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Ha ha.. Ok, well I've given her the tablet now so fingers crossed.

I've been so busy lately, I can't remember if I gave our dog her worm tablet a few weeks ago! If I was to give another one, would there be any cause for concern? We are using Drontal chewables, the ones that treat 35kg and our dog is about 32kg and she's 18mths old. Normally I make a note of when we dose her, but can't find any record this time around.

Thanks for the replies, I don't have any flags so the article was helping show me where the turns were. I'll get some flags to sort that out and move the articles further away as per your recommendations then.

We've been doing some tracking practice and are dropping a couple of socks along the track. Straight tracks are fine, we drop a sock near the start and then another about half way out. But when the track layer does a turn, are they meant to drop an item at the point they turned.. or is that a no-no? Should they be dropping it before or after the actual turn instead?

We've tried a few exercises that were recommended to us such as: - mixing up our leaving home preparation pattern - ignoring the dog for about 15 -30 mins before leaving and then again after returning, not making any eye contact - pretending to leave and then returning when the dog becomes quiet for a moment - putting the dog outside, disregarding any whining and only letting back in once quiet These have seemed to only work minimally and caused the dog to be quiet for a period of up to 30 minutes after we have left, at which time she starts the usual noise. It has not helped her complaints about being separated from us when we are at home nor stopped her following us around like a shadow wherever we move to in the house or garden. When we return home her barking is noticably panicked and she will jump at as for attention and sometimes attempt to snap at our clothes or hands. It's like she's telling us off for leaving her. We've found that totally ignoring her causes her to settle down really fast but it needs to be for 15 minutes at least and then after that no excited pats or greetings, just a casually pat or so until after 30 minutes have passed otherwise she may get barky again. At 10 months old we are also not sure of how much of this is bratty type behaviour.

Thank you all for advice. It seems we are going have our work cut out for us and will consider the best options for both us and our dog.

Hi, We are having separation anxiety problems with our dog and are looking for a good Veterinary Behaviourist or recommended trainer with this kind of experience. Preferably in the South East suburbs of Melbourne. So if anyone knows a good contact please let us know. Because so far we haven't been able to turn anything up except for Barkbusters. I see lots of US websites talking about Veterinary Behaviourists but can't find anything about them in Australia. Thanks.