HELP!!!! I don't know if anyone has experienced this or knows of someone who has that can help me, I don't know what to do!! My Scrappy is a yellow lab and he is going on 13 years old. I also have a chocolate lab, Chubbs who is 4. Everytime we leave the house and the two are left alone, I have come home to find my box spring, to my bed shredded!! My daughter was home and in her room, heard this noise, and went in a caught him in the act, while Chubbs the baby was laying on top of the bed watching. So, I proceeded to duct tape the box spring and barracade that side of the bed so he could not get at it. Then came home another day to find that he has dug his way through my wall to wall carpet, straight through the rug, pad, to the wood subfloor. Everyday they are alone I come home to find more and more of my rug shredded!! I mentioned this to the vet and they gave me some medication that I had to pick up at my pharmacy, I'm sorry I cannot remember the name right now, but it people meds that help with depression. Well, I put him on them, with some hesistation, did not notice any difference in his behavior, the med bottle stated it could take 4 weeks before you notice a difference. I called the vet and he told me to take him off them. he would prescribe something else. Big mistake!! they should have told me to ween him off the pills, well withdrawal symptoms are not a fun thing to watch...I was horrified, watching my poor baby look like he was having seizures every 5 minutes. The vet told me it is seperation anxiety because of his age, gave me ACE!!!
First pill, within minutes he went to get up and was falling down, walking sideways...that was it with that!!!! Does anyone have humane suggestions!!!!Desperate.