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We have a very anxious 10 month old that we have struggled with separation anxiety, leash reactivity, and car anxiety.

Our biggest issue has been the separation, because we feel chained to our house. We finally decided to give her trazodone on the days she has to stay in her crate and I know she is on a med, but I seriously think we are making progress overall. After I took her out before work this morning, she ran straight into her crate on her own! For the past few weeks we have noticed she has been sleeping in the crate when we come home.

I seriously hope this transitions to where we can leave her unmedicated. Has anyone had any luck themselves? We also started her on Prozac a few wee

Has this happened this early for anyone else? We have an 8 month old that I fully expected to be a terror at this age. She's a supermutt, but has a lot of working breeds (pit, Shetland sheep dog, boxer, plus a million other things) and expected to be 40 lbs. Since her adolescence that seemed to have started at 5.5 months, she was getting up every two hours and begging for attention and to go outside, but the past few weeks she has been sleeping longer and playing independently. She has busy weekends going to sniffspots, playing with other pups, visiting her grandparents, and she gets two mile walks every morning and enrichment during the day, but we were doing that a few weeks ago when she w

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I may be overthinking this, but I have been worried about leaving my pup at bedtime. We have been working up to leaving her during the day for 2 to 3 hours, but for some reason I've convinced myself that we can't do that during the evening/night even though she just sleeps.

Does anyone have any experience with this? She sleeps from 730p to 6a in our bed, and I'd be leaving around 8p and coming back in a couple hours.

I'm just worried she would be distressed.

Anyone noticed a difference between leaving a dog at different times of the day?

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For anyone struggling with meeting your pups needs and getting them enough enrichment and sleep, hang in there. It took a lot of trial and error for me to figure out what helped my little one.

First, I learned the indoor enrichment doesn't work well. I tried so many things... puzzles, lick mats, snuffle mats, toys, frozen kongs, and even training!

I had to take her outside. The best option is to take her to a park on a long lead for an hour (or until she starts laying in the grass) and letting her sniff and explore wherever she wants.

If I don't have that luxury, I try to take her for quick 30 min sniff walks. Basically, I only get like two blocks of distance, but I let her sniff and expl

Hello, My 6 month old puppy has been excessively drooling, making large wet spots wherever she rests. We noticed this at 3:30am this morning intitially thinking it was pee. She ate all of her breakfast, is drinking water, and went on a walk this morning. She seems a little calmer than usual, but she had a big day yesterday at the park. She explored and played outside (with no other animals around). It was hot out, but I made sure to keep her hydrated and offer water when needed. From what I know, she didn't eat anything she wasn't supposed to. Her gums are pink and don't seem inflamed and her belly isn't bloated and when I press on it, she doesn't seem to mind. Her poops are normal. She is

Hi all! I have the sweetest puppy who has some stubborn and challenging tendencies, but she is overall extremely smart and knows TONS of commands and does a great job calming herself down with enough exercise and stimulation. But the more I read, the more I worry I'm in a honeymoon phase with her and she's going to be a terror. She's going to be a medium size dog fully grown and only really acts up when she has the poop zoomies (or doesn't want to let go of a random object she found on the ground).

I feel like I'm going to be in for a rude awakening. Right now I'm in puppy bliss and I'm worried. How can I prepare? Has anyone had any experiences where they didn't go through the teenage phase

Hi everyone. Our neighborhood was hit by a tornado on May 16 and what is left is a massive amount of debris on the ground. Of course, puppies want to pick up EVERYTHING with their mouth and I'm really scared to bring her outdoors too much. I have recently started giving her tiny pieces of hot dog outdoors and this helps quite a bit making her drop things and leave things alone, but she is still curious and I can't catch every single thing. We have been limiting her outside time around our area, but it's been really upsetting. We live a block away from a beautiful park and I can't even safely get her there without driving.

I have been considering a basket muzzle, but the choices online have

Hello,

My puppy got spayed recently and we have had to call our vet multiple times to get her meds in order to help keep her calm during the recovery. She started on 50mg trazodone, increased to 75mg every 8 hours, but it wasn't enough. The vet added gabapentin today 300 mg every 12 hours. She's a 20 lb dog and I am concerned with so many calls and changes that 300 mg gabapentin combined with 75 mg trazodone is a lot for her.

Can anyone confirm? I just want her to be safe and we have been calling the vet every day trying to get this figured out.

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My girl got spayed on Tuesday and was prescribed trazodone to keep her calm during her recovery. It definitely helps, but only for about 4 hours and she is back to her normal self going absolutely crazy with frustrated, pent up energy. We were first prescribed to give it every 12 hours and then the vet approved us to administer every 8. Despite upping the frequency, it is extremely hard to control her even with a pen and leash after it wears off. She even found a way to jump on the couch with barriers on it. Am I expecting too much? I honestly hoped we could constantly keep her calm 24/7. Is this a ridiculous expectation? I am so, so worried about her causing harm to herself since s