We all want our pets to be happy. So, I know how painful it is when your beloved canine companion comes apart emotionally when you leave them alone even for a few minutes. This has come to be called separation anxiety. If it has a diagnosis, a name, it becomes a medically treatable condition. But is medicine the right answer?
What does separation anxiety Look like?
- If you leave and your dog pees around the house, but not when you are there
- When you’re out your dog is tearing up the door, the floor, or the furniture
- When your neighbors think someone is being murdered every time you leave
- When you are home, they are stuck like a tick to your side
What is really going on with separation anxiety?
If your pet is doing these things, do you think they are behaving rationally? Of course not. What could make an animal lose its rationality? A stuck fight/flight response!
When fight/flight is engaged there are several important things going on in the brain. One of those things is that the forebrain, where a dog’s thinks, is bypassed in favor of instantaneous emergency responses that could save its life if there was a truly dangerous situation. Thinking only slows down the animal’s responses, so it must be bypassed. When you view the behaviors I mentioned above through the lens of fight/flight, they make perfect sense!
Will resetting the fight/flight system cure separation anxiety?
I don’t use the word “cure” for anything I do. My Neuro-Energetic Balancing™ resets the fight/flight response as it balances the nerve and energy systems. When there is no fight/flight response those behaviors are no longer needed and rationality returns. Here is a video of Garbo, a 14-year-old dog that got stuck in fight/flight when his master left the country and he got rehomed. It has a happy ending!
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