What causes Separation Anxiety?

Firstly what is Separation Anxiety and what does it look like. My view on genuine Separation Anxiety is that it’s not as common as people think. In serious cases you would be seeing one of these things happen;

1 - Toileting in the house or crate (to be expected in puppies).

2 - Destructive to Property (not just chewing from boredom).

3 - Self Harming - so anxious that the dog will self harm.

It’s likely that if your dog is whining, barking and crying for a while when you leave them it’s nothing more than brattish behaviour, it’s normal for dogs to try this to keep you around.

The tricky thing is working out wether you have obnoxious behaviours that need to be trained out, or wether in fact you have a bonafide case of Separation Anxiety. I am able to help you decide which is the best plan to follow. Using indoor cameras is a great way to observe and assess this behaviour. It’s a really solid way to actually see what is going on in the brain and means we can plot out the right actions quickly.