If anyone could give our Mistress any advice on how to help me to relax and be happy in my old age she would be very grateful. If you know our breed you will know that we need to be close to our human. The American\u2019s have described it as an almost pathological attachment. If I am with our Mistress I relax and sleep as long as no other dog than Wilma is around. I can just about cope with Shadow but it\u2019s a sort of either or thing. If there is more than one other dog around at home I worry and start to bark. If I\u2019m put in the other room I tend to cry. If I\u2019m in the other room and I can hear Aristotle and Wilma playing I get worked up and bark and whine. For reasons no one can explain I was ok in kennels, even though there were other dogs around. When we go for a walk I panic even if I only think there\u2019s going to be another dog and become quite uncontrollable. Our Mistress thinks from some of my behaviours that I may be experiencing some dementia, but I guess that\u2019s not something you really recognise in yourself. I do have some pain from my shoulder \/ neck area and have a lot of swelling around my shoulders that makes me look fat, even though the rest of me isn\u2019t. I\u2019ve got a fatty lump on one shoulder but it seems to be more than that. I\u2019ve got problems with my thyroid but that is under control. I don\u2019t know what to tell her. I know my behaviour is causing all sorts of problems and that she is struggling with it, but I don\u2019t know what I can do. For the most part I look perfectly ok on the outside. I\u2019m only 10 \u00bd years old, I could have years ahead of me and the way I\u2019m going our Mistress will have checked herself in for rehab long before that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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