Joined
·
60 Posts
Hurley is just over 6 months old & our first puppy together. Boy, was it an eye opener about 2 days into being a dog owner! Yowzers! haha!
We have found that he just adores us & tries so hard to please us at any given moment. Unfortunately, that has turned him into a barking & crying pup everytime we leave & he absolutely dreads us leaving him. We recently have been letting him have more space in our house & not putting him in the kennel everytime we leave. We always gate off the basement area, shut both upstairs bathroom doors & shut the mudroom door (leads to the garage) everytime we leave. There are times when it's very nice outside, we will put him in the back yard (fenced in) while we are away. If we leave him outside, we are usually gone no more than 30 minutes. If we leave him in the house, we're gone from 30 minutes to a couple of hours.
Everytime we leave, he barks & barks....then barks & cries at the doors or gates. There are times when I put him outside while I'm working out in our basement & the entire time, he's crying & barking obnoxiously at the door. I really feel sorry for our neighbors who have to listen to it!
So.....my question is....how do I get him to stop barking like this? He doesn't bark when he's around us....only when he's seperated. I feel bad for the lil guy but he really needs to be more independant. I just don't know how to do that without driving the neighbors & ourselves nuts.
Thanks!
We have found that he just adores us & tries so hard to please us at any given moment. Unfortunately, that has turned him into a barking & crying pup everytime we leave & he absolutely dreads us leaving him. We recently have been letting him have more space in our house & not putting him in the kennel everytime we leave. We always gate off the basement area, shut both upstairs bathroom doors & shut the mudroom door (leads to the garage) everytime we leave. There are times when it's very nice outside, we will put him in the back yard (fenced in) while we are away. If we leave him outside, we are usually gone no more than 30 minutes. If we leave him in the house, we're gone from 30 minutes to a couple of hours.
Everytime we leave, he barks & barks....then barks & cries at the doors or gates. There are times when I put him outside while I'm working out in our basement & the entire time, he's crying & barking obnoxiously at the door. I really feel sorry for our neighbors who have to listen to it!
So.....my question is....how do I get him to stop barking like this? He doesn't bark when he's around us....only when he's seperated. I feel bad for the lil guy but he really needs to be more independant. I just don't know how to do that without driving the neighbors & ourselves nuts.
Thanks!