Please try getting in a calm state, your feeding her anxiety. Take her for a 30 minute walk before leaving, stay calm, do not react to her begging, whining or what ever. Same goes for coming home. We, "People" love being greeted by an excited dog and play excited, this is actually confusing/stressful for the dog. Have you ever seen two dogs that know each other greet on meeting. If you can calm it down, you should see a difference every day. Dogs can sense our moods and feelings and react accordingly and that is not always the reaction we want.
Exercise, especially walks will be your best medicine and also for you as you will see the dog calm, your frustration will lesson. Guess what, as your frustration lessens, your pup will calm also. Watch people that have well adjusted dogs, you'll see most of are very easy going with their dog and yet the dog minds perfectly, is socialized, super friendly and unafraid.
I've seen wrecked dogs come from the Dog Pound, turn into Champs. My Mom was great at bringing dogs back (except she fed them table scraps, lol). It just take a gentle but firm hand, you need to work the dog, a dog without guidance is a confused, frustrated unhappy dog and can act out in many undesirable ways |