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Originally Posted by airplane  Fair enough. I’ll agree to disagree though. I’m familiar with the coat with a silky texture and tends to be thinner in quantity and is much like human hair, as opposed to a soft coated yorkie. But I find it odd for a dog to be shaking often inside a house. I think it would maybe warrant a conversation with a vet because perhaps it could be related to pain or maybe a range of other issues. Who knows. Myself though I wouldn’t just assume it must be because the dog is cold. In some cases, maybe. In other cases, maybe not. The fact that it was brought up as a behavior where the owner hasn’t been able to tie it or link it to being cold, but instead made a comment about it being “normal for the breed”, I think I would for sure have a conversation with a vet about it. Maybe a little bit of problem solving will come to the cold conclusion. Or maybe do an experiment by turning up the heat in the house. I personally keep mine at 22 degrees Celsius. I have no idea what that is in Fahrenheit. |
In my original post you will see I mentioned pain and fear being other issues for shaking. Since this person was new to Yorkies they might not know Yorkies have human like hair and no under coat and are prone to being cold and needing sweaters. Yorkies with erect ears also loose heat faster. They never said they ruled out the dog being cold. I would try the most easy to fix first which would be cold but it very well could be pain due to the fall. My boys are easy to tell it’s because they are cold because their ears and tongue will not be as warm and kinda cool. My house is kept several degrees colder then yours and not every one keeps their house super warm. I’m not sure how you can disagree that Yorkies get cold and shake when they get cold......