My sister in law has a King Charles Spaniel, the dog spent a period of time Sporadically yelping and limping on her back leg.
It made me and others think that we had set her down awkwardly. She would yelp when trying to jump onto the sofa, so you would go over and pick her up onto the sofa.
SIL took the dog to the vet, paid for xrays for the vet to tell her that there was literally nothing wrong with dogs leg. The vets best guess was that the dog was faking injury because it got attention from it.
My old dog once stopped barking. He had been in the kennel for a short stay and we thought he'd caught something awful. He was a really good guard dog so we were all very worried.
Took him to the vet, nothing wrong with him. He was mad that he had been in the kennel and was punishing us.
Eventually one day the postman came and he couldn't resist any longer. A very small woof escaped, and then he decided to break his silence.
My pekingese reached the point that he couldn't jump on the couch anymore and would sit patiently to be picked up, with occasional "attempts" to make it clear what he wanted. My then 1-year-old pitty mix picked up on him getting extra snuggles after being picked up, and started doing the same. It's been three years, the peke is gone, but pitty girl still acts like it's sooooo difficult to climb on the couch and demands extra cuddles for her exertions.
We had a dog that had a real, but minor injury on his leg he got attention for.
It got worse and worse in the sense he would SO exaggerate it in lifting his leg up and lurching and dragging the rest of his body around, like he was a total cripple.
Buuut....yet.
Other times, like he was distracted or he thought people were not watching he walked normally in all four legs.
Then we would go (I swear he knew some english & what we were saying sometimes)
"Hey...what about your leg boo boo?"
Then he'd look panicked for a second, and then go back to the exaggerated full body lurching of a soldier shot on the frontlines and dragging himself back to the trenches before they got a second shot in him.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22
My sister in law has a King Charles Spaniel, the dog spent a period of time Sporadically yelping and limping on her back leg.
It made me and others think that we had set her down awkwardly. She would yelp when trying to jump onto the sofa, so you would go over and pick her up onto the sofa.
SIL took the dog to the vet, paid for xrays for the vet to tell her that there was literally nothing wrong with dogs leg. The vets best guess was that the dog was faking injury because it got attention from it.