seperation anxiety??

[Lillith Rose]

has anyone ever had this problem with their dogs? i ask this cause my sister's dog literally tore up our has one day when we was gone.
she ate electrical wires, tore up my sister's computer keyboard and other various things. we have to pin her up outside while we are gone and im thinking that this behaviour is due to us not being home with her. she gets treated well and is in the house with us when we are home but we cant trust her to be in the house when we have to leave.

[ladyjosephine]

Me!

Queeny has a really bad case, She cries like al wolf when I leave the house. She isn't really used to being alone. When she was younger she used to chew on everything, just because she was so lonely/anxious. Only nikita(our other dog) wouldn't allow this kind of things so she usually stopped after a few minutes.

But now she keeps on going for at least 30 min. My next-door neighbour was complaining about it 2 weeks ago(So I complained about her cats, although I promised myself I wouldn't say anything about it)

She missed me a lot last week when I was in Italy and she had to stay home. My moms said they didn't get much sleep because she was so anxious; Queen cried, barked , Scratched on the doors and stuff like that.

[Die Fledermaus]

And the solution for Separation Anxiety is??

From what I have learned, the dog needs to be gradually separated from the human, first for short periods and then progressively longer periods. The dog should be able to be trained. It seems unfair to not do so and have a frantic unhappy pet.

Leave the dog alone in another room at first while talking to him/her through the door. depending on the reaction this could be for five to thirty minutes. Do that several times. Then do it without talking to the dog.

Progress to the front door. Walk out, but talk. Re-enter in about ten minutes. Then leave for a short time without talking. Then longer and longer, depending, again, on the dog.

When you leave, give the dog a favorite toy as a distraction.


Hasn't this training been tried?


>> I complained about her cats <<

Are they noisy??

[ladyjosephine]

That doesn't work with Queen, By talking you reward the dog, because you have to keep talking to them even when he/she cries. That's giving bad attention, it's the same as shouting at them when they're barking...Never ever talk to them: Bad attention is a reaction too.

I don't greet her when I go, and neither when I come back. I ignore her, I start talking to her when I'm already in the room/house for more then 15 min. That sounds like I'm giving her a hard time, but I know my dog and how she reacts to things..

We tried all sorts of things, nothing worked. Even a dog trainer couldn't help us.
My mom says the only way Queen will stop being like this is for me to break our bond a bit...I'm not planning on doing that, because that's something that will not only hurt me but also Queeny. I don't think it's even going to work,It will only get worse

About my neighbour:
My neighbour has 3 cats, I can't open a window because I'll find one of her cats lying in my bed. her cats are 'crying' day and night because she doesn't let them in, they scare Brammie. I can't let him walk in the garden without me being around because they'll climb over the fencing to chase after him. Those cats are skin and bones, they are filty, they have fleas...I could keep going on

At first I told her I didn't like to find cats on my bed that aren't mine..She didn't get the hint, I told her I don't like it when her cats chase my rabbit in his/my garden and scare him, she said that was their 'nature'...Fine by me, but It's in my nature to protect my animals, so I won't hesitate doing that. I'm now thinking about placing barbed wire over the fencing so they can't get in my garden. At the moment I'm still using Queeny to scare them away, but I don't like her to get to close to those filty animals.

[Die Fledermaus]

Your neighbor definitely needs to be reported at once to your version of the SPCA for abuse. Poor cats. And take photos for evidence.

Isn't this is? www.dierenbescherming.nl/


Sorry nothing works with Queenie.

[ladyjosephine]

Yep, Dierenbescherming is something like SPCA. But they don't have the same methods....As far as I know the SPCA really does help and they go to (almost) every Report of animal cruelty they get..

The dierenbescherming doesn't have the freedom to do that, and If you call them they don't respond 3 out of 5 cases

I already reported a few times about other things, and only 1 time I heard something from them. Almost 5 years ago I called them because someone dumped a few rats that where roaming free..They never showed up, we also have the 'dierenambulance' but they also never show up. They are pointing at eachother when you call them...

[Die Fledermaus]

Well, if they did that to me I would be persistent and quite angry, and they would continue to hear from me. Plus I would go to local media (newspaper, television) to do a report on their apparent ineptitude. This would be especially so if they received any government funds or public donations.

[Andrea]

Whizzer has separation anxity, most likely from the handful of homes she had been tossed around between before we took her in.
When we first got her we would have to crate her in our room when we were not home, she would bark when we left if she still heard someone, if you just say "QUIET!" she will stop. Now she has her own bedroom, she stays here when we are out.
I recommend crating, as it makes the dogs feel safe. But this is easier done when started with a young dog.

I use Whizz as the Bunny protector in our yard. My neighbors have 2 cats, Fluffy and Gordo. Fluffy will sit with Whizz and I and watch the bunnies outside. She's a good kitty. Gordo though thinks my pets are food, and so every time he walks into my yard moving like a predator, I send Whizz out after him. She would never hurt him she LOVES cats, but it puts him in his spot, and back in his own yard away from my bunnies.

[ladyjosephine]

Crating..we did that with Queeny since she was a puppy, didn't work :S

[Lillith Rose]

well most of the time we keep gypsy in the house and she does alright but most of the time we have to run errands and plus there are 3 of us that leave for work everyday and cant be with her so we chain her up outside until one of us gets home to tend to her.

[Die Fledermaus]

>> we chain her up outside until one of us gets home <<

That does not sound safe. Dogs are often stolen for terrible purposes (lab experiments, fighting, etc).

[Lillith Rose]

well i have more recent news to tell you. my freind couldnt care for gypsy rogue and so now im a proud doggie parent as well as mom to lillith rose too. she is great for me and we do things together too.

[Die Fledermaus]

That's nice. Does he get along with the kitty?

Hope you are well.

BTW, your photos are not showing up.