Signs your dog is stressed and ways to help your best friend

 

If your otherwise friendly and playful dog seems distant, clingy, or tense, that means they are stressed. Yes, like us even dogs get stressed. Hence, you have to understand their tell-tale symptoms and their body language. Your dog might feel stressed out for the following reasons:

•          Memory loss and confusion, if your dog is aging
•        Fear related to new environments, loud noises, and even big groups of people
•        Separating from their environments or surroundings
•         They also get stressed out if their owners are also stressed out too

How to understand that the Signs your dog is stressed out? Through the following signs:

•          Dogs use their eyes to communicate. If they are showing the whites of their eyes, then they are stressed out
•          The most common sign of stress is putting their tail between the legs
•          During stress, their ears will either perk up or appear rigid or by pulling their ear back as in pinned
•        Watch your dog if they are snarling, because it can lead to snap, and then bite. During stress, sometimes even the whiskers of your dog can stand up pointedly.
•         Unfocussed barking, whining, growling, excessive panting, or whimpering might be thesigns your dog is stressed
•        Decrease in appetite, gastronomical issues shows that your dog is stressed
•      Some dogs also become anxious if someone gazes at them for long.
•         Sometimes even plain old boredom is a form of stress and thus they might keep licking at one place in their body
• ·         Abnormal shedding of body hairs, shivering, excessive drooling, itching, scratching, yawning, and tensed muscles

Ways to help your dog alleviate stress

•         Avoid taking them to noisy or crowded places. Take them for exercise and mental stimulation
•         Provide them with healthy foods
• ·       Good communication, as well as training, eliminates uncertainty for anxious and stressed-out dogs while building a friendly relationship between both of you.
•        Carry out exercises and also play games with them
•       Don’t make your dog feel your stress, try to be cheerful whenever you are around them

Your best friend might indeed get stressed out, but by paying attention and spending considerable time with your dog, you can help your dog.