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How to Help Your Dogs Cope with

Lonesomeness

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It is quite well known that animals are also social beings like humans. When this is completely understood, it will then be quite easy to learn how to help dogs cope with times of lonesomeness, especially when you as the master would have to go for a weekend trip.

So, how do you actually help your dog survive the times when it had to be alone?

Before looking at the specific ways in which to do this, it should be remembered that the nature of dogs would not grant it a sufficient solution to merely leave them with good, dog toys, no matter how cool and entertaining these toys can be. Another thing to consider is that there is a basic difference between the lonesomeness that is felt due to being the only dog in the house, and that which is felt due to the master’s vacation.

A. When It’s Only Your Dog

The case of having only one dog is relatively easier than that of having two or more, that is, in the context of coping with lonesomeness. It can be left with a pair of those cheap pet supplies to play with and it can be fine for some time. Especially when your dog has been the only home dog since early life, it would not find it very unpleasing to thrive in silence. In fact, it may not so desire the company of too many or just one of those dogs, until the time to wish for mating is reached.

The only thing which can be a real challenge to your dog is you. When it has already drawn much affection from you, it may struggle if you would have to leave it alone for a relatively long period of time. To help your dog on this, and thus give room for yourself to do serious business, you will have to make it take it through a process. You may occasionally leave your pet in a closed room for a few minutes in a day, and increase the time of isolation as you see it getting used to the previous one.

If you had to do urgent and long business, you may also leave your dog to a fellow in the home, or to a neighbor you can trust. This may give you extra preparatory work, though, as the dog had to first learn trusting them as well.

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B. When There’s More Dogs

When you have two or more pet dogs, they can exercise the coping mechanism of filling with each other’s presence the void you can create when you will have to leave them. Of course, they’d feel the difference when jumping over their dog beds and cuddling their dog toys with you not being there. Well, you can still take this case as easily as the first. You just have to take the additional advice of putting one dog at a time into the closed room for it to practice experiencing lonesomeness, as well.