Separation Anxiety In Dogs - How To Know Whether My Dog Is Suffering From Separation Anxiety?

 

In today's times many dog owners are troubled due to separation anxiety in dogs. If you are noticing unusual behavior in your dog, there are chances that it is suffering from separation anxiety. However, there is nothing to worry. With proper medication and training it can be treated easily. So, at this stage the first thing you need to do is to do a thorough inspection of different symptoms in your dog's behavior and make sue whether it is a separation anxiety or something else. A guideline to help diagnose separation anxiety in dogs is given below.

Most of the common symptoms associated with dog separation anxiety are excessive barking, panic attacks, digging, licking, destructive behavior, chewing etc.

When you get ready to go out, you may observe these behaviors to be predominant. It starts looking very anxious - starts barking or crying. .
After coming back home you might see your dog to be over excited. It greets you very eagerly. It treats you in such a way as if you were missing for a long time. It may follow you everywhere you go. This is a very common result of separation anxiety in dogs.
But, when you go inside your house you notice a mess created by your dog at your absence. You may feel that your dog has been engaged in destructive behavior, have displacement things, chewed some of the items, and urinated on the floors. This is the anxiety and stress which it feels during your absence that causes it be involved in such destructive works.
Separation anxiety in dogs can be cured by medication and behavior training depending on the type and severity of the problem and the breed of the dog.