Suzi Walsh

And so dogs are the same.

You know me so well.

They tend to go, oh.

You'll tend to go, oh, the dog will go, oh, that was great.

I got a treat for just chilling out here.

And so your dog is going to do more and more of that practice.

So everything, everything from being left alone too fast, everything from other dogs, new people, anything that's exciting for dogs, you know, anything can be, different breeds have different needs, you know, even getting into the car.

Noises is a big thing.

If you take a dog from a rural environment and they've never been in an urban environment anymore, that can be really overwhelming.

So they're hearing all these noises and seeing all these things that they've never seen before.

So introducing them to those kind of experiences slowly will always help.

Yeah, it's a huge problem, especially because we have a huge dog population.

I live in Dublin, so there's dogs everywhere.

So it's really hard to avoid those situations.

So taking them out slowly and even doing exercises work.

Every time they see a dog, they get a piece of chicken or every time they get a piece of cheese or something really tasty like that.

Dogs learn by association, so you can always change their emotional response to seeing things that they're not sure of or they don't really like.

Separation anxiety is huge because we all have to work.

We all have to leave our houses and dogs.

We breed them as companion animals.