Growing Older, Feeling Less Safe: Why Elderly Dogs Become More Anxious and How We Can Support Them with Alexandra Santos
Your Webinar Description:
Just like humans, age brings about changes in dogs. Many of those changes are physical but affect emotional states and behavior too. Others – such as changes in attachment to family – are more subtle but can cause as much insecurity, if not more, as physical changes. Yet others, such as becoming less capable of coping with stressful situations, go undetected by the human eye but can lead to elderly dogs feeling vulnerable and more reliant on the human family for guidance and support.
In this webinar, we’ll explore how increasingly important it becomes for us to adapt the environment to elderly dogs as they become less able to adapt to the environment. We’ll also cover how age-related decline can lead to anxiety and what we can do to help and support them while navigating the final years of their lives.
What we’ll cover:
• Common age-related changes – physical, emotional and social changes
• Sensory loss and anxiety
• Low capacity to handle stress and cope with routine changes
• Adaptations in the environment that may ease anxiety
• Practical ways to help and support the elderly dog
• Cognitive dysfunction and anxiety
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this webinar, participants will have gained a deeper insight into how elderly dogs’ perception of the world changes. This insight will change how they care for a dog who has grown old with their family.
They will know how to:
• Minimize physical discomfort
• Make elderly dogs feel safer in an increasingly scary world
• Support and protect them when dealing with sensory loss
• Avoid or manage potentially stressful situations
• Recognize canine cognitive dysfunction-related changes that most contribute to anxiety.
Your Presenters- Alexandra Santos
Alexandra Santos is a professional canine behavior consultant and trainer, with formal education through The Animal Care College in the U.K. where she graduated with honors for the Diploma of Advanced Canine Psychology, and through The Companion Animal Sciences Institute where she graduated with distinction for the Diploma of Advanced Dog Training.
She is the author of the books “Puppy Problems”, “Puppy Training: How to housetrain your puppy effectively”, “How to leash train your dog and enjoy walking him”, “O meu cão e eu”, “Cão educado, dono feliz” (published in Portugal), and has also authored and co-authored several scientific articles for the Journal of Applied Companion Animal Behavior and the International Institute for Applied Companion Animal Behavior.
Alexandra lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal, as a guest professor at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias and provides online coaching, internationally, for dogs and their people. She has been a presenter at several seminars in Portugal and Brazil on positive reinforcement-based training and regularly presents webinars for the Pet Professional Guild in the USA and Edogtorial in Spain.
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