Zurie

Our dog Zurie...........let's just say that some days are better than others, meaning some days I clean up more messes than other days.  She has really bad separation anxiety, so when I leave she destroys.  For some reason she has a personal vengeance against bags of any kind and always rips then to shreds.  It has kind of helped with my habit of leaving things in bags laying around the house.

We did our best to kennel train her, and even had the kennel in our room, but I think she is also claustrophobic.  Whenever we would put her in there at night or when we would leave she would hyperventilate, stress out and poop.  One morning she broke out!  The kennel is taken apart and stored in our garage now.  I also doggy-proofed the laundry room so she could stay in there, but with the separation anxiety she just freaked out and pooped every time I left.  Now she goes outside when I leave.  We are in the process of finding a dog house or maybe building one ourself.

For the record (Nicole)  we still have her and are getting better at entertaining her, so when she is left alone she doesn't have a lot of pent up energy.  We realized it's our fault she is doing a lot of bad things, and we need to be better about walking and playing with her.  Now to deal with the digging.......ahhhhh, the joys of having a puppy.  It's not for the weak or the lazy :)