Where to leave my dogs whilst I work for 4 hours a day

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I have a 3 and a 1 year old dogs.
3 year old is fine in the day he has a snooze while I’m at work, the 1 year old
is a nightmare he pushes safety gates down and works himself into a sweet and paws at my walls and woodworks, tried crating he has chewed off bits of the crate and tried to push along the floor, he eats carpets and door frames and made a whole in my living room door because. I know he is anxious but I have to work and I don’t want to rehome him because I love him and and he would not cope with that well either, he is very anxious and hates leaving me. Iv tried everything but I can’t continue to have him ruin the house while at work. If I leave them alone free they wee on the sofa and climb on the table and jump down.

Oh also I only have to leave them alone 3 days a week for 4 hours as I work from home a lot

I would look for a dog walker that would take him out on pack walks for those few hours.

Doggy Day Care, dog behaviourist, vet to discuss that level of anxiety.

Take him out before work tire him out and leave lots of stimulating toys

Leave the 3 year old at home and try dog daycare for 1 year old - if you pick the right one it may help burn some of his energy off / socialise him more.

Poor dude thinks it’s his responsibility to make sure everything’s OK and he’s worried because he can’t check on someone who isn’t there. You really ought to work with a behaviourist.

You need to crate train him - over time- in the interim, a dog Walker

Your dog doesn’t cope with being left alone so you need someone to be with him. Daycare, walker, family or friend.

Long term I advise asking a good local behaviouralist for help. My dog had separation issues and after a lot of hard work on my part he's now fine being left. Basically you have to (slowly) build up the time they're left, to start with I could only leave for 2mins and had to stay in sight. But get advice as it's not a simple quick fix.

Shorter term you need to find a solution until you can solve the separation issues. Something like dog daycare.

What have you tried apart from just leaving the house ? Id maybe try crateing him and leaving him for a few minutes and building it up, maybe a dog walker in the middle of the 4 hours . Are you sure the older dog is ok and not frightened of him ?

If you did rehome I'm.not suggesting you do but dogs adapt to other people and if someone was in with him wouldn't it be better for the dog?

Dog walker or dog day care. There’s businesses near us that will even collect and take to dog care and return.

It might be worth getting this moved to the doghouse forum.
If you share what techniques you have tried or are currently using to lesser the separation anxiety then people might be able to offer advice on that. What breed is the pup?
And do you know why they are weeing on the sofa - do they have toilet troubles generally?

If he has separation anxiety then leaving him will just make it worse. You need daycare or similar.

Doggy day care might work for your dog. Mine goes to one at a local college so they have lots of fuss with students looking after them as well as staff.