Dog separation anxiety, as what most dog owners recognized, could cause a lot of problem to your family, to your neighbours and most especially to your dog. This term refers to a condition where your dog misses you so much that he would start to do destructive behaviours to let you know that he is upset and also to get your attention. To most dog owners, this condition is not a burden if it is still in its early stage or just simple case of separation anxiety. However, most dog owners also fail to realize that when these simple cases were left unattended, it could escalate into an extreme case where your dog will inhibit destructive patterns of behaviour such as scratching your furniture, urinating and defecating anywhere in your house and sometimes, they would hurt themselves by chewing on their paws or their tails.
Because of this fact, it is significantly important that dog owners should know if their dog suffers from dog separation anxiety. Knowing it would greatly help their dog from having too much stress and preventing it from escalating to something more dangerous that could make the owner decide to abandon their dog. Thus, spotting the symptoms first hand could help save your dog from suffering in this condition.
These are the early symptoms that you need to check if your dog is exhibiting such behaviour. Most of the dogs that has dog separation anxiety will show early signs of such condition. These early signs range from your dog getting upset whenever you go outside of the house, whenever you leave him alone in the room, whenever you walk out of your house. When we say upset, this means that your dog becomes overly excited and would be whining and barking whenever you do the above-mentioned things. Additionally, when you get back or when you arrived, your dog will be overly excited for longer period of times and it will take longer time to calm him down. If the above scenarios happened, you should be aware that your dog is suffering from the early symptoms of separation anxiety.
However, when you can see that your dog is urinating and defecating anywhere in the house, would chew on almost anything, from your shoes, socks, any clothes, to garbage cans, furniture, would scratch your walls especially the door, and would whine and bark all the time that you are away, these are the signs that your dog has a serious case of separation anxiety. Attend to this problem right away so as to avoid escalating the problem to a destructive level such as your dog chewing on their body parts such as paws, tails or just any part of their body.
However, before you could do any method to cure your dog's condition, it is imperative that you should completely understand the reasons why your dog has suffered from separation anxiety. First and foremost, you have to check his background. This means that you need to know the psychology of how his breed behaves, whether his breed is a submissive one or whether his breed behaves like an Alpha dog. Knowing this stuff is important since through this information, you could know how to deal with your dog. Submissive dogs view their owner as the pack leader and they would get upset when they leave. But with Alpha dogs or the dominant ones, they will view their owner as part of their pack and they will get upset if the owner will leave without his permission.
Thus, knowing how to treat your dog according to their breed's psychology would greatly help in saving them from suffering of dog separation anxiety. On the other hand, you also need to check if your dog came from a pet shop, whether he is early separated from his mother, whether he has been abandoned by his owner before, and whether he suffered from any traumatic experiences. Dogs who had suffered the above-mentioned scenarios have a big tendency of suffering from this condition. If they do, then knowing this information would greatly help your dog by treating them the right way.
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