kazzy220
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- Jul 31, 2010
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- Maggie (My Angel Baby 5/31/2012). Daddy (2 years). Linus (1year). Bella (4 years)
I've already messaged [MENTION=572]Libra926[/MENTION] on this as we all know of her experience with Vegas and his epilepsy. But I also wanted to post this as a new thread in case anybody else has had experience of this.
Due to a lot of problems with Maggie since we got her, we have only recently had her spayed. This was about 6 weeks ago.
When we brought her home from the vets she was still very spaced out from the pain meds and we had to give them to her for the next 36 hours. Maggie would walk around the room sniffing with a dazed look on her face as if she was looking for something. It was very strange, and we couldn't seem to distract her. During the day she would sleep on the couch which we expected after her surgery, but during the evening and at night she seemed to just want to constantly pace and sniff. This went on for the full 36 hours after the surgery, so we put it down to a reaction to the medication and the fact that she was in pain. She hasn't shown any sign of this since the operation until now.
On Friday night at 3am it all started again. She sleeps on our bed and we were woken up by her pacing in a circle on the bed constantly sniffing the blanket, then looking over the edge of the bed and sniffing. When we put her on the floor she still just walked around sniffing and walking in circles with this spaced out look on her face. She was fairly unresponsive to us. We didn't want to interrupt her too much as we did consider if she was sleep walking. Finally we carried her outside and out into the backyard where she did pee, but when she came back inside the pacing in circles and this CONSTANT sniffing the ground continued for about 3 hours.
All of yesterday she was fine - absolutely no sign of anything wrong at all, until about 1am this morning when it all started again. This time once we'd put her outside to see if she needed to pee, we took her upstairs and covered her up in her favorite red fluffy blanket which stopped the circling and sniffing and she went straight to sleep.
We did notice that when we got up this morning that she now doesn't want to walk down the stairs and we have had to start carrying her down.
So is Maggie sleep-walking, or is it a sign of something else.
Another thought is that this could be her way of dealing with pain. The pain of the surgery would explain the pacing for the 36 hours after it. Right now the weather and temperature in north-east ohio has plummeted and it is very cold at night. My husband sleeps with the window open so our bedroom does get very cold. Maggie broke her right elbow when she was only a few months ago, so we are fully expecting arthritus to start in that leg and the vet even told us it was to be expected. So could the cold weather be making her leg and the elbow joint hurt?? So the pacing could be again her way of dealing with this new pain???
Due to a lot of problems with Maggie since we got her, we have only recently had her spayed. This was about 6 weeks ago.
When we brought her home from the vets she was still very spaced out from the pain meds and we had to give them to her for the next 36 hours. Maggie would walk around the room sniffing with a dazed look on her face as if she was looking for something. It was very strange, and we couldn't seem to distract her. During the day she would sleep on the couch which we expected after her surgery, but during the evening and at night she seemed to just want to constantly pace and sniff. This went on for the full 36 hours after the surgery, so we put it down to a reaction to the medication and the fact that she was in pain. She hasn't shown any sign of this since the operation until now.
On Friday night at 3am it all started again. She sleeps on our bed and we were woken up by her pacing in a circle on the bed constantly sniffing the blanket, then looking over the edge of the bed and sniffing. When we put her on the floor she still just walked around sniffing and walking in circles with this spaced out look on her face. She was fairly unresponsive to us. We didn't want to interrupt her too much as we did consider if she was sleep walking. Finally we carried her outside and out into the backyard where she did pee, but when she came back inside the pacing in circles and this CONSTANT sniffing the ground continued for about 3 hours.
All of yesterday she was fine - absolutely no sign of anything wrong at all, until about 1am this morning when it all started again. This time once we'd put her outside to see if she needed to pee, we took her upstairs and covered her up in her favorite red fluffy blanket which stopped the circling and sniffing and she went straight to sleep.
We did notice that when we got up this morning that she now doesn't want to walk down the stairs and we have had to start carrying her down.
So is Maggie sleep-walking, or is it a sign of something else.
Another thought is that this could be her way of dealing with pain. The pain of the surgery would explain the pacing for the 36 hours after it. Right now the weather and temperature in north-east ohio has plummeted and it is very cold at night. My husband sleeps with the window open so our bedroom does get very cold. Maggie broke her right elbow when she was only a few months ago, so we are fully expecting arthritus to start in that leg and the vet even told us it was to be expected. So could the cold weather be making her leg and the elbow joint hurt?? So the pacing could be again her way of dealing with this new pain???
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