Oh NOOOO! New Plan!!!

[lillibirdy]

We have been SO lucky being able to leave the doggies while I am at work part time. Besides an early fetish for eye glasses and ink pens, they have been very trustworthy, (we scan the room for these tantilizing delights before we leave and all has been well for a long time ). Apparently, they do not mind being left while I am at work for 4 or so hours, but now that I come home, and have to go back out again (to get son to his basketball games and daughter to work), they do NOT appreciate us greeting them and then taking off again, and have been naughty doggies. The remotes that have been safe for a yr and a half, are now chewed. But the worst is the WINDOW SILL that is next to the couch (where they watch for us), a chewed mess. We are re-thinking everything we have learned and coming up with a new plan. I would sure hate having to go back to crates...but we shall see...

 

[Jan]

You could try taking your dogs with you after work. They would probably love to go for a car ride!

 

[BXR RYD]

Boy do I understand this........
I just moved about a month ago and all was well at the other place, no problems.
Well at my new place I have not been able to get the dog door in yet so I go home on my lunch break to let the boys out and I am here to tell you that they are a little honked off at me after I greet and leave them, the chair by the window (RIP) it is no longer...just a wood skeleton!!!
I think it would be easier on them to just leave them alone:confused: and not go home for lunch.

I swear that my boys can tell time.


Kodie

 

[Babyluv]

Boy Oh Boy .. do I sympathize with you. Have you tried gateing them into one area of the house? Or a car ride is always a fun alternative when running errands!!
It seems any change in routine really distrupts their comfort level, feeling of security, etc. Has anybody else experienced this?
When we moved and our routine changed.. I would come home to "accidents' every day- So we have started limiting access to only the mud room while we are gone!! This seems to have helped.. along with not coming home at lunch.- I thought that would help, but I guess having to say goodbye 2x/day is just too much!!

 

[CoastCrazy]

I had some of the same issues with Trixxie - and still do. She has a pen fettish also, and our apartment is so small, we have boxes stacked in the living room as storage (until we get a house) that it's impossible to "puppy proof!"

I've tried baby-gating her in the kitchen, but she just climbs the gate and gets out. It's to the point where I crate her when I shower because she'll seek out my purse and dump the contents throughout the living room, find my best pen and demolish it!

Any suggestions?

 

[frankied]

I have tried and tried to leave Angel out but she just is never good more than 30mins. When I have a shower the two furbabies are good they wait for me outside the bathroom door to make sure I don't use the secret exit they think is in there Good luck with your problems! I got tired of destroyed baseboards and voted for the crate again as we are never gone long anyhow.

Christa & Angel

 

[CoastCrazy]

So your dogs think that the bathroom has a huge "Black Hole" in it that is going to mysteriously suck you up? Trixxie is convinced of the same thing! I have to leave the door open whenever I'm in there, or she will claw the door down!!!

Then when I'm showering (assuming Kent is home so I leave her out) she'll sit at the edge of the tub and lick the water that runs down the door into the trough the ENTIRE time I'm in the shower.

One would think she'd get waterlogged!!!

 

[lillibirdy]

Oh Gunner LOVES to go for a ride in the car, but Sammy runs and hides. I don't know why, maybe she felt car sick when we went early on. I have to pick her up and put her in. It's really the only time the two of them are separated, and it is only for short errands such as picking up and dropping off the teens, I don't like to leave him in the car. And I only take him if someone is home with her, so she doesn't have the double bummers of missing us & Gunner being gone as well.

Not sure what we are gonna do yet,, but I am sure we will find some great suggestions on this site, and also do some reading...

 

[Sugar Ray's Mom]

Thanks so much for this post everone! My baby has been good for awhile so we decided to take down the crate. She is 30 months old and appeared to grow out of the she-devil mode. Well, between Thanksgiving and Christmas there was lots of company, constant attention and her best buddy (my step-daughter) came home from her first year at college. Then last week all the fun was over. My step-daughter left first, so furbaby ate her comforter when we went out for a little while in the evening. The next week I left on a business trip, and for the first time ever she went upstairs on a seek and destroy mission and shredded our comforter that evening while dad was out for about an hour!

Spoiled baby, but I see that she is not the only one out there. They are just so attached to their people and oh so devilish!
My husband told a friend that I was out of town buying comforters in bulk.
Gotta love em :D

 

[frankied]

My Angel loves to destroy her blanket and Frank likes to make a hole in his and climb in. I have gone through quite a few comforters myself!

Christa & Angel