Gwen, I believe that too much excitement when the owner arrives home IS PART OF SEPARATION ANXIETY. That is why I don’t punish or try to train my dogs out of it. (Remember that I adopt dogs that have been abused.) I will continue to “love my dogs out of too much excitement when I come home”. It has worked for 40 or 45 years, so I’ll keep doing it. My dogs are normally crated when I am gone. Then when I come home I don’t immediately let them out. I put away my stuff and then walk over and start turning them all (7) of them loose. As each one comes out of their crate I talk to them and pet them. Little Gabby comes out like a rocket. I usually can grab her, but if I miss her then I just ignore her for a bit. Then I calmly pick her up and she gets some loving and calm holding and petting.
Judy Moon, a prayer warrior in Christ's army "May grace and spiritual peace be yours from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ." Jewell, Mary, Martha, Dakota, Becky, Nicky, Gabby (dogs) Dark Angel, Peter, Paul, Leah, Sarah, Tag, Ruth, Esther (cats) Libby, the parrot From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gwen Zimmerman Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 6:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Need some advice Thanks everyone for some really good ideas and words that are encouraging. I am going to try to find the video on line about "sit training" and some of the ideas but guess the biggest thing if nothing works out is to hope that she outgrows this one little problem. Since we are not at all sure of her age - could be that with maturity - she will outgrow this. She was left in a yard of a rescue house (when no one was home) without anything but a note saying that they did not want her back. Could be that she has some anxiety problems from separation. This group is great! I am so thankful that you are all so willing to help with great ideas. Gwen --- On Mon, 12/5/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Need some advice To: [email protected] Date: Monday, December 5, 2011, 8:38 PM Monster does that too when he gets super excited. Usually only when he sees certain people after a really long time so I just make sure to take him out right before he sees them and that usually works. He used to be a lot worse and would do it almost every time he got really excited. I don't know what made it stop, maybe he out grew it, because we didn't try anything to stop it. Lorena Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T _____ From: "Gwen" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:39:35 -0000 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: [Chihuahuas] Need some advice We got Casey about a month ago from a rescue. She is wonderful - well behaved and very sweet, so at first I couldn't understand why anyone would have dumped her. Now, we may know the problem. She gets very excited if we play with her or when we come home after being out of her sight for very short periods of time - even five minutes sends her into total glee. And then we notice little pee spots on the floor. Once or twice she totally lost it. We will work with her or put up with it, but I wonder if any of you have ever had this problem with a dog? We take her out every two hours and she has no problem going the whole night without an accident - just when she gets excited. She was just spade a week ago but was doing it before and I forgot to ask the vet. She is about 2 1/2 years old. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Gwen _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1873 / Virus Database: 2102/4659 - Release Date: 12/05/11
