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    Anxiety Attacks

    How do you deal with it. This happened a few months back and i took her to the vet as i did not know. By the time we drop down, got her checked out she was her usual self .
    Yesterday we were playing fetch and she ran through some brown thin ropes which she knows are there.
    anyway i thought she broke a leg but poor thing was whining and took a while to settle down i made sure nothing was broken,

    then she sat attached to me , panting ,shaking and drooling. Called the vet who thought it was a anxiety episode. i calmed her but then got a bag cookies and did about 20 minutes of basic obedience.
    then the kids came back from school and she was less clingy and back to her old self. We did 2 mile walk just to see how her legs are she is fine now.

    I am getting better as diagnosing when she gets into this state now. I do not want to encourage this state but i am thinking when this happens was going back to training a good idea , how about a walk.
    she is stressed and i want to make sure she does not loose her mind and do something stupid. I think sitting in a panic state is not good for a dog either.

    thanks
    Satz

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    Anxiety can get worse over time if she's prone to it....happens with humans, happens with animals. If you can get a handle on it now, that's all for the best.

    Exercise...or at least something to re-focus her mind...yes.

    I also recommend a few things that seem to work for Sunnie (or myself, truthfully).

    Non-alcoholic version of Rescue Remedy (kid and pet formulas are identical...you can get the pet version cheaper (in a bigger bottle)).

    PetCalm by PetAlive...I use the granules, not the liquid. I guess the liquid works, but my recommendation is for the granules.

    NutriCalm by RxVitamins. Just started using this, seems to do a better job than the PetCalm which has been perfectly adequate up to when Sunnie's anxiety increased (when we put her on the Rovera).

    https://www.amazon.com/Bach-Rescue-R...s%2C133&sr=8-3

    https://www.amazon.com/Rx-Vitamins-C...gateway&sr=8-3

    https://www.nativeremedies.com/petal...-granules.html

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    I might have read an older post as i got bach remedy. how can one tell it works. we did give it to her a few times before we had alot of people over and then that last few times we did not. we could never tell the difference. next time i going to try to give it when she is that mood. again last time i saw that was in Oct of last year.

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    The Rescue Remedy noticeably calms my guys' "casual" stress...I've got to believe it does something positive when the stress is more pronounced and I just don't see it.

    It works for me, too.

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