My dog is on the Gabapentin now. I think it has been a month. We, the dog and I, cut down on doses accidentally, so he is only getting it with Previcox before bedtime. He acted very oddly a few days ago which involved sleeping half the day away.
What did your dog do?
She started becoming quite aggressive, to the point of biting my husband if he came near me. She started having accidents all over the house. She seemed lost at times, staring at the wall or stuck behind the barbecue on the porch without being able to find the door. She slept most of the day but would wake up in the middle of the night and start pacing around the house. When this would happen, I would take her outside because I thought she needed to use the restroom. But I would sit outside with her at 2,3,4 am for 15-20 minutes at a time and she would just lie down—on wet pavement if it was raining. Then when I decided to come back inside, she would have another accident.
I eventually found a worksheet online to measure a dog’s cognitive decline and printed out a copy for each person in the household. We each filled out the worksheet and independently found moderate to severe cognitive decline.
Writing this is making me so sad. The dog we had put down last week was so different from the dog we rescued four years ago.