Sentences with phrase «dogs in stressful environments»

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It's important that all dogs learn how to relax in different environments as it is not healthy or fair for a dog to live in an anxious, stressful environment.

Four Paws try to place all their dogs with foster carers as they believe it is less stressful on the dog and easier to assess how it will react to situations in the home environment.

Foster parents are always needed for cats, kittens, dogs and puppies — from orphaned kittens who need round - the - clock feedings to animals who find the shelter environment too stressful — and everything in between.

In addition, the stressful environment of a shelter can aggravate and magnify behavior problems, adding to the possibility that a pup or dog might be returned after being adopted.

The shelter environment is stressful, and thanks to other studies, we know that the behaviors a dog displays in the shelter environment are not necessarily indicative of who that dog is.

While normally associated with mild disease and low mortality rates, respiratory disease nevertheless poses significant challenges to the management of dogs in the highly stressful environment of animal shelters.

This stress can be anything from being overwhelmed by the environment, being in the presence of triggers (other dogs, loud noises, bikes etc.) to chronic stress from a stressful lifestyle, not enough sleep or the wrong sorts of activities.

Therapy dogs are used to provide individuals in stressful environments with a way to reach out and bond with an animal that is happy to be there interacting with the patient.

In addition, research tells us that the shelter environment is stressful for dogs.

Holidays can be a particularly stressful time for dogs and cats: changes in their routine, more and often unfamiliar people around the house, or even a new environment if you are traveling from home and taking your pet along.

Available in a collar form (including a Braille collar and packaging to help the visually impaired), electric diffuser or spray, these appeasing pheromones enable puppies and adult dogs to better handle stressful situations and adapt to new situations and environments such as:

Instead of putting dogs in a stressful shelter environment, we enlist the help of families within our community to provide temporary foster homes for our dogs.

This means that there is no need for the animals to spend time in an extremely stressful environment nor will they ever have to interact with new dogs or cats.

Evaluators, like shelter workers, know that how a dog acts in the stressful environment of a shelter likely won't be how it will act in the relative calm of a home.

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Cooper is non-reactive toward other dogs, even in potentially stressful environments like veterinary offices.»

We know leaving your pet in a strange place can be stressful, but your dog, cat, avian, or exotic pet will feel perfectly at home in our bright, airy environment.

The «Assess - a-Pet» system of testing developed by Sue Sternberg and used by shelters throughout the States involves prodding a dog with a rubber hand while it is eating or chewing on a bone or toy in the stressful environment of the shelter.

«These specific breeds are more likely to experience respiratory challenges, particularly in stressful environments, and for some dogs, this includes places like a grooming salon,» PetSmart noted.

In adult dogs, these pheromones have shown to be effective in helping them cope in stressful environments such as shelters and veterinary hospitals and in stressful situations such as re-homing, fireworks exposure or traveIn adult dogs, these pheromones have shown to be effective in helping them cope in stressful environments such as shelters and veterinary hospitals and in stressful situations such as re-homing, fireworks exposure or travein helping them cope in stressful environments such as shelters and veterinary hospitals and in stressful situations such as re-homing, fireworks exposure or travein stressful environments such as shelters and veterinary hospitals and in stressful situations such as re-homing, fireworks exposure or travein stressful situations such as re-homing, fireworks exposure or travel.

We felt strongly that being home in their familiar environment would be far less stressful for them than encountering the many strangers along with the din of their barking dogs and nervous cats at a shelter.

The dog must be able to work in stressful and crowded environments, and all dogs must be able to interact with other dogs and enjoy attention from people (no signs of fear, shyness or aggression).

I'm glad you and the dogs are doing well after your stressful move and changes in living environments.

These are dogs that may find daycare to be too stressful and would prefer to be in their own home environment.

Many cats and dogs may find kennel environments more stressful and uncomfortable, so having the opportunity to keep your animals in the comfort of your home is an alternative service available to you.

This sort of environment is extremely stressful for dogs that can go temporarily insane when locked in cages for extended periods of time.

Shelter dogs and cats are in a stressful environment, most don't have the love and interaction our more fortunate pets do, and the last thing they're interested in is being still for a photo shoot.

Couple aversive training with associative learning, and the dog now learns that something in his environment that he found pleasant is now stressful and to be feared.