I can't decide what to do with my dog. He's a beagle lab pit mix we think, but his official breed on paper is "hound mix". He's 7, so close to being a senior dog, super hyper and strong, about 70 lbs, has severe anxiety and requires medication and daily walks of at least 4 miles in order to relax if anyone besides me is present and even then barks frequently at nothing/everything. If I leave the house even for a few minutes he will howl like he's being murdered and occasionally try and dig through the door or destroy something else, and that's while on anti-anxiety medication. He barks at everything sometimes so loud he scares himself and then gets more anxious, he's afraid of almost everything, basketballs and trollers are his worst fears. I can't really bring dates or friends home because he will just sit in front of us and cry or bark during the movie or anything else we do unless he's in constantly contact with us. He also has chronic stomach issues, mostly because he has panic attacks where he just eats EVERYTHING. He pushes his nose against the floor like a vacuum and frantically eats every scrap of everything he can find but will refuse his own food or stomach medication. I was working on sewing a halloween costume one year when this happened and he tried to eat pins, and did eat long scraps of fabric. He seems to seek out dangerous or poisonous things the most.
I was handling all of this, but I always had my dad to help take care of him, but my dad passed a couple years ago and now I've finally moving out of his house. So now I'll be moving into an apartment and I just can't see having this dog in a tiny apartment with no roommates or family to help... And to add to it even more, I adopted a cat to keep him company, he loves cats but hates dogs. This cat has a dog-like personality and they play together all the time. BUT the cat just got diagnosed with feline asthma. And now I am just not physically, mentally or financially able to support two special needs animals.
Rehoming seems like the best option? But he has so much separation anxiety and fear, and he's getting older so I don't know if that's realistic, plus I'd always wonder how he was doing and if he was being treated well. I could probably handle having him put down, mostly because I'm paranoid if I rehomed him he'd be abused at the new home because he can be a lot to handle, but I also don't want to bring a vet another "convenience kill"... and training and mediation hasn't been effective and last time he was at an apartment he ripped up the floor because I was gone for a few hours and cost me hundreds...
So what do I do?
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