u/AdministrationNo2062

I don’t know what to do with my dog. Gaba/Traz isn’t working. She’s been so agitated. Our first shot is 10/21.

Before starting heartworm treatment, my dog struggled to learn to sleep outside of her crate. She could settle on her place mat if I commanded her to, or sometimes she’d choose it herself while I was doing chores. There was no way she’d settle if we didn’t take a long walk that day, which we usually walked 2-3 miles per day before diagnosis.

That being said, this has been so hard. She’s uncomfortable on the meds and won’t settle. We can’t exercise enough so she’s always restless and now has started to regress in her crate training (which was 100% before). She’s on 300 mg gabapentin every 8 hours and 100 mg trazadone every 12 hours.

She gets agitated and nips. I can’t just put her in her crate because she finishes her Kong that I put in there with her and she digs to get out. I try to give her a frozen Kong, lick mat, or chew before she gets to the point of being agitated but I gave her everything today and then she wouldn’t even settle in her crate at the end of the day. We do nosework, tricks, and light conditioning work with kibble from her meals. She works for every individual piece, I don’t know what else we could do.

My vet is closed tomorrow but I did email. My dog is about 28 lbs (maybe 30 now with all the snacks). I don’t know if we can increase meds at all.

I just want my dog back to normal. I put in so much work into training her and I feel like we’re losing it all.

I’m having a bit of trouble with my 16 month old mountain cur/terrier mix. I adopted her in January and I can probably count on one hand the amount of times she’s slept outside of her crate. She sleeps in her crate in a room alone at night or when unsupervised.

She struggles to settle outside of her crate even though I’ve taught her place (she’ll even choose her place if she catches herself getting too excited), we do the relaxation protocol, and we do enrichment games.

I will say, her general enrichment/exercise needs might not be being met right now. In fact, are definitely not being met. We are on exercise restrictions until January, so that limits what we can do. I fully understand this might be part of her settling problem at this very moment in time.

Her crate is upstairs, and we usually hang in common areas. Sometimes when she’s tired she’ll take herself upstairs, and I’ll put her in her crate with the door latched.

She’s on gabapentin right now for medical reasons and is still unable to sleep outside of her crate. She’s generally a bit restless right now with our restrictions, but I feel so defeated. I don’t know what else to do. She’s been regressing in her crate with our restrictions, so if she can learn to sleep in common areas we’d be a lot better off for the next few months while on rest.

Does she just need more time? Is there anything else I can do such as setting her up a space in common areas so she can better decide when to sleep?

My sweet crazy mountain cur mix has been diagnosed with heartworm. Luckily it was caught at a routine check, but it makes sense considering she was a stray in a southern US state up until January 2026.

She is intelligent, energetic, headstrong, and independent. I spent the last 7 months training her, socializing her, and taking classes with her.

Now all of that has come to a stop with our heartworm treatment. She’ll be sedated and on strict exercise restrictions for the next few months.

She’s so happy, playful, and social. I hate that we can’t go to new parks, take a fall hike, or continue our nosework class.

I just hope we can pick up where we left off when this is all said and done. She already seems frustrated with the lack of exercise and enrichment.

I just got DNA results back a couple of weeks ago (posted in this sub). I have a 40% MC.

I am able to work from home. Except, my 15 month old is still too high maintenance and high energy to do so. She’ll chew the carpet, cords, any furniture. She can’t really hangout if she’s not doing something… she’s crated in another room while I work, and she loves her crate I won’t hear a peep from her.

What age was yours able to just exist?

FWIW, she was a stray for 8 months and has been slow to adapt to inside living. She’s doing so much better than when I got her.

We’re also awaiting heartworm results right now, so our activity and enrichment has been limited. On a normal day, I’d be able to do more with her to knock her down a bit before work.

I have so many other MC questions, I’ll probably be here a lot!

UPDATE AT BOTTOM

My 27lb 15 month old rescue dog was recently diagnosed with heartworm.

She was negative in January, started a preventative in April, and tested positive 7/31.

My vet has done the antibiotic and injections at the same time for 15 years and all of the patients have been clear afterwards. I did question this because it’s not what the AHS currently recommends. They said I can do whatever I’m comfortable with.

Since my dog was negative in January, has been on preventatives and asymptomatic, I assume the infection is earlier stages. I didn’t receive a copy of the blood panel, and my vet is going to do an X-Ray before starting treatment to assess damage.

If I were to switch vets, I would have to bring her in for an initial physical which increase costs. I was quoted over $1,500 USD more from another vet than mine. This would also add more time before starting treatment.

At the end of the day, how different could results be from my current vet’s protocol than AHS protocol?

ETA: thanks everyone, I’ve called another vet. Even though mine was willing to do what I’m comfortable with, I think I’d prefer a vet that has experience in the recommended treatment. Since I’m not a vet myself!

