Separation anxiety

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millikins

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Hi. Has anyone succeeded in curing an adult dog of this? I have an 8 yr old, Standard Poodle who appears to go in every room and howls gently whenever he's left for more than 10 mins. I have owned numerous dogs over the years, this is 1st Poodle and all except him have realised that I will come back and have settled. I don't want to leave him 9-5, 7 days a week, but neither do I want my entire life ruled by the dog. I'll have to sort something as my current dog sitter goes to college in Sept. He can be left in a car and given frequent breaks, but obviously not in hot weather, tried day kennels, cried and howled all day, I'd get a quiet older dog for company if I thought it would help but I don't think it would. He's also a very dominant personality so if I thought of rehoming, he'd be hard to place. I would pay for a proper programme by a dog behaviourist, again if likely to help.

Thanks for reading my essay, any ideas gratefully received.
 
You need to pm Cayla on here and ask for her guide, she has loads of experience with this and her guide is really informative, you need to follow it to the letter though for it to work.
 
Hi millikins you left a visitor message hehe...im about to pm you just incase you dont see it as they dont seems to jump at you like they used to (hence me just noticing I had a few unread) :)
 
millikins said:
Hi. Has anyone succeeded in curing an adult dog of this? I have an 8 yr old, Standard Poodle who appears to go in every room and howls gently whenever he's left for more than 10 mins. I have owned numerous dogs over the years, this is 1st Poodle and all except him have realised that I will come back and have settled. I don't want to leave him 9-5, 7 days a week, but neither do I want my entire life ruled by the dog. I'll have to sort something as my current dog sitter goes to college in Sept. He can be left in a car and given frequent breaks, but obviously not in hot weather, tried day kennels, cried and howled all day, I'd get a quiet older dog for company if I thought it would help but I don't think it would. He's also a very dominant personality so if I thought of rehoming, he'd be hard to place. I would pay for a proper programme by a dog behaviourist, again if likely to help.

Thanks for reading my essay, any ideas gratefully received.
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Our Northern Inuit was like that one reason he was returned to Belmead. He hated us going out of site howled barked etc outside, we put him on a chain at first and he gradually learnt when we were out of site we would return. Took a month or so but he learnt now he is fine.
 
Trouble is though Leviathon, I live in a terraced house and can only expect my neighbours to put up with so much. I have thought of building him a kennel and a run outside but it's an expensive experiment if it doesn't work. Thanks Cayla, nothing I can see yet.
 
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