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Wednesday, December 25, 2019

BarkBox Review | Barkbox Unboxing | December 2019 | Muttcracker


BarkBox Review | Barkbox Unboxing | December 2019 | Muttcracker


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Monday, December 23, 2019

What to do About Your Anxious Dog

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Dog’s can experience anxiety for all kinds of reasons, the same way humans can. There are certain behaviors, which can range from aggression to urinating in the home, that can be associated with anxiety. If you spot any strange behavior from your dog and you think might be an underlying issue, it’s important to take action.

If you’re worried and confused about the situation and you don’t know what to do to help your dog in the best way possible, you’re in the right place. Read on to find out about what you can do ensure your dog’s anxiety problems are dealt with correctly.

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Have the Problem Confirmed

First of all, you need to get the problem properly confirmed by a vet. Just like in humans, anxiety is a real condition for dogs and one that needs to be diagnosed by a professional. Only then can you start to find ways to treat the issue and to help your dog with getting better and less anxious on a day to day basis. Use your regular vet or one you feel you can trust if you don’t have a regular one.

Look for Potential Causes

To properly help your dog and prevent the anxiety they’ve been experiencing, it’s important to look for the things that might have been causing this anxiety in the first place. For some dogs, anxiety comes about as a result of separation from their owner. For others, there might be completely different causes. Either way, it’s important to understand the likely causes so you can find ways around them going forward.

Try CBD-Infused Treats

One of the things that many dog owners now used to treat their anxious dogs are CBD-infused treats. CBD has the power to calm dogs and help them feel more at ease in situations where they might otherwise get anxious and uncomfortable. Tempo&Tails dog treats offer a perfect example of these kinds of treats and you might want to try them if you want an easy and simple way of treating the signs of anxiety that your dog is displaying.

Pheromone Therapy

There are also lots of different therapy options you might want to consider if your dog is showing signs of anxiety. Pheromone therapy is one such example of this. This type of therapy can be helpful for anxious dogs because there are certain pheromones that dogs find calming and relaxing. So by using these pheromones in a therapeutic context, your dog can be relaxed and kept at ease when they might otherwise be overwhelmed by feelings of anxiety.

Find Ways to Reduce Your Dog’s Exposure to Stress

There are lots of small things you can do to reduce your dogs exposure to stress and stressful situations too. Start by paying attention to them and the situations in which they start to experience stress. That way, you can pick up on the things that trigger their stress and anxiety and take steps to prevent those problems arising in the first place. It will all depend on what’s causing your dog problems and what your specific situation is.

Training

Training can be one of the most helpful things of all for your dog because it provides them with the structure they want and need in their lives. If this is something that they’ve been lacking, training could provide it to them. Most people don’t even realize this but training exercises and sessions are usually very enjoyable for dogs and they enjoy that structure that comes with it. So if you haven’t taken the time to properly train your dog yet, that’s something you should look to change.

You Should Try to Stay Calm Too

Finally, you should think about your own feelings might impact those of your dog. If you’re always anxious and on edge, it’ll feed through to your dog. Dogs respond to the behaviors of their owners and they’re definitely more perceptive than many owners realize. If you want to make sure that your dog stays calm and reduces its anxiety, you first need to reduce your own anxiety levels. It’ll make a much bigger difference than you think.

Anxiety problems are not uncommon among dogs, and there are options for treating problems like these. You shouldn’t worry too much about the situation; instead, take action and start helping your dog overcome these problems. It can be done and the ideas above will help you with that.


Saturday, November 16, 2019

BarkBox Review | Barkbox Unboxing | November 2019 | Thanksstuffing RUCKUSESKIE



BarkBox Review | Barkbox Unboxing | November 2019 | Thanksstuffing

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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

BarkBox Review | Barkbox Unboxing | October 2019 | Return of the Frankentoys! Use code RUCKUSESKIE for $15 off

BarkBox Review | Barkbox Unboxing | October 2019 | Return of the Frankentoys!




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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Is Your Dog Sending You Barking Mad? How To Deal With Any Behavior Problem

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While we love our dogs, inevitably there comes a time when they cause us to feel irritated. Dogs don’t understand the subtlety of human emotions or needs. And they certainly have no idea whether they’re doing something that their owners don’t like. It’s a problem, and it’s one of cognition.

