For anyone with an anxious dog...

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lukabear

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The other day, i was watching Victoria Stilwell and she brought out this cd to calm these 3 great danes down. Luka has absolutely terrible noise anxiety (particularly with the heat), and riding in the car is a battle of wills that nearly always ends up with a panting, drooling dog (regardless of how frequently we do it).

I've tried exposure, treating, ignoring, ...everything. So far nothing has worked, until now. I downloaded the samples from this site: http://www.throughadogsear.com/

I played it for probably 20 minutes, just with the house quiet. Turned it off to watch a bit of tv, and then heard the heat about to kick on. Before the heat turns on, the unit makes a warmup sound. As soon as i heard this, I put on the music. This has happened probably 6 times since this morning.

Luka is not panting, whining, pacing, or otherwise exhibiting any signs of anxious activity. He jumps up when he hears the warmup sound..and takes a few steps, LAYS DOWN, and goes to sleep.
 
That's great! I really like her training style. I try and imulate her stratagies with Darby and Deja.
 
That's really interesting. Years ago I worked in a boarding kennel connected to my vets, we always left the radio on for the dogs. We noticed that when the radio was on soft rock, easy listening or classical that the dogs ate better and kept their kennels cleaner(ie no poo). If the radio was on hard rock or metal, the dogs bark more and made more messes. It was so noticable that we had a rule against certain radio stations.:smile2: Guess we were on to something.
 
Oh dear. I got all excited - I love the idea of using sound to calm a sound sensitive dog. So I put on the sample music and Deska started barking at the computer. Now he has calmed a little and is sitting with his head on the side but he isnt looking calm (he was asleep before). Maybe its an acquired taste - I will persist. I know he is getting sick of the Endinburgh Military Tattoo whenever there are storms or fireworks (now he barks at bagpipes).

I do try music in the car for him but Tully just thinks she has to bark EVEN LOUDER to be heard over the top of the music.

Now I wonder if it is available in Australia
 
*Caro said:
Oh dear. I got all excited - I love the idea of using sound to calm a sound sensitive dog. So I put on the sample music and Deska started barking at the computer. Now he has calmed a little and is sitting with his head on the side but he isnt looking calm (he was asleep before). Maybe its an acquired taste - I will persist. I know he is getting sick of the Endinburgh Military Tattoo whenever there are storms or fireworks (now he barks at bagpipes).

I do try music in the car for him but Tully just thinks she has to bark EVEN LOUDER to be heard over the top of the music.

Now I wonder if it is available in Australia
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Toulouse barked his head off at first. But I kept letting it play and a few times in, he accepted that it was staying on. No barking, and he fell asleep soon after. I didn't think it was doing anything at all for about 20 minutes, to be honest. But then I started to see small signs. It's going to be a process; I hope it continues to work.

It made me fall asleep, lol. I think it's something about how the notes are drawn out and slowed down.

Will update this when I try the car cd!
 
I think there was a study done on mice that had similar results - classical music good, gangster rap bad.

Hmm.. *flips ipod from 50 cent to Bach* :biggrin2:
 
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