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The Zach Diaries: Week 8 of Behaviorist Treatment

It has been a few weeks since I posted an update and it was mostly because training Zach to not react to certain things takes time to show improvement.  For the last couple of weeks we have managed to train him to sleep by himself, to react less to doorbells (does not react to doorbells […]

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The Zach Diaries: Week 3 and 4 of Behavior Training

Zach has been reacting well to the medicine, so much so we dared to train him to sleep on his own and not on our bed. He responded with stellar results and he has stopped jumping into bed. I do let him nap with me for an hour after sun up and only when I […]

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The Zach Diaries: Week One of Behaviorist Treatment Plan

All days start with 2 Prozacs, 20 mgs each. Since this won’t change past day 1, I won’t repeat it. I’ll list medication changes as they happen. Also, he always responds to water, inside and outside commands so we won’t include them in the practice cue list. Night 1, April 12th: After meeting Dr. Sung […]

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120 Days With Zach

Time flies! It has already been 4 months since we opened our home and our heart to Zach. Coincidently, today was the day we took him to see Dr Sung, the veterinary behaviorist. After a few weeks of training Z to get into the car and enjoy the drive we will put those skills and […]