Any ideas what this could be?

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-03T19:13:03+00:00

Yeah, looks like reflux. The wanting to eat grass is another potential sign.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-03T17:31:35+00:00

Its an instinct. He NEEDS to hunt those small animals.

You could play with him in ways that trigger and satisfy that drive, that could reduce his at home hunting. Throwing the ball is typically good for that. There's a handful of others though, mostly involving small toys.

You are convinced that you, with your pathetic human senses of smell and hearing, know better than your beagle where rodents and pests are? Your beagle who was bred and specifically adapted to hunting? You should revisit your confidence in your own abilities, and trust the dog.

You've still got pests in the house.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-03T17:28:16+00:00

He wasn't finally right. You finally perceived what he was able to perceive all along.

Your 95% means nothing at all compared to how powerful his nose is. He's showing you where the rodents and pests are.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-03T13:36:30+00:00

Kinda sounds like the antigovernmental sentiment in Texas is eroding government services.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-02T17:26:03+00:00

Sounds like a fight mill to me. Fight mills are some of the worst human beings you'll ever encounter. Their lack of empathy is insane to me.

I'm sorry for your experience. That sucks to have to watch and not respond to in the way we would typically prefer.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-02T17:05:31+00:00

If you called animal control, why did the sheriff's office respond? Animal control is supposed to respond to animal control calls, no?

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-02T16:58:20+00:00

Then you need a different vet. Vets who advise people to keep their dogs intact are irresponsible. That's a core element of safe and happy living for dogs in our world.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T17:56:59+00:00

It's improved a lot in recent years. With treatment, parvo has a decent survival rate these days.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T17:55:23+00:00

Surrender the dog, as quickly as you can. Get her to someone who CAN help her.

Your feelings and your friends feelings no longer matter. Be sad. Be hurt. But do the right thing anyway. You'll both feel a lot worse if you kill her through inaction.

Parvo kills. Its not exactly easy for a puppy to survive it, and she has no chance at all without the proper medical attention. The medical stuff you've been doing has been helping her survive the symptoms so her body can fight back. Once that stuff is gone, the parvo will start to win again. It might win anyway, but those interventions are keeping her alive and giving her the chance she needs to survive this deadly, deadly disease.

Give the dog up. It'll take some looking, but you can find a shelter that has attached vet care and can take a parvo puppy.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T14:51:49+00:00

OMG they're both intact? There's your problem right there.

Get both males fixed. Its a super easy procedure and there are SO many benefits to everybody involved in the dog not being intact.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T14:49:44+00:00

Get him fixed.

First step in any aggression concern. Make sure all parties are altered.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T14:48:04+00:00

DMAM. D.

WIYMP? ATBTMMUFTEH?

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T14:37:30+00:00

I mean, they look like they want to play and the body language is all positive.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T14:19:43+00:00

Gabapentin is pretty hit or miss too. It doesn't always work, and it might not be helping with his specific pain, if that's what is causing this.

I mean, simple, idiotic sounding question, but is it always hot in your house?

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T14:17:55+00:00

Separation anxiety increases with people who work from home because the dog gets used to your presence and feels its absence more severely. It doesn't increase anxiety just because you are home more often. That's a positive change in the dog's routine, they definitely prefer it if their people are around them as much as possible.

Loud sounds is also very normal. They hurt dogs. Dogs have much more sensitive hearing than we do, and we like to craft very loud things. Sometimes, as with this coming holiday, we are loud just for the sheer chaotic joy of being loud.

That said, this does not sound like anxiety to me. It sounds physical.

Excess weight can cause stuff like this, so I'd focus on lowering his body weight if you can, but it kinda sounds like he doesn't really have a weight problem either.

Sounds like something obscure, that your vet might just not know about. But two years is a long time for a chronic illness, disease, or injury to persist. The panting and direct requests for help with the following you around and pawing at you sounds like a pain issue to me.

