He simply would not go out unless someone stood outside with him. He was terrified when men came home whether he was alone or not, and in fact pee'd a little one time when my sons came in. He was terrified to stay home alone. The first time we left him alone he pooped in the house, when I came home he pee’d a little by the door.
That defined the problem. The former owner admitted he had “forgotten to mention that”…gee, thanks. He said if my son returned Meeko he’d simply put him on the online selling site and get rid of him again. We knew Meeko would continue to be abused if we didn’t help him. My son provided the love and commitment required for Meeko’s success when he decided to keep him.
I used the Distance Symbol to send Reiki back to the Source of the problem. I used the Emotional Symbol to calm his raw emotions and I grounded him into the safety of our home and family. Wow, Meeko trusted me immediately. More importantly, he has never had any type of accident our home since the first time he was left alone.
The humane society recommended a couple of books and gave a fabulous description of Meeko’s psychological problem: the inadequately trained pet is gets in trouble when people come home. Period.
During early training dogs don’t make the connection that peeing and pooping in the house causes people to react badly. Consequently, when people go out the pet gets incredibly anxious because they believe they will be abused when the people return home, this upsets its digestive system which causes it to ‘go’ in the house which assures the people will abuse the animal when they get home—a self-fulfilling prophecy and the cycle continues. Meeko’s reactions made it quite clear he was beaten, screamed at and left outside in bad weather conditions.
We desensitized Meeko by confusing the cues that triggered his anxiety, then we ignorred his anxiety. For example my son picked up his car keys and walked around the house, watched TV, etc. jingling keys, then he put them down and didn’t go out. This type of “exiting” activity brought Meeko’s anxiety up, we ignored him—no cajoling, no trying to calm him, no assuring him of anything. We let him experience his anxiety until he calmed down himself. The other part of the training was for my son to leave, my job was to ignore Meeko until he calmed down. After he calmed down I picked up my keys, put on my coat or boots and stayed home. We also ignorred Meeko until he calmed down when we came home. It took one day to change the pattern. We did it for another couple of days. We praised Meeko to the MAX for good behaviour. When he "went" outside the whole family congratulated, hugged and patted him for going outside on his own.
Meeko is a fabulous success. I can’t get on my soapbox and say this was an all-Reiki success, but, knowing that Reiki brings the elements of healing together, it collapses time, speeds the process and amplifies success of healing, I believe Reiki had a lot to do with Meeko’s success.
The law of love, GIVE, is a beautiful thing. Ending Meeko's ongoing tragedy called forth our unique gifts…our giving came back to us through the love of this majestic, well-behaved dog.
Glory Be.
www—Deah
