Sentences with phrase «through gradual desensitization»

Whether your dog's barking or destruction begins 30 seconds, five minutes, or 15 minutes after you've left home, this is the threshold of time over which you must never leave your dog alone when you first begin training through gradual desensitization.

You can work toward decreasing anxiety through gradual desensitization, but if you are still forcing your dog into panic mode daily by leaving him or her alone to go to work or run errands, you aren't likely to help your dog overcome his or her fear.

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Teaching the dog through exceedingly gradual steps that being home alone is not a scary thing — a process called desensitization, which is used with animals of every species (including humans) to help overcome fears and phobias.

With Teddy's case, we simply needed to teach him how to handle situations like these through consistent obedience training and gradual desensitization.

Desensitization: this is a process where you make fear less intense in your dog through very, very gradual exposure.