Social Stress Lack of opportunity for exposure to people, places and situations in a teaching manner. This type of social introduction exposure develops a heightened sense of discretion within the animal in dealing with both knowns and unknowns. The unsocialized animal as with the unsocialized human has the run of the house, may gratify wants immediately without earning them and may threaten or attack anyone they choose to achieve their goal. The degree of an animals reaction to closely tied to the degree of social instruction and natural teaching that has been ignored or reversed. As with all forms of stress, this type can lead to health as well as serious behavioral problems.
Environmental Stress Occurs when the animal's environment is ruled by confusion.
Lack of consistency plus free roaming cause much confusion thus providing an extremely poor learning environment and can lead to serious and potentially dangerous mistakes. Frustration stress is one of the most common causes for aggression in most species. Frustration stress that is experienced on a chronic, long term basis and pent up behavior may be discharged out of the blue, for no apparent reason, by the most in appropriate stimuli and under the most unexpected circumstances.