Your pup is young, so I wouldn't be concerned at this point, but a pup can become too attached, and it can be really detrimental to their well-being. I had three little girls who were around people and children from the time they were very young. My little ones loved people, and they got particularly excited to see the neighborhood children on their daily walks. They were very friendly, so they got a lot of attention from people wherever they went. I took them with me much of the time when I was not working, so they were well socialized and loved riding in the car. They always got a lot of attention from both my husband and me. My husband always worked from our home, so they were used to having someone home with them almost all of the time.
Since I am a teacher and off during the summer, the summers were particularly devoted to my girls. All three of my little girls had a difficult adjustment once I went back to work, though. One of our little ones, Kiwi, really started to suffer from depression when I went back to work. We got Kiwi four months after Ashley, and she was such a tough little girl. When our breeder asked us to take Gracie, our tiny little one, when Kiwi was a year old and Gracie was six months old, we really hesitated, since we worried about Kiwi's reaction. We gave Kiwi lots of additional love, so much that she became a mush on the inside, and she loved her little sister Gracie. Kiwi was still the animated and tough little girl on the outside, but she really became so loving and sensitive. We didn't think we could hurt Kiwi by giving her all of that love and attention, but she became so dependent on my husband and me. Even though she had my husband and her two sisters home with her, she waited each day watching the front door for me to come home from work and would not play. I started to read books on dog's emotions, and we did everything we could to make her feel secure. When I was around, Kiwi was as happy as can be. There was such a sparkle in her eyes, and it looked like she was smiling all of the tim. My other two girls idolized her, particularly Gracie. When I wasn't with her, Kiwi was so sad. After a while, we wouldn't leave her to go away on vacation because she would get such severe colitis that she would wind up hospitalized. Ashley and Gracie also were too dependent on us, but not to the extreme of Kiwi. We know we will always give a little one of ours a lot of love and attention, but I think we'll be more careful in the future. |