Are you giving your dog stressful signals?

We all have busy lives, so sometimes we need to leave our beloved fur doggies at home. Going to work, travelling for business or going on holiday. It is usually very stressful for me to leave Luca alone at home. He can destroy the whole house and garden in seconds.

Living on a budget, don't give me the luxury to book him into a doggy hotel, so I always need to get a babysitter. Not all my babysitters have the knowledge on how to work or play with dogs or even worst they don't even like dogs and this can create stressful situations.

We hear allot of people and especially children that gets bitten by dogs, and it is always the dogs at fault. Dogs then get send away or put down, but the sad truth is 98% of the time it is humans creating these unfortunate situations. People are not educated enough on how to handle their dogs and they don't take the time to teach their children on how to treat and play with a dog.

There is a few guidelines that people can follow in handling their own dogs and handling strange dogs in unfamiliar situations.

Wrongful Signals you can give your dog:

1. Leaning over the dog
2. Forcing your face in the dogs face
3. Petting the dog on the shoulder blade
4. Petting a dog around the face and top of its head
5. Walking straight into a dog
6. Pulling and leaning on dogs
7. Eye contact with strange dogs
8. Hitting and yelling
9. Forcing your dog into certain positions

It is every owners responsibility to make sure not to put dogs into stressful situations.Remember dogs are animals, and they still have animal instinct to protect themselves.