Luna’s online consultation. There is a lot happening all at once for the couple. Three days ago they adopted 5-month-old Romanian pup Luna. Their baby is due in a couple of weeks. The pregnant lady broke her knee To be able to leave Luna There are several things they will Read more…
Rocky, a 17-week-old Cocker Spaniel puppy, lives with a couple and their son, 9. While Rocky’s doing really well with toilet training and basic cues, their main concern is that they can’t leave him by himself. When someone leaves the room Whenever someone leaves the room, even if someone else Read more…
It seems Kirie is finding adjusting to her new life a bit hard. They moved house two months ago.
The seven-year-old Springer Labrador is the sweetest, most gentle dog. It distresses them to see her worried.
One change she finds it hard adjusting to is no longer being able to follow the young couple and their toddler freely around the house. Previously they had lived on one floor. Now they don’t want her upstairs and have gated the stairs.
At the same time as they moved house a couple of months ago, the young lady went back to work. Now they leave Kirie alone for a few hours a couple of days a week.
(Online consultation) Poppy is a beautiful red Cocker Spaniel puppy, age 15 weeks. Poppy barks when she is left. It distresses the young couple because she may not be happy. She barks mostly when she is left alone and feels she’s missing out. From the kitchen she can hear the Read more…
Feeling insecure is at the root of little Jasper’s problems.
Outside, he barks and lunges at other dogs, rearing up on his hind legs with all his tiny weight.
When left alone, he cries and barks. It has got so bad the lady, who lives in a flat, even wondered whether she could keep him.
She has had the dear little Yorkie for six months now. His first owner had died, he ended up in a pound and then he spent time in a rescue before coming to the lovely home he now has. It’s little wonder he feels insecure. (more…)
Context is everything.
Beagle mix Maggie howls, paces and scratches the door when they leave her alone. They had been advised that Maggie was probably bored.
Experience really does count in something like this. We need to ask the right questions and do detective work.
There are lots of questions to ask – about the layout of the home, the relationship between dog and humans, how well she copes with stress and so on.
Five-year-old Maggie was okay initially when they first adopted her eight months ago. The separation problems developed until they could no longer leave her without coming home to a wrecked carpet and damaged door. (more…)
When I arrived he was very frightened though, unusually when someone new comes to his house, he didn’t bark at me. I had choreographed my entrance carefully.
These first two photos show his anxiety. One with the lifted leg. The other in the way he is lying, kind of hugging himself.
Feels unsafe
Looking at me anxiously
Little Jack Russell Jasper, age two, has been in his new home for six months. One half of the couple he lives with is off work just now but goes back in a month.
Being left alone terrifies Jasper. (more…)
Poo and peeing indoors.
Invariably during the night, alone downstairs in the kitchen, Meg has diarrhoea. When she is left alone during the day she is likely to do the same.
The challenge here is in separating facts from assumptions.
Meg is a twelve-year-old Dachshund – the longest sausage I have seen! She and her sibling Mini came to live with the couple at eight weeks old and had never been apart. (more…)
It’s not really surprising that newly adopted young greyhound Max panics when left alone.
It seems he was a useless racer – good for him because it’s given him such a great reprieve!
The two-year-old has spent all his life in kennels with other greyhounds. Now he lives in a house with a young couple. It’s quite amazing how well they have done in just six weeks, integrating him into life living with people in a home.
For the first weeks he paced and panted, showing anxiety in general as he became acclimatised. Now he has settled down beautifully….
…apart from one thing. (more…)
Hettie is an adorable Cockerpoo puppy, now sixteen weeks old. Why has she lost her puppy joyfulness? For the first four weeks that Hettie was with them (eight to twelve weeks old), she was a typical confident, happy and energetic puppy. She would fly around in puppy joyfulness, grab things Read more…