So... beginning this last Wednesday I've been having a new problem with Jemma, wanted to see if I could get some thoughts on it. In November I will have had her for 1 year, and it will also be her 3rd birthday. Wednesday night, I put her to bed and went to bed myself. Sometime around 5am Thursday morning, I was awakened by a thudding sound and my bedroom door swinging open (which scared the holy hell out of me, btw)... but then I heard nails on tile and realized it was one of the dogs... as it turns out, Jemma. So I get up and go to the kitchen where I keep their crates and see that she had managed to get the top latch of her crate open, and worked and worked, until she squeezed free. How she did this without making enough noise to wake the dead I will never know. But the reason that she did it, was she had been sick.... I couldn't tell if it was vomit or poop, but it was liquid and all over her crate. So I let her outside, and proceeded to drag her crate outside and hose it out and clean it up and put her bed in the washing machine. Now this strikes me as odd, because she has always barked to be let out, she will even bark to get me to come and let Huckleberry out when he has made a mess in his crate. This would be the first time ever for her to have made a mess in her crate. So I just chalk it up to her being sick, didn't have any warning time to bark, and just wanted to get away from it. She was eating and drinking and otherwise seemed fine, so I didn't worry about it too much.
So, Thursday night I put her to bed, and go to bed myself. Wake up around 2 in the morning to tell tale noises of crate being messed with. Get up and go in there, and she has gotten that top latch undone and is half way wriggled out. So I put her outside, proceed to zip tie the crate frame to reinforce it, then let her back in and put her back in bed, and use a couple of cheap carabiners to hold the door shut to make sure she can't escape again, and go back to bed. Get up Friday morning, and she had managed to break one of the carabiners in an attempt to escape, but wasn't able to get out. However, I notice a smell... and upon letting her outside pull her bed out to inspect and realize she had thrown up a little bit and then folded her bed on top of it to hide it... so that was what she was trying to get away from. But same as the day before, she was eating and drinking and seemed fine.
So Friday night I put her to bed.... get woken up at 5am to the sounds of her trying to escape, go and let her out, and she had peed in her bed.... same thing happened Saturday night. And finally we come to last night.... she was trying to get out and woke me up, but this time... no pee/poop/vomit etc.... she was just trying to escape... I thought maybe she needed out, so I let her outside and she turned around and sat and stared at the door. Tried to let her back in and put her back and bed, and she wouldn't go back in her crate, so I put her back outside and she proceeded to sit out there and bark until morning (luckily only a couple of hours).
I don't know what has gotten in to her... she doesn't seem to be sick at all... every one of those nights she hung out with me in the house for hours before going to bed... wasn't making frequent trips outside or anything. She's acting totally normal other than at night.
Anybody have any ideas?
