Separation Anxiety

5 Month Old Yorkie Pooh

Hi Everyone!
Boy do I need some help with Lucy. She doesn't tell us when she has got to go potty. She pees and poopies in the house. When we try to pick her up to take her to her poop box she runs away from us; Lucy thinks it's all a game. (Ha Ha try to catch me to go P!). It's quite a work out just trying to catch her.
Lucy loves to play, but she will bark and bark until we play with her. She loves to play fetch. Any ideas with Lucy she is such a handful and she still likes to nip when she is playing.

Thank you all.

Kathy Siemicki

Don't Leave Me!

My 4 yr old dog is getting a bit stressed. She had 4 previous "owners" before I got her at 11 weeks old but soon settled with me and my other puppy fine but always a little anxious but no problems when I go out. Her anxiety increased when at a yr old her sister was in hospital for 2 weeks. Although even then it was not bad. She has always been my little shadow and is a bit nervous aggressive around other dogs she does not know but is fine if given space.

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is luna too attached, or what?

so, in short this is luna and mine story:
she belonged to my neighbors, who had her and her mom and 5 more puppies from different litters. one day she wandered to my land with her sister & brother, saw me, sat in my lap and didn't move for 1/2 an hour, and ever since that day she would run away from her owners every day, 2,3,4 times a day to look for me, at my house, at work, and the coffee shop where i'd have most of my meals... she would just wander around until she'd find me.
that went on for 6 months. then she was at the pound for 2-3 months (a whole different story), and came back, found me again and the story kept going like before, while the owners are complaining to the police i am stealing luna, and the cops in our town are trying to help me adopt her.

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Pulling on Leash continued, Dogs Who Bark When Their Owners Leave, and When Positive Isn't Positive

Following on from my interview with Sue Ailsby, reader Naomi had some great questions about loose leash walking which I answered here.

Something I forget to mention in my last email to you is a plan I wrote for dogs who bark when their owners leave which you can find here.

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Please help Me! with my Jack Russell

I have a four year old female Jack Russell, She is perfect temperment, but has always suffered with Seperation anxiety, However due to illness i was off work for a year and now upon returning back to work, the seperation anxiety is really really bad. Bless her!

I cannot leave her for even ten minutes without her doing her business in the house. I have tried alsorts leaving her from 30 secounds and increasing it to half an hour, but she is not stupid she knows when i'm outside the door and when i have actually gone out.

She has plenty of toys and i have tried on and off to leave tele on for her but she is the same.

I can imagine how hard and upsetting it is for her, so i need to sort this out as quick as possible to minimise any further distress to her.
Anybody with any advise.!!

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