My Chemical Pet - revisited

Patches has returned to his wayward ways over the last month. Grand escapes from the dog pen and some destructive behaviors when left in the house while we're away to work. I had restructured the kennel to secure it better but he is still finding ways to escape. Once he's out he stays around the house and is happy to see us when we return home but I'm concerned he'll hurt himself in the escapes and/or have some sort of incident waiting for us to return. So it was back to the vet yesterday. The diagnosis has been "separation anxiety". He increased the dosage of the twice daily pills and prescribed another type of drug to be given to Patches about an hour before we leave for work. In addition I'm suppose to give him a hollow chew toy with peanut butter and dog treat bits inside to keep him occupied for the first hour or so after we leave which the vet said is the time of highest anxiety so working the chew toy to get the PB out should distract him through that period. When we came home tonight he was in front of the garage to greet us. To be continued...