| It's not that only humans suffer from stress and | | | | parasite populations, and their immune system can |
| develop stress related illness. Animals too suffer from | | | | just disintegrate. What's more disturbing is that stress |
| stress. We often remain oblivious to the fact that | | | | can be a cumulative process. Each stressor by itself |
| pets also suffer from stress. Being extremely | | | | may not be significant and may seem apparently |
| sensitive to their surrounding, pets are known to | | | | harmless, but when they affect your pet sequentially |
| develop emotional bonding with their owners | | | | or simultaneously, they may push it over the |
| (especially dogs) as well as fellow pets and any | | | | threshold toward illness or death. |
| change in the environment triggers 'change' related | | | | Stress Relieving Medicines |
| stress in the same ways as it triggers stress in | | | | Dogs can be administered Stress Relievers to calm |
| humans. | | | | them. Some of these stress relievers claim to |
| Stress usually is a response to stimuli involving | | | | promote a sense of calm in animals exhibiting fear, |
| situations that we consider to be threatening, | | | | fretting, anxiety or any unwanted behavior. But these |
| depressing or out of control. The same is true for | | | | medicines can also have certain risks and side effects. |
| your dog. The animals respond by "fight or flight" | | | | They can have toxins and induce drowsiness in your |
| method when threatened or frightened. During the | | | | dog. These medicines may make your dog prone to |
| "flight or fight" response, a complex series of | | | | reactions, drug interactions or adverse effects and |
| chemical reactions and changes occurs in the nervous | | | | are considered to be unsafe, inappropriate or |
| system of the body. | | | | completely ineffective. |
| Sometimes, the "fight or flight" response doesn't | | | | These stress relievers are only meant to control |
| work, and the animal becomes very irritated or | | | | short-term behavioral stress and anxiety and can be |
| upset, then it may adopt the | | | | very detrimental to the pet's health if administered |
| "conservation-withdrawal" response. This response is | | | | on a long-term basis, even leading to death. |
| initiated by the hippocampus (part of the brain), | | | | The Ultimate Remedy: PET-MUSIC |
| which then signals the hypothalamus leading to | | | | It has long been stated that music calms the savage |
| release of chemicals that stimulate the pituitary gland | | | | beast and now with research to support that adage, |
| to produces a compound. This compound in turn | | | | you may be able to overcome stress or anxiety your |
| activates the adrenal cortex to release | | | | own pet experiences. There are a variety of |
| corticosteroids which calm the nerves. | | | | remedies to alleviate the stress your pet feels, and |
| Long-term corticosteroid release suppresses the | | | | none may be more enjoyable for you and your pet |
| immune system, which makes your pet highly prone | | | | than some soothing music. There is pet music to |
| to diseases. The stomach is stimulated to release | | | | specifically provide a soothing soundtrack to lessen |
| acids by the corticosteroids, which can lead to peptic | | | | the stress of your pet and increase the positive |
| ulcers. Both the "fight or flight" response and | | | | brainwaves that elicit feelings of well being keeping |
| "conservation-withdrawal" tend to physically tax the | | | | them in good spirits. |
| animal leading to disruption of normal metabolism, | | | | Music therapy has revolutionized the way we can |
| growth, reproduction, and immune function, and can | | | | alleviate stress and anxiety in pets. It is safe with |
| also cause an animal to self-mutilate. Other | | | | absolutely no side effects. This therapy employs |
| physiological events that occur are a decrease in | | | | music to untangle the knotted and stressed out |
| heart rate, sometimes to the point of stopping | | | | nerves and brain, relaxing the mind-body as a whole. |
| completely and loss of appetite. Your pet may | | | | This music therapy is a method of beneficially |
| ultimately die "for no apparent reason." | | | | recharging the cortex of the brain and distributing the |
| Conditions such as infection, being kenneled, travel, | | | | latent energy throughout the nervous system of |
| breeding, separation from owner, shifting, addition or | | | | your pet. Usually, the effect of therapeutic music |
| loss of a family member or another household pet, | | | | upon your pet is one of vitalizing, harmonizing and |
| can cause stress in animals. In such cases, you dog | | | | healing at almost every level of being. Music therapy |
| can become extremely bored or show symptoms of | | | | is one of the most preferred techniques for relieving |
| severe stress such as fear, uneasiness and | | | | negative effects of stress. |
| restiveness. | | | | Modern therapeutic science says that music has a |
| Dogs under stress can become violent, stop eating or | | | | massaging effect on our brain. Perhaps, that is the |
| overeat, become hypersensitive, bark incessantly, | | | | primary reason for widespread usage of music as |
| become hyperactive, destroy things or move objects | | | | anti-anxiety and antidepressant therapy and the |
| in and around the household and resort to nervous | | | | handiest tool for relaxation when it comes to calming |
| licking or chewing of their own bodies. They can | | | | pets. helping ease depression, and aiding recovery |
| develop diarrhea, lose hair, develop mushrooming | | | | from illness. |