I have seen a few social media posts recently where people are telling dog owners that in order to help their dog overcome their separation anxiety they should be withholding affection and attention when at home, and should totally ignore the dog for a certain period...
Pain has a profound impact on a dog's behaviour, with D. Mills (a leading veterinary researcher) et al (2020) stating that at least 80% of behaviour cases that they see in clinic have undiagnosed pain. Why is this important? The International Association for the Study...
Although people refer to working through separation anxiety as "separation anxiety training", it absolutely does not fall into the remit of "training". When a dog displays anxiety about being home alone, that dog is having an emotional response to being alone - it is...
There is so much generic advice out there on the internet about separation anxiety and how to work on it, and it can't be THAT hard to teach your dog that its safe being home alone, right? Is it worth working with a separation anxiety specialist versus going it alone?...
Meet the lovely Wallace! Wallace is an approximately 2.5 year old English Show Cocker Spaniel who I have, at the time of writing, been working with for 3 weeks. I was contacted by his lovely humans to help them with his separation anxiety. This is Wallace below -...
Following on from my previous review of an episode of "Dogs Behaving Very Badly" focusing on Jax, the Belgian Malinois with separation anxiety, and having unfortunately watched another episode of Graeme Hall also "addressing" separation related behaviours, I felt it...