Sentences with phrase «reduce dog anxiety»

A group of researchers — including renowned expert Dr. Temple Grandin — tested whether this swaddling technique actually works to reduce dog anxiety.

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But the benefit of music goes beyond people: dogs also feel the impact of listening to tunes, helping our four - legged friends relax and reduce their anxiety.

Scientific research has shown that a dog's gaze or physical contact increases oxytocin in the human brain; increasing trust, evoking feelings of contentment, reducing anxiety, and replacing those feelings with calmness and security.

Studies show that interacting with a dog can reduce anxiety and boost one's mood, so these specially trained dogs visit schools, hospitals, and even airport departure gates to put a smile on everyone's face.

While these studies do not always have consistent results, some positive findings of interacting with a therapy dog include reduced levels of pain and anxiety among hospitalized children and adults, as well as increased focus and interaction among children with autism and other developmental disorders.

«The slow rhythm of the music, particularly the classical music,» the owners state, «works with helping dogs to overcome phobias, reduce stress, and lower anxiety levels.»

Its Zen formula contains a proprietary blend of ingredients to help promote calm and relaxed behavior in dogs to reduce anxiety.

PupPod is a new interactive pet toy that helps reduce boredom, anxiety and destructive behavior in your dog, helping them learn new skills when you're at away.

Dogs need a «special» place to call their own; it gives them security and reduces stress and anxiety.

Avoiding food aggression helps to reduce your dog's anxiety and to protect your family.

Clomicalm reduces symptoms of anxiety by affecting levels of serotonin and norepinephrine in the central nervous system of dogs.

* In another study, the combination of the botanical extracts Magnolia officinalis and Phellodendron amurense effectively reduced storm - anxiety signs in dogs.5 This combination is available in both Harmonease and Solliquin.

Spending time with a therapy dog has been shown to lower blood pressure and heart rate, reduce anxiety and increase endorphins and oxytocin.

Dog x-rays are totally painless, but some dogs can benefit from sedation to reduce anxiety and stress.

I'm a dog trainer, specializing in reducing separation anxiety and aggression.

Make sure your dog gets plenty of exercise, attention and companionship, as these can reduce the stress, boredom and anxiety that might be causing your dog to eat feces.

Eric Barchas, D.V.M. states on his website drbarchas.com, «The key components of behavior modification for separation anxiety include ensuring adequate exercise and enrichment, employing tactics to make separation from the owner more pleasant for the dog, and reducing the excitement surrounding the owner's comings and goings.»

By combining special nutrients at optimal levels, Kauffman's ® Stress Protection Formula may help alleviate signs of anxiety in your dog while reducing physiological stress experienced by lactating or gestating dogs.

Our PET EVENTS focusing on Mental Health Wellness have proven that interacting with affectionate dogs can reduce stress and anxiety, improve mood, lower blood - pressure and even decrease the perception of pain.

Fitted clothing to reduce stress A close - fitting t - shirt purchased at a pet store or made from a toddler's t - shirt or tank can help reduce the dog's anxiety.

These kind of food toys eases tedium, decreases destructive comportment and reduces the anxiety dogs can feel when home alone.

Of course, if you have an especially nervous dog, it won't reduce 100 percent of their anxiety, but some sort of exercise will help reduce stress.

has been specifically designed to reduce canine anxiety and has been recommended by dog owners.

Valium (diazepam) can be very useful in reducing anxiety and stimulating the appetite in dogs.

Studies on dogs show that playing games and learning new tricks reduced behavioral issues, including anxiety, whining, and aggression.

It makes your dog feel fuller so it won't feel that it needs to eat more, generally reducing anxiety.

We may need to sedate your dog to carry out the x-ray since sedation calms dogs, reduces anxiety and ensures we get the needed pictures.

Often, if we can just reduce the dog's anxiety a bit in the beginning, he suddenly becomes interested in food... and from there, we're off to the races!)

This will reduce the risk of grooming anxiety for the dog.

For these dogs, appropriate medications to reduce anxiety can be helpful.

Drop your dog off for a grooming and he will also receive aromatherapy, soothing music, nail treatments and a massaging bath to reduce his anxiety and to smooth away tension.

Even though dogs bark for many reasons including excitement, anxiety, for attention or to sound the alarm, the best prescription for any barking issue, whatever the cause, is usually increased exercise and mental stimulation which helps refocus a dog's mind and tire her out, therefore reducing the need to bark.

However, it may be the best way to reduce your dog's anxiety and fear to a point where behavioral approaches can work.

When we know the cause of our dog's anxiety, stress or over excitement we can then get to work on reducing or even preventing it.

For dogs with a mild case of separation anxiety, counter conditioning may help reduce or resolve these problems.

Pheromones are natural hormones dogs secrete that can help to reduce anxiety.

There are several pet meds to help reduce your dog's separation anxiety including over-the-counter products using natural pheromones or even prescription pet medications to help calm your dog's nerves.

It sets boundaries, helps bond the dog and his owners, and even reduces anxiety by teaching the dog exactly what is expected of him.

Many elements go into the training, especially (re) establishing leadership in the home, reducing anxiety and anxiety - driven behaviors, and consistent structuring where the dog has less opportunity to fail (and if the dog does fail, we are able to address it immediately and redirect them to success).

For the moderately anxious dog, you can try a few pet anxiety remedies, such as the Thundershirt, anxiety chews or pheromone products, to help comfort your pet and reduce anxiety.

Our products are helping dogs increase attention span, reduce obesity, improve behavior, and lower anxiety.

Exercise helps reduce boredom and anxiety - based behaviors in your dog such as barking and chewing, so you will be amazed by the changes you see in your dog when you implement a regular exercise routine.

By implementing basic practices, such as escalating treat rewards and in - room anxiety - reducing sprays, dogs may come to enjoy what are usually considered to be stressful places.

Once you learn to recognize the signs, you can learn strategies for reducing your dog's anxiety or stress.

A good anti-anxiety drug should not sedate your dog, but simply reduce his anxiety while you're gone.

We took into consideration scenarios such as addressing mild separation anxiety through behavior modification, turning meal time into an activity to help reduce obesity, providing a low impact activity for injury / surgery recovery, and making PupPod accessible for blind and deaf dogs.

There is limited and weak evidence to suggest that it may have a role to play in reducing anxiety in dogs over the medium to longer term but the available evidence is of low quality and / or high risk of bias, with confounding variables providing alternative explanations for the findings.

Do anxious dogs administered alpha - casozepine show reduced signs of anxiety compared with dogs not administered alpha - casozepine?

While giving a grain free diet can help reduce the anxiety of provoking an allergic reaction in your dog, there are other things you can do to help feed your pooch with food allergies.

- Aromatherapy with lavender has been shown to significantly reduce car ride - induced anxiety in dogs.