Dog Separation Anxiety Cures

Dog is a social animal. It feels safe and relaxed under a leader. So, you are the most important part of your dogs life. A dog with separation anxiety feels unsafe and stressed when you go out of your home. There can be several factors causing dog separation anxiety. Many a times it happens due to sudden change in routine. If some one in your family leaves home, if any traumatic even happens when your dog is at home, if you spend significant time with your dog for a long time and then become busy and spend less time your dog may start showing separation anxiety. There can be several other reasons behind separation anxiety in dogs. The chances of a dog having separation anxiety depends on it's breed too.

Whining, leaking, chewing, crying, loss Of appetite, escaping etc. are among the several abnormal behaviors of a dog with separation anxiety. These symptoms become predominant when you leave your house, your dog is alone at home.

It is important do a proper investigation to find out the appropriate reason of the separation anxiety by studying different symptoms in your god and then adopt proper strategy to cure it.

You need to use medication and behavior modification to cure separation anxiety in dogs. However, depending on the reason and the breed of your dog, you have to adjust these two techniques appropriately. The type of the medication and its dose are breed and reason specific. Medication cannot work like a magic unless it is mixed with behavior training. Following are some of the behavior training strategies.

1. You may have to help your grow a habit being with himself. You may consider leaving him alone at at home and gradually prolong the time.

2. Taking for a regular exercise so that it sleeps and relaxes when you are not at home helps a lot.

3. Pack leadership is also very crucial for the well being of your dog.

4. Changing its feeding time and food also often helps.

Proper combination of medication and behavior training is the key to curing separation anxiety in your dog.

I would strongly recommend you to grab the ebook 'Curing Dog Separation Anxiety' written by Stephanie Abel. In this guide, Stephanie will show you

* how to identify the exact reason of separation anxiety in your dog

* some of the risk lowering secrets, like proper vaccination, use of pheromones etc.

* use of medication
what medication to use
how to increase the effectiveness of medication

* behavior training for your dog

* a six step plan showing steps you must take each day before you leave the house to ensure your dog's behavior improves

and many more techniques suiting different particular types of dogs.

Using the action plans explained by Stephanie you will go back to your days of happy living with your dog.