Of course it's only appropriate that I follow a post about Gray receiving an award with a post about some trouble we're having with Roxy.
As I've discussed here before, Roxy has issues with guarding things and aggressive behavior that we've dealt with for nearly her entire life (going on 8 years now).
We've learned the signs and try to prevent episodes or diffuse them, plus we've been trying some new training techniques over the last several months after noticing she was getting worse.
The training helped briefly, but over time hasn't decreased her need to guard things around the house. She's also bitten Michael several times recently which isn't helping matters. Fast forward to last Sunday and Roxy swiped at and bit Grayson unprovoked and we were at our wits' end. Luckily, she just grazed him, but that wasn't the point.
Michael was able to get in to see the vet on Monday morning and we showed him a video of her guarding/aggression episode. He told us he thinks she has behavior issues but isn't an aggressive dog overall.
He prescribed her some anti-depressants and promised we'd see a change within a couple of weeks. The goal isn't to medicate her forever, but to do so long enough to make her more open to the training and to change her aggressive habits.
The vet is confident her issues can be reversed and I'm hoping that's true...for all our sake.
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