We adopted Kharma at 9 mo. (pit bull mix). She demonstrated separation anxiety and seems to be an insecure aggressive dog. She's now 1 year and 3 months, and we've had some success, truly all due to your television show, which we watch through Netflix.

I realized yesterday that the reason she becomes impossible for me to walk in our neighborhood is that I have residual anxiety walking here, the result of a hate crime incident in which I was shot in the temple with a rubber bullet or paint ball by someone in a passing car about 6 years ago. Kharma gets very protective of me and I noticed that she would always get anxious on Harrison Street. Now I realize it was because I had never forgotten that incident from 2002. It's something I don't think I can truly get past. I subconsciously watch every passing vehicle wondering if there's a malicious person behind the wheel, who is watching my movements or stalking me... I couldn't figure out why Kharma would be so gentle on the leash when we scaled steep cliffs, but I couldn't get her to heel on a city sidewalk (!) Now I know why and can do something about it. I need to live in the moment more. So instead of walking on Harrison Street, we have been taking the dogs for bike rides, or Yvonne will walk them in the neighborhood.

Our other dog is 2-1/2 year old Chinook, full breed English Lab -- wonderful mellow nature, but we let him get away with all kinds of things before we learned about Cesar!!

We truly are becoming a balanced pack.

Thank you!

Anne and her life partner Yvonne