Dog Anxiety with Dr. Ian Dunbar & Dr. Edward Bassingthwaite
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Join us for a conversation about Dog Anxiety between our own Dr. Ian Dunbar of Dunbar Academy, and Dr. Edward Bassingthwaite, also known as the Healing Vet.
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I always need more education in helping me to work with my rescue dog when it comes to anxiety and her reactivity issues. She came to us totally unsocialized. We have worked really hard on this issue the past year and one half, but I know I can still improve my skills. My girl spent her first year or more in a crate, in a kennel and a warehouse with 200+ other dogs. She had zero experiences, so we have been working hard to catch her up to our normal everyday lifestyle as well as her basic skills. We have worked to desensitize her to the loud sounds (of motorcycles, snowplows, large trucks with squealing brakes, fast bikes and runners racing by etc.) of where we live that she was most fearful of. We live in a condo in a busy resort town so being able to walk calmly on a leash and sit, stay when a car approaches as well as groups of runners etc. when desired is most important. Ginger has done quite well with that and now that the COVID isolation is over we are working on her over-excitement and jumping up on people when they visit. Any suggestion for jumping on family or guests would be appreciated.
If a dog is jumping up they usually like greeting people, so you have to use it as a reward for the proper behavior. Tether her to an immobile object and then have your family approach her so long as she remains in a Sit-Stay. If she breaks, they just step back to where she can't get to them. Teach her that Sit-Stay is the way to get the people to come to her.
-Jamie
I enjoyed the discussion. Looking forward to the seminar!
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Cool little experiment that you do when socializing the puppies! Do you also socialize with senior dogs and the puppies? There is obviously value in puppies being able to play. Play with dogs there own age. However, I find they learn manners and reading social cues much more efficiently when socializing them with more senior, stable dogs. Are we supposed to always just let puppies run around and be crazy? Rehearsing really aroused and out of control behaviors. A balanced sentence to make sense during their imprinting phase as well, right?
You are right, socializing puppies with well-socialized, safe, adult dogs can be invaluable. Some dogs are absolutely unbeatable when it comes to teaching dog-dog savvy and manners to pups. Yes, sometimes you should let puppies run around and be crazy, but they also need to learn some manners and impulse control...
-Jamie
So I missed the summit is it recorded can I join for future