No no, we aren't counting our sleepless nights! LOL Here is a video to show you the arousal state of Skye at night: And here, she is as...

Yesterday, we increased the fenced off area to 30% to include the veggie beds since they are attracted quite a few rodents at night. Skye...

Yesterday, we started fencing off some part of our yard to make it smaller. This is part of the make-the-yard-less-fun-at-night-so-skye-c...

In the early morning hours, I witnessed something pretty cool via our webcam and recorded part of it. (The video is accelerated to fit in...

Skye is currently on a cocktail of drugs... Sertraline and gabapentin twice a day, with additional melatonin and trazodone at night.

This is now 2 weeks that Skye has snubbed the house, that's exactly 15 nights and we are starting to be exhausted! It's amazing how our...

By Abbie Hubbard. Abbie is a dog behaviorist with Humane Society International, and lives with 2 dogs, 3 parrots, 4 budgies, 4 chickens,...

This is now 13 nights that Skye doesn't come inside at night. But she is making progress during the day. She started in the morning by...

After many sleepless nights, we made a breakthrough discovery! Rats and/or cats caused adrenaline nullifies the effect of sertraline,...

Tonight was quieter, but Skye stayed outside. Only Pomponette and the rats got Skye's attention, and we (Peter mostly) only got to go...

One of our neighbors threw a party last night. It was loud and lasted till 2am. Useless to say that Skye didn't like it, and no amount of...

Yes! Skye didn't bark this night and we got to sleep for the whole night! :D She did stay outside until 6am, at which point she came in...

So the gabapentin got us through till 2:30am which is an improvement. I only got to spend half the night sleeping with her outside! LOL I...

At the suggestion of a friend, I got a bunch of tiny squirrel squeaky toys and Skye absolutely adores them! She loves them so much that...

After a 5th night sleeping outside and a consultation with our VB, we are adding gabapentin to Skye's meds. It's supposed to help lower...

We increased the dose of trazodone (150mg) last night but didn't see any difference. Skye wasn't in the mood to sleep. The moon was very...

Skye spent another night under the stars. She slept until 1:30am, which probably corresponds to the time the trazodone wears off. After I...

Yesterday night, we gave trazodone to Skye and although she didn't come inside, she did sleep the whole night and did bark. So we did...

So that's it, Skye didn't come in the house during the night and we weren't able to lure her in. We took turn at getting her to stop...

I have learned to accept the snail pace progress we are making with Skye and to manage everything around her so she feels safe. But I am...