Aromatherapy For Pets - Keeping Them Calm This Halloween

Halloween is fast approaching, and it brings a unique set of challenges which can be considered to be very stressful for one particular member of the family - the pet. 

Loud noises, constant knocking on the door and a lot of people moving around outside can be profoundly upsetting for animals of a more nervous temperament, and you often find that they struggle to stay calm during the evening. There’s a lot of different suggestions for how you can deal with this, but many people choose to invest in aromatherapy, trusting in the good that it can do. 

Aromatherapy - How It Can Help You

Aromatherapy is, as many people will tell you, one of the best possible ways for people to be able to rejuvenate their minds and bodies via the use of entirely natural oils and scents. Aromatherapy has picked up a lot of popularity in recent years for being a healthy alternative to the chemical ridden scents and smells which you can get elsewhere.

So, Useful For Pets?

For the purposes of this article, we’re going to be taking a look at how aromatherapy can help dogs in particular. It’s important to realise that the smells and scents will affect different animals in different ways. The aromas you attempt to will have a different effect on cats than your dogs, so be careful.

Anyway, a good choice in small doses for your dog is lavender. This isn’t an instant cure-all, but it can be used in tandem with other things to create the kind of relaxing environment you’ve been searching for. Lavender is a very calming smell which can be used to make all different types of dogs just be able to chill out and take a minute to relax.

It is essential to try and understand that you need to use smaller doses when you are dealing with dogs. They have much more sensitive noses than we do - an overdose of one particular smell can be very unpleasant to try and deal with, and often leads to the aroma having the exact opposite effect on your animal.