MSU Red Cedar Message Board

My family has used mild sedatives on dogs that had severe anxiety while on long car trips. As far as every day type use, I'm not sure. Probably best to confer with your vet, rather than relying on message board expertise.

I might be wildly underestimating the state of affairs re your dog, but we have a puggle that used to chew up a lot of things if we left him alone in the house. One thing we started doing--and maybe we're idiots for not doing it sooner--is giving him lots and lots and lots of rawhide bones. He has them all over the house, and he gets a lot of aggression or whatever out just by chewing on them. I guess when we first got him, we thought of them more as treats, but now they are just what he does half the time. It's like he's a smoker. He goes through tons of them. It's a very expensive habit, but he stopped chewing up shoes, glasses, TV remotes, books, etc. Again, I hope this isn't an inane suggestion. Just thought I'd throw it out there.

P.S. We also did the crate training thing a couple of the other posters have talked about.

your dog has separation anxiety.

1. get a thunder shirt. put it on him when you're gone.

2. buy a kong toy. stuff it with cut up hot dogs and other treats. seal the end with peanut butter. stick it in the freezer over night. the dog will spend a good part of the day trying to lick out the frozen treats.

3. when your wife is asleep, try to stick your finger in her butt hole.

The problem with getting the dog high is that they rarely tip the pizza delivery guy.

My $.02 is I would NOT go with daily meds. We had a cat years ago that had some behavioral issues and our vet at the time recommended drugs. Shortly thereafter the cat's liver went on the fritz. (ironic, if anyone in the house was going to kill his liver, I would have bet on myself). The cat survived that (thanks to the brilliant staff at MSU's vet clinic!) but you cannot convince me the meds didn't play a part.

I've since spent enough time reading about various animal behavioral issues to come to the conclusion that drugs are over prescribed and almost any bad behavior is a result of the animal reacting to its environment and can be worked through with training and/or changes to the routine/environment.

Heroin should do it.

only once. It didn't turn out very well.

The trick is to mix the coke with the peanut butter.

i'm just gonna go ahead and disagree with you here.

C'mon... you could've easily worked a peanut butter/dog licking my balls joke in here.

3/10

He actually walks great on a leash and he has never barked anyone while walking.

This isn't permanent. Vet recommended that we use the drugs so he's more receptive to the training he will be receiving. Going to start taking him to the dog park 2x a week and daycamp once a week. Continue the walks at night. Hopefully this help expend some energy.

Our other dog is normal and she is a pretty high energy breed. Unfortunately, she hasn't helped him mellow out any.

Most people would have given him up by now, but that isn't even a option for us.