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dog shaking her head
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12/17/09 03:19 PM
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stinkbelly
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Izzy shakes her head often. It has been going on for a year or so. I have had it checked several times by the vet and he finds nothing. No mites, ticks, etc. He has given me some ear wash and she still shakes her head. What else could cause this? Could it be the hair inside her ear tickling her?
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Re: dog shaking her head
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#1112289
12/17/09 03:35 PM
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Could be water in her ear or an infection, but I would think that a vet would catch that. Do they smell bad?
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Re: dog shaking her head
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12/17/09 03:40 PM
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TexasEd
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Ear infection, water in ear, allergies causing the ears to itch...
If the first 2 things are not present look at her paws for redness, esp between the toes. Does she lick her paws a lot?
Look into what kind of food you are feeding her. Corn can be a major source of allergy irritation for dogs. Also we have Cedar Fever coming in soon too if this is only a seasonal thing.
My dog has seasonal allergies in spring (Oak) and Jan (Cedar). I feed a no corn diet.
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Re: dog shaking her head
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12/17/09 04:37 PM
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First_Chance
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maybe she's learned how to say "no"!
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Re: dog shaking her head
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12/17/09 04:46 PM
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stinkbelly
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She is grain free in her diet. She eats Innova Evo. She never licks her paws. I will check for redness. Now that I think about it, she has been sneaking some cat food and yard dog food (strays I took in). I caught her this morning at 1am and she had to spend the rest of the night in the kennel.
There is no appearance of infection, no smell, shouldn't be any water during the week.
Honestly I feel like she is saying no most of the time. I tell her to heel and she always starts off a heel with a shaking of the head. I tell her to sit and half of the time she will shake her head while sitting.
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Re: dog shaking her head
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12/23/09 05:28 PM
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KevinT.
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One of my labs was just doing this wound up he had a "hemotoma" (spelling) in his ear. One week of antibiotics and he is fine.
Ours was probably caused from water left in his ear but could have also been an allergy.
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Re: dog shaking her head
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12/23/09 11:28 PM
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TexasEd
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no disrespect, but I thought hematoma is the fancy term for a bruise.
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Re: dog shaking her head
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12/25/09 03:46 AM
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NBH
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hemotoma can also be a blood blister. It is just roughly defined as blood under the skin
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Re: dog shaking her head
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12/25/09 06:54 PM
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Sniper John
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Honestly I feel like she is saying no most of the time. I tell her to heel and she always starts off a heel with a shaking of the head. I tell her to sit and half of the time she will shake her head while sitting.
Gary, Sorry, a little late on the reply, but I just saw your second post. It does sound like body language. My Vizsla has done the head shaking thing at times when she has a command repeated for something she really does not want to do, like at the moment of transistion from noncompliance to compliance. It is not something that has been an excessive problem and to be honest it was not something that I immediately noticed or that bothered me. It had gone right over my head until a more experienced bird man hunting with me one day caught it and pointed out what she was doing. I have not tried to correct it as it has mostly been associated with really long hunts or stressful moments like not being allowed to give op on a blind retrieve when repeatedly being sent back. Things like that. Just not so much with simple commands like sit. So I have not researched what sort of training to implement to correct it.
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