If all else fails, there is always pet therapy -- it worked for the Lollmans. After their dogs nearly wrecked their marriage, they sent Darby, an Irish terrier, and Kacee, an Australian shepherd-border collie mix, to live with a trainer for four weeks. Then the entire family -- two people, two dogs -- met with the trainer once a week for 16 more weeks after the dogs came home.

如果其它方法都不管用，試試寵物療法。它對羅爾曼一家很有用。在這些狗幾乎毀壞了他們的婚姻之后，他們把達比(Darby，愛爾蘭梗)和凱茜(Kacee，澳大利亞牧羊犬與邊境牧羊犬的雜交犬)送到訓狗師處住了四個星期。在狗回家之后，他們一家（兩個人，兩條狗）在接下來的16周里每周與訓狗師見一次面。

'It was as expensive as human therapy,' says Ms. Lollman, 63, chief financial officer of a lighting company. But it was worth it, says her husband, 65, an attorney: 'You don't discard a pet.'

艾倫•羅爾曼說，狗的治療費和人一樣貴。她今年63歲，是一家燈飾公司的首席財務長。但她的丈夫喬說，這樣值得，不能拋棄寵物。喬今年65歲，是一名律師。