Across the dog training community, there are a lot of different understandings on what separation anxiety is. Whether your dog has been diagnosed with clinical separation anxiety by a veterinary behaviorist or is facing other separation-related problems, this is the episode for you. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The four main separation-related problems: isolation distress, barrier frustration, hyper attachment, and separation anxiety
• How dogs evolved to be dependent on humans, and why wanting to be near their Hooman is totally normal
• The role confusion plays in separation-related problems, and why routine-loving breeds (herding, working) are especially prone to it
• Why boredom gets misdiagnosed as separation anxiety, and how to rule it out first
• My "Goal-Oriented Goodbyes" Protocol: building duration and goodbye cues together toward a real-life objective
• …and all things Separation Anxiety 

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