Separation Anxiety in Dogs Part 1

This is part one of a dog training technique that can help with dogs who have mild to moderate separation anxiety. There are three segments, part one, part two and a summary of techniques.

***Be sure to never leave the house with your dog tethered by a leash.***

This technique is not in the author's book, but other techniques including building canine confidence and using calming signals are in the book and can help when trying to get an anxious dog to settle down.

If you try the technique, please email me and let me know how things went. My email can be found at my website www.peggyswager.com

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[PeggySwager]

Dogs who suffer from seperation anxiety benefit from confidence building. Dogs lacking confidence get easily stressed. You build confidence through leadership training, which includes the watch command, impulse control, and that you control other issues important to the dog. By taking charge through training, the dog will feel more secure. If you try and take charge through discipline, many insecure dogs will become more stressed. More info in book my book Training the Hard to Train Dog. Peggy

[Barrelracer4life8]

if you come back when the dog gets excited that is rewarding his behavior for seporation anxiety leads the dog to believe if that act out in this way you will come back. not a good recomendation for this problem in a dog, i am not a professional dog trainer yet but im learning. and i know this problem will not be solved with this video. it may work for some but not most. thanks anyways for you help.

Hannah Myers Of "Human" Training K9 education.

[PeggySwager]

In this exercise, you control the dogs anxious reaction to you, by stopping your approach until the dog settles down. You can do kind of a red light/green light approach, teaching the dog that settled down gets you back, not anxious or excited at the idea of you coming and going.

Most dogs learn to associate "I'll be back" with not panicking when you leave.

[PeggySwager]

You can use a small piece of rope or something you dont typically use to walk the dog with for this training. However, if your dog gets too excited when you leash the dog for a walk, might as well train the dog to settle down about that issue. Dogs that get in the habit of becoming too excited turn into more anxious dogs about a lot of things. Teaching a dog to calm down and relax is always a benefit.

Peggy Swager author of Training the Hard to Train Dog

[daygoduke]

SWAG!

[animalvidsforyou]

My dog has severe seperation anxiety see my video "My dog has SEVERE seperation anxiety HD"

[kesolomo]

what are you saying to get the dog to stay? I am not understanding it on my computer..I hear "and here is the command to get your dog to stay...i'll be back." I feel like I am missing a command word. Thanks!

[ParsonJRT]

@dionj82

You dog is still suffering from separation anxiety as a stressed dog is unable to relax and eat. Try the Dog Listener technique instead to remove the responsibility of leadership from your dog. Once he accepts you as leader he won't worry about you coming and going and will relax while you are out. No need for toys or gadgets and you don't leave even need to say "i'll be back" as he'll trust you enough to believe you will be back. Only humans use the art of speech to communicate.

[dionj82]

Your video has really helped us, our dog has learned to cope better with us being out of sight, but we have two questions:

First, when we go out the door he does one loud whine and then is quiet; does that mean he is never OK with it and we need to go back to basics, or is one whine and then quiet OK?

Second, when we give him the treat, he eats it until he notices we're gone, and then even if he's quiet, he doesn't touch it until we come back; what can we do about this?

Thanks so much!

[crmartinez001]

@Barrelracer4life8 I believe thats exactly what she just emphasized on. Don't return untill the dog calms down, therefore this video touches on exactly what you said it doesnt. Just a little hint there Barrelracer