SETTLE AND CALM

SETTLE AND CALM

Helping your doggo to calm down and settle in moments of stress and tension is the most important tool you can teach them

go from chaos | | to calm

For dogs you just can’t seem to do anything about..

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  • Under-socialized: Lived outside, possibly chained, and was strictly used for breeding. No acclimation to life outside of the yard, no skills developed to undertake new and novel people, places, things, sounds, and smells

  • Extremely fearful 

  • Anxiety 

  • Congestive Heart Failure (heart cannot pump adequate blood to body therefore is not properly carrying oxygen and nutrients to her organs to function properly. Normal dog takes 1-1 ¾ seconds to refill blood - Lady takes 2 seconds

  • Cannot be fixed due to health issue above. Therefore, goes into heat twice a year. Side effects for her include nervousness, increased anxiety, increased aggression with people and dogs

  • Problem behaviors from all of that: Excessive fearful barking, demand barking, excessive chewing, generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, leash pulling,  aggressive and fearful/ reactive towards other dogs, fearful of humans and sudden movements and sounds, trash foraging, jumping up

Lady (Above) Treatment Plan

THE ISSUES:

THE SOLUTIONS:

  • Learner-centered approach to teaching 

  • Force-Free, Positive reinforcement 

  • Counter-condition and desensitization at healthy distances from behavioral threshold 

  • Proper medication + dosage

  • Mindful and somatic resilience techniques such as therapeutic touch, auditory therapy with correct tone + pitch, deep breathing, guided meditation with teacher

  • Positive socialization to new and novel experiences + stimuli  

  • Restoring trust by providing intrinsically doggo activities such as walks, foraging, sniffing, shredding, to support their personal agency and sense of control of their environment and assist in helping them find self-confidence and self-esteem

  • Obedience training to build confidence and increase bonding with a goal-oriented task together