Beau was a sweet and obedient yellow lab mix, a rescue who instantly won my heart.
In my twenties and thirties, while my friends were getting married and having children, I was intractably single. What I didn't imagine was that in my mid-forties both a partner and a child would enter my life as a dog.
It turned out Beau had a severe case of separation anxiety that would leave me housebound for more than a year-and-a-half. The trainer instructed me to rush into the room yelling and/or slamming my palms on his crate if Beau started barking. This was supposed to teach him to be quiet, but it simply raised his anxiety level, and my own.
Ten months post-adoption, after trying several different training methods, I thought I'd exhausted my options. Beau's separation anxiety seemed unfixable, and my inability to leave him home alone had crippled not only my social life but my ability to go to the gym, to the store, to medical appointments. I felt trapped in an isolated existence that I knew I could not endure indefinitely. I contacted Beau's rescue and asked for help; they recommended a local dog behaviorist.
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