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I have a 3 year old mini chihuahua and recently he has been acting really funny!?

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for the past couple days now my chihuahua has been acting funny...he seems to be eating and drinking normal and still going to the bathroom normally....what i mean by funny is, after he goes potty normally i give him a treat which he loooves and recently after taking him potty he just goes and lays down and wont even eat the treat! another thing, in the morning when i take him downstairs he runs right to the laundry room and hides behind the washer....about half the day he still acts normal as far as energy goes but in the morning and at night he just lays by himself and just gives you that sad look! he hasn't been eating his bones and instead of sleeping in his bed, hes sleeping in the very corner of our room on some sheets that were on the floor....any ideas of why he could be acting this way? could it be maybe hes not eating enough and just not feeling well? or depression or what? 1 more detail, the first day he started acting this way, when i woke up that morning and was in the other room he yelped loudly as if someone had accidentally stepped on him (but no one did) and he did it a couple more times that morning for which seemed like no reason at all....and thats when the whole hiding behind the washer thing started....since then, no yelping out of the blue that i know of.....please give me some ideas of what this could be...im gonna give it a couple more days and see if he starts acting better and if not im gonna take him to the vet...

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  1. Hon, why wait? this may be serious, just go ahead and take him to your vet.


  2. Being that you described him as a mini tells me he is not a healthy dog.  To create these extra small dogs they breed runts to runts & more runts to runts causing lots of health issues.

    Take him to the Vet.  If not taken care of, what ever it is, could get lots worse.

  3. He may have a problem that won't wait two days. Take him now. The vet can tell more readily from his knowledge base what might be wrong easier than you can mess around for a couple of days trying to figure it out. Might be something real simple; and might be something life threatening. Just  DO IT!

    could be anything from worms to constipation to hemorrhoids, to bellyache

  4. He could be in some kinda pain, which is why he's keeping away and hiding, in case you touch him where it hurts :( Please get him checked out by the vet to be sure, dogs don't cry all the time if they're in pain, it might just be some discomfort that's causing this. Hope your dog's gona be ok :)

  5. Any sudden behaviour change could have a physical cause.  Yelping is a sign of pain.  I wouldn't leave it a couple of days I would get him checked out as soon as possible

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