Dog Separation Related Disorder

When you are not around, will your dog displays disruptive behaviour such as barking, whining, shaking, trembling, excessive salivation or scratching at the windows or doors?

If so, then it is possible your Dog is suffering from Dog Separation Related Disorder or called SRD for short.

There are a few causes for SRD or Separation Related Disorder Behaviour:

• Frequent interactive session such as playing, feeding with your dog immediate when you are home (normally within 30mins).
• A new born baby or new pet to your family.
• Changes of the owner behaviour due to stress or family disorder.

Knowing the causes can allow the Pet owner to mitigate the risk or work out a good routine to avoid possible SRD.

Accordingly to Statstics conducted by Vet Researcher, Male Dog, Entire Dogs and Dogs acquired directly from Pet Shop has a likey chance to exhibit SRD behaviour.

If you are able to use the dog and environment-related risk factors, you might be able reduce SRD or prevent it from happening.

Here are some suggestions

• Have a good routine and interact with your dog more often such as playing with your dog, bring them out for a dog walking session will help reduce SRD.
• Try not to play or feed your dog within the first 30 minutes when you are home.

If your dog is still displaying disruptive behaviours, I would suggest to send them to your Vet for check-up. If the dog is diagnosed with SRD, there are few methods that can be used to reduce it. The earlier you identity adnormal dog behaviours the easily you can reduce the problem of SRD or Separation Related Disorder.