Do you know how to make our dog mentally healthy? Humans are paying more and more attention to people's mental health now, but do you know? As our best friends, dogs also need to pay attention to their mental health. What should we do for our sunshine dog? Here's how to make our dog mentally healthy.
How to make our dog mentally healthy 1 According to the truth, the dog should be an optimist without worries.
But in fact, this is not the case, as the folk song says, "Little teenagers seldom have troubles … when they grow up, they have more troubles". Worrying too much will naturally affect mental health. As a master, you don't want a dog named "Lin Daiyu" who is sad all day, do you?
A mentally healthy dog should be sunny, cheerful and happy … Needless to say, similar adjectives. A mentally unhealthy dog is mainly suspicious, timid, neurotic, manic, and even aggressive in severe cases.
Healthy psychology is cultivated from an early age.
When dogs are young, it is the most important period for their psychological development. Creating a "moral, intellectual, physical and artistic" environment for the dog's physical and mental development in this period is very helpful for shaping the dog's healthy psychology.
When dogs are young, their psychological development is closely related to their environment. When the dog meets the basic survival needs, the dog's psychology is easily influenced by various external information.
To cultivate the healthy psychology of puppies, the owner must first meet the safety needs of dogs, which is the basis of healthy psychology. Puppies only know "advantages" and "disadvantages" to the outside world, and "seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages" is one of the most remarkable characteristics of dogs. The sensory organs of dogs from 2 to 6 weeks old have been gradually improved, and the learning style of "imprint" will play a great role at this stage. Generally speaking, dogs can easily form a stable and unchangeable memory of harmful external stimuli during this period. Isn't it a bit like the "childhood shadow" that Mr. Freud often said?
In the meantime, the owner must assume the responsibility of bodyguard and provide a safe environment for the dog so that the dog will not be suddenly and inadvertently stimulated. In this way, dogs born under the red flag are full of confidence in the revolutionary road of future growth.
Sticks may not be "filial dogs"
No matter what breed, dogs are always naughty. Many owners believe in the theory that "sticks make good dogs" when training dogs. Therefore, moderate corporal punishment is necessary. But if you go too far, it will be counterproductive.
Corporal punishment of dogs must be combined with many factors such as weather, location, people and so on, otherwise it will easily leave a bad psychological shadow on dogs. For example, the dog must be caught making mistakes before corporal punishment (this is particularly important). Other family members should not immediately protect the dog during corporal punishment. The scale of corporal punishment should not be too large. Don't "reconcile" the dog immediately after proper corporal punishment ... So many demands, I don't know whether to punish the dog or punish the owner.
Among so many conditions, it is especially necessary to master that you can't overdo it, and you can't punish dogs many times in a short time. Otherwise, dogs may get scared when they see their owners raise their hands or pick up sticks. What's more, some dogs even grin "self-defense".
Don't drive the dog out.
Sometimes the owner's casual behavior may cause psychological harm to the dog, thus making the dog form a psychological shadow.
Some friends will foster their dogs in other places when they go out, which is a helpless move. As everyone knows, if it is not handled properly, the dog will be "very hurt". Because the dog will think that the owner put it somewhere else for no reason, probably because the owner "doesn't want it."
If you have to put your dog in foster care, maybe you can do a few things to minimize the harm to your dog.
First of all, before foster care, the owner should familiarize the dog with the environment and let the dog leave an impression: Ah, this is not a strange and dangerous place!
Secondly, it is best to find a "dog companion" for the dog in the foster home, which will make the dog less lonely.
Third, be sure to tell the adoptive parents about the dog's living habits, and leave some articles with the smell of the owner and the electrical appliances that the dog is used to, so that the dog will feel more secure.
For the sake of our "sunshine" dog, the owner should be careful.
How to make our dogs mentally healthy? 2 It is very important for dogs to have a healthy psychology. A healthy psychology can make dogs get along better with other dogs or people. In addition, it can make dogs better cope with the outside world, which is of great benefit to dogs' lives. Shaping a healthy psychology should start from the dog's childhood.
The psychological development of puppies is closely related to the environment. When the puppies meet the basic survival needs at the same time or after, the puppies interact with the external environment, and during this period, the puppies have little influence on the outside world, mainly all kinds of external information, so controlling the living environment that affects the puppies will affect the dogs' understanding of the outside world. Shaping the perfect psychology of dogs can start from the following aspects:
1. Meeting the safety needs of puppies is the basis of their mental health. Benefit and harm are the only cognition of puppies to the outside world. In the survival process of puppies, the characteristics of "seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages" are very prominent. In dogs from two weeks to six weeks old, the sensory organs have been gradually improved, and the "imprint" learning method is playing a greater role. During this period, its harmful stimulation to the outside world is easy to form a stable memory. Therefore, in this period, it is necessary to create a safe environment so that puppies will not suddenly be inadvertently stimulated. Puppy nurses should establish a good relationship with bitches and puppies. As an important "environment" outside the bitch, nurses create favorable conditions for the puppies to leave the bitch and make the puppies confident in their own growth. Many cases of adult dogs' timidity and nervousness are often related to the harmful stimulation to puppies. For puppies, safety is everything
2. The group relationship of puppies is an important step in the psychological growth of dogs, which can promote the further development of senses and increase the ability of information exchange. The social habits of dogs are the foundation laid in early life, and the habits of getting along with adults are more traces of getting along with puppies. For dogs before five weeks old, because of their small functional differences and similar activities, it is not easy to hurt each other when communicating with each other, and the behaviors such as biting and chasing during this period are all exercises for dogs' hunting instinct. Therefore, during this period, providing venues for dogs to stimulate mobility, such as lawns, can promote dogs' judgment of space and enhance their physical strength.
3. Guiding the dog's individual consciousness is the key to the dog's psychological growth. With the emergence and aggravation of organism differences, there is a strong "self-awareness" in dog activities, which is caused by food fighting and is characterized by it. The evolution and strengthening of dog's individual consciousness leads puppies to know themselves better, which leads to behaviors based on conditioned reflex activities, such as not daring to eat the food that appears and not daring to compete for the possession of the things they take. At this time, it is very important to keep dogs separately and grasp this opportunity. When the behavior of choosing puppies appears for a period of time but does not cause serious psychological pressure on puppies. This is a way to help build confidence.
4. The puppy's play behavior is a reflection of the dog's psychological characteristics. Puppies are more likely to amuse each other than adults. The dog's game behavior is constantly changing with the puppy's growth. It is also the primary stage of cultivating a certain working ability. There are two necessary conditions for this kind of behavior to happen: one is internal happiness, and the other is extra energy. Therefore, providing a good game environment for dogs plays a very important role in cultivating healthy psychology of dogs.