 Can he smell me?
When we first got Franklin, I felt really bad about leaving him home during the day so in the mornings, I would come downstairs and let him out of his playpen so he could run around for the 30 minutes or so while I was getting ready.
Well recently, he's been barking his head off the MINUTE I get up. Once he hears me moving around, he's starts barking as if to say "I'm ready to play mommy!"
The puzzling thing is, he does not bark for my roommate or my boyfriend. We all have different schedules and get up at different times every day, so it's not like he barks at the first person who wakes up. He ONLY barks when I get up.
It's unfortunate because I don't like to let him out of his play pen while he's barking. We've made it a rule never to do that. When we come home, he doesn't get to come out until he's calm. However, in the mornings, just letting him bark is not really a possibility... people are still sleeping and I don't want my roommates to hate him.
Any suggestions as to how he knows it's me, and what I can do to stop this? |