I'm feeling better this morning than the last few days. Still have some inflammation in the pelvic/intestinal area but decreasing and less painful. Joint aches are much lower. My mind is clear.
I can theorize all I want. In the end, I'm still not sure what brought this on. I hit it with a shotgun approach, using everything that has worked in the past at once.
The dog is still much better behaved. So, I'm just going to have to keep medicating him for at least a few weeks. Anxiety is an emotional pattern, a habit or cycle which must be broken. It's not possible to reason with a dog, so the options to break that cycle are limited. I'm going to have to keep medicating him until the pattern of calm behavior takes hold and becomes his norm. I realize that may take years. I will try removing the medication once every few weeks to see if the pattern holds. If he goes back to the anxious pattern, he goes back on it the same day.
6PM- Work was seriously busy today. I had over 90 cases in 8 hours and it was only that low because it finally slowed down slightly near the end of the day. For the first few hours, I was averaging 13 cases an hour. If it had remained at that pace, I would have had 104 cases. As it was, I had 92 or 93.
The dog is back to his anxious self again. His medication wore off before the end of my work day. So, I am feeding him before we go for a walk (and his medication is mixed in his food). Give that a chance to take effect before we go anywhere. If he doesn't eat, we don't go. I'm not having him break a leash again or pull my arm out of the socket because he will not calm down.
I didn't get much done this evening. Somehow time just sped away from me and next I knew it was 8:30.
Tomorrow I need to get under the car and work on a few small things. I have a very slow transmission fluid leak. I think it's either a pinhole leak in a cooling line or just a loose connection. (I am hoping just a loose connection.
I can theorize all I want. In the end, I'm still not sure what brought this on. I hit it with a shotgun approach, using everything that has worked in the past at once.
The dog is still much better behaved. So, I'm just going to have to keep medicating him for at least a few weeks. Anxiety is an emotional pattern, a habit or cycle which must be broken. It's not possible to reason with a dog, so the options to break that cycle are limited. I'm going to have to keep medicating him until the pattern of calm behavior takes hold and becomes his norm. I realize that may take years. I will try removing the medication once every few weeks to see if the pattern holds. If he goes back to the anxious pattern, he goes back on it the same day.
6PM- Work was seriously busy today. I had over 90 cases in 8 hours and it was only that low because it finally slowed down slightly near the end of the day. For the first few hours, I was averaging 13 cases an hour. If it had remained at that pace, I would have had 104 cases. As it was, I had 92 or 93.
The dog is back to his anxious self again. His medication wore off before the end of my work day. So, I am feeding him before we go for a walk (and his medication is mixed in his food). Give that a chance to take effect before we go anywhere. If he doesn't eat, we don't go. I'm not having him break a leash again or pull my arm out of the socket because he will not calm down.
I didn't get much done this evening. Somehow time just sped away from me and next I knew it was 8:30.
Tomorrow I need to get under the car and work on a few small things. I have a very slow transmission fluid leak. I think it's either a pinhole leak in a cooling line or just a loose connection. (I am hoping just a loose connection.
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