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Originally Posted by linz06  Thanks for the tips! And sorry for hijacking the thread 
I know that she usually spends most of the day sleeping on my bed. She's just getting up with bedhead when I get home from work  and even most weekends, or if I'm home sick, she will spend most of the day sleeping (besides when I take her out for walks) because that's just her schedule!
I have never had a crate for her so I'm not sure how easy it would be to train her now. She screams and cries if I close my bedroom door on her when she's in there alone. We live in a duplex and the other half of the house has a stay-at-home mom with a newborn baby so I don't want to risk being evicted if she's crying all day  I wonder if it would be enough to just cordon off an area for her... like living room and hallway (it's a pretty small space!) where there is NO carpet. She does not pee on the laminate floors and I trust her 100% there. So then when I am home, she can have the rest of the house too. Maybe a crate would work better... but until I own my own place I'm too worried about the noise she'll make! |
If you're really sure she wont have an accident on the laminate, I'd just keep her cordoned off there, then. (If she does, she may have to re-think the crate.) Her crying and screaming is separation anxiety....Bella used to do that a terribly! After some work, she's fine with being alone, as long as she knows we aren't home.....if I were to put her in my bedroom and stay in the other part of the house, she'd cry and scream too. Now, if I put her in her crate in the living room where she can see me, she give a couple of extra pitiful whines and then she's fine.