Comments on: Anxiety and fear Exercise (Pics) http://thedish.sitstay.com/2009/08/23/anxiety-and-fear-exercise-pics/ Training Tips, Opinions, and the SitStay Dogs Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:07:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: barrie http://thedish.sitstay.com/2009/08/23/anxiety-and-fear-exercise-pics/#comment-278 barrie Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:27:08 +0000 http://thedish.sitstay.com/?p=1201#comment-278 [Dear Barrie, I know exactly how you feel. Sometimes it seems like when things are bad enough, maybe it's better to stay there than to go making things potentially worse. The "what ifs" can stall us all along our lifetimes if we let them and I don't know what to do about that. I wish I could help you make the decision one way or the other but it's totally up to you and your girl. If I were in your shoes, I would get her to a Chiropractor and make sure that nothing is wrong with her skeleton, pain can look and act like fear. Make sure that you're feeding her food that is feeding not only her body but her doggy soul. Read your label, most dog foods out there are made of corn, that would scare any dog to death. (Read The Dish about <em>Feeding</em> for my opinions). Then I'd use every positive avenue of training starting with clicker training. If nothing works, what do you have to lose really? Fear keeps people and dogs frozen in time, we can't go forward with fear settled down deep inside of us, so deep that sometimes we don't even know when it started or where it came from. Quality of life is always my goal with everyone, no matter what has happened to them in the past. If you're a praying man, pray about it. If you're not a praying man, lift up your worry to the universe, I believe we're all connected some how, we'll all help. If you decide to try it and you don't want to do it yourself, find someone you trust, a person so patient and strong, so persevering and so loving to do it for you. They cannot stop in the middle, they have to follow all the way through or don't do it at all. I wish you and your girl the very, very best. I am the praying sort, I'll say a prayer for you right now. Thanks for writing. Let me know what happens, whichever way you choose to go. Darcie] I just don't know about this, Darcie. I have an extremely fearful two year old Australian Cattle Dog and this sounds like it could be the miracle turnaround but *I* am absolutely the ONLY person in the world she trusts and the idea of potentially ruining our relationship to try to fix her other fear issues just scares me to death :-( Barrie [Dear Barrie, I know exactly how you feel. Sometimes it seems like when things are bad enough, maybe it's better to stay there than to go making things potentially worse. The "what ifs" can stall us all along our lifetimes if we let them and I don't know what to do about that. I wish I could help you make the decision one way or the other but it's totally up to you and your girl. If I were in your shoes, I would get her to a Chiropractor and make sure that nothing is wrong with her skeleton, pain can look and act like fear. Make sure that you're feeding her food that is feeding not only her body but her doggy soul. Read your label, most dog foods out there are made of corn, that would scare any dog to death. (Read The Dish about Feeding for my opinions). Then I'd use every positive avenue of training starting with clicker training. If nothing works, what do you have to lose really? Fear keeps people and dogs frozen in time, we can't go forward with fear settled down deep inside of us, so deep that sometimes we don't even know when it started or where it came from. Quality of life is always my goal with everyone, no matter what has happened to them in the past. If you're a praying man, pray about it. If you're not a praying man, lift up your worry to the universe, I believe we're all connected some how, we'll all help. If you decide to try it and you don't want to do it yourself, find someone you trust, a person so patient and strong, so persevering and so loving to do it for you. They cannot stop in the middle, they have to follow all the way through or don't do it at all. I wish you and your girl the very, very best. I am the praying sort, I'll say a prayer for you right now. Thanks for writing. Let me know what happens, whichever way you choose to go. Darcie]

I just don’t know about this, Darcie. I have an extremely fearful two year old Australian Cattle Dog and this sounds like it could be the miracle turnaround but *I* am absolutely the ONLY person in the world she trusts and the idea of potentially ruining our relationship to try to fix her other fear issues just scares me to death :-( Barrie

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