How To Tell When Your Dog is "Scared"

It is important for dog owners to have the ability to recognize and interpret facial expression and body language displayed by fearful or stressed dogs. Why is this an important dog owner skill?

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Being sensitive to your dog's emotional states enables you to appropriately respond to situations that make your dog uncomfortable stressed or frightened.

Nonspecific stress-related dog behaviors can be the first warning signs of illness or injury. Being able to recognize these behaviors helps the dog owner to respond promptly and even deliver medical attention before conditions become worse or escalate into emergency situations.

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According to studies dog-related training and experience enhances our skills to pay attention to dogs' facial expressions and body postures to correctly perceive fear.

Dog owners in studies consistently identify stress in their dogs as:

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• trembling
• whining/crying
• excessive barking and panting
  
• Above: Group of Skye Terriers

More subtle behaviors of stress might include:

• avoiding eye contact
• turning away
• nose licking
• yawning

Facial expressions of stress in dogs might include:

• squinty eyes
• avoiding eye contact
• changes in ear set
• retracted commissures
  
• Above: Sealyham Terrier

Dog studies provide us with behavior cues to pay attention to when trying to assess your dog's emotional state. Most people are able to quickly identify a happy dog, however, fewer people can identify stress and fear. Most dog owners focus upon their dog's body posture, vocalizations or sounds they make and movements as signs of stress or fear rather than the more subtle signs that involve a dog's facial expression and eyes.

Learning to access fear and stress in your dog allows you to respond quickly by helping the dog out of situations that cause fear and reducing or eliminating triggers of stress and/or fear when feasible. Your relationship with your dog will be greater enhanced with this knowledge.

If you are unable to learn these skills alone with your dog, there is always help from dog behavior trainers.

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