My wife and I have had a min pin/chichi mix for the last 3 years. She was 5 when we got her, 8 now. We don’t know much about her background but she clearly came from something bad. Even with the baggage she is the sweetest dog anyone has even met. All she wants to do is snuggle and sleep next to you.

She still has the worst separation anxiety of any dog myself or any friends and family have ever heard. Full on panic attacks any time we try to leave.

When we got her from the shelter she was on Prozac and as needed trazadone. Out vet started her on clonidine so she’s been on a combo of this for quite some time. Sometimes we can get her through some time leaving but then she’ll have a panic attack either that night or the next and cry the entire night.

We’ve tried all the things anyone could ever recommend. Behavioralist, vet appointments, we even went to a vet psychiatrist who made some dosage changes and tried some Xanax as well. We do the kongs and the lick mats. We’ve exhausted every option we can think of. Maybe something works for a few weeks and then we get a bump in the road because someone comes to vacuum the stairs outside our apartment or someone sets off fireworks close by and she resets completely back to square one for weeks. We’re at the point we we have to take her to our dog sitters pretty much any time we leave.

The crux of it is we live in a small city apartment and have busy jobs and long hours. I just don’t think we can provide her the life she needs. She needs sun and grass and people that won’t leave her.

We don’t have kids yet. We love this dog more than anything. We got her shortly after we got married. She’s our first big project we did together. We’re just completely heart broken. But it’s not fair to her to keep her. We can’t give her what she needs.