i want to reiterate that if you click on the image you will see it sharper and larger on a black background.

hilde has an eating disorder and comet now has an anxiety disorder. note that often disorders are just periods of adjustment or failure to adjust to an unwise order. or just an anxious response to an insane world. anyhoo, hilde may just be an inveterate and gleeful snacker of inorganic morsels not associated with food. and she is unfailingly sweet if at times a tad addled to my mind. her failures hurt no one but herself, and it's worth it to her. i told mary who said i sounded like a shrink that sometimes it's difficult to find the precise cause of anxiety in people and dogs, as anxiety gets generalized and constellates and travels being to being like memes. 
that might not be very helpful. by the way this mary is very thoughtful and is not the sorry mary of previous posts who is a stranger and a shill for towers in the park and big money land grabs. i will not bend to conflate mary's thank you, nor constellate my sorrymary anxiety regarding towers of power.  so i said to good mary the only thing i can do and say is go toward comet's anxiety, and your own as well. we don't know where anxiety comes from if we avoid it, we don't know where it comes from until we go where it is. 
go there, as often as it takes. breathe there. calm yourself. calm your dog. you can do it.
i hope this helps or it sparks something else that does.