Dogs have feelings. They can experience what happiness, sadness, calmness and anxiety is all about. Just take a look at your dog’s behavior whenever it sees you. Maybe it is so excited that it jumps and twirls at your presence and even licks your face. But what if it suddenly hides and stays away from your field of vision? This behavior indicates what kind of owner you are. Seriously, you can tell that I’m pretty sure! The part you play as the owner is very vital to your pets behavior. You might not know it but your pooch’s life depends and revolves around you.

That is why dogs have that loyal behavior. But the down side of the situation occurs when your pooch has already developed a strange dependency upon you and has what they call dog anxiety whenever it misses your presence. You can never be with someone else for all the time including your pooch. So how do dogs develop anxiety? To answer this question place yourself in your pet’s shoes. What would make you feel uneasy, fretful, and sad? There are a lot of various answers but generally the explanations could be when the owner is away, your master has already another apple for his or her eye like a new person or a new pet, you are not feeling well for some reasons that you can’t explain, your owner is hitting you or in the most morbid scene your master passed away.

Dog anxiety has following symptoms nervousness, restlessness, uneasy and confused feelings. It is sometimes very difficult to tell whether dog anxiety is experienced by your pup because the most effective way of knowing if your pet has this is when you are away. If your pooch depends entirely up to you it will have a hard time dealing with a negative feeling. If you would notice the reaction of a pooch locked up in a room for quite some time. It will bark, scratch, and whine continuously. It will also pee and poo inappropriately like it does not have control over it.

That is how a dog expresses anxiety feeling along with chewing your favorite shoes and laying over your clothes. Your pet misses you terribly that is why it needs to smell your scent in the things closely associated with you. You as the owner have the responsibility of fighting dog anxiety. You need to teach and guide your pooch. But even before your pup has acquired this feeling you can guide it to be independent to deal for its own even when you are away. Don’t try bringing your pup with you all the time. Allow it to play with other pets or other members of the family so that it will not depend entirely up to you.

However if your pooch has already dog anxiety, you have to make adjustments and teach it gradually on how to deal with its own. Do not attempt the direct approach of leaving your pet alone for a long time. Your canine might think you are already abandoning it. Never let this happen because things might get worse which is called anxiety disorder. Remember that it is not a sign of an uncaring dog owner when you do not involve your with your activities often. Rather it is the other way around.

The author of this article, Alex De La Cruz, is a Dog Expert who has been successful for many years. Because most people think that Arthritis is a humans-only disease Alex now informs dog owners with his http://dog_arthritis.doggybooks.info Ebook on how to discover this disease and let their dogs live as pain-free as possible.

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One Response to “The Maladies and Remedies of Dog Anxiety”

1. Joe says:

   March 30, 2009 at 2:43 am

   I have a 10 month female Goldendoodle. When I approach the car or put her in saliva starts running out of her mouth. A very very large amount. If I go 1 mile the front of the dog is all wet. If I go 50 miles the whole seat is soaked. Probably at leat a cupful. Why ? What can I do to help her? Joe

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