Adjustments from Tricia Wills, Dog Trainer in Exeter, Devon and the South West
Dog anxieties can present themselves in a manner of ways involving domestic social and household situations, they may well be unsettled by house moving, renovations, new addition pets, new partners or a new baby. Externally with sounds of storms, fireworks or construction works and historically, whether they were an ill treated rescue dog or brought over from another country where they have not had a loving caring upbringing and been mistreated.
We as people are living in a pressurised society and can relate and sympathise with this feeling of nervousness and apprehension.
These relatable indications of nervousness with our dogs will make us feel even more responsible to cure this. The complications of certain nervous stimuli to your dog, need to be identified by someone with a wide ranging comprehension of unlocking these dog nervousness scenarios.
Dog nervousness can be emotionally and distressingly immersive, it may well present itself as being vocal – through whining and barking, temperamentally via hostile or destructive actions, submissively hiding away and developing a quiet/withdrawn demeanour, tense behaviour resulting in cowering or quivering. Your dog’s eating issues may result in low appetite or stopping eating totally. These symptoms for you and your dog can result in a negatively emotional domestic existence.
It is essential to be on the same wavelength as your dog and be aware of its reactions to the prompts and situations which make this behaviour occur. Adapting day to day routines and distancing the senses and building your dogs confidence will help appreciably.
My 25 years+ understanding and appreciation of these emotional prompts from various dog breeds and your variable domestic situations have created a vast array of solutions to diagnose and cure these kind of nervous dog behaviour events.
Contact Tricia Wills – Exeter and Devon Dog Trainer: 01392 811723 • 07932 743982 • info@triciawills.co.uk
