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This is Gary. He is 12 years old and I have had him for the past 8 years. We have moved across the country together and to multiple different homes many times throughout those 8 years and I have never seen this behavior. A month ago we moved back to my home state and he started crying, whining and barking when we are alone together at the apartment. Initially I thought it could be the move and would fizzle out, but after it continued for hours on end over a couple days I took him to the vet. The vet said there were no signs of pain or cognitive dysfunction, and thus prescribed trazodone. The trazodone worked well for the first couple of days, but increasingly he would become incredibly agitated if not on it. It started to get to the point where he would need to be on the medication and sleep through the day or else he would freak out. I began to feel like he is miserable and being drugged out and sleeping all day is no way to live… so I wanted a second opinion. I went to a second veterinarian who told me she had never seen anything like him and did not know what to do. She gave some minor suggestions that were equivalent to a google search and I paid over $100 out of pocket to walk out with no further answers. Additionally, there have been a few times where we have needed to go out of town and have had him stay with a friend. She reported that he did not cry, whine, or bark like this the entirety of being at her house. When she dropped him off, he backed away from me and into her, shook and tucked his tail under as if he were afraid of me. I have never seen him do this before. I have never hit my dog or punished him… and I have made sure he is going on walks multiple times a day as well as consistently having a full bowl of water and food. He gets treats and toys, and socializes with other dogs. I don’t know what’s happening but I feel like I have failed him somehow, and that he is having a very bad time with me since the move. I don’t know what to do anymore but the whining and barking is driving me mad and making it almost impossible to do any work on my computer here at home. Please help submitted by /u/ixxybell |