I come from Poland and have just finished 'The Dog Listener' which was translated into Polish last year. While reading it I though that my dog was absolutely great not presenting any kinds of compulsive behavior described in the book. While reading the book I also started to work with the dog using AMICHIEN BONDING. Funnily enough the very moment I finished reading there was something wrong starting to go on with my dog. I have a 2 year old great Dane. It's my first dog and I had had no experience with dogs before. For different reasons he came to stay with me about 6 months ago when he was 1,5 years old. Great, good-natured, peaceful dog, no problems with him whatsoever! I had to watch the diet as his digestive system is very sensitive and delicate but that was it. My partner (whom the dog met and got to like while in Poland) lives and works in Frankfurt. Every year I move to Frankfurt for the whole summer. This year the dog came with us as well. We were worried how he would take it. Nothing bad happened. He was very quiet in the car although the journey took nine hours. He seemed to like the new place although the apartment is much smaller to what we have in Poland. The same diet, the same habits - nothing changed. We were very happy that he took it so well until about a week ago... It all started with some bottles of water. When we brought them from the shop and put them in the middle of the room suddenly the dog started to go crazy about it. He spent an hour smelling it, saliva dripping down... no aggression, just this incredible tension and enormous excitement. Now he goes crazy about all sorts of strange objects: books, magazines, suitcases, vases, one fragment of the sofa, alarm-clock, TV cables, cushions... he is all so tense. He used to sleep a lot during the day. Now he doesn't at all. He used to be very peaceful. Now he is all wind up and full of tension. There is no rest, no peace, no silence. We have this dog being crazy, being hypnotized by such a different object, spending hours standing over it and then moving to a different, even stranger one. When we go out for a walk he is back to his old self. I do know what this is, I do not have great experience with dogs... but we are all going crazy here with the tension... PLEASE HELP!!!!!! Isabella