Dealing with your dog’s separation anxiety

Posted on May 7, 2010, 4:12 am, by admin, under Dog Training.

Dog’s Separation Anxiety

Learning to Deal with your dog’s separation anxiety can be easy to understand and fix once you start to think more like a dog and less like a human. You’ll never be able to be effective in dealing with any of your dog’s problems, without doing this. However, as a human, you may find this perplexingly difficult.Here are the aspects of your dog’s separation anxiety which you will need to be aware of in order to understand where dogs are coming from and to effortlessly resolve your dogs separation anxiety issues.Dogs have a highly specialized social hierarchy. Very few humans will understand this, so give conflicting signals – one minute you are telling the dog (in body language) that you are the boss of the pack, the next minute you are telling the dog that they are the leader. It is no wonder that separation anxiety, and later aggression, occurs with your dog In a wild dog’s pack, it is always only the alpha pair who can go out on their own. Hunting can be dangerous, and the alpha pair are the only ones with the skills to hunt on their own.If you translate that as you going out to work. If your dog sees you as the alpha, then they are happy for you to go to work without them. However, by speaking the wrong dog language, most dogs feel that they are the alpha in your family pack. This means that when you go out and leave them, they can become sick with worry and act aggressively. You could be killed as you don’t have the skills to hunt alone.And so the increasing the risk of dog’s separation anxiety.Consider how you feel if your toddler went off on their own for hours at a time? Always remember that all Dogs are natural pack animals. They thrive and depend on companionship.