Beaux Bear

I have a yorkie and he is just like a kid. One morning a couple of days ago, while I was trying to get dressed for work in my bedroom, he barked from the living room. Beaux barks when he senses something outside, but he knows that early in the morning, the house is asleep and can't bark. I said, "Shhh, Beaux, you will wake everyone up!" I continued to get ready for work. I turned around to leave and there is Beaux standing there waiting for me to look at him. His butt faced me and he turned back to look at me, so I walked over and started petting him. I noticed that his back foot was lifted slightly off the floor, so I picked his foot up and rubbed my thumb over the padding. I didn't see blood or anything unusual, yet he was sensitive to my touch. I let go of his foot and he kept it lifted in the air. He looked back at me as if to say, "Really? That's all you're going to do?" Then he slowly rested his foot back down. I tested him and told him come with me to the kitchen. He followed me with hopping movements keeping his foot from the floor. Well, that told me that he did something to his foot in the short period of time that I got up and let him down from my bed. I woke my husband and told him to look at it and take care of him, I was already late for work. By the time I got home that day, he was fine. I just couldn't get over how he came to me that morning. His foot hurt and he wanted me to help him, like a child would go to their mother with a booboo.