Does your dog act all sad when they hurt themselves?

[Pancakeflipper]

Our dog seems to have hurt one of their legs today. Was limping and yelped when I touched round her leg.

But it's the sadness - she didn't dash to greet DP nor demand he take her in the garden, no nagging for the toast chicken. Just big sad eyes.

Does your dog do this when injured?

Did take to vet this afternoon but the bloody dog walked perfectly well there and showed little sign of limp. We are back on Weds for boosters so can chat then.

When my dog is ill he takes himself off to the garden and hides in a bush. It really upsets me and isn't terribly practical when I am trying to get him out to take him to vets. I think they do have big eyes anyway dogs and yes they look so sad to me frequently. Probably how he manages to manipulate me all the time!

Mostly when he has hurt himself he seems to bounce back quite quickly but I tend to be upset for longer over the fact 'my baby' is hurt.
Just now he is losing teeth after being on steroids for 8 months (just finished them last week). I'm grateful to the steroids for helping him recover as he was very ill last year but nobody told me that he was at risk of dental problems. Not my own vet nor the very expensive specialist vet he had to see. Feeling upset that my poor wee lad has lost teeth with others being loose and so looking likely to come out too. If I had known I would have cleaned his teeth more. He's going to the vet on Wednesday to check all is okay and that he should stop losing them now he is off the steroids. I feel so sad to see his little gummy mouth in his cute little furry face.

It hasn't stopped him requesting his favourite good boy chicken sticks so I am assuming he is not in pain.

I hope your dog's leg is okay and it turns out to be nothing too serious. My wee boy is 11 now but when he was 2 he had to get both cruciates done (thankfully petplan paid) but he definately yelped when he damaged them and I felt so sad for him limping on 3 legs. (lucky they went at different times or he would have been down to just 2 legs......tricky!)

I had, until last year 😔, a gorgeous girl who would limp if she hear my cross voice! When she was poorly she did whatever she had to do to sit on my head. We loved each other so much.

Thank you for your stotlries of your doggies.

Love the putting a limp on!

Slept well. Still in some pain, not her usual happy self. Back to vets tomorrow.

My dog refuses to jump off of furniture or out of the car. He waits for me to lift him down. He's done it ever since he was very young and it's all types of 'feeling under the weather' not just joints/muscular-related.

Yes and he does something with his ears so I can instantly tell when something isn't quite right with him, they are like a cats when they are upset, not his usual ear style ;-). Usually something minor thank god, like an upset tummy

I wonder if they think they will be ejected from the pack as the weak link? Or do they know it may be a trip to the dreaded V-E-T.

Greyhounds are so emotional and dramatic. We call it the "stress paw" when she lifts her right front paw when something has distressed her. Sometimes in empathy - she does it when the cats go to the vets and are miaowing.

I never knew dogs were so observant and expressive before I had one. One time we were enjoying watching Wimbledon on the TV and the dog went to find a tennis ball which she had not played with for months and suddenly started rolling it around and chewing it. What a clever girl.

Yep, mine do that. They also know when they have done something they shouldn’t. The other night my oldest dog came up in the middle of the night, practically climbed on top of me, trying to lick my face and wanted a proper cuddle. I realised why later as when I got up to go to the loo I could smell he had an accident downstairs. He was watching me from the top of the stairs and then came down watching us clean it up looking sad and guilty and coming for cuddles. The youngest one won’t look at us if she does something she knows she shouldn’t. It’s very sweet. They never get told off if they have an accident. They are both very good at telling us when they need to go out so if they don’t we know it caught them unaware and it’s just one of those things about having animals in the house that you have to deal with.

My dog squeals and whines, and dramatically falls about so I think that there’s something seriously wrong and take her to the vet, who usually then diagnoses her as a drama queen.

I have a chihuahua - so this (with added trembling and shaking)!

Dreadful Dog always acts is though I have somehow caused spooky action at a distance. If she hurts herself out on a walk (which is frequent, because apparently she can be critically injured by such acts as treading on a sharp stick) she will look at me with her ears down and a big 'what did I do? I was trying to be good!' As though I caused her to get hurt even when I'm hundreds of yards away.

My dog has been known to limp on the wrong foot because he has forgotten which one he hurt, and any minor ailment lays him utterly desolate unless treats or toys are involved. It's how I know he's a male.

I’ve had two dogs who did this, both terriers, both girls. So it’s not just a male thing.

i have amusing images of dogs putting on the dressing gown of doom now though!

"When my dog is ill he takes himself off to the garden and hides in a bush. It really upsets me and isn't terribly practical when I am trying to get him out to take him to vets"

My dog does this when he's feeling really sick. He's 40 kg and he's like a dead weight - if I haul his front end up he'll flop back down as I go to lift his rear end. I've stopped letting him out overnight when he feels awful after he did this when it was -8C out and I was genuinely scared the big idiot would get hypothermia.

A golden retriever we had once had us in stitches. She had had her injections and came home limping. A little later she was still limping, but with the other leg.