"sighthounds & siberians" wrote
"cshenk" wrote:

I wanna hear about 'Joe's Smiths dog, Benji the Mooch' or 'Sara Janes dog,
Flutter-head' or whatever we have out there. There's more of us than me
and
Paul (Cash-pup and Muttley) and I feared we were turning this group,
though
re-growing nicely, into the 'Cash and Muttley show'.

This has always been more of a forum for discussion of behavior and/or
training than just people chatting about cute things their dogs do.

Smile, you'll have noted that's pretty much what folks in this thread (as
far as I have read) are doing.

, but I'll relate that Nikita, our
newish Borzoi rescue (which I say to distinguish her from our 11
month-old Borzoi pup), has been doing much better with her fearfulness
after being started on a low dose of amitriptyline. The ami seems to

Can you tell me a bit more on this medicine? Reading below she seems to
have almost something a bit like some people have and it's a medication to
help her associate better?

Amitriptyline is the generic name for Elavil. It is a human
anti-depressant which, when used in dogs, helps with anxiety and
anxiety-related disorders such as separation anxiety. Nikita does not
have separation anxiety, she has plain old anxiety resulting from
neglect and abuse.

Ah, makes sense. I could tell from context that it was like that but didnt
google it up.