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[SuperCoblet]

Thank you to everyone for your replies to Tilly, who was rather upset from the sad death if her mum
For those that don't know, she's been chewing the door and door frame, pasing and just being really down, especially at night. She's never known any different than being with her mum until 2/3 weeks ago.

Anyway, as it is out of the question to get another dog (cba to go into detail) we have tried the radio at night... Seemed to be ok until the past 2 nights, now she's taken it upon herself to pull the step ladder (quite heavy) down and get to the wellies behind it and there is still a little bit of door going but no way as much so a bit better I guess. She's got lots of chews/toys that are always with her. The one thing she does like is her mums old teddy (she loved bears and used to snuggle them) the bear goes everywhere around the house with her now! The only thing is it's rather gross and needs washing but we daren't as it will lose her smell and that's the only thing she has of her mum.
She's ok on walks now, very happy to go out and run about but won't go about 10m away from you.

Just fed her now, and she's decided not to eat it!

Poor girlie I can't think what it would be like to be in her situation

 

[Dobiegirl]

Just be very patient with her and try to up the walks if you can and spend as much time with her as possible.

Who knows what goes through their heads at times like this but it does leave you feeling very helpless.

 

[CorvusCorax]

It's a shame you can't get her a pal could you even walk her with a friend?
One thing I will say is try not to be too stressed yourself about it, dogs pick up on our stress, even if we are stressing about them, and feel it as a great deal of pressure, they feed off that and get more worried themselves, it's a vicious cycle, try and keep upbeat and happy for her and try and engage her in play and exercise.

 

[Bosworth]

it is so sad, I lost my old dog Bosworth 5 weeks ago at the age of 15. Poppy my little lurcher had been with him since she was a puppy, I let her see him as he was PTS, she saw him when he was dead, instantly she changed. She became very depressed. For the first week I took her with me to my driving lessons ( I am a driving instructor) she was on the back seat with her seatbelt on. All the pupils made a fuss of her and she seemed to like that. 5 days later I bought a bedlington puppy. I figured she needed something to occupy her mind, even if she was irritated by it. 4 weeks on she is still not the same as she was before Bosworth died. She is now the older dog, she is no longer the youngster she was before. With Flodden - the pup, she is coming round to his potential and i can see flashes of a happy Poppy coming out.

If you can;t get her a friend, then make sure she meets other canine friends. my friends brought their dogs round every day so Poppy had her normal friends around and that helped. But it was in the evening that she really missed Bosworth, so i gave her bones, treats, carrots, loads of cuddles and playing with toys, tire her out with fun walks, I took Poppy on the moors with my horse and raced her which she has always loved. The more tired she got, the easier the evenings were for her as she slept.

It is a horrible time, you and she will both be mourning, thats fine, and understandable.

 

[SuperCoblet]

Thanks everyone,
She sees loads if dogs every day, goes on 2 lengthy walks a day and comes down the yard with me in the evenings and even plays with the pony (more like the pony's trying to get her out of his field but she thinks it's fun )
She's in the house during the day (with the garden too) from about 9am to 4pm with someone coming in to check her and give her loads of fuss about twice in-between these times. She's always got chews and toys to play with and she's constantly getting fuss. We occasionally look after a friends dog- Flo... Who stays with us for a weekend sometimes which will be nice for her when she does.
I think she'll get used to it, it's only been 3 weeks, she's a generally very calm dog but always depended on her mum, but it's something we all do/will live with in some point in our lives.
Thanks again x