While it’s tempting to dress Lilly up and post photos for Halloween, I won’t put her through the drama. Instead, I’ll share just one interesting experiment I did

I’m sorry to report we had a couple of setbacks this week. Here are the challenges we faced. Our idea to dress Tom up as various kinds of

We continue to struggle with our work exposing Lilly to people in a controlled way. Because we live in a somewhat remote area, because it everyone is busy,

Super stressful week. Not much time to work with Lilly. Still need to find people to do the 13 tasks in the training protocol, BUT, here’s some insight

I tried to stick with Part 2, the advanced SIT-STAY section of our behavior modification plan, but boredom won out. So, this week, I began Part 3, which

Sorry to say I don’t have much to report this week. My motivation lagged seriously as other worries loomed large. So, we did not get any Lilly work

Despite a seriously lagging motivation after 2+ weeks recuperation time, following Lilly’s rattlesnake bite, we soldiered on with our behavior modification work. Here’s how it went. Encounters during

This week was all about Lilly getting her strength back, following the rattlesnake bite Saturday. I asked nothing of her. The good news is that she doesn’t seem

Based on Lilly’s regression (door refusals, hiding, fleeing, panic) and negative response to the sink window counter-conditioning I mentioned in the Aug 15 training update, Jennie (our behaviorist)

While this is technically week 5 of the new plan, it is the first week with Lilly on the full therapeutic dose of clomipramine. So, she’s up to