{"id":421535,"date":"2022-03-25T20:57:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pandemic-puppies-have-a-major-anxiety-problem\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:57:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:57:35","slug":"pandemic-puppies-have-a-major-anxiety-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pandemic-puppies-have-a-major-anxiety-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pandemic puppies have a major anxiety problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a279b02c406d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a279b02c406d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pandemic-puppies-have-a-major-anxiety-problem\/#%E2%80%9CPandemic_puppies_have_a_major_anxiety_problem%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Pandemic puppies have a major anxiety problem&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CPandemic_puppies_have_a_major_anxiety_problem%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Pandemic puppies have a major anxiety problem&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            All those dogs Canadians adopted during the pandemic? They\u2019re a little under<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ized now.\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n                                                                        \u201cI\u2019m not taking him if he\u2019s this anxious,\u201d said a potential puppy-sitter we found on Rover, an Airbnb-style <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> that matches pet owners with walkers and boarders. I couldn\u2019t blame her: our pandemic puppy had just spent 20 minutes barking at her while we tried to exchange pleasantries during our first meeting in a neighbourhood park. Any attempt she made at engaging our dog was met with a lunge and a growl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s really sweet once you get to know him,\u201d I said, laughing nervously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you tried CBD oil?\u201d she responded.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March 2020, when COVID first hit and so many of us were sent home to work remotely, memes with grinning dogs started circulating, proclaiming how at least the canines of the world were enjoying everyone suddenly being housebound. Then came another trend: people started adopting dogs in droves. One survey found 3.7 million Canadians, or 10 per cent of the population, adopted, purchased or fostered a cat or dog during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:\u00a0The case against puppies<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There was one wee problem, though: dogs need various types of socialization, like interacting with other humans and other dogs, which was difficult during the early days of lockdown when streets were empty and people avoided each other on sidewalks. They also need to get used to being away from their owners\u2014another challenge when their owners were ordered to go home and stay there.<\/p>\n<p>Aron Broder, a 25-year-old actor who lives in Toronto, was in theatre school and studying online in March 2020 when she got Mawzie, a six-month-old corgi mix. After restrictions lifted and Broder started going to in-person rehearsals, she realized that leaving Mawzie at home wasn\u2019t going to be as easy as settling him in his crate and closing the door. \u201cWhen I start putting on makeup, his tail goes down. I see it in his eyes,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen I shut the door, he starts barking non-stop and he\u2019ll go to the bathroom in his crate.\u201d Mawzie would also scratch the crate and himself, often hurting himself in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Hatfield, owner of the Canine Social Company in Toronto, says that during the pandemic, she\u2019s seen a striking change in dogs who are introduced to the daycare , in how they handle being away from their owners and interact with other dogs. \u201cWe used to approve 90 to 95 per cent of dogs,\u201d Hatfield says. \u201cNow we\u2019re seeing [about] 40 per cent not getting approved.\u201d Some suffer from separation anxiety, she says, which \u201cmanifests almost like a deer in headlights: \u2018Why am I here? I\u2019m scared.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philip Rooyakkers, owner of the Urban Puppy Shop in Vancouver, is also seeing anxious pups at his doggy daycare. Even dogs who had previously been happy to be dropped off for the day weren\u2019t happy about being separated from their owners after the lockdowns lifted. \u201cThey\u2019ve been so secure in that connection with their owners,\u201d says Rooyakkers. \u201cI\u2019ve trained probably upwards of 1,000 people on how to raise a puppy in the first year, and one of the things I always try to ensure is that people give the puppy time away from [their owners] to teach them how to be comfortable on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what does this mean for dog owners whose pups are a little too attached to them? Broder says she\u2019s spent thousands of dollars in training and is now able to leave Mawzie for four hours at a time without him getting too worked up. For our part, we put more effort into acclimatizing our pup to his puppy-sitter than we did our first-born child to daycare. But the effort paid off\u2014the sitter is now one of his \u201cpeople,\u201d and he\u2019s just as happy at her place as he is at home. We\u2019re still working on the strangers he meets on the street\u2014he still goes for the occasional lunge and growl. Of course, part of this is just learning what it means to be a dog owner. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect leaving him to be this hard,\u201d says Broder.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t expect any of it to be this hard.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>This article appears in print in the April 2022 issue of<\/em> Maclean\u2019s <em>magazine with the headline, \u201cProblem puppies.\u201d Subscribe to the monthly print magazine <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.macleans.ca\/loc\/MME\/head_subscribe\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"under-article-widget-nl\">\n<p class=\"under-article-widget-title\">Looking for more?<\/p>\n<p class=\"under-article-widget-description\">Get the best of <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em> sent straight to your inbox. 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