How To Deal With Your Dog's Psychological Issues Like Anxiety?

Despite being man’s best friend, a dog share several personalities, tendencies and overall

behaviors with human beings. A dog can be affected psychologically, sometimes due to loneliness,

or old age. As the dog grows older, he will develop some behavior, or weaknesses, which can be

managed too. Some of these conditions will need you to take your pet to a dog health care for

treatment. Nevertheless, most of them can be managed right from your home.

Some of the most common problems include the following.

• Urinary Incontinence

This is the inability of controlling urine from coming out. As a result, it might lead to urinating

while sleeping, forming dribbling subsequent to urinating or urinating bit by bit throughout the

day. This condition, mostly occurs in older dogs, which might be caused due to;

• A mass or a growth that obstructs the urethra

• A stone formation in the bladder due to an added urine alkalinity.

• Inadequate exercise or access to the fields or yard.

• Hormone receptive incontinence, this is caused as a result of not being able to hold the urine.

For such a condition, you will be needed to wash the skin around the openings of the urethra in

order to avoid urine burning the area from leakage. You can buy protective pads such as the Dog

Wrap for males or Pet Bloomers for females.

• Canine Compulsive

This disorder is typified by too much repetition of a behavior or action. The common behavior

associated include tail chasing, excessive licking, chasing reflections or shadows or snapping a

flying insect.

For treating this condition, it will depend on the cause, the treatment might include lessening

stress or constant interaction with the owner. The anti-anxiety medication that is used in humans

has been noted to cut down the compulsive behavior tendencies in dogs. It is advised to use

these drugs together with some training, this will help the dog to adjust his behavior and have a

lasting result.

• Separation Anxiety

The most popular symptoms of this condition can include too much vocalization like incessant

yelping, barking or crying, escaping, panting, house soiling, anorexia or pacing. A dog loves to

socialize and he will experience anxiety or stress when they are left alone by their companions.

This has mostly been noted in puppies as they go to a new home, though adult dogs can also be

affected by the same.

Separation anxiety is commonly caused by the physical separation of the owner from the dog.

This is a predictable incidence noted in the majority of dogs. Nevertheless, it is a state

characterized by a change of routine or habitual separation from the owner. For instance, if the

work schedule of the owner changes, that will affect the dog, due to the alteration in the time

taken when with the owner. It might also be caused due to the excess attention and love shown

to the dog immediately before separation.

For managing this condition, you might want to reduce the attachment with the dog and avoiding

attention and affection just before leaving and when returning. You could also teach the dog

some behaviors or actions like fetching your keys when you want to leave or walking you to the

door.

You might also think of counter training, for instance, you could discourage the unwelcome

behavior and encourage a new, enviable behavior. For example, you might teach the dog a

number of separation routines, shorter than the decisive time when the anxiety takes place.

These short separations will teach the dog to get used to the imminent separations. If the dog

remains relaxed via a number of short separations, then you might apply the counter trainings. In

this process, you could treat the dog with some marrow-bone, pig’s ear when you leave. Ideally,

you could leave the dog with something to unwrap as you leave, this would keep him busy and

gradually forget about your departure.

These are some of the psychological problems linked with dogs, including old age and boredom.

Generally, lack of attention and/or mistreatment would depress the dog, and just like a human

being, he would be affected psychologically be the condition. You should limit your absence

tendencies, or at least teach the little friend how to cope with the situation. If the dog is still

behaving weirdly, you might want to take him to a dog health care for further check up.