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04-28-2014, 10:45 AM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Chicago
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| Trying a Yorkie cam Since Jake died and Kiri's now home alne M-F when I'm at work, I've been feeling heavy guilt about her being alone--almost to the point where it's almost all I think about right now. Can't afford a dog lady or day care, unfortunately. Jake always seemed fine being an only and alone all day for his whole life. So I got an inexpensive "nanny-cam" and set it up in the living room where Kiri hangs out when I'm home. She loves to sit in a chair by the window and bark her head off at other dogs. ("Sitting" includes running back and forth to the recliner and her own hassock, also right by the picture window.) So far, there was no action at all this morning. I saw her briefly around 1:30, and not since then. So, should I be feeling bad?
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04-28-2014, 08:05 PM | #2 |
I♥PeekTinkySaph&Finny Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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| I don't think you should feel bad. She's probably sleeping all day while you're gone, and only barks at the window while you're home to 'protect' you and her house!
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04-29-2014, 08:33 AM | #3 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Many dogs do very well with their humans working during their week. As long as she has some attention and activity in the evenings and on weekends, she will be a happy girl. My boys are accustomed to never being alone, but when they had to stay home alone, I videotaped them with my computer. They slept most of the time and walked around only a little to check the door. Kiri isn't suffering separation anxiety, so no need to worry. No reason to feel guilty either.
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04-29-2014, 09:50 AM | #4 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Colorado
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| would getting her a playmate be out of the question? I was the same way when I got my first Shih Tzu. I felt so guilty leaving him alone all day. I got him a playmate who I named Yanna. She and he shared a crate together since I accidentally got him a bigger crate than what he really needed. It worked out wonderfully and they loved being crated together. Then I got puppy fever again and really wanted a liver pigmented Tzu with green eyes. In the end I ended up having three Shih Tzu. Then I went through a divorce and had to move to Miami for work. The place I was going to live at didn't allow pets so I re-homed Yanna and Ming with friends of mine named Karen and Austin and my little Jaden went to live with another friend of mine named Megan. Karen and Austin moved to Japan with Yanna and Ming and Megan and her family ended up moving to Jacksonville Florida. Over the years we lost touch but I know they're good people and my Shih Tzu are living out happy lives. I still felt bad about having to give them up though and I missed them sooooo very much. Six years later I now have Miss Darla. Last edited by SarahBear1986; 04-29-2014 at 09:51 AM. |
04-29-2014, 10:25 AM | #5 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Dogs usually do very well in their own home on their own as they spend so much of their life at rest. They are genetically thought by some to be crepuscular and their natural tendency is to be more active at dawn and dusk and rest through much of the rest of the day but generations of domesticity and living hand-to-fist with humans has turned them more toward our diurnal lifestyle of activity during the day, resting at night. But it seems they resort to their old genetic tendency to rest during the day when we aren't home. Stray and wild dogs sure seem to be most active at dawn and dusk. Still, I wonder why my Tibbe gets the zoomies just before bedtime many nights of the week!!! Still, when left alone in their own home and with little stimulation while we're gone, the smarter dogs just adjust to that situation and sleep, resting up for when their owners get home, things begin to percolate, food is brought out and life gets going. And most of them know within a matter of minutes when to expect us to walk in the door during the work week or even when we go shopping! They come to know about how long we routinely stay away. Anyone who's ever lived with a dog and had a working family member come home about the same time every day knows how a dog begins to anticipate the worker arriving or knows about how long Mommy stays away when she does the grocery shopping and runs errands. I saw a TV special recently that showed that dogs' internal "clocks" that seemingly predict when the worker will be home might be based on the amount of our scent left in the home after we're gone out and how, after a few hours and our level of scent begins to wane, the animal internally calculates from experience, the time we return and our physical presence refreshes the level of our scent to the level he's come to associate with us being home. To test one dog who got up and stood looking out the window about the same time every afternoon, day after day, just prior to his Daddy coming home from work, on the "test day", the man's wife waved one of his unwashed t-shirts through the air in the area of the resting dog to keep Daddy's level of scent in that room higher than it would have been just prior to his arrival home and, that day alone, the dog slept right through the time he usually stood up and watched out the window for Daddy to arrive home! Can't recall, but I think they said they repeated the test over and over and it worked the same every time but even if they didn't say it, knowing how studies work, you know they did. It sounds odd but our level of scent in the home could be an important indicator to our dogs who seem to know when to expect a worker home every day. No doubt they have other indicators such as the light coming through the window, ambient stimuli - sounds, scents, vibrations and other humans activities but seeing that dog sleeping right through his alert time on that day of testing really was amazing. So, if I had a new dog I'd leave my old t-shirts or sweats nearby him when I left along with his kong toys and things and not worry too much as he's going to mostly rest while you are away and bowl you over at the end of the day when your tired after work and he's all rested up and rearing to go!
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04-29-2014, 11:10 AM | #6 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Here's a pic of Gizmo in his crate that I just took from my puppy cam. Don't worry he has plenty of toys you just can't see them right. He does spend most of the day sleepy between his crate, bed and blanket. I love being able to watch him throughout the day. I had to get rid of my area rug because someone thought it was a extra large pee pad.... |
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