18 Clever Concepts to Keep Your Dog Calm and Yourself Sane

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    "Letting my dog sleep in my room. He became an overall much calmer dog sleeping in the same room as me."
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    Foshiznik23 Keeping myself calm. It's made every aspect of my dog ownership easier. Edit: I meant that by keeping calm, my dog mirrors me in their behaviour.
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    GobblefishBurrito My dog is almost 9 years old and he never got any official training besides simple commands for treats.
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    Temporary Feature_5! Top 1% Comme... The more mental stimulation they get the calmer they tend to be. I do two types of walks with my dogs and they know the difference. We do heel walks and sniff walks.
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    Budget-Chair8242 age, he got calmer the older he got.
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    Duchess Witch Research has shown that sniffing for a dog works the cognitive mind throughly-similar to a human writing and concentrating for long periods of time.
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    sivlia 1026 Let my dog decide where to go as long as it's safe and reasonable.
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    Ph33r-Enigma During storms my 80 pound dog is shaky, and scared. If I let him on my lap, he's a lot more calm.
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    tmwildwood-3617 Lol...my Brittany spaniel walks on leash are 30ft at a time rotations between waiting around sniffing one area "forever" and yanking my arm off pulling to the next spot.
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    Owlex23612 Letting my dog know I've got her back. She's not always going to be as good at reading situations as I am, so I try to make sure she knows that I've got her.
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    Liuxingxing18181 For mine, the tiny thing was letting walks be slower. I stopped trying to make every walk about distance and started giving him time to sniff the same boring patch of grass
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    Geester43 Before bed, I do a "tick check", which involves the obvious, but I end with a massage. My dog CHILLS afterwards!
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    AttentionOutside308 It's mental stimulation which is tiring as well.
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    missprincesscarolyn⚫ George: Yorkshire ... Adaptil diffuser. I think they're called Thunder something or other now. I plug it into the wall.
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    Gronfors Banjo/Kazooie : C... A second dog (Legitimately, as a corgi he had alopecia, was constantly stressed, nonstop howling when left alone...
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    karmel80 Dog walks are not for walking but for taking in the world. Touch grass, smell the roses, check out the new dogs and pups in town. Also dogs like to be able to decide the route within some reason.
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    Rainy Reese Paw massages. Thigh and leg massages. Every dog I've ever had absolutely loves them when I've done and do them and they fall into deep sleep.
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    GinnyJr Weirdly enough, just giving my dog a predictable bedtime routine
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    Distinct_Disk_1610 · Letting my dog sleep in my room. He became an overall much calmer dog sleeping in the same room as me

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