Pup just kinda flatlined this past week
What’s up yall. My boy is 4 and a half months old now. He is usually a crackhead. Drive through the roof, going for shoes, running around and such. With training he was slowly becoming better at regulating hisself but the crackhead in him was very evident.
For the past week he just mellowed out. He wants to play, train and do things but he does them so slow. Like instead of grabbing the tug hard hell grab it slow, instead of running around in open fields and sniffing he’ll just lay there like in this photo. Hell grab treats so slow as well. He wants to engage but everything is just soooo slow. Low intensity. It’s not like him. When I rush to bring him out his crate to do something he looks at me like “why are we doing this right now”
I took him to the vet, his spark came back there but at home now it’s back to that mellow version. they said since he’s eating and pooping normal just monitor him. I asked my trainer, he said he’s seen this happen in pups before and to just let him rest.
I’ve tried taking him yo new environments but he’s not interested, he just wants to sleep all day, which makes sense, pups sleep 16-20hrs a day anyway. But for example when out of the crate instead of grabbing my shoes or a pillow like he usually does he’ll walk to his crate and lay down. His energy just dropped this past week. Essentially he is open to engaging, but it’s so mellow and slow, it was intense before this week.
I heard it could be possible growing pains or teething but want to see if anyone has had similar experiences