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Originally Posted by Checkers
Have you tried fake leaving? By that i mean get all ready for work (do everything 20 mins earlier), pick up your keys, put her in the crate, then sit down and have a coffee while you ignore her. All this while she is still in the crate. Ive seen this be suggested before on here, so it might work 
Other than that you could try shutting the door during the day while you are home. Walking in and out of the room so she sees its not always when you are leaving that she gets shut in. |
We haven't exactly tried "fake leaving", as in doing everything 20 min earlier as you have suggested, but we have been trying to desensitize her to it, by shutting her in there several times a day when we aren't actually going anywhere. We don't walk in and out of the room though. We actually go open and close the door we always leave through. She can't see the door from the crate, but she definitely can hear it. We have been trying to build up the threshold at which she starts crying. (This was suggested to us by the trainer from puppy class.) So we leave (or pretend to leave but don't actually go outside--I'm wondering if she can still smell us when we don't really leave the house though) but we come back in before she starts to get worked up. We go back to where she can see us but don't let her out immediately. We wait just a few minutes (ignoring her) but we don't want to push it too long where she starts to cry because then we don't want to reward the crying by letting her out at that point. We have built it up to about 45 seconds. In the grand scheme of things though, that's nothing. We were told we need to get her to go at least 20 min without getting worked up to have this issue beat. Oiy. I will have to try the "fake leaving" thing though.
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Originally Posted by Checkers
She sounds like such a good puppy for everything else though |
We don't have anything to compare her too, but we think so. As long as she's not in her crate she does just great.