Suppose for instance your dog does something you don’t like, like begging at the table. You could shout at your dog, but your pooch usually has no idea that this is an act of aggression. Instead, there’s just as much chance that they interpret it is a form of communication and enjoy it. It’s why you see some owners repeatedly shouting at their pooches to no effect. Dogs just don’t get it. They don’t have the brainpower.

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But what if there was a way to deal with your dog’s irritating behavior once and for all? What if there was a simple trick you could use to stop all the begging, barking, and mad running that drives you crazy?

Well, it turns out that there is. You can put a stop to things like destructive chewing, peeing on the carpet, digging up the garden, jumping up on visitors every time they come to the front door, pulling on the leash and stealing food. All of these behaviors fall into the “annoying” category because they’re not usually a sign of a dog in distress, just one that hasn’t been particularly well acclimatized to living in the human environment.

Preventing A Dog From Driving You Crazy

It’s worth pointing out that your dog isn’t trying deliberately to make you crazy. The reason it's doing what it’s doing is because of its instincts. It has nothing to do with getting revenge on you or trying to make your life miserable. Dogs just don’t work that way. They don’t have a concept of sadism or hate. It’s not in their playbook. All they understand is how they feel right here and now. They’re fundamentally creatures of instinct, looking for ways to make their doggy lives better.

If your dog is tearing up the sofa, the usual reason is that it’s bored and wants to do something fun. The same if it starts scratching up the doors. It just wants attention or the sensation on its paws. If it’s tugging on the lead, it usually means that doing so gives the dog what it wants, such as getting to a particular part of the park. If a dog is ripping up the garden, it’s the same thing again: it’s probably bored.

So what can you do about this sort of thing? How do you avoid these annoying behaviors?

Change The Behavior In Flashpoint Situations

If your dog exhibits problem behaviors in particular situations, then it’s worth working on these specifically and attempting to resolve the issue. If you replace bad behaviors with good, your dog will focus on those instead of doing the things that they were doing previously.

Let’s say, for instance, that you’ve scoured the best wooden dog kennels on the market, but your dog still won’t go to bed at night and prefers to stay up barking in the yard instead. The trick to getting the dog to do what you want it to do is to give it just one behavior to follow that rewards it in each situation. You can be as creative as you like, but the reward has to be simple.

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One idea in this situation, for instance, is to give your dog a treat if it returns to the kennel for the night without barking and withholding treats if it does bark.

You can apply this simple logic to all kinds of situations. For instance, you can teach your dog to sit or go and lie down whenever guests arrive, or the mailman walks up the drive. Getting it to perform an alternative behavior makes it impossible for the dog to bark and get a treat for going to its dog bed to lie down at the same time. It has to choose one or the other, and usually, it’ll select the one with the greatest reward. 

What about things like digging up the garden? Here’s where you’ll need to be a little more inventive. The reason your dog wrecks the garden isn’t because it hates your landscaping, it’s because the dog is bored and wants fun. Digging is just a byproduct. You can’t remove your dog’s desire for entertainment, but you can make it less destructive. Instead of having them dig up the garden, build a sandpit with toys and get them to dig that up instead. Sandpits contain the destruction and prevent it from spilling over onto the rest of your property. When your dog uses the sandpit, reward it.

Never Reward The Behavior You Don’t Want

There’s no point rewarding your dog for the behavior that you do want if you also reward those things that you don’t want.

Dogs are very good at figuring out which tactics get them what they want, and which don’t. But should you just ignore them or do something to prevent their behavior?

Most of the time, ignoring will suffice. Let’s say that your dog barks every evening for food when it sees you making dinner. It could be that, in the past, you making dinner and your dog barking was a way for it to get fed. The best strategy here is to simply ignore it. Eventually, it’ll realize that barking isn’t getting it what it wants and know that the game is up.

The same goes for begging at the table. So long as everyone in the family agrees with the rule that you never feed the dog from the table, the begging will stop.

Finally, if you notice a new positive behavior that you like, reward it intensely. You want your dog to be in no doubt that that is the behavior that they should choose. Rewards can include everything from affirmations to treats - so long as your pooch gets the message.