Hi everyone. I plan to walk my dog to her next vet appointment for her annual heart worm test. She’s very energetic. My vet is less than 1/2 mile from my house. Will she be okay to walk home?

Edited to Add:
• ⁠Species: dog
• ⁠Age: 15 months
• ⁠Sex/Neuter status: spayed, done in January
• ⁠Breed: unknown (rescue), listed as lab-mix
• ⁠Body weight: 26 lbs
• ⁠History: none
• ⁠Clinical signs: none
• ⁠Duration: none
• ⁠Your general location: n/a

As far as casting goes, I don’t actually see the two being mother and child.

However, the little catch-up they have after Aunt Julia decides to back out of selling the summer house is a very touching scene. Aunt Julia seems pretty interested in Skye’s week hanging out with all of the kids and their kiss with Cam Cameron. It did its job in humanizing Aunt Julia, for me, anyways.

I’m rewatching and don’t remember the love triangle running this deep. I never read the books, I’ve only watched the show. I do not remember belly kissing Jeremiah before Conrad!!

Not really a new or exciting take, just something I had forgotten.

This triangle lasting so long is so weird imo and probably why I’ll never read the books. The show is a good summer watch, though.

I’ve posted a few times as my puppy has aged to try and get a better feel for how much she should be sleeping. She’s about 13 months old and an unknown mix (probably some type of JRT/Terrier mix).

Our schedule on weekdays is as follows:
6-8 awake
8-12 crate/sleep
12-1;sometimes 12-2 when my mom helps, awake
1-5 crate/sleep
5-7 awake
7-8 maybe another nap if she’s tired
8-9 awake

Yesterday over the weekend she had this schedule
8-12 awake
12-2:30 crate/sleep
2:30-7 awake
7:30ish out for the night (we had a big afternoon at a family party so she was tired)

I’m asking because I feel like she sleeps a lot on workdays but she can’t yet be trusted to be free. She just asked to go to bed after only being awake for 2 hours. I always let her take a nap if she asks to go in her crate because she gets destructive if she’s overtired! Though she seems to do better on the weekends, I wonder if having to wake her up early on work days messes with her sleep.

TLDR: I don’t know how much my pup should be sleeping, and I should really just do a DNA test to better understand her needs!

When Conrad shows up at the dedication and says “how you been little sis” to Belly… gave me major ick! Conrad did not need to repeat that sentiment considering they were in a hot and heavy relationship. I know it was supposed to be an awkward reunion, but I could’ve done without that dialogue to understand that it was awkward and tense.

Yes I watch the show. I’m just getting to season 3, but I turned it on for trash background noise and just to see what the characters end up doing. I’ve seen most of s3 on Tik Tok already.

No way y’all liked the books? This feels plucked from a 13 year old’s wattpad. Every other sentence in the dialogue is some huge revelation or corny flirting.

My almost 14-month old (when do I officially have to move into the dog subreddit) has trouble settling especially the closer we get to bed time. She was sleeping in her crate and I took her out for her last potty break at 10… she decided she wanted to chew her bone on the living room floor. So now I’m sacrificing my bedtime because she made such a good decision and I don’t want to kill her fun :’)

Hi everyone! Getting my first tattoo this weekend. It’s a forearm piece, about $350. Is 20% the norm for tipping on tattoos?

I adopted my puppy in January when she was 8 months old (now almost a year!). We’ve been working on becoming neutral around other people and animals. She can be excitement-based reactive.

During our walk today we came around a corner and got a little too close to a couple walking a dog - still separated by a patch of grass between the sidewalk and road, and we were going opposite directions so I thought odds were in our favor. She lunged and barked/whined and it was difficult for me to break her fixation on them. After passing by a few paces, she was able to check in with me again every couple of steps with some guidance from me.

Then we turned to avoid a human and dog duo that was coming up behind us quickly. I put my dog in a sit and rewarded her for engage/disengage as this dog passed. No reaction and she was able to disengage and check in with me on her own!

Then we passed a house with a little dog that was sitting out on the porch and unfortunately I didn’t see it until it was too late. This little dog started barking at us which triggered my dog. My dog barked a couple of times and then returned to checking in with me as we passed.

Then we saw the second dog again, and watched them cross the street up ahead without a reaction!

Feeling a bit discouraged because we’ve avoided reactions so well lately and this felt like a step back. But she did have some hard scenarios to navigate, and her recovery times are much shorter! She also was thinking for herself when there was enough distance between us and the trigger.

Some other wins today: no reactions when a biker, runner, and a mom with stroller passed by! She checked in with me when we saw these.

Another reaction: she barked once at a dog that was walking on the other side of the street (a main road with 2 lanes and a turning lane and sidewalks on each side, so a generous amount of distance) which we can usually ignore but it was one bark then we were on our way.