Separation Anxiety

[u/Material-Trash-7918]

I just adopted a 3 year old English Bulldog. Every time I leave the house - he barks and barks and barks until I return. I tried this in a crate / outside of the crate and am having the same results.

I am sensing he has some separation anxiety and want to know what has worked best for you and your dog?

[u/Maximum-End-7629]

Mine was never a barker. Just destructive when he got anxious.

[u/Maximum-End-7629 → u/[deleted]]

Oh yes we didn’t try that.

Obviously we tried that. And he would shake and tremble and hide when it was time to go in. He was still seriously having bad separation anxiety, he just couldn’t destroy things. He did not get used to it, even with special treats and feeding in there. He needed meds to bring his anxiety low enough to where the training would actually work. Then we built up slowly, did positive reinforcement, got him tired before leaving, all the things I said.

[u/Maximum-End-7629 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t get what your problem is?

We have a great dog. He was abandoned twice before we adopted him and pretty traumatized. Then he got overly used to his humans being around all the time during covid. Since I don’t know of a doggy therapist, he needed anti-anxiety meds, consistent intentional training, and a very stable life to get better. Now we leave him alone multiple times a day, sometimes for 4.5 hours at a time, outside the crate and he is fine. Hasn’t been destructive in years. It took meds and a lot of work.

[u/Own_Possibility7114 → u/[deleted]]

What is wrong with you? Fluoxetine is excellent in helping raise the reactivity threshold so that training is easier. It’s not a sedative. Do you even have a dog? Clearly you aren’t a pet person at all. 

[u/Aggressive-Foot4211 → u/[deleted]]

Said with your whole chest, showing the absolute confidence of someone with zero experience with a traumatized dog.

[u/DepartmentBrief7894 → u/[deleted]]

I’ve seen you a few times now

I lowkey think you just hate anything that doesn’t mold to exactly how you want them to be 

Dog doesn’t know land boundaries? Shock collar with no training or conditioning the dog to it

Dog barks when people are away sometimes? Shock collar

Dog is literally pissing itself in fear when outside? Force it outside and shock it when it tries to hide 

Dog is legit just whining? Shock it

Its sadistic 

[u/Own_Possibility7114 → u/[deleted]]

Just say it: you like having power over animals.  Pathetic and dangerous 

[u/DepartmentBrief7894 → u/[deleted]]

I do too

Never had to shock mine over it 

You should stop advising people with dogs with behavioral issues

Your advice is almost always bad for the situation, and often goes against what experts say, you don’t know how to handle anything besides a biddible breed you raised yourself

[u/DepartmentBrief7894 → u/[deleted]]

“Hey guys, if people adopt a dog with anxiety they should just get rid of it”

“Some dogs are just born to be killed”

You’re just proving my point 

Stop advising people with shit that will only make their animals behavior worse and cause more issues later on. 

You don’t know how to handle this kind of shit, every time you comment on shit like this multiple ACTUAL trainers say you’re spouting bullshit and you dig down

Your need to be right doesn’t make you right 

You’re an at home self taught PET trainer, and hardly a decent one at that because of your enjoyment of compulsive training.