Kili has been acting really strange all night. I've been up since about 1:30 AM (it is now almost 6 AM) because of it.
All day yesterday was totally normal. I had the day off so we did some training, watched t.v. and I went out and did errands. She was on her game in training, ate both breakfast and dinner well, bathroom activities were normal.
We went to bed around 11:30. The dogs settled in their beds as normal. At 1:30 Kili woke me up pacing to the bedroom door where we have a baby gate. Normally this means diarrhea. I got up and let her out. She had a pee and then started doing her "I have to poop" trot around the yard, but went around the corner where I couldn't see her. She came back to the door not long after and I let her back in. We went back to bed.
Except she didn't settle. She was up and pacing again within 15 minutes. I figured she wasn't done, so I took her back outside, and she seemed to have the "poop trots" again and I saw her squat. Back inside. I put her in her crate hoping that would help her settle. It didn't. She was immediately turning circles and crying in her crate. But it wasn't her usual "I really need out" crying. It was weird. Normally, if she has diarrhea she settles and goes back to sleep as soon as she's been out. She might wake up again a few hours later needing to go out, but she always settles.
Back out again. She stood outside the door for a minute and didn't seem to want to go, but after about 30 seconds she trotted off again. Back inside and into her crate. Immediate crying. Back out. This time she just stood at the door crying to come back in. So back in and I brought her back to the bedroom wondering if she was crying about being isolated away from everyone else (her crate is in the spare bedroom). Pacing, pacing, pacing. And looking agitated and suspicious. I even invited her up into bed with us which she loves. Wouldn't settle.
I thought of every scenario she might be trying to tell us about... fire, CO leak, intruder, one of us having a medical emergency (neither of us are diabetic or epileptic though)... ghosts, aliens are coming.... Finally we let her out of the bedroom to look around hoping it would ease her worries. Nope. Wandering around, checking everything out. Acting suspicious of everything. I started noticing her slipping on the hardwood floors and worrying something neurologic was going on. But mostly she seems fine, she just seems to slip every once in awhile... and it seems to me that she is startling at something (well, at nothing) and then the slip happens. Then I thought maybe she couldn't see and that's why she was startling, but we did a bunch of hand touches and she did those with no problem. She's tracking falling treats. She's making eye contact when asked. Her neurologic tests for vision are normal. She's taking treats. I trimmed her nails to see if it would help, but it didn't.
I took some video. Sorry it's so long. I tried to get the slips/starts but they aren't super frequent and I couldn't seem to catch any of the really good ones. But look how suspicious she seems of everything. This is so strange. I'm not saying she never paces, because she does when she is restless and looking for trouble, but this is different. She isn't looking for trouble. She doesn't once try to check out the kitchen counters, and although she is responsive to me, she is basically tuned out to me as she wanders around.
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Everything seems okay medically other than the slipping, but again, I feel she is startling as opposed to truly neurological (I'm a vet, but I'm not a neurologist).
I can hear the pacing in the bedroom has stopped for a couple of minutes. Hopefully she'll finally sleep and wake up and be okay. I texted work and I'm really hoping I can call in "sick" tomorrow. An hour and a half of sleep is not something I can function on.
All day yesterday was totally normal. I had the day off so we did some training, watched t.v. and I went out and did errands. She was on her game in training, ate both breakfast and dinner well, bathroom activities were normal.
We went to bed around 11:30. The dogs settled in their beds as normal. At 1:30 Kili woke me up pacing to the bedroom door where we have a baby gate. Normally this means diarrhea. I got up and let her out. She had a pee and then started doing her "I have to poop" trot around the yard, but went around the corner where I couldn't see her. She came back to the door not long after and I let her back in. We went back to bed.
Except she didn't settle. She was up and pacing again within 15 minutes. I figured she wasn't done, so I took her back outside, and she seemed to have the "poop trots" again and I saw her squat. Back inside. I put her in her crate hoping that would help her settle. It didn't. She was immediately turning circles and crying in her crate. But it wasn't her usual "I really need out" crying. It was weird. Normally, if she has diarrhea she settles and goes back to sleep as soon as she's been out. She might wake up again a few hours later needing to go out, but she always settles.
Back out again. She stood outside the door for a minute and didn't seem to want to go, but after about 30 seconds she trotted off again. Back inside and into her crate. Immediate crying. Back out. This time she just stood at the door crying to come back in. So back in and I brought her back to the bedroom wondering if she was crying about being isolated away from everyone else (her crate is in the spare bedroom). Pacing, pacing, pacing. And looking agitated and suspicious. I even invited her up into bed with us which she loves. Wouldn't settle.
I thought of every scenario she might be trying to tell us about... fire, CO leak, intruder, one of us having a medical emergency (neither of us are diabetic or epileptic though)... ghosts, aliens are coming.... Finally we let her out of the bedroom to look around hoping it would ease her worries. Nope. Wandering around, checking everything out. Acting suspicious of everything. I started noticing her slipping on the hardwood floors and worrying something neurologic was going on. But mostly she seems fine, she just seems to slip every once in awhile... and it seems to me that she is startling at something (well, at nothing) and then the slip happens. Then I thought maybe she couldn't see and that's why she was startling, but we did a bunch of hand touches and she did those with no problem. She's tracking falling treats. She's making eye contact when asked. Her neurologic tests for vision are normal. She's taking treats. I trimmed her nails to see if it would help, but it didn't.
I took some video. Sorry it's so long. I tried to get the slips/starts but they aren't super frequent and I couldn't seem to catch any of the really good ones. But look how suspicious she seems of everything. This is so strange. I'm not saying she never paces, because she does when she is restless and looking for trouble, but this is different. She isn't looking for trouble. She doesn't once try to check out the kitchen counters, and although she is responsive to me, she is basically tuned out to me as she wanders around.
[YOUTUBE]u1ymB7otUWk[/YOUTUBE]
Everything seems okay medically other than the slipping, but again, I feel she is startling as opposed to truly neurological (I'm a vet, but I'm not a neurologist).
I can hear the pacing in the bedroom has stopped for a couple of minutes. Hopefully she'll finally sleep and wake up and be okay. I texted work and I'm really hoping I can call in "sick" tomorrow. An hour and a half of sleep is not something I can function on.
