How To Deal With A Nervous Dog
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How To Deal With A Nervous Dog
If you have a nervous dog, find out why the dog is nervous and work towards desensitizing the pet to the object or activity that makes them nervous.
I'm going to give you some tips on how to deal with a nervous dog. The first thing to look at is why is the dog nervous? It could be you. You might be somebody who's tone of voice is perhaps a little too harsh, too loud, and it might be that you are accidentally, in your well-meaning attempt to actually befriend your dog, frightening it a little bit.
The way to deal with a nervous dog is to look at the dog's actual general behavior and to try and decide if it's generally a nervous dog or simply frightened of particular things. A lot of dogs are perfectly fine until there's thunder and the minute they hear that, or fireworks, they have a major problem, scream, and even end up having a type of epileptic seizure. Nervous dogs are best dealt with the help of a behaviorist.
I use quite a few homeopathic remedies, natural products that can help to calm your dog. Products such as Zilkeen and Bakflar remedies are very popular for this but get some help about how to use them properly. These are completely safe, natural products that can help your dog to simply live its life in a slightly more relaxed, better frame of mind.
Desensitizing can help so if your dog's frightened of push chairs, if it's frightened of fireworks, the process of desensitizing it very slowly and calmly, to accepting those is a better route then forcing them to deal with them or simply ignoring the problem. You can't avoid these things so if your dog is frightened of particular things, you need to help it to learn that they're not scary. Your own behavior affects this.
If your dog is very frightened, it's a bad idea to over-pet it. You simply reinforce the behavior and make the dog think it's a good way of getting attention but you should not cut it dead either. So, the way to improve the behavior of a nervous dog is to bring together, potentially, homeopathic, safe natural remedies, your behavior so that your not reinforcing the behavior but you are supporting a nervous dog, and identifying the trigger so you can eliminate them and slowly desensitize your dog.
That is the best way to help a nervous dog. .