Nowadays, keeping pets has become a stress-relieving trend. Many elderly, children and even office workers like to keep dogs. Keeping dogs can help us relieve loneliness, and is even helpful for our own mental health. Dogs are like angels. Presence is all around us. For dogs, necessary companionship is particularly important, but for busy office workers, companionship with dogs is undoubtedly a big problem in the process of raising dogs. After all, in the dog world, the existence and companionship of the owner Even in the whole world, the lack of companionship of the owner will more or less affect the dog's psychology, and in severe cases, it may cause various psychological problems. However, office workers cannot help but cannot stay with their dogs every day, which leads to dog separation anxiety, which is also a common psychology. So under what circumstances is it possible to suffer from separation anxiety disorder?

Dogs suffering from separation anxiety generally have several typical characteristics:

1. When the owner leaves for work in the morning, the dog becomes inexplicably nervous and anxious and wants to go out together.

2. If no one is at home, he will keep wailing.

3. What we usually call home demolition is damage to home appliances and furniture.

4. He urinates and defecates everywhere, which is very different from his usual well-behaved appearance.

5. Self-abuse tendency, barking or biting oneself constantly, digging hard at the door causing the claws to bleed.

It is certainly unrealistic to have office workers accompany you 24 hours a day, but since you have a dog, you have the responsibility and obligation to help the dog solve these negative psychological problems. For dogs with separation anxiety, it is actually very good as long as you do the following things Solved:

1. Buy a very comfortable kennel for your dog in the corner of the living room or bedroom. It is best to choose a relatively closed cage. Do not buy the kind of iron cage mesh, because the closed space may make the dog uncomfortable. Feel more secure. Buy more toys and snacks for your dog, such as balls and snack bones that can be chewed. You can reward your dog by exercising the habit of staying in the kennel more often.

2. Carry out daily training for the dog. First let the dog stay in the den and play by itself, then pretend to go out and close the door. Go out for a few minutes and then come back. If the dog is still very good at this time and plays with toys in the den. , the owner should reward him, continue training in this way, and gradually extend the time outside the door, so that the dog can adapt to being at home gradually. I believe there will be good results.

3. Don’t try to say goodbye to your dog when you usually go out to work. Remind it that I am going out and you should go out without saying hello. Some dogs are very smart and will immediately raise their vigilance and stare at the door to prepare to go out together when they see their owner putting on shoes or clothes. So if you are going out, you can try not to disturb them, behave as casually as if you are not going out, and gently close the door while the dog is not paying attention.

4. Don’t be too overbearing when you get home from get off work.Call your dog warmly, and don’t respond immediately when your dog greets you warmly. Try to change what you are doing when you enter the house, as if you haven’t left home, and wait until the dog calms down before interacting with the dog. Don't be afraid of catching the dog's enthusiasm, because if you show excitement that you haven't seen him for a long time, it will also remind the dog in disguise that it is difficult to see the owner, thereby increasing the dog's psychological burden.

5. Prepare enough snacks to keep at home. For example, buy a food leakage ball and put it with various foods. Put it in the refrigerator beforehand. Place the frozen food leakage ball in front of the dog before going out every day. It can be used up as long as it lasts. It spends most of the day and energy sleeping quietly waiting for its owner to come home.

6. Change toys regularly and buy more toys and tricks to attract the dog’s attention, such as spherical toys with sound. But you must not give it all in the early stage. You can try playing with one toy for a few days before changing to other toys. This way you can keep the dog's sense of freshness with the toys and avoid getting bored soon.

7. It is best not to make the home too quiet and dark. It is best to keep some noise before going out, such as turning on the TV or radio to make noise, so that the dog feels more secure.

8. Friends who have the necessity or conditions can try to install monitoring or intercom equipment at home, and keep in touch with the dog from time to time. In this way, not only can the dog's every move and safety issues at home be monitored, but also the dog can be monitored from time to time. Talking to it makes the dog feel more secure, as if the owner is still at home.

The above is the correct way to deal with separation anxiety in dogs introduced by the editor. In fact, generally speaking, a dog normally needs about ten hours of sleep a day. As long as the above training and preparation are done, the dog will With a certain sense of security and sleeping when tired from playing, the owner does not have to worry about the dog being irritable and anxious at home because of boredom.