Posted by akc on August 31, 2001, at 10:22:28
Yes, my youngest is going to be going to the doggie shrink. It is really making me laugh. She is seriously phobic of storms. I have been working very hard with my vet on this for some time now. I give her xanax when a storm is approaching and everything. You should have seen the pharmacist's face the first time I picked up the script of 1 mg tablets of xanex for my dog -- especially when I told him that it barely phased her!
Unfortunately, here in the midwest, storms are somewhat unpredictable, and her phobia is just getting worse. I leave most mornings for work around 7 a.m. The weatherman said it would be early evening before the next batch of storms, so no xanax seemed to be warranted -- it wouldn't last. Of course, the storms came in around 2 -- not sure that it would have helped in any event. It was a really bad storm from a thunder point of view. After busting out of the kennel (not a small feat), she tore down one set of my nice two inch wooden mini-blinds, busted another set, chewed up a door frame, scratched up that door, started working on another door, broke open a case of soda (only busted one can open though), and knocked over a few other items around the house. I called the vet and we agreed that it was time to move on to the behaviorist -- my vet said she has never seen anything this bad.
By the way, my other dog has separation anxiety. When I get ready for work in the morning, he likes to do weird things, such as pluck one thing off the kitchen counter while I am in the shower -- the morning it was the bag of pasta led me to the pet store to get him a new stuffed animal! I didn't discover the mess right away. At first all I saw was one very small piece of dried pasta on my bedroom floor -- I looked and looked and just couldn't for the life of me figure that out -- then I went into the living room. If you had seen him on the bed looking all innocent, you would have just laughed!
My cat -- well she is narsistic -- not sure that is unique -- I think that is just a symptom of all cats!
I'm not looking for advice on what to do with my unique animals. But I sure would be interested in what unique behaviors your animals engage in.
akc -- the crazy woman with crazy pets
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