Know, understand, fix your love child's emotional state, bark & be aggressive🐶

Dogs and humans all have emotional limits, like a bucket of water in the brain that keeps things coming in. In calm times, nothing happens. There may be water at the bottom of the tank, but when faced with stimuli or stress, the water in the tank gradually increases.

😌 in a state where water is not yet overflowing, dogs can sense stimuli (such as seeing other dogs at a distance), but can also control themselves, analyze and pay attention to their owners. In this state, dogs are sober and ready to "learn."

😓 When things start to swoop into the dog to the point where the rim of the tank fits, the dog will use all the brain energy to control himself, not to burst his emotions through body language, to tell people and dogs around him that he is no longer able to reach it. At this point, the ability to think analytically will be greatly reduced.

🤯 When communication does not receive proper response or help, the pervasive water spills out of the tank, at which point the dog loses its ability to control itself completely, the reasoning part of the brain shuts down, and is replaced by the survival instinctive part of the brain (fight, escape, or stagnation), causing the dog to exhibit violent and seemingly unconscious behavior.

🎯 Behavioral signs.

🧠 Phase 1: Stressful start, but still comfortable.

At this stage, dogs still control themselves, but start showing Calming Signals unknowingly telling themselves and their surroundings, "It's getting uncomfortable," for example.

⚠️ yawn when you're not sleepy.

⚠️ Lick your nose or lips quickly and often.

⚠️ Scratch yourself, not itchy.

⚠️, flick like a wet dog, flick his hair, like trying to shake off stress.

⚠️, turn away, or hide your eyes to say, "I don't want to have a story."

⚠️ serious ground sniffers use sniffing to distract themselves from worrying stimuli.

At this stage, the dog may still pick up snacks or toys, but it will start to do more hesitantly. Now is a good time to get him out of the situation. For a trained dog, calling back is still possible.

🧠 Phase 2: It's almost there!

As stress soars to the periphery, body language becomes clearer and more intense:

⚠️ the body is getting stiff. The muscles are tense and stiff for escape or assault readiness.

⚠️ The eyes are fixed on the stimulus.

⚠️, the mouth is completely closed, from where you used to breathe comfortably, to a tight mouth.

⚠️ ears set or backwards.

⚠️ tail stiff and high-pointing. There may be a slight swing and faster than wagging if normal.

⚠️ neck and spinal hair

⚠️. White eyes widen from glance to white eyes.

At this point, most dogs will no longer care about candy or calling anything. His brain is about to enter full survival mode. At this point, it should be taken out as soon as possible. Especially big dogs that, if at all, will be difficult.

🧠 Phase 3: Over-Threshold

This is where dogs lose complete control. The behavior expressed is survival instincts through the "Fight, Flight, or Freeze" system. Dogs may express one of these three things, or they may switch back and forth.

⚠️ Fight: Barking like crazy, extorting, leaping at, threatening, grunting, snapping, or biting.

⚠️ Escape (Flight): Trying to pull the leash hard to escape the situation, running in a panic (Frantic Zoomies)

⚠️ Freeze: Stand still like a curse, stiff, not responding to anything, or maybe "shut down the switch."

In this state, the dog cannot learn. Punishment, scolding, snapping or twitching the leash will only make the situation worse, because it will add more to the fire of fear and stress. At this point, it will only have to carry away.

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✨ 16 Mindset Self-Assessed Dog https://dogology.org/dog-mindset-assessment

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