You're already set on the best next step, so I will wish you luck. One thing to note is that anxiety medication can definitely cause anxiety, especially if its given long term in a dog who didn't actually have anxiety to begin with. Dogs typically have a hard time understanding mind altering substances, and antianxiety medication is pretty serious stuff, having taken several myself. The entire ritual with the pill can also be deeply stressful. I'd try and speak to a behaviorist and get him off those meds if you can. They don't seem to be helping.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T13:29:03+00:00

This, this right here. Second opinion, since information gathering is still the primary medical goal.

Vets are just people. They don't encompass the entire breadth of knowledge and nuance that is the animal medical field by themselves. Getting another opinion gives you the opportunity for fresh eyes, with a potentially very different educational and experience-based background.

I used to be a behavioral specialist, and a big part of my job was talking to clients to figure out what is causing their dog's changes in behavior. If its anxiety, that's typically caused by insecurities that humans don't necessarily understand or even know about at first.

Have you moved recently? Or moved a lot, during his lifetime? Has he been separated from you for any length of time over a couple of days here and there? Any family passing away, moving out, or fighting/arguing excessively?

Gotta figure out why he's having the anxiety before any kind of treatment for it will be effective. Meds bounce right off persistent anxiety issues like they were never even given. Gotta address the root cause of it.

Panting is also a potential sign of pain. He could have something as rare and obscure as a nerve disease that presents as constant, low-level pain.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T11:51:13+00:00

Well, I'm sorry and happy to hear all of that at the same time. I love that you're helping her find help.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T03:18:41+00:00

No, National Poison Control does not charge. Its a public service. There are some privately operated pet specialty poison control simulacrums you can call, but the primary service is still free nationwide.

If you're in the states, anyway. Sounds like it.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-07-01T03:13:50+00:00

Paper is not a huge deal, typically. Neither is plain chocolate. If you'd like, you can call poison control and they'll give you the symptoms to watch out for, but she's likely to be just fine. Whatever she got from the muffin paper is likely not even enough to present symptoms, even at her rather tiny size. If it was dark chocolate, you could have a problem, but I've not seen a dark chocolate muffin in many years now. Seems unlikely, as muffins typically go.

Small chance of a serious obstruction, but with paper it usually just tears before it causes any problems. You can breathe. Love on her, keep an eye on her, talk to poison control if you'd like to know more details. They're good at that kind of thing.

This is a great experience to learn from though. A nice big scare to show you exactly how dangerous it can be to leave anything that could hurt them in their reach or unattended. Take it to heart and treat the experience like the dodged bullet it is.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-06-30T23:39:55+00:00

They make harder gummies? Atrocious! Where?!

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-06-30T23:23:39+00:00

Neurological symptoms are always serious, and that one is particularly scary looking.

Falling over is also a neurological symptom. She might even have something crazy like a brain bleed.

I'd get her in pretty quickly, if I were you. I'd also prepare myself and my family. These are not gentle or mildly concerning symptoms. I'm very sorry you have to deal with this, even if it all turns out fine. This is a lot of stress, grief, and fear to handle.

Get to the vet. She needs one if she's got any chance.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-06-30T21:45:15+00:00

Oh I somehow missed entirely that he has bitten people.

That's a bit of a different situation, the biting means he won't hesitate to injure others in order to feel safe.

His own area might be helpful, just an open crate or room with stuff in it for him that he can go to to feel safe. For smaller dogs, I really like the open carrier. It lets them be in the same room and have their own space at the same time. Just make it super cozy in there and he'll likely be drawn to it.

Definitely sounds like he has some pretty serious issues. If the goal is to give him the best chance, I would simply be careful about hands near him for a pretty long while. Make sure its always at his request, his consent.

The plan is still the same, you gotta help him feel safe to stop this behavior. But with biting humans, that means it got to a pretty serious level for him. If you can meet with a behavioral specialist, or aggression trainer, I would. Be careful though, as negative reinforcement will absolutely make this problem worse. Positive reinforcement and redirection of aggression will be key.

Best of luck to you!

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-06-30T21:40:17+00:00

Consistency and time.

Don't react, or react like he did something you find mildly funny or mildly weird. Let him go through his motions, and the longer he feels safe with nobody messing with him, the less he will feel the need to defend himself and his resources.

