Does your dog have Separation Anxiety? 11 ways to help….
If your dog suffers from separation anxiety, it’s
distressing for you as well as for her.
11 practical tips on how to ease this and calm your dog are featured in
this article in Modern Dog magazine. These include daily exercise, work on
basic obedience commands, using a baby gate, distraction, ignoring her and CBD
Oil. 2 no-nos are leaving an anxious dog
in a closed crate while you’re out and/or using an anti-bark collar.
These following tips sound tough – ‘tough love’
maybe? They advise ignoring your dog for
20 minutes before you leave and for 20 minutes when you arrive back. Effusive greetings and goodbyes only make
separation anxiety worse. They also
recommend using a baby gate to keep your dog in a separate part of the house to
you for part of the time when you’re at home.
And a ‘desensitisation’ programme is recommended whereby you come and go
from your home numerous times in a day which wears the dog out. Something that can be done at the weekend
perhaps when you have the time. They
remind you not to return to the house if the dog is barking or howling as that
rewards this behaviour. Read more here
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Teach your dog to heel – 13 tips
The walk starts at the front door and you shouldn’t leave
your home unless the dog is calm – this is the first of 13 excellent tips on
teaching your dog to walk to heel from thatmutt.com “A calm dog can
pay attention and learn. A frantic dog can’t.”
Other tips include:
· make
your dog sit every time she lunges forward (the walk could take a while, but
it’s worth the time investment!);
· buy a
dog backpack or get her to carry something – thus the dog sees it as her job to
carry rather than pulling;
· stay
relaxed yourself and don’t get stressed as the dog picks up on this;
· don’t
keep looking down or staring at your dog – if you do, she is in control;
· walk
at different speeds and in different directions.
More here ……https://bit.ly/2GU0TrW
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Does your dog eat poo?!
Yes it’s disgusting but some of them do! Why?
Because they like it! And they
can get nutrients from it. However, dog
owners don’t like it – and if your dog has allergies, it mightn’t be the best
idea.
According to this piece on Dogster.com there are two
elements to managing this problem of your dog eating poo– or coprophagia, as
it’s known - prevention and
training. Prevention includes keeping
your garden or yard as free of poo as you can.
Another suggestion is to condition your dog to wear a muzzle. In terms of training, it’s teaching her to
‘leave it’. More here …..https://bit.ly/2EmU2nd
