u/GrammarSpellingCheck

I've had my dog Frito since 2019. He was adopted from the local shelter and came to us with heartworm, other parasites, and was severely underweight. It seemed clear he'd been on the street for a while. They estimated his age to be between 3-4.

We got all of that treated. He initially seemed surprisingly well-behaved, we didn't know quite what to expect. He was (and still is) perfectly housetrained, and knows sit. He knows stay also, but it's more of a challenge for him to execute that one. He's a very lovable little dude and just seemed mostly happy go lucky.

It became evident that he had some anxiety around storms and the period of time leading up to storms, but generally this was not too bad and seemed fairly manageable with an occasional Benadryl.

I will spare all the details but his behavior has gotten significantly worse over time. He now is extraordinarily reactive and will lunge and bark aggressively at anything moving during our walks. Joggers, strollers, bicycles, cars. Even some walkers.

His behavior during and leading up to storms has become unsafe. He will pace and pant incessantly, jump/climb up on and then jump down from high dangerous places, has gotten himself stuck under the bed, has gotten his head stuck under the armrest of a chair. He has also eaten non food items - a shawl, curtains, door frames. Crating was a complete disaster, he was able to shift the crate across the floor by throwing his weight, destroyed the plastic liner on the bottom, and chewed on the crate enough to cause his mouth to bleed.

He is prescribed 20 mg of fluoxetine a day and takes gabapentin PRN. I don't know how much these are helping but I suspect he would be even worse without them. Recently his behavior has escalated even more, when I have tried to take actions to keep him safe he has snapped at me multiple times.

I currently live alone and am at the point where I am actually unable to leave my home for any period of time if there is even a hint of rain in the forecast for fear he cannot be safe, and I am in a very rainy geographic area. I can no longer take vacations because I cannot board him, nor can I have a pet sitter come to the home intermittently due to the potential for rain while he's alone.

I have been making these changes to my lifestyle to accommodate him for a while now, and if it were simply just that I could potentially continue. However it is clear to me that he is pretty miserable a lot of the time. I'm clear that this is all fear-based, and it breaks my heart to see this happening to him.

I have had a trainer come and really made no progress, I have another one (very highly regarded) coming this weekend and I am praying they may have something to offer, but I am open to other thoughts and suggestions.

It seems as though the fire may be too large to have been intentionally placed that close to the water. The pattern of the mud splatter on the Jeep also seems too perfectly placed.

Edited to add - thank you all! I knew it was wrong, I just didn't realize how wrong lol. This guy's whole profile is ridiculous and the fact that this is so bad just puts it all over the top!