How to Avoid Separation Anxiety in Dogs

How to prevent separation anxiety in dogs:

1. Parents should not be overly excited every time you go home. If you are more excited than the dog when you go home, you will infect the dog and let them feel that the parents are very happy to go home , so that it will be less willing to be alone at home.

2. You can often pretend to go out, and then go home after a few seconds or minutes, so that the dog can gradually get used to the coming and going of the family, so that they will not be excited every time.

3. Prepare some interesting and favorite toys for the dog in advance. These toys are not usually given to it to play with. They can only be given to it when the parents want to go out. This will have a certain positive impact on the dog when going out. , also prevents it from being boring at home.

4. Train the dog's sense of obedience. Through simple training, let the dog learn to obey the instructions of the parents, so that the dog will become more well-behaved, and they will not ask for someone to accompany them because they are always yelling.

How to relieve separation anxiety in dogs:

1. Listen to music for dogs

Calm and soothing music can calm people's mood. For dogs, music can stimulate the dog's "parasympathetic nervous system" and achieve the effect of relieving dogs.

2. Take more dogs to exercise

Life lies in exercise, and this is also true for dogs. During exercise, dogs will produce a large amount of "dopamine", which can effectively relieve dogs' separation anxiety.

3. Distract with toys

Dogs are playful animals after all. When parting, the dog can use some toys to distract the dog's attention, which can relieve the dog's separation anxiety.

4. Go out and say goodbye calmly

Dogs are human animals, and can observe the expression and tone of their owners. If the owner bids farewell to the dog in a particularly excited tone, the dog's emotions will become more agitated and separation anxiety will be aggravated.

5. Do a good job of separation training

Regarding separation anxiety, the owner is best not to act too hastily. One day, one day, first separate from the dog for 5 minutes, 10 minutes and gradually increase to several hours, so that the dog can get used to being separated from the owner. When the dog is alone at home? When there are no problems such as barking or irritability, you can give the dog some snacks to let it understand that there are good things to eat waiting for the owner at home, and the dog will naturally not be so anxious. .