Play Uplifts Not Just Your Dog’s Mood

Life moves along.

You find yourself working more hours.

As soon as you wake up, you hit the ground running.

Solving problems for colleagues, putting out fires and the next thing you know, it’s 9pm.

You don’t know the last time you ate let alone the last time you spent time with your dog.

You do know that over the last few months, you’ve seen a change in your dog.

Your dog is panting and pacing, cowering when you walk into the room.

You have no idea what happened or what to do.

Unpacking the layers of stress in your life, you discover the change of routine, the transition from having joy and fun to trudging along impacted your dog socially and emotionally.

Through our time together, you recognize the pivotal moments in the preceding months of where the routine and your dog’s behavior started changing.

You didn’t recognize it at the time because your busy life took over.

What you receive when we put the pieces back together, the glue that keeps the pieces from pulling apart is how play is so vital for you and your dog’s wellbeing.

Play through an engaging game of tug with your dog, or for one of my clients having a treat party when she animatedly uses her hands to talk (her dog cowers, freezes and looks away) helped shift her dog from distress to her dog seeking her out.

This game is silly. It makes us all laugh.

Physiologically, it slows down the heart rate, slows the rate of breathing, it’s a total body stress release for the pet parents and the dog.

You start seeing a new pattern emerging.

Your dog is more relaxed and confident during and after our sessions together.

You continue through the weekend, but as soon as Monday rolls around, you see the impact of your work life has on your personal life through the reflection of how your dog’s behavior changes reverting back to cowering and freezing.

Rather than focusing on changing your dog’s behavior, we start seeing how you can make empowered choices in working in more of what you want like spending time having fun with your dog.

When you make the connection and create an action plan to feel more calm in your life and experiencing that you can achieve this through play with your dog, your dog also benefits.

Discover how you can create the loving bond with your dog and what you want more of in your life for what you want with ease.