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"My dog has anxiety, what kind of dog training will help?"
Anxiety - In this section, "anxiety" includes separation anxiety, fears, nervous obsessions, and anything else
that appears to you as something that makes your dog on edge, nervous or scared.
Anxiety can be related to a medical issue, but we've found that to be relatively rare. In our years of training
dogs, we've only come across two, that we can remember, who truly had a clinical anxiety problem rather
than what we call "behavioral" anxiety. Behavioral anxiety is anxiety that stems from some other non-medical
behavioral cause. Most often anxiety comes from one or both of the following two underlying causes:
1) Not enough mental stimulation - This can cause a dog to take on things to occupy his mind in the absence
of things that require true thought. Usually lack of mental stimulation causes things like chewing,
destructiveness, and hyperactivity. But it can also cause anxieties, weird fears, and obsessions. Most of the
time after a dog starts one of our programs and is sufficiently 'worked out' mentally (though this is not at all
time consuming for the owner when done properly, as is taught in our programs), these anxieties usually go
away on their own.
2) Dominance related behaviors. Usually this includes the dog taking on responsibilities like controlling their
owners, barking at everything that moves outside, being territorial, or some other dominance caused
unwanted behavior. This may not appear to the owner as true dominance, because your dog's fearfulness or
anxiety may appear to you as extreme submissiveness. So it's not dominance in the way that owners usually
understand dominance. It's more of a confusion about whose job it is to be alert and in control and make
decisions. If your dog thinks that it may be his job sometimes, that tends to make them insecure and
nervous because they don't feel qualified for that responsibility. That nervousness is often compensated for
by being more dominant, and/or by developing fears and obsessions as a result of the stress of their "job."
The solution to this is understanding what is causing your dog's individual fears, based on other behaviors
your dog is displaying, and teaching your dog through the programs in order to resolve both of the reasons
above.
These unwanted behaviors are just some of the things that we can quickly resolve in any of our dog training
programs at our facility in Eastern PA.
Anxiety - In this section, "anxiety" includes separation anxiety, fears, nervous obsessions, and anything else
that appears to you as something that makes your dog on edge, nervous or scared.
Anxiety can be related to a medical issue, but we've found that to be relatively rare. In our years of training
dogs, we've only come across two, that we can remember, who truly had a clinical anxiety problem rather
than what we call "behavioral" anxiety. Behavioral anxiety is anxiety that stems from some other non-medical
behavioral cause. Most often anxiety comes from one or both of the following two underlying causes:
1) Not enough mental stimulation - This can cause a dog to take on things to occupy his mind in the absence
of things that require true thought. Usually lack of mental stimulation causes things like chewing,
destructiveness, and hyperactivity. But it can also cause anxieties, weird fears, and obsessions. Most of the
time after a dog starts one of our programs and is sufficiently 'worked out' mentally (though this is not at all
time consuming for the owner when done properly, as is taught in our programs), these anxieties usually go
away on their own.
2) Dominance related behaviors. Usually this includes the dog taking on responsibilities like controlling their
owners, barking at everything that moves outside, being territorial, or some other dominance caused
unwanted behavior. This may not appear to the owner as true dominance, because your dog's fearfulness or
anxiety may appear to you as extreme submissiveness. So it's not dominance in the way that owners usually
understand dominance. It's more of a confusion about whose job it is to be alert and in control and make
decisions. If your dog thinks that it may be his job sometimes, that tends to make them insecure and
nervous because they don't feel qualified for that responsibility. That nervousness is often compensated for
by being more dominant, and/or by developing fears and obsessions as a result of the stress of their "job."
The solution to this is understanding what is causing your dog's individual fears, based on other behaviors
your dog is displaying, and teaching your dog through the programs in order to resolve both of the reasons
above.
These unwanted behaviors are just some of the things that we can quickly resolve in any of our dog training
programs at our facility in Eastern PA.
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