Are you tired of being stressed when you leave your dog alone at home? Do you come home to chewed up shoes, doors, or baseboards? Have you come home to a dog who is shaking, panting, leaving behind sweaty paw prints and clearly stressed out? If so, you’re probably dealing with a dog that has separation anxiety.
Separation anxiety can be defined as concerning behaviours that are present only when you leave your dog alone, or intensify when you leave your dog alone.
Common signs of separation anxiety include:
- Excessive vocalization, including: barking, whining, crying and howling.
- Chewing behaviours including destroying floors, walls, doors, especially areas around the door.
- Frantic attempts to escape, sometimes leading to self-harm.
- Soiling the house when the dog is otherwise housetrained.
- Getting very anxious when you leave.
- Sweaty paw prints on the floor.
- Excessive licking.
- Panting.
- Whining, and low-level crying.
- Hiding.
- Trembling.
- Ears pinned back.
- Pacing.
- Shaking.
- Drooling.
- Tail tucked & cowering.
So what can you do if you have a dog with separation anxiety? Fortunately, there has been a lot of scientific focus placed on separation anxiety in dogs. This area of k9 behavioural sciences has been heavily studied. Unfortunately, what we have found is that there is no quick fix for separation anxiety. But there is a way to help improve and resolve separation anxiety in dogs.
To help your dog get over their separation anxiety we need to work at their pace and systematically provide them with regular absences at a limit that they feel comfortable. This allows us to increase the time of the absences while increasing their confidence and comfort when being alone. Our goal is to make your dog bored when you approach the door and leave.
At Stoked Dogs, we have a couple of options to help our clients work on separation anxiety.
Full Support Separation Anxiety Package
This package is for separation anxiety newbies. It will get you on the right path to resolving your dog’s separation anxiety.
This 1 month package includes:
- 1 Kick-off Zoom session (~1hour).
- Detailed training plan overview.
- Trainer led review of mission videos for the first week.
- Daily customized missions Monday-Friday every week which are done through the only separation anxiety training application available.
- Three weekly check-in’s via Zoom. Check-in’s take place Monday-Wednesday.
- Coaching and support throughout via Whatsapp (Monday-Friday).
Separation Anxiety Reduced Support Package
This package is for those who have completed the full support separation anxiety package but still want some support and guidance as they continue with their separation anxiety training.
This 1 month package includes:
- Daily customized missions Monday-Friday every week which are done through the only separation anxiety training application available.
- Two check-ins via Zoom. Check-in’s take place Monday-Wednesday.
- Coaching and support throughout via Whatsapp (Monday-Friday).
For those who no longer need the support of Stoked Dogs for their Separation Anxiety Training but would like to continue utilizing the application including the daily exercise creation option, a monthly subscription of $40.00 CAD (including taxes) is available.
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