Greyhound With Separation Anxiety?
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I love my grey, and have had her for a year now, and was hoping that over time this problem would have improved. It has not. Even though she is house and crate trained, if you leave her alone for too long – even if you leave the ROOM for too long – she will get up and pee in the house. If you leave her in the crate for too long, she will also pee or poop in the crate, and then eat it, and puke, and eat the puke, and puke again…. tasty. She does cry sometimes too if you leave tied somewhere (when I go to the barn she gets tied up with her warm bed… but even if she can see me she still cries a bit). I just feel like I can’t trust her out alone for any period of time, even the time it takes me to go take a shower! I hate having to lock her up in her crate EVERY time I leave the house, even for short trips, but she has also done things like chew on everything she can find when left by herself, electical cords being her favorite chew of choice (note: she won’t play with toys or chew on real dog chewies, ever!). I’m not sure what I can do, because she only ever does it when I’m not around!
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Some greyhounds will always have separation anxiety, but you can definitely work with her. You can search the internet and find a ton of information, but what worked with my grey was constant reassurance. I don’t remember exactly what it is called, but you need to start with walking out of the room and walking back in. When you notice that she is not stressed any more, you lengthen the time your are out of the room. Eventually she’ll get the idea that you are indeed coming back and she’ll be better. It took my grey close to two years before she was ok. Good Luck!!
Try to fill one of those rubber kong things with peanut butter, it will distract her for those short periods of time when you need to take a shower and do other things. My friend took her dog to the Vet and they put the dog on anxiety medicine and she is fine now.
It sound’s like she is a little stressed, and loves you very much, If your willing, you can try why I did, and get her a companion.
ok ignore the thing i did it to my dog and hes not as bad as… that!