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From:Alabama
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posted 12-02-2003 05:26 AM         

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I have a 4 year old Shitz zhu (I bet I didn't spell that right).
Anyway, he is not acting right, he is still eating and walking around but he can't jump up on anything and if I try to pick him up he yelps in pain.
It does not matter where I try to touch him he yelps in pain.
He will seem to get better at times and then gets bad again.
He trembles from time to time.
He does not appear to be loosing any weight, he did have a spell when he did not poop but he has started pooping again.
I checked his poop for any sign of worms but did not see any.
Does anyone have any ideal what may be wrong with him.

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From:Murfreesboro, Tn, USA
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posted 12-02-2003 07:22 AM         

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take him to the vet. i am not sure what could be the problem, but it sounds like something that really needs to be taking care of.

keep us updated! and i hope he gets better. it kills me to see my babies in pain. i know you must be very upset

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From:Santa Maria, Ca.
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posted 12-02-2003 08:07 AM         

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Hi, Yes! Please take him to the vet! If your dog is trembling, he is in "alot" of pain. And dog's can tollerate pain, better than we humans can. "At least, that's what I've read" Please let us know how he's doing, after you take him. Thanks! Hope all goes well, and it's not something real bad. Because he can't jump, makes me think, maybe it's a disc problem, but of coarse i don't know.....Again,,,,please take him to a vet... Sincerely, Susan

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From:Portland, Oregon US
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posted 12-02-2003 11:25 AM         

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I also wouldn't waste time in getting to the vet, there are a multitude of things that could be the problem but it's obvious he isin pain, and when you can tell that a dog is in pain...it's ALOT because they are very good at masking it. My Poodle acts the same way when his "back goes out" it's actually up in his neck...he gets out of alignment. The first time it happened it seemed like it was his hind end the way he carried himself, and the vet gave him a Cortizone shot, he was sure he knew where the problem was so he, in trying to save me funds didn't do an X-ray. The next day he called me, he said he had been thinking about it and wanted me to bring him back in. He took an X-ray and didn't charge me for it...because he had a feeling he was wrong the first time. Turns out it was in his neck, the vet had fallen off a ladder a couple years before...and gotten the same injury in his neck and I guess when he started thinking about it, it made sense to him. The X-ray proved him correct and he treated him correctly. It happens occasionally, the dog can be racing around the house bouncing off the walls at warp speed and be fine, but if he calmly goes down the steps it will pop out and then he is in alot of pain. He gets a cortizone shot and a week or two in his kennel to rest. Thankfully it doesn't happen very often.

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From:Houston, TX
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posted 12-03-2003 09:13 AM         

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To the Vet for sure. If your dog is an un-neutered male it might be a prostate problem.

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posted 12-03-2003 03:00 PM         

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I am waiting for the vet to return to his office tomorrow. He has been out of town.
I am keeping him as comfortable as I can untill tomorrow morning.
I don't have a clue what it is, he goes outside to use the bathroom, he even runs sometimes but then he comes back in and plops down and stays there.
He is still eating and drinking like normal just not as active as he normaly would be and won't let anyone pick him up without yelping. It's going to be hard to take him tomorrow because he is going to yelp at me when I pick him up and carry him to the car and into the vets office.

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posted 12-03-2003 04:12 PM         

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Hi again, I know it's hard, and you don't want to hurt him, by picking him up "but" just think! it will be so much better, when the vet gives him what he needs, to be out of pain...Hang in there! and please let us know what the vet said...Thanks! Susan

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From:Australia
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posted 12-03-2003 10:39 PM         

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I know this sounds silly but he hasn't got a dredlock in his fur has he? My mother-in-law has a persian that was crying in pain from the fur being knotted so tight that it was pulling the skin- she hadno idea. I'm not saying that a shihtzu's fur is that long but it might be worth checking.

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posted 12-04-2003 08:39 AM         

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Hi Neek, I don't think any suggestion is silly! You never know! Good for you, for suggestioning it! Sincerley, Susan

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From:Alabama
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posted 12-04-2003 05:29 PM         

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Well guys, my vet was so backed up he could not see me today but I did get to talk to him and what I did not think about that he pointed out was that my dog has had a bad time with fleas latley and I had been bathing him with flea shampoo like every other day. I did not know that this could make him sick. He is acting like himself today and is frisky and jumping up a little.
But I have learned a valuable lesson about the flea shampoo.
I will from now own go to the vets office and purchase the little pills that make all the fleas jump off and if I need to bath him I am not using flea shampoo anymore.
His skin was irritated and that was why I could not touch him anywhere.
The vet told me if he was not better in the morning to bring him in but he is acting so much better but I have not bathed him in days and so he is doing great!

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posted 12-04-2003 05:49 PM         

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Some of the off the shelf flea products are really bad. I had a boyfriend who wiped his cat down with a flea cloth he bought off the shelf. That night the cat was wretching and running around the house blindly, banging in to things. We looked at the lable of the flea wipe (that was made for cats) and it said in tiny tiny writing that it was harmful if ingested! well hello! what cat isn't going to lick itself???? We had to bathe the cat and took it to the vet the next day. It was fine after that but sheesh! You'd think the company who made the product would be more responsible. Since then I've never bought off the shelf products (medicines) for my animals. I don't trust them.

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posted 12-05-2003 12:11 AM         

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Hi Lydlo1, I'm so happy to hear that your pooch is doing so much better!!Yeah!! but do keep a close eye "as I'm sure you will" that it's not something worse. But again, so very happy he's doing better. Thanks for letting us know. I don't know about you! but! when someone writes in about a sick pooch, and then doesn't let us know he or she is o.k. I have a hard time with that...Just a worry wort I guess!!! Anyway Great News! Susan

P.S. I have a sweet baby boy Shitz-Zu myself.

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posted 12-05-2003 10:01 AM         

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Garrett is doing great today, he is back to himself again, he is standing on his back leggs begging for his treat and he was bouncing and dancing around when it was time to eat! I could not stand for something to happen to him, I have had him since he was 8 weeks old and he was born on my birthday.

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