Help! Leaving alone.

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Hi everyone. Posting again as you have all been really helpful previously.

Issue with my pups vaccinations in that the first injection breeder gave is supposedly “incompatible” with the vaccination my vet administers. Which basically means I still can’t take him out despite him being 12 weeks due to infection risk according to my vet. ☹️

I’m a single parent and have to take my DC to the bus stop in the mornings to get to school as far too young to go alone. I have left pup before when he was asleep and all was fine. This morning though he happened to be awake at leaving time and I believe he probably barked the entire time. He was going when we left and when I returned (5-10 mins later). He is a clingy pup and follows me around a lot, but should I just persevere and keep doing it even if he is upset? I don’t want to traumatize him but on the other hand, I don’t have the time unfortunately to build it up like a lot of the sites/apps etc recommended as DC needs to get to school. I left him in a safe room with a gate, radio on, his bed, a treat, toys, but he was still upset.

Help me, what do I do??

I carried mine around in a baby sling when she was too little to go out. I had an older dog to walk, and there's no way I could have left her twice a day for that amount of time.

A friend carried hers around in a rucksack.

I had the same with vaccinations, the vet I used didn't use the ones that the breeder had. So we had to repeat the course. It was very frustrating at the time, but it's not worth the risk especially if you're walking in an area with lots of other dogs.

It’s so incredibly frustrating. Last time I carried him down he was literally clawing at me to get down. Just desperate to walk! He is a bundle of energy and really needing walked now.

Issue with my pups vaccinations in that the first injection breeder gave is supposedly “incompatible” with the vaccination my vet administers. Which basically means I still can’t take him out despite him being 12 weeks due to infection risk according to my vet.

What? I’ve never heard of this, are you in the U.K?

@Suzi888 it's pretty common. Different vets use different brands of vaccinations and if Brand A (used by the breeder) isn't compatible with Brand B (used by your vet), the dog won't be fully vaccinated so you need to start over.

Hi OP - no, you really shouldn't keep leaving him to scream and cry, or you're just reinforcing the idea that being alone is scary.

Take him with you - get a sling or a backpack and carry him everywhere you ago. A bacpack on your front is a good idea - pop him in and secure him with a connector between the bag and his collar.

You will create more issues by just leaving him. You need to take him with you & work on very gradually building up.

My breeder used a different ‘brand’ from the one at my vet and the vet said it didn’t matter in this case as they were actually exactly the same vaccine, one was nobivac and one was canigen.

@Suzi888

Issue with my pups vaccinations in that the first injection breeder gave is supposedly “incompatible” with the vaccination my vet administers. Which basically means I still can’t take him out despite him being 12 weeks due to infection risk according to my vet.

What? I’ve never heard of this, are you in the U.K?

Yes in the uk.

I rang around our local vets and found one that did the same vaccinations.

The incompatibility thing is one I also had with my cats, so rather than ring around to get another vet I started again. But cats are different.
I would crate your dog. Just leave him in there (or a room with a stair gate if you don't want to crate) and just go to another room for a few minutes. Do not make a fuss on going or returning - ignore your dog and put him in crate, go about your business and then just walk out of the room. Come back a few minutes later, ignoring the dog. Do this regularly and increase the amount of time you are out of sight. Then once he's used to this you leave the house for a few minutes, again ignore the dog - don't start saying things like 'oh poor baby I'll just be a few minutes that's ok oh poor sweetie' (you get the idea). And ignore when you return! Keep in increasing the time the dog is left.
I've had half a dozen dogs in my life and not one suffered from separation anxiety.

You don’t need to start again, you just need to ring round and find a vet who does your puppy’s brand of vaccination.
I bred a litter and gave them their first vaccination and microchip, then rang the manufacturer of the vaccination with a list of the areas my puppies were going to and they got back to me with a list of vets who carried it in each area.
This was as far away as Sheffield, Bristol, Coventry, Manchester etc and all my puppies are out and about now at 11 weeks.
Anyway, if your puppy isn’t quiet and sleepy you can’t leave him. Pick him up and take him with you in a bag or a sling.
I leave mine alone every day and have done since she was 8 weeks old to walk my other dog, her mum. It’s a bit different as it’s not time sensitive but if she’s not ready for a sleep I don’t leave her.

When my dog was a puppy we used to make her a Kong up with different things in (sometimes it would be peanut butter, other times we would fill with her dog food, cover with gravy and freeze - just remember to plug the hole in the bottom). She only ever got this when we left her and usually kept her busy for 20-30 minutes or so!

Even if she finished it before we got back she had usually forgotten we'd gone and just lounge around (we used a camera to see what she did haha).

Don't make a big fuss on leaving/returning, we used a crate at that age so we would just put the kong in the crate, close the door and leave. When returning we would open the back door and then let her out (she would excited pee as a puppy so a quick exit was ideal).