Useful tips to cure dog separation anxiety

Dog separation anxiety is the most encountered problems in dogs. This is also one of the major reasons why people return their dogs to the dog shelters. There are many tips given by dog experts to cure this anxiety. But since, every dog is different and shows his anxiety in a different way, it is not always important that same tips will work with all dogs. A thorough study of all the symptoms of your dog and research on the core reason of the problem is important to do before applying any technique. Ones you identify all the symptoms and the reason; you have to decide what technique you want to use in order to solve the problem. Following are the techniques that can be used while curing dog separation anxiety.

• Behavioral training –Behavioral exercises are used to replace the anxious behavior of your dog. Behavioral exercises can greatly help to control the apprehensive behavior of your dog when you’re leaving home. Fox example, if your dog gets anxious or over excited when you are ready to go out or putting your shoes or picking up your car keys, you need to exercise this more often even when you’re not going anywhere. This way he will not be associated with your shoes or your car keys when you’re leaving and this exercise will help your dog to stay firm and calm.
• Pack leadership- Ignore your dog when you’re leaving home for few minutes and ones you come home don’t give him too much attention. Because your dog will get more stressed easily if they’ll think they are leader. You don’t have to pay him too much attention and also build some strict ground rules while treating your dog. You need to make them realize that they work for you and to do so it’s important not to pamper them all the time.
• Medication and Natural remedies- Clomipramine and Fluoxetine are the medicines which are generally used to cure the problem. This medication might take a little long but it does helps in reducing anxiety. If you think this pill alone will work, then you are highly mistaken. All the above mentioned points need to be executed properly in order to get the desired results. However, if separation anxiety is not a major problem with your dog, then these pills alone should be enough. As some dogs have mild problem like whining when you leave home and some have the major one, they will keep shouting or destroy your whole room until you return home.

The only solution to dog separation anxiety is to spend time apart from your dog. Making him feel ignored will help you to reshuffle your relationship with your dog from the scratch. Helping your dog to overcome anxiety will require a lot of patience and consistency, so you need to expect that it will happen overnight as you have to stick to the whole process for a long time for long-term benefits for you and your dog. Whichever method you choose, do it on a regular basis and you will see tremendous amount of change in your dog.