Tips To Help Your Dog Deal With Divorce

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Breaking up is hard to do, and when the family pet is involved things become more complicated. "Dogs form bonds with people and when ties are disrupted it can be stressful for them, just like it can be stressful for humans," said American Kennel Club's Good Citizen and AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy Director and certified applied animal behaviorist, Mary Burch, Ph.D. "While there is no perfect solution for helping your dog adjust during a break up or divorce, there are steps you can take to ease the transition." The American Kennel Club and Mary Burch offer tips on how you help your dog adjust.

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Comments

[DeanWormer]

09:55 PM on 01/30/2012

I read this when it originally was published in The Onion. Great stuff.

[fetchmasters]

05:22 PM on 01/30/2012

This is a good (although not very often talked about) topic for discussion. Dogs definitely suffer from abandonment issues. I see it nearly every day with shelter dogs. If a spouse is going to be "out of the picture" for good, I recommend at least trying to get them to agree to help wean themselves from the dog. Have the dog see them every other day for a week or so, and then every third day, etc... After a while, the dog will acclimate to not having them around very often.

Best Regards,
Tom Aaron
FetchMasters, LLC
http://www.fetchmasters.com

[Weathermaker]

04:04 PM on 01/30/2012

Wait... what?