Millie has not been right all day
I think she is in pain somewhere, but I can't quite pinpoint it - I think it's her shoulders. She's reluctant to move, though moved for her breakfast. She came up the stairs this morning, willingly, but weirdly, one at a time, where as usually she trots up them in quite a fluid movement. This was when I noticed it first.
I went to the hairdressers this morning and when I came back hubby had wrapped her in a blanket because he said she was shivering. I took her temp and it was 38, which is a little low but ok. She perked up a bit once she was warm.
She didn't want to go for walk, but ate her dinner. She yelped when hubby was stroking her chest/shoulders. She was shaking when standing, and at one point doing a slight dreaded back arch, but this was when I was feeling her all over, and she was incredibly tense all over as I think she thought I was going to hurt her. She didn't arch a lot though, and she's in no way painful to touch her back / neck etc, it's definitely her front legs / shoulder area
I confess we have some rimadyl left over from Jennie's op earlier in the year, so I've given her some of that to see if it eases her discomfort - if not that it's probably a call to the vet in the morning. She's sleeping at the minute, and willingly came outside earlier for a potter around the garden.
I wondered if anyone had a cocker with arthritis? As she has been 'lame' before now on a couple of occasions, however at the time I just thought she'd over done it on a walk as on both occasions we'd been on a longish walk and she had been a loony on both of them, but totally fine the next day. Given this latest incident though I'm wondering if there isn't something more to it, and given our experience at the beginning of the year I'm liable to all sorts of scary nightmares about it
