I have a 7 year old beagle/collie mix we rescued when she was 1. She's been a great dog, smart, calm, trainable, etc... and well-behaved.
I moved in with my boyfriend a few months ago, and within the last month or so, started showing signs of seperation anxiety. She's raided garbages, eaten a variety of things such as: 1/3 of a bar of soap, chewing on one of my favourite pens, (first 2 are most recent transgressions... tonight), kleenex, 2 tubes of chapstick, knocked over the answering machine... She doesn't always lash out... most of the time, she leaved the apartment intact, but every once in a while (I can't figure out what the trigger is), she decides to trash the place. I know I can't really punish her if I don't catch her in the act, and I don't know what to do short of coating the entire place in bitter apple!...
Let me just say, I am NOT happy right now!
I moved in with my boyfriend a few months ago, and within the last month or so, started showing signs of seperation anxiety. She's raided garbages, eaten a variety of things such as: 1/3 of a bar of soap, chewing on one of my favourite pens, (first 2 are most recent transgressions... tonight), kleenex, 2 tubes of chapstick, knocked over the answering machine... She doesn't always lash out... most of the time, she leaved the apartment intact, but every once in a while (I can't figure out what the trigger is), she decides to trash the place. I know I can't really punish her if I don't catch her in the act, and I don't know what to do short of coating the entire place in bitter apple!...
Let me just say, I am NOT happy right now!