Nothing in Life is Free

Well we have been MIA for awhile and now we will tell you why.......Remember how my brother had that scare with the snowplow??? Well the turkey and roast beef helped but he started to get really nervous over alot of things and started to act funny to certain noises( a spoon on a glass, a certain door opening, the washing machine etc) I tried to help by telling him to snap out of it but that didn't do the trick,and PL1+2 and I were starting to get a little worried. Now we are very very lucky that we live in a place where we have access to a lot of wonderful things... this being one of them.....

Now you know in Massachewsitts we have a lot alot of colleges and schools and the Tufts Veterinary School is one of them and along with the school comes a wonderful Animal Hospital that happens to have a Behavioural Clinic run by this man... Dr Dodman. PL1+2 spoke to our Vet and he recommended this Clinic for Arch so PL2 made an appointment and off we went.Now I told my brother that this is a very very important place and that we had better dress up for his appointment .......He wanted to wear this......

But I told him I thought we should tone it down a little and we opted for this......

SO off the 4 of us went to Grafton Massachewsitts to go and visit the clinic where we met a wonderful woman named Dr Moon-Fanelli. Archie on the ride over told me that he is just worried about everything, the economy, people losing their houses and jobs, dogs that are in shelters, dogs that don't have wonderful lives like all of dogs in DWB,dogs and people that are sick,and it was worrying about all of this that was bothering him. I told him that Dr Moon-Fanelli was going to help him . He was little afraid that he was going to have to lie on a couch and put his legs up but I told him that was only for people who go to behaviourists. SO we walked in and the first thing Dr Moon-Fanelli said was" Well it certainly is clear who is the leader of this pack...Agatha" HELLO.......Did PL1+2 need to pay for this information?? This is pretty clear to me............

But I went along with it because I want Arch to fell better. So this is what she said...Nothing in life is free....We have to work for everything( INCLUDING PATS AND HUGS) at this point I was starting to wonder a little about this lady and made a note to self to check up her credentials on google when we got home)She also said that I had to be treated like alpha all the time( NOW WE ARE TALKING I LOVE HER), and that we were to do clicker training and some conditioning training and for a while Arch will be on some medicine to help him not worry so much about the world. We already were doing alot of the things that she was recommending( nutrition and exercise)Dr Moon-Fanelli said it looked like the weight of the world was on his shoulders( at this point Archie did get on the couch and started telling her everything he was worried about) She also switched us to these leads(which he may not be able to wear because of his bad back but we will have to look into that)

She said not to worry that this will all work out for my brother and we hopped back onto the car.Archie said he already felt ALOT better.Now I am going to share something with all of you my best friends but you mustn't let this get out.......or my reputation will be ruined....... I have sort of been letting Archie do something to help him feel a little better.........Look closely at the next picture of my bomb shelter bed......

No that isn't me, it's Archie......He says it is making him feel better to be there so I have been letting him stay there....PLEASE don't let this get out..........

I have been staying in the bed next to PL2's computer(where he usually is) ....... All I want is for him to feel better....

It probably won't be permanent.......