Our dog Brennan was a recent rescue, in May of 2018, he had been found wandering on the highway after the ice storm, starving and very malnourished. When we brought him home, he was a curious, goofy, bold adolescent who delighted in self-entertaining, and was an absolute joy. One morning while walking him we witnessed a very bad car accident that involved a vehicle losing control and smashing through the window of the restaurant directly across the street from us. The sound of the impact was absolutely tremendous. From there, came sirens, firetrucks, police, and since we'd witnessed the incident I had to stay to give a statement. This, unfortunately prolonged his exposure to this very stressful event. Now since then his fears have grown exponentially, daily. What was once a curious, bold dog, Brennan has now begun to process the outside world as wrought with seen and unseen terrors. Every sound, shadow, sudden movement, car door slamming, car alarm, trees rustling, empty blue bin on the sidewalk, trains, motorcycles, lawnmowers, anything and everything has the potential to be a threat. He is in constant flight mode. His gait is no longer one that is open and excited to explore his world, it's now in pre-flight mode. Most recently he became so terrified by an empty blue bin that he leapt up in the air, over the blue bin, into the street, and dragged me head first into the blue bin which of course confirmed that blue bins were evil. From there he panicked, and broke free running with the retractor leash smashing behind him on the sidewalk, creating an even more terrifying experience for himself. Luckily he fled home, thank god, but next time may not be so fortunate. He's a wolfhound/poodle cross and is at least 130lbs - very strong and unreachable when he shuts down and goes into full flight mode. I am worried for my own safety now, and his. I sustained a torn rotator cuff, bruised sternum/rib and multiple scrapes and bruises from the blue bin event. Now a walk is no longer one he looks forward to. Any motion toward the gate has him fleeing to the back yard. Once off property, his expectation of potential terrors are all around us at any given moment.

We rescued a Border Collie who had his back leg cut off, it looks like it was done with an axe. He also had his teeth filed down. He was very dirty and infested when we got him. We've had him for about six months now. He has severe PTSD. I worry that his quality of life is greatly decreased, and we try to give him love and take him on long walks, it is just that nothing seems to help. I really want to help him and I'm not sure how. Sometimes he is happy and full of energy, but other times its like he isn't all the way there mentally. Do you have any advice? I just really want to make sure we give him the quality of life he deserves. He's a good boy deep to his core.

My dog was home when somebody committed suicide by gun, he protected the body after from police when they arrived. It has been 3 days so far and e has been throwing up his food after he eats, what other possible other symptoms may occur in the weeks after and what is the best way to help him

I have a male toy poodle that is 2 1/2 when the incidence accured he was 1 1/2 our oldest dog died and Gus was visually upset but 1 wk after that our house caught on fire from a lightning strike which was very tramatic for us all, my husband saved the house but the fire dept was there and all the chaose that goes with that, then the following week it caught on fire again from another lightning strike but that time we had so many smoke alarms going off that i think i had some hearing damage done plus i have also been dignosed with ptsd, Gus started doing this think of jumping, just random jumping maybe sitting in your lap and just jump right straight up. i was worried it was his eyes so i took him to the vet to be checked she said he was fine except she thought he also has ptsd the only time he really starts jumping is when the weather starts coming in as a storm. but we also have a problem of urinating in the house, he has a doggie door and a fenced back yard but i think he is scared to go out there so i don't know how to get him trained back to going outside. he is a very loving dog but he will just pee anywhere and it's starting to get me at the end of my rope i just don't know how to make him start going outside i try to be nice and not yell always ask him if he needs to go pee pee and go outside with him but he just acts scared. any advice would be amazing.

My boy Tux is my rescue who I got from a friend of a friend who was hitting and starving him. Ever since I got him he is extremely aggressive with his feet being touched. He whines when he is inside wanting to go outside but when he's outside he still whines and paces around the perimeter of our fence. We also have issues with him taking off a lot. When out in town, he gets along with everyone and most dogs but will also whine if I stop to talk to someone.