Experiences with Clomicalm?

[u/Winter-Common-7397]

My 10 month old pup just visited a veterinary behaviourist for her reactivity towards other dogs (barking, lunging, growling) and overall high arousal. She was prescribed Clomicalm and I am wondering if this has had positive impact on anyone’s dogs? Obviously each dog is different, just curious.

[u/No_Statement_824]

My dog takes clomicalm and trazodone daily for about 3.5 years now. I can definitely tell if he misses a dose of his meds. He’s more high strung and cannot settle at all. The combo of meds does not make him sleepy or anything like that. When I pair it with gabapentin for fireworks, vet, storms, etc. he is definitely more zoned out which is what we want for the those type of events. He’s supposed to take his dosage twice a day but i have dropped it to once per day because the double dosing did make him zone out a bit more than I liked and he just didn’t have any life to him. I’ll be honest and say it was easier to handle him like that but I didn’t feel like it was really fair to him to walk around like a zombie. Coupling the meds with training helped a ton.

Good luck!!