{"id":40,"date":"2019-08-15T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/?p=40"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:20:26","slug":"help-with-animal-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/help-with-animal-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Help with animal anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-52\" src=\"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/help-with-animal-anxiety-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Help with animal anxiety\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/help-with-animal-anxiety-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/help-with-animal-anxiety.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong>This coming month can be a particularly testing for all our pets due to Halloween and Bonfire Night and as a result, we see an increase in dog and cat anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s essential to be prepared and so we\u2019ve put together some small steps you can take to help ease anxiety in your house pet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dog anxiety <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find a quiet place in the house where they will be unstimulated<\/li>\n<li>Play some music, you can even find music created specifically for dogs online<\/li>\n<li>Try anti-anxiety medication or supplements, to help your dog develop confidence in what would usually be a stressful situation for them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cat anxiety<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Place your cat into \u2018their own space\u2019, you can also use anti-anxiety diffuser in this space too<\/li>\n<li>Try not to cuddle your cat, as this can add to stress and cause them to lash out<\/li>\n<li>When they have calmed a little, try to engage them with gentle play from afar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"cta\" href=\"\/about-608\/our-surgeries\">Contact us to find out how we can help your pet with anxiety this month.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming month can be a particularly testing for all our pets due to Halloween and Bonfire Night and as&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/help-with-animal-anxiety\/\" class=\"cta\">Read more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.608vets.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}