How to Calm Pet Anxiety Naturally

Video Transcript

"The question is, how to calm a pet's anxiety naturally? There are actually a lot of anxiety disorders in pets especially in dogs and a lot of these come from fear, come from boredom, come from a separation anxiety, storm phobias, noise phobias like fireworks and that sort of thing so the best thing is to know what the triggers are in the first place. Knowing the triggers can obviously help you avoid that. To help your pet the biggest thing to know is that if you're stressed about something your pet can be too and so if there is an anxiety like separation anxiety going on and you're upset about it as well that's not going to help the situation. So if you are calm, your pet's going to be much more calm as well. Other things to do is once you have figured out those triggers it's good to be with your pet during one of those episodes, talk to them calmly, and reward them positively for them having a good behavior. So you're going to be rewarding them positively if they are calm and so if they are very anxious and running around and you're yelling at them that's going to negatively reward them and actually that's not going to work and so you want to be very calm. Also if it's something like separation anxiety you want to do things like you know, leave, come back in short stays, not leave for eight hours at a time so that can kind of desensitize them toward their trigger. Same thing with noise and storm phobias, things like that. Check with your veterinary clinic. They can also help you decide if there are any medications needed or things like that. Natural products haven't really been studied in pets and so those are to be avoided at this time."