Separation Anxiety Expert Malena DeMartini on Helping Dogs Learn To Be Alone

Some dogs have panic attacks when they are left alone. If you have a dog who can't be alone, and you have any interest in sometimes leaving your home without your dog, you know the agony of canine separation anxiety. It's an issue that has led to too many dogs ending up at shelters. A good dog trainer can help, but many good dog trainers dread taking on separation anxiety cases because...they're really hard. "Who in their right mind would choose separation anxiety as a speciality?" says Malena DeMartini. The answer? Malena DeMartini. Malena has helped countless dogs learn to be alone, and also trains trainers to deal with treating and preventing separation anxiety in dogs. Annie and Malena discuss why separation anxiety cases are hard, how people can address separation issues with or without a trainer's help, the ways in which modern technology can help us train dogs to be alone, behavioral medication, CBD for dogs, and more. Use code SFTD for ten percent off the Mission: Possible course at MalenaDeMartini.com Treating Separation Anxiety In Dogs by Malena DeMartini Zoobiquity by Barbara Nattersion-Horowitz Jean Donaldson's The Academy For Dog Trainers Uke'n' Daddy's All By Myself by Irving Berlin Book a free session through May 15th and check out our daily schedule of free webinars at SchoolForTheDogs.com . If you like School For The Dogs Podcast, please subscribe, rate, review, and share with your friends! --- Partial Transcript: Annie: I'm thrilled today to be interviewing Malena DeMartini. She is an expert in treating dogs with separation anxiety. She is the author of the book, Treating Separation Anxiety in Dogs , a book I’ve recommended so many times, I think I should be getting a commission on the royalties. Malena is a superstar in the world of dog training, so we might as well consider this a celebrity interview. On an important topic: the topic of helping dogs learn to be okay being left alone. But before I play you this interview, I did want to mention that we have been offering, free 30 minute virtual sessions with clients, the School for the Dogs’s trainers have been doing this since quarantine started but we are only going to be offering these sessions for one more week, so if you have yet to sign up for a free 30 minute session with one of our certified trainers, you absolutely should. We can help with problems that you have been facing during quarantine or maybe things you were wanting to deal with before quarantine, we can also help you find some fun things with your dog during this time that you are very likely spending more time together than ever. But that offer ends next Friday, May 15 so definitely book now and also if you are not aware, we have been offering free, daily webinars which you can learn more about at schoolforthedogs.com/webinars . They’ve been on a wide array of topics, we have gotten really great feedback and we also have the replays available for a limited time at that same link: schoolforthedogs.com/webinars . So if you’ve missed one, it is more likely there. This interview I did with Malena is an abridged version of a webinar we did earlier this week that I will link to in the show notes... Full Transcript available at Schoolforthedogs.com/Podcasts Get full access to Don't Be a Dick to Your Dog at dogtraining.substack.com/subscribe