Hello I'm new and I'm hoping to get some advice. I have a 3 1/2 old basset names Abe. He is the most complex basset in the world. We love him dearly and would never dream of giving him up but he is very high-strung and has lots of anxiety. We give him proper exercise, attention, grooming and all that; we take care of our boy. He is afraid of everything, trucks, airplanes, vacuuming, storms, anything that we move around the house (dog gate, dropping something, sweeping). It may be noise sensitivity but even things that don't make any noise scare him. He hides under the bed or in our shower and shaking/panting uncontrollably. We got him at 9 weeks from a very caring breeder and nothing that I know of could have caused him to be like this. We have a daughter and he is very good with her, but before her and now he is extremely clingy. Everywhere I go I can literally feel his breath on my ankles! We have tried training (puppy classes and bark busters). I did not agree with bark busters methods as they treated him as being an aggressive dog rather than a passive/afraid dog. We have tried herbal collars for relaxing, amitriptylline for anxiety, velcro coat for applying pressure to his torso...I guess it helps to calm dogs...and nothing works. I guess my question is-what more can we do to help calm him down? Would it help if we got him another dog or would he bring the anxiety issues to the new dog? He LOVES other dogs, and is desperate for a friend. We let him play with other dogs as much as possible but it's still not very often. He likes to wrestle pretty hard and is relentless so owners/certain dogs don't like him. He doesn't hurt them; he just likes to play...like a dog is supposed to. Any suggestions? Thanks!-Katie