hi everyone. did you ever see your dog do this?
or this?
i'm sure you did because these are normal behaviors and all dogs do them. but maybe
you didn't know that they can also signal stress and anxiety in your dog. in a second
i'm gonna tell you what other behaviors can be also fear, stress or anxiety behaviors,
and how to tell between a normal one and a stress related one. i'm Dr. Orion. a veterinarian and a
veterinary behavior residency graduate. i'm under a bed because i'm demonstrating a sign of fear.
but this one is a pretty obvious one, right? let's get out of here. oh, if you like how i'm investing
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here is a list the researchers use to measure stress in dogs.
i even used many of those behaviors in the study that i conducted during my residency. i video
recorded dogs in the waiting room and then during a physical exam that the veterinarian performed,
and counted how many times they showed each of the behaviors. i also measured physiological
variables that might change when a dog is stressed, but even just the behavior itself
can be very accurate most of the times. so here's the list: yawning.
scratching. doing a full body shake off. sniffing.
pantig. lip or nose licking. lifting one of the front paws of the ground. barking, whining. and
of course, trembling. other things that are commonly measured in this type of studies are
the size of the pupils. blinking. looking away. giving you a side look where you can
see the white of the eye. might also be called whale eyes. and basically every normal behavior
that shouldn't happen in that specific situation when a dog does a normal behavior in a situation
where you would not expect it to happen. for example one dog approaches another dog, and
as a response the other dog starts licking his own groin. i mean, seriously dude,
now you're doing it? that's what is called displacement behavior. if a dog is just showing
one of those displacement behaviors, or just for a very short while it's kind of hard to say if
it's because of stress anxiety, or because the dog just had an itch. but if the dog is doing it
excessively, or doing it a lot in a very short period of time, or doing a series of those
behaviors, and not just one, then it's much more likely to be a sign of stress. try looking at your
dog the next time that you take him to the vet and write down in the comments below what kind
of behaviors did you notice your dog is doing. and if your dog is doing another weird behavior, like,
for example, growling at nothing, you might want to check this video out. see ya'.