I have a 7 year old male yorkie who has horrible anxiety and separation anxiety. We got him when he was 3, and his previous owners had only told us that they were looking for a home with someone home with him during the day since he had anxiety. We didn't find out the extent of it until after we got him and had fallen in love with him. He has horrible separation anxiety! Whenever we leave, he gets extremely anxious and ends up peeing and/or pooping on the floor. Then, because he paces, he tracks the poop EVERYWHERE. We have been dealing with this for so long, and I feel like we have tried everything training and medication wise to help with his anxiety with nothing working. It's to the point where I feel trapped in my house because if I leave him to go grocery shopping for an hour, I come home to a mess to clean up. I have a 9 month old baby now, and trying to clean poop or pee off the floor whenever I come home is not convenient. We have the potty pads down, but even if he uses them he still walks through it so it ends up all over anyways. Anybody have this issue, and figured out a solution?? We've tried medications and natural remedies to help with his anxiety in hopes it would help with this issue, but he has side effects that just make it worse. Please tell me there is a solution?!? I'm thinking of putting a diaper on him in hopes that it will at least contain the mess. Washing him in the tub when I get home sounds easier than cleaning our floors when I get home. Also, we've tried crating him in a crate, like they say to do, and that was an even bigger mess to try to clean out all the crevices because he still went in there, and had it ALL over him and the entire crate
