Help!! Corgi is yelping when I pet his sides, laying around a lot

2 days ago my Corgy started yelping randomly when he was touched, and he never yelps! I just figured he was being temperamental but Today he's yelping when I just pet his sides lightly? He yelped yesterday when I put him in and out of our van to go to the groomers, but I just figured I maybe picked him up wrong, but now I'm worried and not sure what's going on with him. Not sure if something got worse at the groomers or if he was already dealing with some issue. He's eating fine, and peeing normally. He's started an odd behavior as well, after 3 years of living with our other large dog, he all of the sudden( over the last few months) is aggressive and barking at the large dog a lot when our large dog gets to excited.Not sure if that's related or not, I'm wondering now if he's aggressive because the large dog is hyper and bumps him off and on when he's excited? Anyone ever dealt with this? Any help would be appreciated!

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Permalink Reply by Beth on January 15, 2019 at 2:15pm

I would take him to the vet. The two behaviors are likely related; it may be that the bigger dog bumped him and caused an injury, or it may be he has pain for another reason and the big dog bumping him aggravates it. But a vet trip is in order either way. Yelping for no easily identifiable reason should always warrant further investigation. Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by hope pedigo on January 15, 2019 at 8:44pm

Thanks,Yah weird thing is now he seems fine,So I'm just watching him for now

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Permalink Reply by Vicky Hay on January 24, 2019 at 11:39am

Might want to take that dog to the vet. Could be a fractured rib? Yelping would seem to indicate some kind of pain.

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