Your own personality or disease may cause depression in dogs

The reasons for depression in different pets may be very different. If the pet at home is too timid and will be afraid for a long time when seeing unfamiliar people or things, such a pet is also more likely to suffer from depression; if the pet itself is not healthy enough, lacks some trace elements, or has long-term suffering from other physical diseases Illness and physical pain can easily lead to psychological depression.

Solution

Owners should take more care of their pets to prevent them from being frightened, and they should help their pets to treat their physical illnesses first.

External environment causes dogs to suffer from depression

Sudden changes in living environment If the living environment changes suddenly, such as being sent to the owner’s friend’s home for foster care, or the owner’s home moving When arriving in a new house, pets usually show a little discomfort and feel at a loss.

Solution

Owners can take their pet to experience the new environment in advance and prepare better material conditions for it in the new environment.

A new member is added to the family

The addition of a new member If there are other pets or friends in the family, or a new baby appears, They all feel left out and become depressed.

Solution

1. The owner must be fully prepared in advance to make the arrival of a new member a happy event for the family pet.
2. Small animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits, birds and turtles will feel very uneasy, nervous or even depressed when their owners leave home without taking them out.
Before leaving home, the owner may wish to leave some delicious snacks for his pet to enjoy, preferably some good tastes that the pet has never enjoyed before. When your pet is busy enjoying delicious food, it can alleviate the pain of missing you.

The owner’s own reasons lead to dog depression

If the pet owner goes out early and comes back late every day, this kind of depression is often ignored and cannot leave the house. Pets can easily develop depression and anxiety, and may even self-harm to vent their anger.

Solution

1. Pet owners should spend more time taking care of their pet, or find a partner for it to prevent its life from being too lonely and monotonous. 2. If the pet owner's family atmosphere is tense and family wars break out from time to time, in this environment, the pet will easily become fearful and uneasy, and will develop depression over time.

General signs of depression in dogsNow

If one day, you find that your beloved dog barks twice all day long, your beloved cat cannot eat for some reason, or they do not respond to your caresses and are very indifferent. , in which case they may be suffering from depression. The details are as follows:
1. Ignore others and cannot get excited about the people or things they are interested in. Often lie still with your head down.
2. Not caring about anything, looking at you with dull eyes, unwilling to go out, just want to stay in one place, unwilling to move the body.
3. His eyes are dull, he ignores people, he is unwilling to go out, and he is timid.