SpotTheCat
Herding cats
this is Pikelet she is a currently 9 months old, english springer spaniel. she has not been diagnosed by a vet yet but I am 99% sure she has hyperkinesis (dog adhd)
I am starting this thread to keep track of her symptoms , etc and because hyperkinesis is extremely rare in dogs. There isn’t much information on it, so I thought people might find it interesting!
we have had Pikelet since she was 10 weeks old.when we got her she was hyper but that was too be expected for the breed, we socialised her a lot from in a backpack before she was fully vaccinated
symptoms/behaviour problems
-recently we realised at some point she stopped sleeping during the day, her not sleeping has been going on for months!
-I have been unable to train her since she was 10 weeks old. She can’t walk on a leash, she can sit, lay down and stand for a few seconds before moving/fidgeting but thats after months of training and its still difficult for her, the smallest distraction will make her jump or start running
-she randomly takes off to run around the edge of our 3 acre field. She will ignore me calling at best she might run close or past me But the weird thing is I can recall her off birds, she never leaves the field even though she could and she does come back after she has run around enough
-she is eating more then I would expect a dog of her size to. She is eating 600g of raw food my 35kg dog is eating 500kg. She has had defined muscles even as a young puppy, not sure when they appeared but it wasn’t long after we got her
- she will be randomly nervous of things then completely fine with similar things ie scared of one noise and not of another. She is scared of people at the same time she seems to like them? She has been randomly scared of us even if we aren’t doing anything abnormal
- house training has been a struggle, she fogets to actually go outside then comes in side and suddenly needs to. She will continue walking while going to the toilet if she can and starts running as soon as she can
-I have never seen her calm unless crated no matter how much or how little exercise she gets. I am not even sure how calm or relaxed she even is in her crate
-she constantly has to be doing something, pacing, running, sniffing, chewing, bouncing
-she looses interest in things quickly. For instance I gave her a puzzle toy with treats in, she would interact with it for a few seconds, go look at something else, find a toy to pick up, then go back to the puzzle for a few seconds, repeat. She has even lost interest in the middle of chasing a bird
thats everything I can think of for the moment
if you are wondering how I got the pictures, she is staring at a treat plus lots of patience and blurry pictures
I am starting this thread to keep track of her symptoms , etc and because hyperkinesis is extremely rare in dogs. There isn’t much information on it, so I thought people might find it interesting!
we have had Pikelet since she was 10 weeks old.when we got her she was hyper but that was too be expected for the breed, we socialised her a lot from in a backpack before she was fully vaccinated
symptoms/behaviour problems
-recently we realised at some point she stopped sleeping during the day, her not sleeping has been going on for months!
-I have been unable to train her since she was 10 weeks old. She can’t walk on a leash, she can sit, lay down and stand for a few seconds before moving/fidgeting but thats after months of training and its still difficult for her, the smallest distraction will make her jump or start running
-she randomly takes off to run around the edge of our 3 acre field. She will ignore me calling at best she might run close or past me But the weird thing is I can recall her off birds, she never leaves the field even though she could and she does come back after she has run around enough
-she is eating more then I would expect a dog of her size to. She is eating 600g of raw food my 35kg dog is eating 500kg
. She has had defined muscles even as a young puppy, not sure when they appeared but it wasn’t long after we got her - she will be randomly nervous of things then completely fine with similar things ie scared of one noise and not of another. She is scared of people at the same time she seems to like them? She has been randomly scared of us even if we aren’t doing anything abnormal
- house training has been a struggle, she fogets to actually go outside then comes in side and suddenly needs to. She will continue walking while going to the toilet if she can and starts running as soon as she can
-I have never seen her calm unless crated no matter how much or how little exercise she gets. I am not even sure how calm or relaxed she even is in her crate
-she constantly has to be doing something, pacing, running, sniffing, chewing, bouncing
-she looses interest in things quickly. For instance I gave her a puzzle toy with treats in, she would interact with it for a few seconds, go look at something else, find a toy to pick up, then go back to the puzzle for a few seconds, repeat. She has even lost interest in the middle of chasing a bird
thats everything I can think of for the moment
if you are wondering how I got the pictures, she is staring at a treat plus lots of patience and blurry pictures
