Educating on an emotional level: The Stress that humans cause

Today I am going to try to complete this series of articles on stress in dogs. It is a very broad subject and I have tried to summarize it as much as possible, without leaving anything behind, of course. Thank you from here to all the people who have helped me, directly and indirectly, to carry out this series of articles, people like Javi Gonzalez from Canibus Cognitive Training, Ramón Arredondo from Dog Training, Ana Hernandez from Refugio El Buen Friend, Silvia Beseran from GEDVA, Sandra Ferrer or Marcos Mendoza, who have contributed and taught me in one way or another, How it should be valued and the importance of Stress in our animals.

To end this topic, Today I am going to talk about the most common focus of Stress in our 4-legged friends: US. As an Educator, I have to explain to my clients almost daily that they are primarily responsible for the dog's situation. And many find it difficult to understand. For this reason, apart from Canine Educator, I became a Personal Trainer. It is very difficult to educate a dog if its owner is not educated. I leave you with the entrance,Educating at an emotional level: The Stress that humans cause.Detecting the sources of stress in our dog is something very necessary when it comes to working with other types of things and an essential step if we want to correct any type of behavior in it. In a previous post, in Educating on an emotional level: Stress VI am talking about the eleven basic needs of the dog, and how the lack of any of them can stress our animal.

However, today I am going to talk about one of my favorite topics, which I will talk about and talk about, and I will not tire of repeating it, since I want it to stay in your head, I want you to know it for sure, that you keep it in always count ... The main source of stress for your dog is yourselves. So clear.

And it's not about guilt, it's about responsibility and solution. Guilt, regret, reproach, resignation, do not serve us to manipulate our animal, and of course they are not the qualities of a leader, and a leader is what you need to be to be able to achieve the goal with your dog, that many times, it's just being able to live in peace with him.

With this type of emotional energy, in most cases we will anchor ourselves in a self-indulgent posture, in which we will validate the attitude to be corrected in our dog with phrases such as: It is that he is like that, it is that as a puppy he was bitten by a dog, this dog is that he is stupid, not if he is not yours it is mine that is aggressive, my dog ​​is crazy, etc.. This does not serve us for anything other than to emotionally support the behaviors that we do not like about our dog, at the same time that it helps us to place ourselves totally outside the responsibility we have for that behavior and power take for granted that we can not do anything to avoid it because he is like that and has that personality.

In this way, we let the dog be as it is and we consider it impossible to apply any type of correction. This leaves us out of any possibility of solving it and in turn serves as a justification to seek acceptance of our animal and its defects, most of the time at the cost of a healthy relationship with our dog, which is sacrificed through yelling, anger, verbal or physical violence, indignation, frustration, or angera, that as it cannot be otherwise, they will end in episodes of remorse, regret, sorrow and resignation, which all together, will further increase the feeling that we cannot do anything and that in turn we cannot do it to accept. The latter is usually, in most cases, the trigger for solutions that negatively affect the life of the animal.. I am Sevillian, and I live in Seville, the city in Europe that abandons the most dogs and slaughters the most dogs. It is endemic. It is linked to a painful popular culture regarding animals, and added to a crisis, both economic and social, that affects the most disadvantaged in our world ...animals.

Summing up this post a bit, a very bad emotional management on our partFrom situations that could easily be fixed with some education for both the dog and the owner, they turn into great dramas and very uncomfortable situations. Think it over and meditate on my words.

As my friend said Don Miguel Niebla Calderon: It's that human beings are assholes.

Greetings and in the next post I will continue talking about this same topic. I encourage and take good care of your dogs.