olop
Well-Known Member
We have owned my little staff x JRT for almost a year now & she is just a pain to leave at home alone.
At the moment I am not working so spend the majority of my time with her but have started to leave her for short bursts at a time to get her used to the fact that I will be working again soon (I only work part time 4 hours max a day)
I left her for 10 minutes this morning whilst I put the washing out (our garden is down an alleyway so I locked her in the house & stayed there for a little while) & the whole time she howled & she also ripped up my entire DVD collection (almost 50 odd DVDs!!)
We went out for dinner yesterday lunch time & she ripped all the curtains & nets in the front room & we could also hear her howling as we drove off up the road.
Aside from the fact that she is ripping our stuff up I am worried that we will start to get noise complaints as the howling is really loud.
We normally leave her some dinner down, a kong & various chews to get her teeth into but she doesnt eat any of it & would prefer to rip our furniture & howl.
She gets plenty of exercise (she is out pretty much all day down the yard with me hooning around) & we take her for long walks at the weekend (sometimes in excess of 4 hours)
Im at my wits end with it & I just dont know what to do for the best, like I say we are not exactly leaving her for long periods of time (we was out 2 hours yesterday & I sat in the garden for 10 minutes this morning to see what she would do)
Anyone have any tips??
She is coming up 2 years old & has been spayed (although this did nothing to help with the situation which we thought it might do!)
TIA.
At the moment I am not working so spend the majority of my time with her but have started to leave her for short bursts at a time to get her used to the fact that I will be working again soon (I only work part time 4 hours max a day)
I left her for 10 minutes this morning whilst I put the washing out (our garden is down an alleyway so I locked her in the house & stayed there for a little while) & the whole time she howled & she also ripped up my entire DVD collection (almost 50 odd DVDs!!)
We went out for dinner yesterday lunch time & she ripped all the curtains & nets in the front room & we could also hear her howling as we drove off up the road.
Aside from the fact that she is ripping our stuff up I am worried that we will start to get noise complaints as the howling is really loud.
We normally leave her some dinner down, a kong & various chews to get her teeth into but she doesnt eat any of it & would prefer to rip our furniture & howl.
She gets plenty of exercise (she is out pretty much all day down the yard with me hooning around) & we take her for long walks at the weekend (sometimes in excess of 4 hours)
Im at my wits end with it & I just dont know what to do for the best, like I say we are not exactly leaving her for long periods of time (we was out 2 hours yesterday & I sat in the garden for 10 minutes this morning to see what she would do)
Anyone have any tips??
She is coming up 2 years old & has been spayed (although this did nothing to help with the situation which we thought it might do!)
TIA.