Commentary: Five months after wildfires, it’s still PTSD for animals: Pets trying to shake depression

Now again, while walking Philly with Rose Bowl, I hit a dog traineer named Eldon, Eldon, who offers generous pointers.

My Beagle, the Cheesesteak, was going on strike during walks, but partly developed thanks to Eldon’s tips. I wanted to write about it, but Eldon said he was mostly retired and did not need a promotion. His only new customers said that in January, there are still dogs from Eaton Wildfire who still fight with TSSB.

Come on, I too. This is a story in itself.

Maybe that’s how, Eldon Eldon said. Dogs are habit creatures, reminding me as much as people or more. They love their homes, neighborhoods, familiar scents and routines. They dismantle them all overnight and overthrow the balance.

Eldon suggested me to say Natalie Langan. Trailhead HoundsBecause its customers contain displaced Altadenance and their discombule dogs. When Eldon showed me a photo of Langan, I noticed that I would see the running package walks at the Gabrielino Trail on the Jet drive Laboratory with 30 or more dog garrison in a four -legged lock.

When I called to me, I can say that about one quarter of the dogs we bought for our package walks are dogs from Altadena, who lost their homes, ”he said.

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Some dogs – and cats – have made multiple moves since the fire and had to get used to the new environment over and over again. Lanan If this can put them aside and increase separation concerns, Langan and the owners are depressed or grief about loss and uncertainty, and animals absorb these feelings.

Langan advised customers who lost their homes to establish new routines for their pets and said, “Dogs see the world in patterns.” He said. “The number 1 thing is to create a new normal, which is for people. My family has lost their homes on fire and I help them”.

When I first wrote about it The effect of fires on dogs, cats, chickens and aquarium fishAnthony Ruffin and Jonni Miller’s dog and two cats were badly shaken. Mr. Thelma, a cat, a cat that refuses to go out in temporary leases in La Crescenta.

Water bowls Crescenta Valley Group Following their marches in the Regional Park, dogs wait patiently.

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Miller reported that Mr. Thelma, who was wandering in the rubble of their gardens a few days after their homes at West Palm Street in Altadena, was good, but still not going out.

I also checked again with Jessica Davis running Boomer’s friends, A malibu animal recovery that helps families monitor the stalks scattered by Palisades fires. He said that more than one movement to temporary neighborhoods is particularly difficult in pets.

“Yes, they can be flexible, but some animals carry trauma and want to go back to their location, Dav said. We are starting to see a fluctuation that says ım I lost everything and I can’t hold my animal until it settles again.

Davis said he was currently trying to find someone to encourage Bernese mountain dog.

In Altadena, 14 -year -old Pomeranian Sharon Moon and Kimbop enjoyed regular neighborhood meetings with dogs and owners, and Moon’s mother would join him and Kimbop during the sunset walks throughout Crest Trail.

“Everything is gone, Moon said Moon, including the house. Silver stays in Lake, plans to rebuild in Altadena, and Kimbop is going very well, but still adapts to different landscapes and kidnaps his friends. “We were all gathering and chatting very much [in Altadena]. This is our little settler away from all the madness. “

Meghan Malloy and his family, who lost their homes in Altadena, moved three times before they settled in a rental in Sherman Oaks. It wasn’t easy, because Malloy and her husband have just born, two cats (Felix and Mushu) and two gold hunters (Arthur and Clementine).

Cats are good and Arthur, but they miss their garden and friends.

And then Clementine, who was a little worried before the fire, and has been more since then.

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1. Natalie Langan, the joint owner of Trailhead Hounds. 2. The assistant coach is a kiss from Ahn Gus. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

“He had definitely came to me or my husband’s side, Mall Malloy said. “He was always a package dog and had to be with people and Arthur.

Levi, a 4 -year -old mutt, suffered with a “real instability” for a month when they moved to temporary neighborhoods with a series of friends in the Pasadena region. Burt said, having to get used to a new place every week… and it was hard not to know what the rules are in each of the houses, ”he said.

In Levi Altadena, he benefited from the privileges of the sofa, but these rights did not travel with him. He’s healed, but he’s still more worried than before, and he was shaken by fireworks in night warming for the four July.

Katie Jordan, a shepherd mixture Boudica, “absolutely traumatized,” he said. When Altadena lost their homes, her young son, two cats and Boudicica tried to get stuck in the one -bedroom apartment of his boyfriend, but it was a strict harmony and a rental in Glendale was better.

Before the debris was removed, Jordan took Boudica back to his destroyed neighborhoods in Altadena, and realized that it might not be a good idea. “He was a cake,” Jordan said. “He just ran around whining as if I was confused.”

Ruby, a Doberman Pinscher, which is displaced by Eaton Fire, is rolled into the grass.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

However, there is always an event that brings Boudica to relax: olmak Being in a big package is his dream and feels very safe, Jord Jordan said.

I know what Jordan means. Philly is excited every time we enter the three blocks of leaving her with dog processor Burke Stuart. Man’s best friendSo he can run with his package.

On Wednesday morning, Boudica joined 23 dogs during a pathway hunting in the Crescenta Valley Group Regional Park. Two other trainers attended Langan: her husband Chase Langan and his descendants Ahn.

Boudica had a very common point with Cosmo, Freckles, Lucy, Ruby and Levi, all of which lost their homes or forced to move temporarily. But I couldn’t choose them as those who have problems. The queues were swinging and a smile in most dogs had a mouth -and -open, tongue -sagging expression. They were in the dog paradise with plenty of grass, trees, dirt and scatological flavor tips in the air.

Dogs are all trained not to draw the collar, not to remain in the formation and to stay away with sound or smell from the rattles. Everything was very impressive, but I continued to think that Philly would be thrown from the class – by zigzag to the world, traveling to the ground.

Center Natalie Langan, Crescentta Valley Group Regional Park went for a march.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

In about half of the walk, the dogs came out of the bowl, but it remained close. The two wrestled on the grass and a few of them climbed to a twisted tree body to pose for a group of photographs to be sent to their owners.

After all, it was a very therapeutic road to start the day. And not just for dogs.

Steve.lopez@latimes.com