Your Dog and Fear

You love your dog and you do not want to see him or her afraid and cower. You should know that it is easier to traumatize an animal than a human being. When fear is caused to an animal it is more cruel than fearing pain. Animals are more motivated by fear than by pain. Your dog and other animals have a lower pain drive and a higher fear drive. (Therefore, shock collars are not a good idea.)

Your dog will have different things that will make him or her fearful. Some things you or someone else will teach him/her to fear, some things will innately trigger fear and some things your dog will never fear naturally.

Be conscious of what you do as dogs learn from you and others he or she is around. Your dog automatically does observational learning and will learn what others fear this way. On a good note, your dog can learn that many things are not frightening when he/she sees others that are not fearful.

A great example is a calm mother dog that takes care of her puppies. Hopefully your dog had this benefit as once a fear is learned, it is there forever.

Although your dog should have some sort of fear or he/she will learn that nothing is dangerous. For example, your dog should learn to be somewhat fearful of cars driving by especially if you live right off of a dangerous highway. You do not want your dog to become totally immune to any type of fear as he/she will forget that some things can be very dangerous.

When you bring your puppy or dog home, try to make everything you do with your dog positive. Perhaps a big part of your life is swimming. If you want to take your dog swimming at a lake, make it a safe feeling and positive experience. Because fears in dogs last their entire lifetime, you do not want your dog afraid to swim with you-- permanently.

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