How To Ease Stress and Anxiety in Adopted Dogs with Alexandra Santos
Your Webinar Description:
Adopted dogs arrive with a history of experiences, often carrying stress and sensitivities. Their behaviors often reflect the environments they’ve lived in. As trainers, understanding these stress patterns allows us to guide both dogs and their families toward a calmer and successful adjustment. In this webinar, we will explore how to recognize and reduce stress in adopted dogs, identify common behavioral challenges based on their backgrounds, and provide actionable strategies to help them and their new families thrive together.
What we’ll cover:
- How stress impacts behavior.
- Common behavioral challenges in dogs rescued from streets, crowded shelters, and abusive or neglectful homes.
- Mistakes guardians may unintentionally make that increase stress.
- Strategies to help dogs adjust smoothly while supporting their new family
Learning Objectives:
- Explain how stress responses, trigger stacking, and recovery time influence adopted dogs’ behavior.
- Identify common mistakes guardians make with adopted dogs and demonstrate how to correct them using supportive, positive communication.
- Apply a gradual, step-by-step approach to help them adjust smoothly to their new home and family.
- Recognize and address common behavioral challenges adopted dogs may present.
- Implement strategies to support the new family throughout the adjustment process.
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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