New med for anxiety/ stress

So we finally got Lactium, boy Leo was a changed man today during his classes. Generally he is very perky boy who alerts easily to every sound that is going on and since our obedience classes going next to agility class it is a lot of noise all around. Leo heard it but was very relaxed about sounds, nothing set him off, was really into working off leash, easily recallable, actually slept in his crate during other dogs agility runs. I am planning to use it as needed and build positive response "bank account" tall enough to keep us going for looong time.

 

I got mine from Swanson vitamins, Melissa do you have Zylkene avail in Canada? it is same med
http://www.buyzylkene.co.uk/
Antixane/ L theanine had no visible effect on Leo. Lactium made significant difference, Leo is very auditory sensitive so I think that is where most significant impact was. If you think of classical conditioning it is like Pavlov had a chock hold on Leo " man, we can not do obedience here, all those noises!!!!" Leo was able to relax more with same amount of noise so he was more receptive to training, which made me more relaxed as I did not have to watch his every muscle twitching...

 

Lahree, I am happy to hear that Ellie feels comfortable in her class. I was attributing Leo problems to his age, teen state of mind. I would think that pups are developing unevenly so sometimes their brains are not catching up fast enough.
As far as I am aware Zylkene/ Lactium was developed in France and is resaonably new supplement, derivative from milk protein casein. It appear for now it has same effect as benzodiazepines but with no known side effects.