[klowieboyz]

Our 5 year old pitbull recently started showing some strange behavior. It started in the morning while we were getting ready for work, she would follow either my husband or I from room to room and then when we stopped she would stand there, facing away from us. Just stand there for as long as we were in one place, when we moved she moved and did the same thing when we stopped.

For the past 3 nights she has started getting off her bed (which is right next to ours) and started walking around, she does this from 4-6am. She either walks around, is very restless and moves a lot while she's asleep or just stands in the dark facing away from us. Is this anxiety?

[Bacis Dad]

Thats a very interesting behavior. Have you ruled out all health problems? That would be my first suggestion, being that this is a new behavior (right?) since dogs really mainly communicate through body language its one of 2 things I can think of, a health problem (I would ask the vet for a CBC, urinalysis and a fecal test) or a change in the environment, new pet, re-arrange of furniture, new outdoor animals (wild or domestic, maybe a neighbors). If you are confident that absolutely nothing has changed I would highly reccomend some testing at the vet. Any other physical changes in your dog? Stool, urine, limp or pain anywhere?

[klowieboyz]

The only thing that has changed was that we have to rearrange our furniture to fit in our Christmas tree and we just move it all back. But we've done this every year and she's never acted like this before.

[rayter]

How is the dog when you leave her alone? This sounds like some separation anxiety starting.

[klowieboyz]

She's actually better when she's outside. She seems happy when we put her out with her little bed. We just don't like to if the weather isn't nice. That's the weird part.

[millsandbones]

That's probably because of her age. As dogs aged, it is inevitable that there are changes in their behavior.

[Bacis Dad]

im sorry I missed your response... initially you said it's been the last 3 days... any changes in her behavior since your initial post?