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I am very sad for my puppy staying home alone for 8 hours I feel very very bad about leaving my puppy - Sparky alone at home for 8-9 hours. My fiancee has been working out of town this week, and I have to work full time in the office. My poor little puppy - Sparky has to stay home alone for 8-9 hours for the whole week. He doesn't eat and cry a lot. I am really sad about it, but I have to make leaving. Do you guys have any ideas for this problem. How can I make Sparky happy. Even though we bought a lot of toys and treats for him,he is still very very upset. |
Is he in a room or does he have the run of the house? Have you tried leaving the TV on? Some dogs love the TV! Does he have company...another dog, a cat? Is there a neighbor or a dog walking service you could hire to walk and play and spend time with him? 8-9 hours is a long time for anyone to be left alone, especially yorkies who thrive on interaction with others. If I was close, I would offer to puppy sit for you. Is there anyone from YT in your area? Anyway you can arrange a longer lunch hour just for this week so you can go home to him in the middle of the day? |
I am sorry to hear that Sparky is so sad :( But give him time. He will get used to it. When we got Annie we had to leave Annie alone for those long periods of time from the beginning as we both worked. She wimpered and whined when we left in the beginning. Even would line up at the door to run out with us... But after some time she just got used to it, and now she just watches us go. It just takes time. I still feel bad leaving her (I don't think that will ever go away) but you get used it.... :) |
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Yes, I leave the TV on, and a lot of toys as well. I locked him in a kitchen area, so he can not run anywhere in the house. He should be very safe there, but he is very lonely as we don't have any other pets with him. Sometimes, my landlord is home, and she can bring him to her room. However, there were two accident happened in my landlord room as Sparky eats some poison plant and some hard plastic staff in her room, and he got very sick after that. I don't know if it's a good idea to leave sparky to my landlord as she is very busy on the house work and can not pay full attention to Sparky. It's very dangers to Sparky as he eats everything. Yes, probably I have to leave work early today and take some time off tomorrow as well as Friday. :( |
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Yes, some friends of mine told me the same thing that Sparky has to experience this period and will get used to it sooner or later. However, he is only 3 month old, and I read some information from internet that this age's puppy is very easy to get stress of being lonely, and it's very bad for his health. Is it ture? How old was your puppy when you started to leave her alone at home? and did it effect to your puppy's health, such as she didn't want to eat, and becoming very angry, and so on. Thanks! |
Does he have space to roam around in the kitchen area? What are you using to keep him in there? |
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Oh, yes, there's a lot of space for Sparky to roam around. It's basically a hallway and a kitchen (there's no door in the kitchen). I use two big suitcases to block this area from living room. |
Sounds like an arrangement i may have to have... I have a kitchen and hallway that open directly to my living room/dining room... |
1 Attachment(s) You could try to set up 2 yahoo messenger accounts. Let account "A" to start the webcam, go to Messenger --> Preferences ---> and set "allow only" account B to view webcam. You could take a peak at Sparky-S. PS* Required DSL @ home, web cam, and a cheap laptop with wireless. Also make sure your employer allow to use messenger. :) . |
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That's a great idea. I have yahoo messager in my office computer and a webcam at home. I will definitely try it tomorrow. |
Just make sure to set your home laptop or computer not to go to standby mode after a couple hours, ;) . |
We got Annie when she was 8 weeks old. I had always wanted a yorkie and for our first anniversary my husband surprised me with Annie. He brought her home on a Thursday. So on Friday we had to go to work. Then we were with her the whole weekend and then back to work the next week.... After a couple of days she got kennel cough so we had a hard time getting her to eat but we talked to vet and the breeder and we got through it. Don't worry. If sparky doesn't eat, just make sure he gets some nutrical so that way he is getting some nutrients and an energy boost, and when you are at home "spoon" feed him if you have to make sure that he gets some food in him... She was never angry with us.... Whenever we are home she is so happy to see, that all she wants to do is be at our side :) |
The web cam is such a great idea! Yes, with time she will get used to being alone. Josie was 13 weeks old and I wasn't working at the time so, I got to be with home all the time. Now I ended up getting a F/T job so she's alone for 9 hours at a time. There times where I can go home and surprise her. My poor little girl she gets soo happy! So she will be okay, it's just so hard at the beginning. All will be fine. ;) |
1 Attachment(s) You could also call your home answering machine, speak into the answering machine, (if it closed by your pup). He/she could hear your voice, kinda play hide and seek. :p . |
1 Attachment(s) Lol, i think she knew she is "on AIR", she pulled her wastes to showed me. |
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You know what, I just did it few minutes ago. I wish that I could hear his response. Hope it won't make him feeling more lonely :confused: . I already asked to leave early from my work today as I can not concentrate on working at all. |
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Keep him somewhere where he can't pee on a carpet. Maybe he does have some separation anxiety but all in all he's a puppy and sometimes they will go where they please. You have to remain consistent with housetraining techniques. |
