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@failte Our vet behaviorist (who is amazing and out of state, and one of the better ones out of the 3 in our whole state!!) wasn't sold on starting him on other medications. I was very open to it, but with his problem at the time (the noise phobia) she wanted to stick to Buspar which...

@failte Thank you so much for your honesty! I love him to pieces. I just really want to help him feel calm. He’s also on Buspar which was originally for his nose phobia/fear period he went through a couple months back. We actually do have a great trainer who has come to our house twice and...

@lia1234 Love this for you guys! I’m glad BAT in combination with treat scatters are a huge success. As I mentioned to another person above, I’m SO used to giving our Aussie treats because that’s all he knows. He has it down pat: sees dog anxiously looks to me gets chicken breast repeats...

@monk58 Thank you! I'm glad it's going well for you. Would love to hear about your updates. I can see us running into that problem too. The watch and wait is going to be a major learning curve from me, considering I have come from a place where I immediately intervene/break his focus if he's...

@imagebeastmarkbeast Thank you, wish me luck! If he is not sniffing and is focused on his environment/staring at something, does this mean we are too close? And also, how did you find people on Rover to help you out? Did you just message a couple and tell them what you were looking to do? I...

@imagebeastmarkbeast Wonderful! Thank you for such great insight. Using Rover.. GENIUS clap. I’m so glad it worked out for you! I definitely will give BAT a try. I want to have full faith that my dog can do it. As of this moment I have my own doubts but he surprises me every day so I’m willing...

@imagebeastmarkbeast Thank you so much for the input!! The idea of putting treats away is still foreign to me, coming from a place where I had give lots of treats!!! I understand why based on BAT, but it’s definitely gonna take me awhile to get used to. Our dog is used to taking treats and we...

Edit: wanted to mention he is a 22 (almost 2 years old!!!) month old standard Australian Shepherd. I started reading Grisha Stewart’s book on BAT 2.0 and would like to give it a try. Our Aussie goes from 0 to 100 pretty fast. He’s solidified the LAT method and always looks at me. But if I’m...