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The fear.

Is an absolutly natural response and is the most important way of the animals to be far from a potential dangerous situation.

causes of fear

Fear is a response is considered a legacy part, and in part learned. 

 

Fear as innate response (inherited):

 

• by the presence of a possible predator

• Given certain environmental risks, such as height, noise, fire and other heat sources. 

• Before any new situation or environment, previously unknown to the dog.

• In the presence of other dogs, people

     and any other specimen of a species

     which is found socialized to behave

     aggressively or challenging.

 

Fear like an response learned:

 

Besides its genetic component, fear

responses are learned throughout life.

When a dog shows fear and is comforted by

the owner, you are reinforcing this behavior is.

 

 

The phobias.

Phobias can be defined as situations of intense fear disproportionate to the actual threat intensity of the stimulus that produces fear. The term phobia means fear, panic and terror. Correspond to excessive and persistent fear associated with an object or situation that objectively not significant source of danger.

 

The Four Features that let you define as a specific phobia fear are:

 

• It is disproportionate to the situation that creates it.

• No explanation. 

• It is outside voluntary control. 

• Leads to avoidance of the feared situation. 

 

External Stimulation phobias: 

 

• Animal phobias. 

• Agoraphobic syndrome (roads, transport). 

• Social phobias (noise, visits).

• A natural phenomena (storms, water).

 

Causes of phobias:

 

• Innate fearful temperament. 

• Lack of socialization. 

• Learned aversion.

• Unpleasant experience.

• Combinations of these factors.

• There is a belief that the phobia to a given stimulus always an unpleasant experience for the dog lived relative to the stimulus.

• Although such a situation may be true in some cases, in others it is precisely the lack of prior contact with a given stimulus, responsible for the appearance of the phobia.

• In the maintenance of phobias is involved the owner to provide protection to their presence.

• Cessation of anxiety with their presence or console fondly.

• Sufficiently rewarding and gives you a boost, instead of facing the feared situation.

• Conversely punishment generates more fear and anxiety with increasing excitement.

 

Treatment of Phobias:

 

The treatments often combine the use of anxiolytic medication (we dont recomend it from the begin without work first with desensitization), performing exercises with desensitization.

 

We do this exercises with desensitization

 

In this case refers to desensitization exposure stimulus reaction causing a gentle fear that no triggering dose response. Gradually, the stimuli are increased gradually preventing the dog responds with fear. The stimuli are repeated many times without any effect in the end is just used to them.