My dog is shaking and won't sleep.

My dog is shaking and won't sleep. This has been going on for four days. The only thing out of the ordinary was that we shaved half of him. He was shaking and seemed scared so we stopped and decided to finish the next day and he started acting funny. He is an elevenish year old cocker spaniel. We got him last year from a possibly abusive family and heard that they abandoned him in their old house. He is usually very energetic for his age and very happy to see my girlfriend and healthy. He just sits around with his head slumped nodding off and shivering slightly. Whenever his head actually touches the ground he snaps up and resumes nodding off. We have to encourage him to eat or give him people food which has never been a problem. He wouldn't drink water all day yesterday and then today drank half his bowl. He has gone out once a day to use the bathroom then pretended to but nothing came out. We cover him up and he will lay there or sleep for about three minutes and wake back up. I tied his neck down since he wouldn't let his head touch the ground and he slept but I felt bad because it looked uncomfortable. We thought he was cold so we covered him up but he still shivered.

Asked by Member 1090379 on Feb 7th 2012 Tagged sleep, shake, shiver, cockerspaniel in Illness & Disease