In this video Jean Donaldson and Chirag Patel discuss some simple but important steps when teaching your puppy or dog. They use two practical examples to demonstrate the approach so you can generalise it to all areas of teaching your puppy or dog at home.
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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?...
