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american shelter hound diaries skip to main skip to sidebar american shelter hound diaries monday april 19 2010 gypsy digs a hole the girls are enjoying the spring and the backyard immensely this weekend gypsy decided what the back yard really needed was a very big hole enjoy the video posted by babs at 1 14 pm 1 comment wednesday april 14 2010 allergy season it s allergy season in the great white north both for people and for dogs maisey is suffering from seasonal allergies so she had the requisite runny nose and eyes the most troubling symptom however is that her paws are super itchy so she s in the cone of shame until we can get her symptoms under control we re using benadryl and seeing the vet this evening to see what else we can do to keep her comfortable posted by babs at 1 18 pm no comments thursday april 8 2010 happy gotcha day maisey one year ago we brought maisey home happy first gotcha day girl posted by babs at 3 25 pm no comments monday april 5 2010 what would a holiday weekend be without a trip to the emergency vet on sunday morning maisey scraped a paw pad on her first trip outside in the morning we checked it out and it was the equivalent of a skinned knee a little skin had lifted but there was no blood and she was walking on it fine so we cleaned it bandaged it and put her and gypsy in their crates shortly afterward when we returned from running errands ikea we let the girls out of their crates and maisey was limping and clearly in pain so we loaded her up and headed over to the e vet she got a thorough exam a pretty blue bandage and some pain pills and we headed home because the skin wasn t completely broken we got to skip the antibiotics but we have really specific instructions on how to check for infection just in case maisey was drowsy with the pain meds so we all took it easy on sunday night and of course she got to sleep with us which was a treat for us all well all of us except for bunny and gypsy posted by babs at 9 37 am no comments tuesday march 30 2010 cookie monsters maisey has made some excellent strides our biggest behavioral problem is that she would bark obsessively at stuff mostly squirrels and the neighbors not normal dog barking but obsessive hackle raising in a trance that we couldn t break barking it was this kind of barking that broke two windows because she slammed up against them in her frenzy when she got like this nothing could pull her away trust me i tried and got nipped once no blood no broken skin but that was the point at which we called the behaviorist i m proud to report that we are now able to verbally call both maisey and gypsy away from any situation with the sound of our voices the world s biggest squirrel could be taunting them from a tree there could be an entire construction crew on the other side of the fence it doesn t matter we simply call out girls cookie cookie cookie we changed the treat word to cookie it s very distinct sounding and the girls got it immediately so no matter what they re up to no matter how intense the situation we yell cookie and they drop what they re doing and run to find us we reward them with a dog biscuit some broccoli or maybe popcorn we keep tossing or handing the treats until they calm down and forget all about the squirrels once they re calm we release them and all is right in the world guess our old gal can learn some new tricks did someone say cookie posted by babs at 12 06 pm no comments thursday march 18 2010 more updates maisey is tolerating the prozac well which is to say there have been no adverse side effects it will take a month to see if it has therapeutic value for her other measures we have taken sealing off our very loud mailslot using a dap pheromone diffuser and lots and lots and lots of training and positive reinforcement have helped her come a long way the awesome thing is that gypsy is a better adjusted dog as well because she is experiencing all of these things as well with the except of the medication if you have a dog that suffers from anxiety i highly recommend a dap diffuser dog appeasing pheromone dap mimics the properties of the natural pheromones to reduce or eliminate stress in dogs of all ages dog appeasing pheromone has a relaxing effect for both the young and adults dogs it is an effective natural way to help your dog cope with new and fearful situations such as fireworks thunderstorms holiday stress traveling or moving to a new environment we ve been using a dap for about six weeks now we can t smell anything but the dogs sure do we noticed a change in behavior recently they were both sort of skittish and easily agitated and we realized we were a week overdue in replacing the dap refill a few hours later things were back to normal if you decide to give a dap a try shop around for the best deal online especially when it comes to replacement cartridges posted by babs at 11 14 am no comments friday march 12 2010 maisey update over the past few months maisey has been struggling with what seems to be anxiety issues so we brought in a qualified dvm behavior specialist a month ago to observe her behavior both good and bad and help us to help maisey we got some really great ideas about environment modification and training and she has been steadily improving but this past week she had a set back and broke a window her second freaking out over the mailman she s also started snapping at her treats instead of receiving them calmly so we checked back in with dr r who now believes that in addition to behavior modification and training maisey may be a good candidate for medication we re taking her in this afternoon for a full work up to ensure her problem isn t physical and bloodwork that will help the doc determine the best type of medication to help ease her anxiety the plan is to use meds for about 6 12 months and continue with the behavior modification and training at the end of that time frame ideally we can wean her off the meds but continue the training and maisey will be right as rain the pic below is maisey standing guard on the front porch posted by babs at 11 02 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom looking for babs 365 blog find it here maisey potato head the gypster lucky bunny meg babs contributors babs meg blog archive 2010 22 april 4 gypsy digs a hole allergy season happy gotcha day maisey what would a holiday weekend be march 4 february 6 january 8 2009 43 december 5 november 18 october 17 august 3 followers