The treats contain three active ingredients: thiamine (Vitamin B1), C3 (Colostrum calming complex), and L-theanine. If your dog is smaller or larger, your mileage will vary. The bag contains 60 of these bite sized treats, so it would effectively last him a month at this rate. We began giving him two a day for the first several weeks this was the recommended dose for his weight (about 55lbs). A fellow trainer brought us a bag of Composure by Vetri-Science, which she uses with her dogs who have similar issues. Or it’s a scary looking place.Ĭonfidence can be built, but sometimes triggers like these are unavoidable. Or it smells or feels like the vet’s office. My guess is that the MSPCA is a shelter, and he spent a long time in one, which brings up reactionary feelings of stress, fear, and anxiety in him. He also will shut down during training at the MSPCA if he hears a door slam shut loudly somewhere, or during thunderstorms. But that’s understandable after he went through heartworm injections there about a year after we got him. He quivers terribly and lies flat when trying to bring him to the vet now. He often goes into a “shutdown” mode in certain places when triggered by certain events. We’ve used Clicker Training, Ruff Diamonds (classes for reactive dogs) and Nose Work to help build Zero’s confidence in strange environments and new situations.
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One of the head trainers at the Nevins Farm MSPCA said to us, “With a dog as full of life as Zero, he’s going to live until he’s 30.” Or it could be his lust for life and extremely keen sense of his surroundings. It might be an insufficient exposure to various stimuli during his early developmental months as a puppy, or possibly the nature of being in a shelter (bouts of reactivity among the dogs followed by none). Needless to say, he came with some extra baggage. Luckily, we found him after only a week of being back at the animal shelter. He was adopted but sadly had to be returned after only 3 months because the owner couldn’t devote enough time for him with a full-time job and a newborn in the home. Our dog, Zero, was born in a shelter and spent a lot of time there.
Your dog, like mine, is so observant of his surroundings that he’s often over stimulated, both positively and negatively. Do you have a dog that’s nervous, skittish, excitable, and loves barking at everything and everything? Does he quake and shiver in fear in stressful situations? Does he have too much energy and doesn’t know what to do with it? Chances are you have a reactive dog.
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