WC> You shouldn't have him climbing steps or jumping on or off the couch.
 WC> Spanky insists on sleeping in bed with me and nothing stops him
 WC> so I gave him a step up so he gets there in two steps.

 We do disencourage him and I have been carrying him up and down. Ah
we should have gotten a one level house ... thought we'd get more for
it so to move back to FL with more buyihg power..

-> -> never had this trembling problem before the back injury. Something
-> -> about loud sounds (thunder, rain/hail and gale force wind) causes him
-> -> to tremble.

->  WC> Only thing that shakes Spanky up is a rolled up newspaper slapped hard
->  WC> against your other hand, original owner thing.

->  Hitting him won't stop him from trembling.


 WC> I have NEVER hit my dog!

 Excuse me Wayne I did not mean to imply that you had. I was agreeing
 with you wrt the former owner. I should have been clear on that.
 My apologies.

-> It's not voluntary. He

 WC> I know, it's not voluntary with me either but when I tense up
 WC> it increases.

 So maybe when he feels tense that brigngs it on. And it always starts
from his hind legs.

-> seems to want help. He wants to be held. We get our storms most often
-> during the night which is when we'd like to sleep.... but Cosmo will
-> crawl on me and want me to do something. I think I'm going to take him
-> down into the car next time. Once we took a car ride to the store with
-> him during a thunder storm. He was fine! Amazing. Something about
-> being in the car ... I don't know. hmm.

 WC> Adrenalin kicks in, this is how my vet diagnosed Spanky.

 Hmmm.

-> .................

->  I'm going to ask our vet about it. We have a new vet btw. An
-> experienced vet too. (Same place but different vet.) The one we had
-> with helping Patches was fresh out of vet school....*(you know, go by
-> the book not by book plus experience).

 WC> Just remember this isn't something you can give every day or your
 WC> dog checks out with adrenal gland failure.

 I read you loud and clear on that. They gave us something to give him
last spring. I tranq I think it was to be given an hour before a
pending storm (this was tricky) didn't work too well.


Cindy

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