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Rather sudden change of behaviour and personality
It's rather sudden, yet has been noticeable in coming alone if that makes sense, "Dulcie" is about 6 and a half months now and has always been a typical and fiesty terrier pup, too much trouble and thinking she's considerably larger than she is. She's intact, but hasn't had her first season. And she has always been just a happy go lucky little thing.
Around the time that Ronnie the pom was pts, she began to began to act differently (obviously) as they were infact quite close, and since around this time on she just seems to have withdrawn back into herself at times. She can be very merry and happy and confident, yet at times she can be very cautious, quite shy of things, take lots of coaxing to do things, she seems to be overly cautious of everyone else but me too, spends a lot of her time dosing around as opposed to tearing around the place etc, can just have times where she's very very shy.
Obviously i've had her too the vets who said there's nothing medically and physically wrong with her, she just seems a bit "depressed".
She was sociallised correctly when tiny, as all other pups, and was a true brilliant dog. But lately she just seems so wary of everything, almost skittish at times, and just a bit down in herself.
She has days where she is fine, back to her old self i.e the other day getting stuck down a hole for some hours, or days where she's happy just being with you and going with the flow, but then there are other times where she just doesn't want to know, and when she does has to be coaxed and reassured of just about everything. I'm trying everything, extra walks,e xtra attention with games, doing lots too keep her busy and she'll pick up but then seems to slope backwards again.
It's all a bit concerning as she seems so "sad" at times, not to put human emotions to a dog but she does. She was a very timid puppy when we first got her, had been raised outside and I don't fully buy that she'd been fully socialised with anything other than the bitch and littermates before she was given too us, but then she seemed to come around with more socialisation, training etc, yet since Ronnie was pts it seems like she's gone backwards. I can't quite figure out if she's pining for him or it's something else. We obviously still have Flo, but she's seven in a few weeks time and I think she's had her fill of all the "childrens games". But I'm still not entirely sure whether that would set off such a down spell in a dog, she's just not very confident, happy, and there are times where she doesn't seem convinced with being involved in things and just sits back and watches.
I could quite buy that naturally she's quite a reserved soul, as she always has been, but not too this extent. She just seems very wary and concerned by everything, and moping about the place. I thought it was just a phase but it seems to be lasting quite a bit.
Unsure if I've explained enough in this post, I'm not entirely sure how to explain things as it's not
all the time, only some times, but she just seems not quite right? The vet has assure dme there isn't anything medically wrong so I'm at a slight loss...