Madlyn's protest
 

This is what she does for hours and hours and hours if she's not right there with me... But if I don't keep her in the kitchen area her and Izzy pee and poop all over the house & make my roommate crazy. But then her whining like that makes us crazy too.
http://youtu.be/jBBXjuqzDMA

Now I have heard another who cries just like my Joey. Only at her loudest my Joey screams, as I call the noise,even louder and does not stop for a breath. I need earplugs and it gets on my best nerve. His first year of life I felt he would kill himself he got so upset and on top of his screaming he jumps and jumps in his pen and even tries to chew his way out of his pen.

Right?!? I mean it's flattering that they like us that much but come on! No it's sad though, cause it ends up the equivalent of the frantic hyperventilating quivering lip sob human children get...poor stubborn babies

You are right that it is sad that they get so upset. I used to worry his first year that he would have a heart attack or something he got so upset when I would leave the house and even when I got back home. I feel so sad for him and wish he could just acquire a calm demenar about my coming and going. I mean it has been 5 years and he knows I am coming home but he still won't stop.

Just curious........how old were these babies when you bought/got them?

Izzie was around 14 weeks old, Toby was 4.5 months, and I ended up with Madlyn right after her 8 week mark. And I know that was too young. I wasn't supposed to get her until 12 weeks, but I guess the lady I got her from had to go out of town for an emergency with her mother, and her husband wasn't too keen on the idea of being responsible for them while she was gone. He was very reluctant, so she gave us the option to take her early . I opted to do so because I know how bad of a job MY boyfriend does when he's forced to do something he's not happy about. That, and she said the pups mom was running from them more than anything. This lady had taken over for her mom who bred yorkies for years and years, but she finally stopped when her husband retired. So she took it on , but she said this would be her first and last litter because when it came down to it, she couldn't stomach docking their tails. She flat out refused. And then the price dropped dramatically and the deposit I had put down became the actual payment. she probably could have gotten a lot more out of me had she waited. I was expecting to pay a lot more. But she didn't. That surprised me. So yeah , anyway, she came home to me 3.5 weeks too early. She did make improvement today with the howling. It wasn't so dramatic and long. But then most of the time I have her tethered to me just to keep the peace.

Just a thought, ... I got Toby at 4.5 months, and the people before me didn't get him until he was 13 weeks old, and he would and sometimes still makes that much racket howling and frantically barking at me on occasion when I separate us. So is it usually an age thing and Toby just didn't follow ? Or do I just have that affect on dogs?

I think it also has to do with their personalities. Zoey came to us much older than Magnus did but she makes more racket than Magnus. Also a lot more clingy... Another thing is, if one goes off, that sets off the other and vice versa. So sometimes, it takes much longer to calm them down.