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Master Dog Trainer, Toriano Sanzone, has been training Professionally for 21 years. Toriano Sanzone founded DOPA DOGS in 2001 which became Sanzone School of Dog Training which finally became Wolfkeeper University. Wolfkeeper University has trained thousands of Dogs all around the world and has worked with some of the Greatest Dog Trainers in the World. 

Hello dog lovers and welcome to another informative episode of The Wag Out Loud pawdcast. Let's all learn something new from today's guest, Toriano Sanzone, and he is going to be chatting about velcro dogs, and how to address separation anxiety. Toriano thanks so much for being with us today.

Thank you. How are you, Krista?

I am good. And I'm excited to have you teach us more about separation anxiety. So why don't you introduce yourself because you are an expert and tell us why you're so passionate about training dogs and about dog behavior in general.

I am super passionate about training dogs, primarily because I've been training dogs and exposed to dogs since I was four years old. That's important because why are you so intuitive, like I was pushed into it. my mom raised Afghan hounds back in 1978 in Illinois, we had four of them. That's a very challenging dog acting down dog, what I grew up with. So always from ‘78 till when I professionally started training dogs in 2000. Just seeing how you can transform a person's life. I see that the dog manifestation that's going on in the person's world and just just the magic the dog brings as human beings and I've seen so many case stories and miracles I could talk about forever and why I love helping people train their dogs to be great canine good citizens.

And you are the wolf keeper.

I am the wolf keeper!

I love it. Well, I think this is so timely because obviously we've been living through this pandemic and things are kind of getting back to normal but that means that instead of spending 24/7 with our dogs that we've been doing over the past year, we are leaving them alone again for longer periods of time and many dogs are freaking out with separation anxiety. So I think this statistic is probably old but I heard that 13% to 18% of dogs show signs of separation anxiety and it's diagnosed in 20% to 40% of dogs that are referred to behavioral specialists like yourself. Is that still the case? Or do you think there's more dogs suffering from this?

Wow that's that's interesting source. Yeah, I would say that is higher. you know that those percentages just primarily because one due to the pandemic, I know the dog industry went up by 300%. So now is this pandemic puppy and it's not that hard to create separation anxiety in the dog. I would be as bold to say that close to 50% to 60% of dogs in America have some form of separation anxiety.

Okay, so you're working with this with clients every single day?

I mean because primarily separation anxiety is really easy for that to happen to the animal. I mean so for example, just take the dog I'm