This my be long, please be gentle with me. I have had dogs all my life but now I find myself in the position of having to find my dog a new home. My husband died last week (it was very sudden and unexpected) and I am going to have re-home our dog. She is lovely but very clingy and I am worried about her when I go back to work. She hates being left alone, we could just manage the supermarket run without her becoming too stressed but anything longer and she panics. We rescued her when she was 5-6 weeks old and she was far too young but she had already been taken from her mum. At least with us she had the chance to live, she is now 6 years old.
The problem is I don't want her to go, but for her sake it is the best thing. There may be the possibility that my daughters boyfriends mum may take her, if she does I will not worry my Ddog will be able to play in the fields with their very gentle dog and swim in the loch so basically doggy paradise (the lady also works from home). If this happens I am not worried, but if this lady cannot take her I don't know what else to do.
If she stays here I will have to work and that means being out 7 hours of the day, she get frantic enough when we got out for an hour and on top of that she keeps looking for my DH. She stopped eating but has now started to eat a little bit.
What I need is someone to tell me what options I have, I will not put her in the dogs home she will not cope. Around here it is all staffy crosses etc and she is a floppy spaniel cross. She is nervous around new people but when she gets to know them they are a friend for life. Where do I go from here?
Thank you if read and managed to understand this, my mind is spinning and I want her settled and not too upset.