So each time you are doing practice departures, you can use an associated cue or marker to signal this fact and then, once you have worked up practice departures to a time frame of around one to two hours (during which most dogs with separation
anxiety typically have issues), you can use the cue during actual departures to function to «
bridge»
from practice to actual departures.
But there is a nationwide movement called «fear free veterinary medicine» that's working to take the
anxiety out of visits all through a pet's life -
from puppy visits to their crossing the rainbow
bridge.
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