Dogs, like humans, can suffer from anxiety. An anxious dog can be aggressive. Animal experts recommend valerian as a treatment. Valerian, also called valerian root, is an herbal medicine. You can buy it from health stores.
Things You'll Need
- Valerian in liquid or pill form
- Dropper
Instructions
Getting Started
Weigh the dog to ascertain the dosage. A simple mathematical formula determines the dosage you will administer to the canine. Take a human dosage at the average human weight of 150 lbs as the base. Use this as the divisor in a calculation. If your dog weighs 15 lbs, divide it by the human weight (150 lbs). The result, .10, converts to 10 percent. Thus, the dog will receive 10 percent of the standard human dosage as defined by the medical community.
Put the valerian solution into a plastic dropper. A glass dropper may harm the dog, especially if it breaks inside the dog’s mouth.
Insert the dropper on one side of the dog’s mouth, while holding the dog’s head close. Squeeze the rubber of the dropper to unleash the valerian solution straight into the dog’s throat. This will prevent wasting medicine and will avoid injury to your dog’s mouth and throat.
When valerian comes in form of a pill, the following tips must be followed
Lift the upper lip of the dog so his teeth are showing. Make sure you don't hurt the dog.
Gently grip the gums just behind the dog’s canine teeth to avoid closing of the upper lip.
Gently push down on the lower jaw to allow space between the upper and the lower jaw.
Carefully push the pill towards the back of the dog’s throat and close the dog’s mouth. Hold his mouth firmly closed while gently massaging his throat to aid ingestion of the pill.