No anxiety with Hudler, but if he's awake, he's panting and sometimes he does a low quiet constant whine. Sometimes it's potty, sometimes it's I'm hungry, sometimes it's he wants to go to sleep on his bed and wants to be escorted. Before he got sick, he would do some loud yelping when we were upstairs in the kitchen for dinner. Maybe it was because we were home and he wanted us downstairs, maybe he wanted to be up in the kitchen (where things fall off the counter into his mouth), we never really know for sure. He can't go up stairs, and I am not walking him around the house so he can be upstairs in the kitchen.
We've stopped giving him the meloxicam, I notice no difference in any levels of pain. I don't know if he is in pain. The last xray we did, I forgot to mention, he did have some confirmed spondylosis in his spine.
We found he sleeps better with light on, so at night, depending on where he decides to go to sleep, if it's not in my bedroom, we leave a light on for him.
It's all a guessing game. Especially when they aren't completely well, but aren't really "sick"...like Maddy was really sick.