{"id":5303,"date":"2021-03-03T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2022-01-24T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:07:25","slug":"tips-for-dealing-with-pets-that-experience-separation-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/tips-for-dealing-with-pets-that-experience-separation-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Dealing with Pets that experience Separation Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tips to help with milder forms of Separation Anxiety:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t make a big scene out of your arrivals and departures. Ignore your Fur Baby when coming home, and after a few minutes, pet them calmly. Remember, they feed off your energy.<\/li>\n<li>Leave your recently worn clothes out for your Fur Baby to smell your scent.<\/li>\n<li>Counter Conditioning &#8211; Start associating you being away from home with delicious foods or treats. Especially something that involves a KONG toy that takes 20-30 minutes to get all treats. Make sure that once you&#8217;re home, these high-value treats are taken away. They should only be associated with you being away from home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your Fur Baby has a severe form of separation anxiety, consider taking them with you to work, staying at a doggy day-care, or friends during the day while you are at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips to help with milder forms of Separation Anxiety: Don&#8217;t make a big scene out of your arrivals and departures. Ignore your Fur Baby when coming home, and after a few minutes, pet them calmly. Remember, they feed off your energy. Leave your recently worn clothes out for your Fur Baby to smell your scent. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petport.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}