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LazyDaisy Oct 2018 5:40pm, 3 Oct 2018 24,097 posts	0 LazyDaisy Very strange behaviour from Floss today. Very occasionally when we are on the pavement part of our our walk she sort of scuffs her front leg and then puts on a big show of limping until I stop and rub her leg and check her pads (I know, it's ludicrous really) and then she's good to go again. Anyway, today we had the scuffing and went through the usual routine, but then 100m down the road she just stopped and sat down, refusing to move forward at all So I said, let's go home then and she got up, turned round and started trotting homewards with no sign of a limp! I decided she was having me on so we diverted down a little footpath and went a different way to the fields - no problem at all. Enjoyed a happy stroll through the fields, but then out onto the path through the smallholdings, we had more stopping and refusing to carry on. We diverted again, into the rec, again, no problem, and happily greeting other dogs and a bit of chasing around. When we got to the point where the rec meets the gate into the first fields, she made it plain she wanted to go back in and have a longer walk. What's that all about then?
Helegant Oct 2018 6:16pm, 3 Oct 2018 5,846 posts	0 Helegant Odd behaviour, but dogs can do strange things sometimes. Do tell us if you get to the bottom of it. I'm intrigued.
D2 Oct 2018 6:17pm, 3 Oct 2018 10,919 posts	0 D2 Hmm, sounds like something is painful, maybe shoulder? We have all been there with a pain that mostly goes away when we are distracted by something nice I think? You could visit the vet or do some self detection such as giving her some metacam and she if it happens when any pain that might be there is dulled? Just my opinion obviously and I'm not an expert in anything at all, but lets hope its nothing..... maybe she strained something with all the extra playing with her new friend?
BaronessBL Oct 2018 9:27pm, 3 Oct 2018 7,322 posts	0 BaronessBL As D2 says maybe something was giving her a twinge and perhaps it twinges more when on a pavement rather than on grass or a softer surface (although I appreciate everywhere is probably as hard as a pavement anyway at the moment.) Wanda does something like that sometimes and I examine the pads etc until she seems happy to walk on (BaronBR however has been known to pick her up and carry her but at 23 kilos she can forget that with me!!)
LazyDaisy Oct 2018 9:41pm, 3 Oct 2018 24,100 posts	0 LazyDaisy I think it was DOMS after playing with Cooper over the weekend, but it was odd the way she forgot about it so instantly. Anyway, she seems fine tonight. Just as well, she's going to stay with Lottie tomorrow while we're in Spain, so she's got a long weekend of at times boisterous games to cope with!
BaronessBL Oct 2018 11:35pm, 3 Oct 2018 7,323 posts	0 BaronessBL Wanda also suffers from DOMS after a strenuous day but while she might hop across the kitchen to the back door, if once it is opened there is a bird sitting on the lawn you would never know she had been apparently hopping lame a split second earlier
Helegant Oct 2018 12:18am, 4 Oct 2018 5,852 posts	0 Helegant Jet is very good at pretending he feels well when he doesn't, especially if a vet is in the room. The vet told me it's a survival instinct and they have to trust their human a lot before thay will show they are in pain.
LazyDaisy Oct 2018 7:41am, 4 Oct 2018 24,102 posts	0 LazyDaisy Well I can report that she seems as chipper as ever this morning, which seems to support the DOMS theory
Helegant Oct 2018 7:48am, 4 Oct 2018 5,855 posts	0 Helegant Exellent news
Sharkie Oct 2018 8:12am, 4 Oct 2018 13,907 posts	0 Sharkie Hurrah! Can't keep a good Flossie down!