[yorkietalkjilly]

You are welcome. Sorry it is long but want to give people a good idea of what it can take with some very, very anxious dogs. Your little one is not there yet - just young and lonely. And her little memory won't be that good so what she learns today she might forget parts of pretty easily and you will need to keep patiently going over it with her.

You know when you are trying to remember a poem or a sentence in another language that you don't even know what it means and yet you have to learn it in order to repeat it for a lesson or a speech and commit it to memory? You have to go over and over and over it. You read it, say it out loud and keep on practicing and you have it down really good. You can say it with no problem in one evening usually. And the next day - you can only remember the first few words and part of the rest. You have to study it again and do it over and over, sometimes for several days or weeks. That is how your dog learns to do anything - repetition. They don't conceptualize or figure things we are teaching them out or build or learn upon prior learning and thereby spur them to learn by reasoning at the next level - they just learn like we learn verse or poetry or a part in a play - we just have to keep reading it over and over and over until it is committed into our long-term memory. So if your very young dog forgets - just keep going and repeating the steps of desensitizing her to your going and coming back and increasing the stay-aways gradually so you get her used to it. In time, if she is a normal dog, she will learn to accept your going and being away as her time to mostly settle in for a nice long nap and rest herself until you come home. Then it is party time in her mind!