We are fostering, with a view to adopting, a fantastic lurcher.
In his old house he loved with other dogs and was apparently fine being left crated with them around at night and for a few hours in the day.
We’ve had him nearly a week now and although he’s settled in brilliantly otherwise and will stay in his crate pretty happily if someone’s in the room he will cry and bark if left even for 5 minutes.
He will stay on the sofa if we leave the room though so it’s not purely the separation.
I’ve slept in the same room as him every night and we haven’t had to leave him for longer than 20 minutes during the day yet (he cried and barked for most of that time-didn’t settle down).
Is it just a case of building up the time minute by minute? I’ve dealt with separation anxiety in our old dog and had success with just leaving with no fuss but that’s hard when you need to put him in his crate first.
I really need him to go in his crate for various reasons so I could do with cracking this
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Crying in crate when left alone
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Contactscontact · 03/09/2020 22:30
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