lovely lady, herself a past winner at Crufts.
I've agreed to pop in now and then to see her progress over the next few weeks and have first refusal on this little 'bubba'. My only reservation is to how Crystal might react to another dog at home?
