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Originally Posted by FluffySimba  Hello. I am finally getting a yorkie!! He is a 2 months old puppy. I decided to name him Simba. I will be bringing home next Friday. ...
Do you have any experience leaving your babies alone while you're at work? I would appreciate it if you share your experience and tips. |
Wow congrats! Very excited for you!!!
At such a young age being home alone, it's very likely that he'll develop separation anxiety if your absence is not slowly introduced. Since Simba will wanna pee whenever for now because he hasn't developed any bladder control, I'd set up an x-pen for him.
Within the x-pen, I'd cover it with pee pads and have a small crate with towels for him as a bed.
* Pee pads everywhere for now until you notice a pattern of where he usually pees; from there you can slowly remove the pee pads until you have one left over a span of a lot of time.
* It's always good to introduce crates to puppies when they're young so that when you travel with him later, he's used to the crate.
Make sure that from the first day he comes home, he associates good things with this x-pen - play with him inside, feed him inside, give him treats inside. Leave him every now and then for brief moments and come back to him
only when he's quiet and not barking. Also, limit him to only the x-pen for the first month or so. Only slowly let him earn access to the rest of your house with time or you're guaranteed accidents.
Anyway, slowly increase the amount of time you're away from the x-pen but celebrate each time you're back (when he's quiet and not making any noise). You might want to take a couple/few days off work to slowly get him accustomed to you being away.
* Start with a few minutes / then half hour / an hour / couple hours / half day / full day.
Make sure you never go back to him when he is making any noise - whining, barking, etc. This will help him learn that when he's quiet, you'll be back. It'll save you a lot of headache from constant barking in the long-run. They learn really really fast!
You can also set up this cool app called PrescencePro to monitor him while you're away at work:
Presence All you need is another phone or extra device like an ipad that uses Wifi and has a camera.
Good luck!!
