We have a lovely but slightly mental 10 week Jack Russell puppy, he's doing well in many ways, very bright, already knows sit/down/wait etc. Almost toilet trained but not quite asking to go out yet. I have a pen set up for him in our kitchen diner, he has his crate in there. Sleeps happily at night apart from waking for a wee. But in the daytime he is attached to me like Velcro. Unless he is actually physically asleep I can't leave the room without him crying for me even if someone else is with him (he's not in his pen all the time, mostly he's just mooching about the kitchen). He follows me everywhere. I've looked at the Positive Dog training pages and they seem to imply that leaving him to cry even for a minute will cause trauma and damage him. I know he's only 10 weeks but I am slightly despairing of ever being able to nip to the loo, shops etc, let alone go out for longer. I'm sure my older dog wasn't as difficult as this to settle. Also from next week I have to go back to work and he will be going to doggy daycare a couple of days a week- nice home based care, but will he be traumatised?! I think I will!!!