As far as the clausterphobia, I have had a dog that was like that and she
was ALWAYS like that right when we got her and on.
As to the separation anxiety, our Great Pyr never did get over that when we
had her in the house.. No matter what we did, she would tear stuff up, and have
fits.. When she was bigger she went to an outside pen and for awhile "escaped"
all the time.. As soon as we got our Rotweiller and she had company, that all
stopped..
Also, some dogs just get "bored" when you are gone too. We had
another dog that was like that.. We got her one of the "balls" that has slots in
it.. THe idea is you stick a dog biscut in it and they hve to figure out how to
get it out. Usually takes quite awhile..
Just some ideas.
Janna
In a message dated 8/12/2005 5:14:52 PM Central Standard Time,
ajs@aprilcreations.com writes:
Linda
Not sure if I missed it, but I didn't see any links in
your email. Could
you send them again? Does claustrophobia develop or are
dogs born with
it? I was just wondering because Kiah's only been like this
for two
weeks. She has been crated since we got her at three
months.
April
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<<Just don't give up April, it
will get better and pass I promise,
Dilbert went
through the same thing
and now at 8 months he is fine, and soon won't
have to be
crated at
night.>>
I don't want to discourage April and I also think that
she should keep
working.
However, reality is that some dogs never get
over separation anxiety or
surely
not as easily as Nina's Dilbert.
At the very least it is likely to take
a great
deal of attention and
effort. Then we have the non uncommon issue in
the breed
of
claustrophobia. For example I have a bitch who is fine in the
yard,
fine in
a run, fine in the house. Put her in a crate and she
goes ballistic.
She has
torn the doors off two 700 (HUGE) vari
kennels. I only crate her to get
to the
vet and then in a VERY
heavy wire crate with big brass snaps. And
usually I
tranquilize
her. I have tried training her in the crate in the living
room
with
us. No luck. Nothing works. These dogs are not
common in the breed
but they
do exist and probably April should keep it
in her mind and read the
links that I
sent.
A question for
Nina. Why are you going to let Dilbert out of the crate?
Have
you
been using it to house train him? Is he still having a problem at
8
months?
I only ask because I feed my puppy in her crate and she
willingly stays
and naps
in it and will go in it if asked, and travels
just fine. But she does
not sleep
in it at night at 5
months.
Linda
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