in this video I'm going to talk about and explain about separation anxiety and
also Josh all that and more coming up
Hello dog lover my name is Soro I'm a dog trainer also coach dog owners if
this is your first time welcome in this video I'm going to talk about how to
deal with separation anxiety many of you have been advised to use this tool and
that tool and to do this and to do that but you're still having some challenges
with the separation anxiety don't worry I'm gonna explain it all and it's all
going to make sense and also I'm going to share with you some solutions that
you can use to help your dog to deal with separation anxiety but before we
get to do that let me introduce you to Josh. Josh is a mixed-breed he's a
handsome boy as you can see he has four or five breeds mixed in there and he's
gonna be in this video with me today while I'm explaining about separation
anxiety so one of the problems that many dog owners have is that they're leaving
their dogs home and their dog is having a hard time dealing with the being left
home alone or in general they get anxious or develop anxiety which we call
it separation anxiety but one of the first thing that you have to find out is
is their anxiety towards being separated from certain individual or certain place
like their favorite home or the favorite crate or the very favorite bed maybe or
they get anxious to go somewhere for example some dogs who come to our daycare
they get anxious just for being in daycare environment but they do well in
at the home environment or maybe the dog is
feeling anxious about certain things could be that they're missing their toy
or they're missing their favorite couch or they're missing their favorite
routine throughout the day so that causes them to become anxious so in
general you have to find out first what is it that is causing your dog to be
anxious in most cases I would say is separation anxiety towards a person so
your dog may be missing you while you're going out or leaving them home alone or
it could be that they're missing the whole family so one of the first things
that you want to understand is that dogs are social animals what that means is
that dogs love to be around another social beings that could be a human
could be dogs as well but because dogs have been bred to live with humans and
for humans therefore dogs are very attached emotionally and physically in
general to humans we have bred them to live with us to work with us to stay
with us and therefore they're naturally they're attracted to the idea of being
social around humans and being around and having that human company with them
so anyway if you're living your dog alone you're telling your dog that
you're not part of my pack you're not part of my social group so in a way
you're giving the message to the dog that you are punishing your dog for
certain things they'd have no idea why they're being punished and you're
leaving them home alone and they feel like that you're punishing them for
doing something and they're being punished so in a way your dog doesn't
know first of all why is it being left home alone and second of all they think
that they're being punished. by understanding this fact you can
understand that you can just leave your dog home alone all of a sudden you have
to kind of teach them that what that you're doing it's not a punishment and
you're you're not just punishing your dog by leaving your dog home alone so
what you have to do is in a way take some few steps before leaving your dog
home alone the first step is that you have to start planning ahead you can't
just all of a sudden start living your dog home alone from tomorrow you have to
plan ahead maybe five six months ahead and start training your dog to get used
to the idea of being home alone the second thing that you can do is start
teaching your dog the wait command the wait command is different than stay command
stay command you know is a command that we teach the dog to stay in
that position in that spot and we are visible to the dog so the dog has that
visual of us in front of the dog but wait is different by the way I'm gonna
link the video that I teach you how to teach your dog to stay and I'm gonna
link that video right here you can go ahead and watch that now the wait
command is a little bit different the weight command is long and you are not
visible to your dog the way we're going to teach this is you're gonna teach the
dog stay first so you can teach your dog to stay up to three minutes or five
minutes and you're visible in front of your dog and then you move on to
teaching your dog the wait command the wait command is going to be longer than five
minutes obviously and up to four hours so you're going to teach your dog to
stay in a room and then you're going to leave the room for instance and come
back in ten seconds you're going to tell you about to stay or wait and you're
going to leave the room and you're going to come back in twenty second and on and
on to the point that you can leave your dog for an hour and come back and your
dog is in that position and then you're going to work on to make it to two hours
three hours and then four hours the maximum that you want to leave your dog
home alone it's four hours so this way you can teach
your dog to wait for you instead of being stressed and not knowing what is
supposed to do when you teach your dog to wait your dog has a purpose your dog
has a goal your dog knows exactly what's going on and your dog knows that you're
going to be back soon weather if it's in four minutes or four
hours you'll be back so instead of investing in tools and solutions that
don't work like jackets or aromatherapy or leaving the radio or TV on while
you're away these are all temporary solutions so what you want to do is
invest in training your dog for a long time five to six months until your dog
is nice and comfortable and ready to be left alone and then you can leave your
dog home alone and then you're gonna see that your dog is gonna have less anxiety
when you're leaving your dog home alone isn't that right Josh? and by the way there
are some dogs that they enjoy being alone for a short time for example but
I'm sure Josh doesn't like to be left alone at all he loves to have a human
company all the time around him so it all depends on your dog we don't want
to generalize this idea of all dogs can tolerate being alone but some dogs they
enjoyed it some dogs they can't tolerate it and sometimes what you have to do is
teach them train them and also sometimes you may have to hire a professional to
come and look after your dog after a few hours they are left home alone while you're
at work or you can send your dog to a daycare or you can ask a family or
friend to come and walk your dog out every few hours I hope all these
solutions and ideas are going to give you a good start to help you with the
separation anxiety of your dog and if you have any questions leave those
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until next time have fun with your dog see you guys I'll see you next time