Yomi's Stress Management II - How She Relieves Stress

Last time I wrote about Yomi’s Stress Management I – Why Is She Stressed? And I didn’t give the solution how to relieve her stress. As I had three reasons why she get stressed, I thought about three ways to manage each reasons. Staying with Yomi as much as we can is the first one and giving dog snacks is the second one. The last way to relieve her stress is to be quick to wash her and giving her a reward.

 Yomi gets sad and lonely when my family members start to leave home without her. She cries and stands tall to see us until we get out of her sight. As I leave home or stay with her to the last, I had to take care of Yomi when she cries out loud. I searched the Internet and read the article about separation anxiety of puppies. After reading that, I go and lift Yomi up high so that she can see other family members going away well. I hugged her and satisfied her demand. When she sees everything easily, she stops crying and barking. I guess she feels safe when I do that. I think she really needs people’s care all the time.

 To relieve stress during the meal time, Yomi needs to know that she has to wait for a while. We shouldn’t show too much attention to Yomi because if we do that, she may get hope that we will give foods to her. Actually, having meal doesn’t take a long time. My family gives her own food which is different from ours and when we finish eating, then Yomi may get some desserts. But still, we shouldn’t give fruits at the table. We have to go somewhere else so that she knows where to have foods normally. She feels happy when we give fruits to her.

 Yomi expresses her bad feeling after a long bath. I think she gets stress from not moving as she wants to. So we have to wash her as quickly as we can so that she doesn’t shiver from cold or get sick. When we are finished with washing and drying her, we have to give her a dog snack. Normally my family gives her a chewing gum. She comes up to my lap and chews it very enthusiastically, relieving her stress out. As we give her the chewing gum, her favourite snack after the shower, she doesn't show hostility to taking a shower.

Yomi's Stress Management I - Why Is She Stressed?

For the fourth blog posting, I will write about why Yomi, and other puppies get stressed. There are three main reasons. Yomi gets stress from being apart from family members, not having human’s food and taking too much shower.

 The first reason why Yomi gets stressed out is because we leave Yomi alone at home. At about 7:30 A.M to 10 A.M, my family members leave home to go to work or school. Daddy and my little brother leave home first and we hear Yomi crying. She cries as if she will drop her tears down. She tries to stand tall to see the back of dad and Min gee, my younger brother. She really wants to be with us all the time but as it’s hard to bring Yomi to dad’s work place or Min gee’s school, she has to stay alone. We feel sorry for her but actually she sleeps most of the lonely time.

 The second reason is that Yomi can’t have the same foods with my family. They are usually not very good for Yomi’s health so we have to ignore her when we have our meals. She stands up well to show her interest in the foods and sometimes hold my arm to drag my attention. I feel sorry but giving food at the table is also not good for her behaviour. If I start to give food at the table while I’m eating, she will continually come and anticipate for another chance. If that happens a lot, she might think that all foods are eatable and she will not be obedient anymore.

 Lastly, She get stressed because we wash her for a long time. As poodles (the species of Yomi) like water, Yomi seems to be fine compare to other dogs. But if you are not very skilled with washing dogs, it might take quite a long time. I sometimes listen to the music while I wash Yomi and I really enjoy that time. Because I love to have my time to take a bathe, I thought Yomi would love it too. However It was not true. She stands still and behave well during the bath but when she gets blow-dried, she express how much she got stressed.

 Those three are the main reason of Yomi’s stress. I can see how Yomi feels by her reactions. They are sometimes funny, but I feel sorry for her. So I try to relieve her stress. Next time, I will explain how I treat Yomi to relieve her stress. See you soon!

Yomi's Weekends

Hi, nice to see my blog again and some hiding readers. This time, I’ll be writing how Yomi spends her weekends. Weekends are very special to Yomi because Yomi’s biorhythm changes as to how my family members act changes on weekends.

 Firstly, Yomi wakes up early in the morning. She gets up when sun arises. Then she tries to wake my mum up. Even when my mum wakes up ealier than Yomi, Yomi hears very well and notice that my mum has woke up. But on weekends, all of my family members sleep in so she has to wait until my mum or dad gets up and play with her. I am the last person who gets up in my family. My parents let Yomi in to the bedroom to wake me up. Yomi runs into the bed and licks my face to greet me.

 When all of my family members wake up in the morning, we take Yomi for a walk. She is very smart so she gets excited when I get her clothes for outside. Although she has gone for a walk several times, she always crave running fast. When there’s nothing dangerous to Yomi, we unleash her to run as much as she likes. She runs like a horse and a rabbit. I wonder how she endure to run that fast at home.

 After taking Yomi for a walk, we normally have a meal. For the dessert, we have cup of tea and fruits. As Yomi loves to taste fruits, my mum makes very small slices of fruits for her. She also eats lots of dog snacks when she gets training. To Yomi, every weekend might be her birthday.

 For the rest of the weekend, she loves to sleep. She always sleep when my family members go out to work or study. But on weekends, everyone mostly stays in the house with Yomi. That’s why she doesn’t sleep at noon and gets sleepy early in the evening. When she’s not sleeping, she barks at the people who passes by our home and wanders around while I’m playing the piano.

Yomi's Food

Hi, long time no..writing! I have been busy playing outside with new people I met in the university. But the exam week is coming soon so I realized that I have to get some works done. Even writing blog posts is my homework from Sara, I truly enjoy telling people about my pet, Yomi. This time, I’m going to write about what Yomi eat.

 There are foods that are good or bad for puppies. Broccolis, carrots, not too much amount of bananas and sweet potatos are good for Yomi as they are good for me, human as well. Broccolis clean doggy’s intestine and carrots are good for curing hair loss and preventing intestinal inflammation. Bananas make diarrhea stop and sweet potatoes help digestion. Among these, I think sweet potatoes are Yomi’s favourite. But not every vegetable and fruits are good for dogs. For example, Onions, green onions, garlic and grapes are harmful to puppies. Onions, green onions, garilc and soup that is made of those three are likely to destroy red blood cell and cause anemia. Grapes have toxic that harms kidney cells. Also, the most famous food that is known for bad food is chocolate. A little puppy might die if it has too much chocolate. It’s more dangerous to have chocolate that contains high percentage of cacao. I really don’t want Yomi to be sick because of our family’s ignorance. So I get picky with my dad when he tries to give something looking bad to Yomi.

 Mostly, Yomi eat dog food. If she eat only dog food, It’s very easy to clean up after she goes to the toilet. But when my family members have meals and desserts, Yomi always want to have them together. It’s hard to ignore her, but we have to teach her to wait. In that way, she can get her own dessert which is good for her health. Also it’s a good way to train her.