Separation anxiety and boredom how to distinguish separation anxiety if after the owner goes out the dog appears to howl for a long time, growl, and go back and forth in the house looking for the owner, there are signs of shaving the cage, shaving the door, chewing things, etc., and lasts for more than half an hour, then it can be basically concluded that the dog suffers from separation anxiety, depending on the degree of behavior, the severity of its separation anxiety varies. The main feature of separation anxiety is: separation → anxiety. Only when the owner leaves his sight will behavioral problems appear, when the owner is in his sight will not show any behavioral problems. But for some dogs that howl, crate, door, and chew when their owners are home, it’s not separation anxiety, it’s just boredom. Bored dogs, like people, can be bored. Some dogs will howl when their owners leave the house, but usually just “for fun”, they will grunt twice and then go to sleep on their own. Occasionally they will also go to the sofa to look for the owner’s clothes, but generally will not destroy (except for puppies in their early years). He just misses his master a little and looks forward to his master coming back sooner. This phenomenon is very common and most of them do not need to be managed and do not become serious, but there are a few that belong to the pre-symptoms of separation anxiety, which will get worse over time until they develop into a real separation anxiety disorder. Dog separation anxiety how to solve 1, reduce the sense of ritual suffering from separation anxiety of the dog’s attention to the master are beyond the ordinary, they are always annotated with the master’s every word and deed, when the master in making preparations for the door, they began to be nervous, slowly become manic, so if your dog suffers from separation anxiety, then please reduce your sense of going out “ritual ” it. That is, don’t do the same thing every day before you leave the house, such as taking small items like purse keys from the shoe closet or the entryway, saying goodbye to your dog, dressing up repeatedly in front of the dressing mirror money, getting snacks for your dog, getting specific toys, etc. You can put the keys wallet and other small objects in the satchel on the first night, the satchel should not be the same location every day, fill the dog’s water dispenser with water in advance, do not say goodbye to the dog when you go out, close the door and go. 2, desensitization training to reduce the sense of ritual can only reduce the dog’s attention to the master left, but when the dog found you gone or will return to the old way, so if you want to completely treat separation anxiety The dog’s behavior can be trained to be desensitized. Note training dog behavior is very test of patience and perseverance, some behaviors may only take a few minutes while some may take months, when the behavior habits are developed and often consolidated to maintain, so if you want your dog to have a good behavior, then you must have to maintain enough patience, and perseverance, do not rush, the results will only make you half-heartedly, to bring more dogs and their own Trouble. Some friends may have sent their dogs to pet training school training, the dog just home, indeed, the training effect is pleasing, but over time, the old problems again, which is the lack of maintenance, the lack of maintenance of good behavior, the dog will also be lazy and forgetful, so the next time if you send your dog to pet training school to learn, be sure to discuss with the dog trainer after the training maintenance problems, to strengthen the The next time you send your dog to pet training school, make sure you talk to your dog trainer about maintenance after training, and strengthen your management and maintenance to keep the good behavior going.