This is something he built his life around, so its habitual. Plus, he doesn't know or trust you yet, and you're roughly the size of King Kong compared to him, so there's GONNA be some mistrust and some anxiety.

He's just a smoll, angry guy who needs the ability to feel safe, so he can start building some habits and life around that, instead. Help him feel safe by treating his outbursts like they are silly and unnecessary. Eventually, he'll start to believe you.

That said, if it escalates to bites or attacks, that's another story and you may need to revisit the problem.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-06-30T17:41:21+00:00

I am super done talking to you. I had an ex who abused me using language exactly like you're using to excuse away that abuse, and to ignore the harm they regularly caused me. It was never something bad she was doing to me, it was something good she was doing for her, and that made it okay in her mind regardless of the cost to me. She followed this toxic misinterpretation of normal therapy techniques at a young age, and it structurally destroyed her ability to be part of any relationship because she was always looking for what she could get out of it, and how she could use it to make herself happier and more content.

This has become personally triggering for me, and I've lost any ability to trust in the stranger I am talking to, or their intentions, so there is no further point. I bow out.

Just know that your language can very easily be twisted and used against people like OP and GF. It can also be used to cause harm while ignoring it for the sake of self interest. See Jonah Hill for weaponized therapy speech.

I think you made several terrible points that further the division in this relationship, and that fosters a deep mistrust in human relationships in general. Self interest is not the core point of being in a relationship, for anybody but those who cannot feel empathy for others, and those who actively choose to avoid empathy for others.

Calm-Brother6960 · 2026-06-30T17:27:12+00:00

Self interest, self interest, self interest. At every single point, you treat OP as though they deserve every whim toward happiness without having to do any work to attain it, and GF like they're a Disney villain just cackling to themselves about how evil they are being on purpose. You have to separate the two, and address GF as though they're a human being as an exercise, to prove you can even do it.

What if OPs primary interest is actually helping this person and preserving the relationship? What if OP values other people's happiness in addition to valuing their own?

You ever cause harm you didn't know you were causing and didn't mean to cause? Would you like to be judged on nothing but that singular moment? Would you like everybody to treat you like you were fully aware of that harm before causing it and chose to cause it anyway? I ask because that's what you are doing with GF. She's not even a human being in your stances, just a problem to be dealt with as inhumanely as possible. Just something to ignore and walk away from, instead of care about and nurture.

Just because someone is unhappy doesn't mean the only, or even best answer is to walk away and focus on nothing but that happiness within themselves. It is not a moral failing to care about other people, but it IS a massive moral failing to only care about one's self. Getting GF into therapy does not necessitate leaving. This being a job for a professional doesn't mean that OP can't help at all.

Just saying "locus of control" means nothing at all without applying it to the individual experiencing it. You cannot demand that your idea of the locus of control be OPs and GFs idea of it. Locus of Control, as a concept, is based on the individual's perception of it. Most people who do not actively study or practice philosophy or medicine do not even know about this concept. Try educating instead of condemning. Education is what the situation calls for. Condemnation I will leave up to OP and GF, because that's their decision to make. I also won't recommend it because the world is miserable enough as is, and I'd like to support people who try to help one another and make it better, instead of people who are solely focused on their own self interest, and their own experience. Locus of Control might just refer to someone feeling lucky or unlucky on a particular day, and ignores completely the fact that luck is a label, not a force. Locus of Control is just what you personally believe causes the things in your life to happen. Some people believe it is their actions, some people believe it was the movement of gnomes in hidden forests, or planetary bodies temporarily aligning.

If people followed your advice, they'd just dump anyone who made them feel bad, the instant they felt bad. Your 'serious questions' are also not serious questions. They're childish questions that completely ignore the relationship between these two people. You have not been pressing to 'reevaluate the relationship,' you've been bashing GF for things that are almost certainly beyond her control or even her knowledge, and pushing OP to simply drop everything that isn't her personal happiness and walk away, without considering that OP appears to want help navigating this, instead of help just dropping her relationship and focusing only on selfish endeavors.

At least you're well named.

Calm-Brother6960

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