Pee training is a constant learning process. There where will be days (and even weeks) when you think have it and then an accident. So when you are at home be consistent. Just remember that he is a puppy . He is teething, etc... The chewing and tearing things up is a phase and he will get over it. Just let him know it unacceptable and make sure things are not in his reach as much as possible. Give him just enough space to eat, sleep and poop (maybe even some to play :) )for the time being. As he grows older and gains your trust increase his space when you are not around. Our trainer told us we gave Annie way too much freedom too fast and that is part of the problem that we had with potty training her, (but I felt so bad confining her in too little of a space for such long periods of time :( ) |
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Yes, I know what you are saying. However, We have carpet everywhere except kitchen area. We feel bad to put him in the kitchen area when we are home because we block him in the kitchen area when we have to go to work. As you know puppies pee very frequently. Most of time, we didn't even notice when he pees. Yes, sometimes we discuss to leave him in the kitchen area few weeks until he gets well trained for the house breaking. But it's easy said than done. We already feel very bad as we have to leave him alone for the daytime. Do you have any other ideas to train him house breaking without lock him in the specific area. Meanwhile, vet told us that we should not take Sparky out more often as he is too young and easy to pick up some worms and fleas. It's really confused us. |
How about a little play yard for him to stay in during the day? Do you have a neightbor or someone who you trust to come in and feed/play with him while you;re gone. As for me, I will hve someone who can feed him/play with him when I'm gone during the day and I plan to have a small area for him at first. I plan on training him to go pee in the house on pads. |
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I don't know how practical this is. But my co-worker was saying that their neighbor has a puppy and she has the dog tethered to her when she is at home. So the dog is always with her. Like I said I don't know How practical that is... The other thing would be.. That our trainer suggested to us was that whatever room that we are in confine her to the room. Put up baby gates and just keep your eyes on her constantly... (Invest in a steam cleaner :D ) Just make a habit of taking her to the pee pad every hour... I know... I know... Easier said than done. I know Annie doesn't like an audience and just wouldn't go anytime that we were around. But just try different things and see what works.... |
I agree that when you are home, definitely confine them to the room where you are... I've also heard about where you keep them tethered to you... Apprently some folks have had success with it! |
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Yes, I have tried so hard to put Sparky on the pad when he wants to pee or poo. I have even tried to leash him around the pad area when he wants to pee. He just cried, and hold it. As soon as I unleashed him, he pees on the pad.(or run away to pee on the carpet if I didn't leash him) :confused: |
Try lots of treats and praise when he goes on the pad right away. They catch on to this tidbit quick! If he doesn't just clean it up and ignore it if you didn't see it happen. If you see him doing it in the wrong place say no and move him to the pad... I know when Annie would "disapper" I would tip toe behind her. But her doggie ears would catch everything. so she would just follow me back. So the next time I would try to tip toe even more quietly :D |
Hi Guys, BabyG was originally trained to pee/poo on old towel by the breeder, which it was a "huge" problem for us. She thinks our carpet was a "giant weewee pad". lol. So, we decided to "convert" her to paper. My method was to lay size 48X36 papers (since i am working in Arch firm, i could get some scrap papers). Tape them down the floor, babyG can't "missed" her pee spot. :p. Slowly.. week by week, we are reducing the paper size (area). Every cutties are different. My method may work for some but not all. BTW, Sparky-s, our pup is 15 weeks old. |
Hi, sorry to hear about your problems with your baby. I am not directing this at you but at your breeder..did he/she not discuss all the negatives and difficulties of training and socializing Yorkies? They are not easy but it can be done. I am sad that you could not take vacation time to spend with Sparky when you first brought him home. That is the ideal if the new owners have to work. You are feeling guilty about having to leave him alone for so long. I know some will disagree but after a bezillion years of experience with these brats, I have finally accepted that dogs cannot tell time. He will greet you the same if you take the garbage out and chat with a neighbor or work 8 hours. We assign some traits to Yorkies that are a result of our HOOMAN insecurities...if you can put everything he can use in the Xpen in the kitchen and put treats inside on the floor, open the door, encourage him to go in by throwing 1 treat on the floor inside the pen. He will go in, you close the door. Use kongs or similar toys that require work from him by putting p-nut butter or cheese in the small end of the toy. Distract him and leave the house. NO long-drawn out byes, sad voices or apologies. Do this several times on a weekend when you can leave and return after varying lengths of time. Yes, he should have socialization and yes, ideally, his hoomans would be home with him all day. But in the real world that is not always possible. Your leavings and returnings should not be the same each time-vary toys, bedding, wee wee pads, toy treats and such. I buy a non-premium brand of puppy chow and toss it in a certain place in the pen when I come home but give him a few minutes to settle down-put your things away and change clothes if that is your routine. I really thnk your guilt is playing the biggest part in this situation. Relax and love that baby and remember, they, like children, do grow up. |
Great advice WhispersMom!!! I think it is sound advice for all of us who have to leave babies at home to work. |
i like the web cam idea, neat! |
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