Continuing with yesterday's topic, about how we humans expose dogs to our negative emotions, today we are going to talk about a topic that comes in parallel to this one, How do we transmit our emotions to our animals?s. It is a long topic, in which I will try not to elaborate too much.
Once we have seen the 11 basic needs to cover in a dog, and given its genetic tendency (if possible), only one possible source of stress remains, ABOUT US. Without more I leave you with Educating on an emotional level: The Stress that humans cause. I hope you like it.
In the previous post, Educating on an emotional level: The Stress that humans cause, I talk about how we generate negative emotional intensities for our dog and especially for our relationship with him. Without us realizing, We do not enter a spiral of negative energies that lead us to make hasty decisions regarding our pet.a.
Today I am going to talk about how we transmit tension and anxiety to the dog, causing stress that, if maintained, can be pathological and end up in Chronic Distress, which is something very dangerous.
According to the great Silvia Beserán of GEDVA (I recommend that you look for it and listen, it knows what it is talking about), there are two ways to focus and transmit our emotions to the dog:
Direct drive: This is easy to explain and understand. If you yell at your dog, get angry with him, are aggressive, or just talk to him with too much emotional intensity, you will end up confusing, blocking and stressing him. We should always speak to our dog in a calm and calm tone, making a short, scrappy and positive message. We must not talk to our dog, I repeat. That confuses them.
Indirect transmission: It is when we experience the emotion, and yet we do not express it. This is somewhat more difficult to explain, however I will do it easily. Imagine that you are walking down the street with your dog on a leash and you come across someone. At that moment, when crossing at the height of the pedestrian, you think that your dog is going to get too close and you pull the leash to move it away. The dog offers resistance, and you interpret that there is a possibility of your animal, no longer biting or licking the stranger bothering himIf not, simply touch it, and before this possibility you get tense and throw more, before what the dog throws again, since being an animal that usually offers resistance to that type of stimulus, it is normal for it to do so. Before this you return to pull with more force moving away, between the barking of the dog, but you neither scold nor yell at him or express your anger with him. You walk away from the situation, frustrated and moody. Have you ever wondered how the dog understands it?
Our animal is connected to us on an almost physical level. Dogs are able to notice our changes in temperature, blood pressure, read our body gestures at the level of The Mentalist (Patrick Jane) or see the contraction of our pupil about 8 or 9 meters away from us. By this I want to tell you that he is not easily fooled. There are dogs that detect certain types of cancers.
Well, in the previous case, we met someone on the street and reacted before a foreseeable approach of your dog to a stranger and the subsequent anger of this. When tense, the dog notices it. In his head a clear idea arises: My human friend has become tense. For me it can not be that I go with him. It has to be with that one. And act. He reaches out to see if the stranger is a threat. And you prevent him from getting close by pulling him by the leash, thereby preventing him from using his nose to inspect the possible threat and reloading him with tension. You physically begin to experience the bodily reactions that your dog will already have associated with when you are unwell. And that will make you leave with a bad feeling, and believing that the stranger was an enemy. It is likely that if you continue to subject him to that stress, some begin to develop aggressiveness towards strangers.
Well, we have come this far. More tomorrow. Greetings and take care of the heart of your dog !!