Funny you should metion it.....
Every time we go out the front door with Higgins, he growls and barks and NIPS OUR FEET! I was just thinking that he gets nervous when we go out that door because we don't always take him along. Usually when we leave through the back door, he is always going along for the ride.
I think that nipping at us IS their attempt to keep us from leaving them. Separation anxiety! I have read that we should NOT make a big thing about leaving and returning so that they come to accept it as a normal thing in their lives. And that is what we have always done. BUT, we hardly ever leave him. We are retired and he goes with us most of the time........hmmmmm......Going to start leaving him home for short periods a little more I think. |