PAWS AND PAWSIBILITIES: CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH!

Our pets communicate with us through so many ways hungry? They’ll nudge you to fill their empty bowl or sit near the kitchen area.

Need to relieve bladder? They’ll ask you to take them for a walk by bringing their collar belt. Pets have their own secret language and mannerisms through which they let us know what they desire or require at that particular moment. Positive communication involves our pets freely expressing their emotions through either barking, nudging their bowls, and so on. However, there are certain emotions they may not be able to freely express such as hurt, sadness or anxiety and stress. Imagine a tree of life, the branches are various emotions and the leaves are the outward signs and symptoms that we may observe. No two trees are the same, similarly, emotions are expressed in different ways by different dogs/cats. Some dogs and cats are very expressive and may howl/bark/try-to-talk through vocalizing. However, some dogs and cats are very silent, and are maybe not to comfortable with expressing what they are going through. In such scenarios, their body language, the signs and symptoms that they display are quite helpful which may guide the pet-parent effectively. In today’s blog, we shall take a look at stress as an emotion, the repercussions and outcomes of stress, how it affects our pet’s daily life, what you as a pet parent can do to help your pets who are stressed out due to certain inwardly-directed or outwardly-directed series of event.

WHAT’S IN A LANGUAGE: LEARNING BODY LANGUAGE