Hello everybody. Welcome back to the pod. This is Tom. Thank you for listening. As always, this is a podcast with a dog owner who has some separation anxiety issues with her dog because of her own anxiety. This dog was attacked when he was younger and it has caused separation anxiety, but also reactivity. And also the dog goes to a trainer

and the dog isn't reactive with them. So we're diving through what real separation anxiety is and

why it's actually created, which, you know, as you guys may or may not know, all signs kind of

lead back towards the owner. So how do we as humans as owners create anxiety

within our own dogs from our own behaviors? That's what this podcast is all about. Thank you guys so

much for listening as always and enjoy the podcast. It is six and I got him as a rescue when he was a puppy,

like a new puppy.

And he's a, I think he's, we're not really sure, but pretty sure he's like a great Pyrenees and probably has some poodle in him because he doesn't shed.

And anyway, when I got him, I had another dog and who was a very well-behaved dog and anyway Wayne came with a big

personality and so when he was a puppy we got him in December of 2019 and then COVID happened.

And my husband has a very serious heart condition.

So we kind of like,

didn't do much because we were worried about him

until we were able to get him a vaccine back in the day

because we were just worried about his health, you know? So we all kind of like

hunkered in. And so I think probably A, that's part of it is that Wayne's like, so I've had like,

Wayne's my fourth dog as my own personal dog as an adult. So I just think his upbringing was a little

bit different maybe than my other dogs and in that sense.

And then, but during that time, I signed him up and did a like a group class for him because he was like

always sort of like from the very beginning like whenever he would see another dog, he would just kind of go bananas.

And so we did a group class and like when we

first went to the group class he would act like a maniac kind of but then he just

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