My dog has pain-induced insomnia….any ideas?

Maybe you should take your dog to the vet. Or buy sleep supplements. There are now many platforms where you can do this, for example ( https://www.worldpetexpress.net/) . There are various articles about this. Maybe it will help you!

What does your veterinarian say?

Isn’t it lovely having a puppy. I love training our dog who is now 4…….move over Toby…….Bindy taking over lol.

Aw thats so cute! She sounds heaps smart!!

The commands my dog (Sammy) knows are:
-Sit
-Lie Down
-Shake Hands (its so cute how he puts his paw up and shakes it!)
-Jump (Either over something or through a hula-hoop)
-Up (My dog also either jumps up on me or if I point to a chair he knows to jump up on it)
-Dinner! (he wags his tail heaps coz he gets warm, canned food for dinner – yay! Lol)
-Get it! (After I throw a toy, he runs and gets it)
-Give it to me (I put my hand out and he drops the toy in my hand)
-Stay (he sits and stays for like 30 secs then he gets bored so he gets up and starts wandering around lol)
-Come!
-Walkies! (Lol my bro made that up. It’s to go for a walk obviously)
-Outside! (I point to the door and he knows that he can’t stay inside and he has to go out – only coz he loses A LOTTTT of fur!! thats why he cant stay inside)
-Inside! (I open the door and open my arms and he jumps into them!)
-Mummy (Me)
-Grandma (My mum) He doesnt really care about my bro or dad lol.
-Water! (He goes and drinks water lol but only wen he’s thirsty)
-No
-Good boy
-Shower (He runs away and I see fear in his eyes lol he HATES showers!!)
-Bye bye (He starts barking coz he doesnt want me to leave)
-Release (get up from sitting)
-Bone! or Get your bone! (he runs around trying to find his bone!)

Weird things:
-Sometimes he sits on the carpet, then random he lifts his back legs up and slides his bum along the carpet and just walks on his 2 front paws. Is that normal?? Does that mean something!?
-I wanted to teach my dog how to roll over, but I don’t know why but everytime I say ‘Roll over’ he jumps up on me!?!?!?!?
-When I say ‘Lie Down’ while he’s already lying down, he lies on his side.

The commands Sofie knows are:
Sit
Lay down (only when she is on a mat or towel)
Get your toy (she goes and gets any toy)
Wee wees
Up (she jumps up on anything we tap, even our own bodies)
Big stretch
In your nigh nighs (her bed – at night time when we go to bed)

Other words she knows are:
Din-dins
Mummy
Daddy
Ta-taas (walk)
Car
her name (of course)
No
Naughty (she knows this one very well!)

She also has little weird habits/routines things that she does like:
Toilet inspection (she has to inspect the toilet after we flush it if she is in the room)
If she sleeps/lies on our bed she will only do it on my side
Standing up at the kitchen bench when we cook, do the dishes or make coffee (but she is smart and knows not to jump up on the stove)

Haha aw thats good that she’s sleeping.

I remember when I got my puppy, I was so excitd that night I wanted to teach him a trick lol and in just a few hours that night, he learnt how to Sit! Aw it was so cute!!
Haha sorry I often like to trail off the topic, if u read through the other threads lol.
Can Sofie do any tricks?

Thats ok Veronicaa – simple mistake, my fault – I should have used more punctuation!

But thanks for the congrats anyway.

Anyway I have great news – she is asleep in her bed right now! We tuckered her out with some gentle playing and I guess some of the pain must have gone away.

I guess we just freaked out cos she is our first pet and in fact our first dependent (no kids lol)

Omg haha sorry i feel so dumb im like blushing right now haha I interpreted ur text wrong lol i thought u meant ‘u got ur puppy from the shop’ or something until I just re-read it again haha how embarrassing!!! :S

She sleeps in our room. She always has.

Thanks Veronicaa, we have actually had her since May 2009 (she is almost 11 months old). We have tried everything.

Since my post this morning some progress has been made – she had an injection at the vet of a painkiller and sedative (which doesnt seem to have had any effect lol) but we have also gotten some gauze and taped it over her stitches which she seems to like. We have placed some Johnson’s baby bedtime oil on the back of her neck and a couple of hours ago we let her outside to see what she would do by herself (thought she needed some privacy so we spied on her from the living room window) and she actually curled up under a tree and went to sleep for an hour!

So we now assume she has some sort of anxiety issue from being inside as she has now come back inside and is just standing up staring at the wall with her back arched and tail between her legs (won’t lie down or sleep) and every now and then she frets and runs around for a couple of seconds.

This is so weird.

Oh also how do u know that she doesn’t sleep at night (coz I’m sure your asleep?) or does she sleep in ur room?