Does your dog have confidence (anxiety) issues?
What are Confidence Issues? If your dog has Confidence Issues, it means that your dog has little to no confidence. This affects him by not allowing him to handle stressful situations that may not seem stressful to a human, but is stressful to your dog.
Some symptoms of CI are hard to see to the untrained eye. The most severe symptoms can be recognized easily, although, most owners don’t realize that what they are seeing are symptoms related to CI.
How are you supposed to know if your dog suffers from CI? Easy, just look at the list below and if you answer YES to any of these questions, then your dog suffers from a level of CI.
Does your dog cower, lay ears back, tuck tail, shake, pant heavily, demand attention, pace, or shy away when he encounters…
- loud noises?
- other people or dogs?
- you raising your voice?
- trying to learn something new?
- meeting new people?
- a new situation i.e. boarding, grooming?
Building up confidence is easy to do. It takes some learning on your part as well as the dogs part and lots of patience. Your dog may have a moderate or low level of CI, either way, with a little positive training your dog can live the happy, stress free life he is supposed to live. Give me a call or email me for more information or to set up an appointment.