So... not sure if any of you have experience with mental illnesses in dogs, but my girl Teddy here is one such unfortunate dog. 6_6
She's 15 years old and pretty much gradually lost her marbles completely (as well as 100% blind, which I'm sure somehow contributed(???)) over the past 7 years or so. Not going into all her details, unless somebody is curious (feel free to ask questions). We have no clue why or how she lost her mind, but we did bring her home from a "pet store" as a puppy, so... no reliable genetics there.
Yes, she chooses to sleep in her litterbox nowadays when she has a bed right next to it... I guess she likes the dust and I can't keep her from that.
Kinda a gross picture, because I did not wipe her mouth of litterbox dust before taking. LOL.
Teddy is pretty much incapable of living life like a normal dog for the past couple years, which is just unfortunate and sad. The whole process of her mental decay was VERY VERY gradual, but she's been as loony as she is now for the past couple years already. When she was acting pretty crazy when she was eight years old, we assumed she was just a very disobedient dog.... BUUUUT, now I've concluded that she MUST have some kinda of mental illness.
She became untrainable, unreceptive, and unpredictable... She IS still potty-trained in a litterbox, which is one of the couple things she still remembers from her younger days, but (just one of her many mental illness symptoms, *coughs*) she does this weird thing where if you play with her too much or give her too much attention, she will poo and pee on the floor and roll around in it. Even when I JUST told her to go potty, she will still squeeze out last remaining bits of liquid poo-juice and proceed to wipe her face in it if I play with her too much. (I really don't even know.) She can't wander more than about 10 feet from her litterbox, or she'll poop/pee on the floor (I'm pretty sure she just chooses to go on the floor). Yes, this means she gets her own limited space now.
I swear she used to be a beautiful, normal, alert pekingese once upon a time. :hail: But yeah, here is my totally loony, unfortunate old Teddy.
She's 15 years old and pretty much gradually lost her marbles completely (as well as 100% blind, which I'm sure somehow contributed(???)) over the past 7 years or so. Not going into all her details, unless somebody is curious (feel free to ask questions). We have no clue why or how she lost her mind, but we did bring her home from a "pet store" as a puppy, so... no reliable genetics there.
Yes, she chooses to sleep in her litterbox nowadays when she has a bed right next to it... I guess she likes the dust and I can't keep her from that.
Kinda a gross picture, because I did not wipe her mouth of litterbox dust before taking. LOL.
Teddy is pretty much incapable of living life like a normal dog for the past couple years, which is just unfortunate and sad. The whole process of her mental decay was VERY VERY gradual, but she's been as loony as she is now for the past couple years already. When she was acting pretty crazy when she was eight years old, we assumed she was just a very disobedient dog.... BUUUUT, now I've concluded that she MUST have some kinda of mental illness.
She became untrainable, unreceptive, and unpredictable... She IS still potty-trained in a litterbox, which is one of the couple things she still remembers from her younger days, but (just one of her many mental illness symptoms, *coughs*) she does this weird thing where if you play with her too much or give her too much attention, she will poo and pee on the floor and roll around in it. Even when I JUST told her to go potty, she will still squeeze out last remaining bits of liquid poo-juice and proceed to wipe her face in it if I play with her too much. (I really don't even know.) She can't wander more than about 10 feet from her litterbox, or she'll poop/pee on the floor (I'm pretty sure she just chooses to go on the floor). Yes, this means she gets her own limited space now.
I swear she used to be a beautiful, normal, alert pekingese once upon a time. :hail: But yeah, here is my totally loony, unfortunate old Teddy.
