(07-04-2012, 04:36 AM)laurasav Wrote: I just saw this advertised the other day and was reading about it. It sounds like a great product if it does what it claims to do. I was curious if it could work on cats though. I had a cat that was terrified of thunder, rain showers, fireworks, balloons, balls, etc. I wish there had been a product like this that could work on cats back when he was alive!
Yes, they do have ones for cats. It's quite rare to hear about cats with separation anxiety. I guess I always have this idea that cats prefer being by themselves and only seeking attention when they feel like it.
With the future comes great inventions and innovations.
(07-04-2012, 09:11 AM)Prodogtrainer Wrote: Yes, I have heard of it. I have been using pressure wraps in my professional practice for several years and they do work. The original pressure wrap, the Anxiety Wrap was the first to hit the market in 2001. It is the only patented pressure wrap and the only one studied in a clinical research study, to my knowledge. It is also the only pressure wrap that uses both maintained pressure and acupressure to achieve its calming effect. The Storm Defender is a similar product but it supposedly works in a different way and the manufacturer does not consider it to be a pressure wrap.
Besides being a professional dog trainer I am a registered nurse and I can vouch for the fact that pressure does in fact work to calm people with autism as well as animals. Dr. Temple Grandin was a pioneer in this area with the invention of her "squeeze machine" some years ago. Linda Tellingeton-Jones was also a pioneer with her work with T-Touch. The inventor of the original Anxiety Wrap used her knowledge as a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and T-Touch Practitioner to invent the Anxiety Wrap.
I have had clients order the Thundershirt by mistake and we have not seen it to be effective in reducing anxious behavior. To learn more about how the Anxiety Wrap and Thundershirt compare, see this article: http://anxietywrapsays.blogspot.com/2012...shirt.html
That's informative. I've seen the Tellington Touch. And it is quite effective- even Cesar Milan uses it to relax his charges. But not everybody can learn it effectively by just watching it on videos or reading about it. It's definitely advantageous for people who would definitely be taught first hand. Even I would want the opportunity to learn it.
There's no assurance that the Thundershirt is the only solution to each and every case of anxiety there is. I believe that's why different cases have different strategies. What may work for one dog may not be effective on another. Some owners would rather bring their dogs to behaviorists and trainers while other would prefer using wraps and jackets.
Furthermore, the blog which focuses mainly on Anxiety Wraps added this about their Thundershirt Research.
"Symptoms are subjective, whereas signs are objective observations. It is impossible to evaluate symptoms in dogs since dogs do not have verbal language."
Don't you think clinical researches should be done to the Thundershirt before we could truly say that it isn't effective?
Still, I do appreciate this input. It's always better to have comparisons.
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