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leaving her home alone from now on My babys always had me or someone with her her whole life.. i start back to work fulltime on tuesday..she will only be left alone from 10am until 5pm.. my father leaves for work at 10am my mother gets home at 5pm..however some of my shifts are going to be 12 hours every now and then.. so she will be seeing alot less of me, thankfully shes very close to my parents also. i'm feeling sick to my stomach about leaving her home alone from now on. I'm scared shes going to choke on a toy, she has a habit of jumping up on the sofa and onto the back of it now.. i tryed putting her in a playpen but she freaked out almost like an anxiety attack. i than gave her free range of the living room and kitchen and left for an hour to see how she'd do, i peaked in the window and she just slept at the top of the stairs waiting for me to come back. has anyone ever been in this situation where you went back to work fulltime and had to start leaving your baby alone.. please share if you have...my heart is sinking just thinking about tuesday leaving her all by herself..i don't know how i am going to think straight at work:(dose it get easier... |
Yes.........it gets easier for both of you! Dont leave her with toys or chews that she can choke on....This is where a crate trained baby is a blessing....she would go right into her crate and be content there. I think I understand your parents and your hours away from home, overlap. So she will certainly be better off for several hours in a crate than allowed to run loose in the house, jumping on and off furniture,looking for ways to amuse herself alone! They are like toddlers....they can get into all kinds of things! You should try to get her used to her playpen or a crate....but I am a firm believer in crating unsupervised pets.....I would MUCH rather have a pup crated for 8 hours a day, than let them have run of a house, unsupervised....they create their OWN disasters! |
Well, it's good that she just slept when you spied on her. I would select a few very safe toys to leave out for her... maybe a sock or T-shirt with your scent on it... any way someone can come home for lunch to check on her? Or a pet sitter for the first week or two? It's probably going to be harder on you than on her, Lol! Yes, it will get easier, when you learn that you can trust her. |
Forgot to add: restricting her to a room or two, puppy safe, would be good to do. |
yes its my own fault for not giving her tough love from the start, because now when she feels confined (ex playpen) she freaks out. my father will be coming home at 2pm on his lunch to check on her, i work too far away to check on her myself. i'm so thankful i have my parents to watch her. i guess its one good thing about having to live at home again this year lol. theres not much she can get into in the area she will be in, its all babyproofed, i guess i will have to go through her toys and leave only ones i trust 100%.. the only problem is she can now get up on the sofas, so maybe i will add the downstairs sofa cushions on them to make it too high for her to jump on. i think it is going to be much harder on me than her, if i'm not in her sight she usually just sleeps or lays there looking depressed, then as soon as she sees me she acts like crazy hyper puppy wanting me to play with her aha. i want to set up a webcam to watch her, i'm going to have to look into how to do that, huhhh i'm almost in tears jsut thinking about her being home all day by herself. |
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i hope one day i can be a stay at home yorkie mom, lol i would have a whole pack of yorkies lol |
i use a puppy playpen with morgan and he seems to do allright/ i put special toys that he only gets when he is in the pen so its like they are brand new// he absolutely loves new toys |
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As you said, the ideal situation would be a Yorkie stay-at-home/no-work mom! |
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I am working towards the stay at home/no-work Yorkie and skin child Mom within the next couple of years. I never thought I could give up a career but I definitely can now;) |
I'm sorry that you have to go off and leave your baby. I know that is hard. I hated to leave mine but thankfully she loved her crate and would wait by it for me to open the door and let her in before i left for work. When i finally do get another Yorkie I am going to invest in a web cam or something that I can watch from a cell phone or computer. I hate not knowing what is going on!!! |
My two are 3.5 and 2 and they are still restricted to one room for most of the day. I make it a positive experience and give them a treat every time they go in there, and they go up the stairs voluntarily and are always excited. My DH comes home every day at noon to let them out and play with them during his lunch, and then they spend the rest of the day with free range. They seem to be less destructive when I do this... So it's probably the way it will be for their lives. I have left them out all day before, and they always find something to get into (garbage, the cupboards, potty mistakes etc). Once it becomes a routine, it will be easier on her... I promise :) |
If you're scared to death, you could set up a webcam & monitor her for a while from work or view the footage when you get home & see if she stays consistent on how she reacts over time - if she horribly stressed or doing dangerous things & change up things accordingly. I have had to go back to work & leave dogs in the past & most adapted very well. They do some "policing" around the house from time to time but mostly they adjust their schedule to sleeping a good deal of the time one is away. My Jilly, on work days I was home sick, even though I was here with her, often kept to her usual schedule of daytime napping just as if I had gone to work - and sometimes she even went into the bedroom to nap, even though I was camped out on the den couch. So, I think if you have safety-proofed the house & her toys, chewies, etc., you can rest assured that normal dogs usually adapt to lifestyle changes unless they are ill or have a great deal of current & unremitting stress in their lives. |
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