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My dog escaped four times this weekend while I was gone. He’s crazy and super anxious but we love him.
Has anybody had success just drugging their dog into less anxiety? What do you recommend?
This is going to sound terrible. But that is a defective dog. If you get a different easier dog you will love it just as much, and you can do that. Your life will be much better for it, so will everyone's life that has had to deal with your bad dog.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone else have the impression that there bas been a general increase in just bad, poorly socialized, aggressive, or anxious dogs? Probably over 75% of the dogs in my dog-sphere (friends' dogs and neighborhood dogs that we see often) have some sort behavioral issues that makes me not want to spend time around them (the dogs). I could count the number of "actually good dogs" amply on one hand.
I don't remember it being this way in my childhood. But obvious issues with trying to compare today to my childhood memories.
I read recently that cats have been evolving to be less friendly to humans, at least in the West, because friendly pet cats are spayed or neutered, as are strays that are caught by people. The cats that are reproducing are strays unfriendly enough to avoid animal control. Seems plausible the same effect is occurring for dogs.
Unlike cats, where large stray populations feed into the pet population in the west, most pet dogs in America were deliberately bred.
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