Dog Separation Anxiety

Pet separation anxiety disorder can be a traumatic and tough to deal with issue for dogs and their people, in the same way that obsessive-compulsive grooming or spraying can be for cats who are under this stress and their people. What exactly do the two of those have in common, you think? You’ll see presently just specifically what it is that joins the disorders and what specifically they look to as possible cures and ways to fix the situation. One shouldn’t want to let a continuing pattern of destructive behavior to go on and cause concerns both for your pet and yourself.

Pet Separation  Anxiety

Separation anxiety for dogs can be quite a bothersome problem. Canines are very socially focused animals and rely heavily on the structure of the pack in all social relationships. As pet owners, humans are the head dog of the pack and are in charge. However in today’s busy existence, the pack leaders wander away and abandon the dogs alone by themselves for large portions of the day. Animals separation anxiety reveals itself by means of several fairly obvious and increasingly traumatic symptoms. Initially with barking, over-salivating, and hyperventilation, it will quickly end up into further stages of inappropriate pooping and / or urination, wrecking furniture, and attempting to escape in order to find the pack themselves. This will of course be unsuccessful and generate significantly more stress for the poor pet.

Obsessive Compulsive Grooming Disorder

Anxiety problems for cats are not at all the same as dogs. Cats are rather more independent of their people, though social relationship issues often still occur. Felines can be rather territorial or aggressive, so cats might have concerns both when moving from a familiar home to a different, unfamiliar location, or nervousness due to aggressive cats either around the area or the home. Feline anxiety may be seen in obsessive compulsive grooming behaviors, where the cat over cleans themselves and actually go so far as to remove patches of their fur!

Clomicalm

Clomicalm is a promising solution to these types of issues. In a similar fashion to people and their anxiety disorders, animals may get treated with medicines for the same array of conditions. Basically, this is pet prozac. Medications in the vein of Clomicalm work to assist take the edge off of the animal’s stress, giving you time and breathing space to resolve the actual underlying concerns. Clomicalm side effects sometimes include drowsiness, vertigo, dehydration, weakness, constipation or loss of appetite, so you should to ensure your animal gets lots of water and you watch them closely for a while. They certainly can’t tell you in words if they’re unwell. A Clomicalm cat is a happy, healthy animal!