Hello,
I'm feeling discouraged and need to hear your encouraging stories about difficult reactive OCD dogs. :-(
We adopted Merlin a year ago. He was 3 years old and had been given to a shelter by his previous owner. We know very little about his life before: he was with the same owner for 3 years until he moved in with his girlfriend, who had "a little dog", the two of them didn't get along well and they decided to give Merlin. He was with 2 different foster families for 2 months until we adopted him.
Since the beginning, we noticed Merlin was very anxious and fearful. He had this