Angela Harlem
Jesus Online
A few weeks ago, Angus our 10 year old (approx) Cocker was sitting on the rug watching tv with us and when I got up to go into the kitchen I noticed he didn't move a muscle. usually, he follows me everywhere, and so it got me curious. I knelt down and talked to him but he still wouldn't move. It was like he was a statue. He was drooling quite severely and also had tremors and slightly laboured breathing. It got a bit worse, so I tried to get him to lay down but he clearly didn't want to move. He wouldn't respond to sound or me waving my hand on front of his eyes. He had no reaction to anything. Finally we got him to lay, and put an old towel under him and for about 20 minutes just sat with him trying to get him to respond. After a few more minutes, he looked up and tried to drag himself to his feet. It was like he'd just woken up. He staggered for a bit, his entire backend seemed paralyzed. A couple more minutes passed and he recovered virtually back to his usual self. It was quite weird. He got over his trance as quick as it had come on.
We decided not to do anything and wait it out, if it happened again, we'd get him to a vet.
Fast forward to yesterday, we were going out and I put him out the back and was locking up the windows when he suddenly yelped out in pain. It sounded like something was attacking him. He was crying out for a couple of seconds and there was nothing in the yard when I got out there, but he was half dragging himself along the patio to the door. Like before, he righted himself and limped indoors, struggling to get up the single step to inside. He favoured one leg, but apart from that, again seemed fairly ok. Since then, he has seemed a little slower and overall cautious when he walks. Its hard to say how much, if any pain he is in. He still has trouble with the step out the back and really gets confused trying to get inside.
The whole thing is really weird, and I dont even know if the 2 incidents are related, but I'd assume so. I'm kinda guessing its his liver or kidneys packing it in, but has anyone got any advice or an idea of what it might be exactly?
We decided not to do anything and wait it out, if it happened again, we'd get him to a vet.
Fast forward to yesterday, we were going out and I put him out the back and was locking up the windows when he suddenly yelped out in pain. It sounded like something was attacking him. He was crying out for a couple of seconds and there was nothing in the yard when I got out there, but he was half dragging himself along the patio to the door. Like before, he righted himself and limped indoors, struggling to get up the single step to inside. He favoured one leg, but apart from that, again seemed fairly ok. Since then, he has seemed a little slower and overall cautious when he walks. Its hard to say how much, if any pain he is in. He still has trouble with the step out the back and really gets confused trying to get inside.
The whole thing is really weird, and I dont even know if the 2 incidents are related, but I'd assume so. I'm kinda guessing its his liver or kidneys packing it in, but has anyone got any advice or an idea of what it might be exactly?