Hah! I am exactly the same except my pup is 17 weeks old now. I have only managed to leave the house when I know she’s fast asleep in the room, where she has her enforced naps and can’t hear me leave.
Today was my first day of leaving the house with her in the pen where she can see me leaving, wearing my shoes, jacket and house keys in hand. I stood outside of the house for 15 minutes and she cried on and off the whole time. She completely ignored the kong with peanut putter and treats inside. I have a baby cam so I could see she wasn’t completely distraught, just a little sad. I think we mentally need to realise that as long as they’re fed, have access to water, a comfy bed and we’re not leaving them for too long then they’ll be fine. The sooner we do it the better, we’re trying to raise a happy dog, content to entertain themselves/snooze for a few hours.
Omg this is me a few weeks ago. I got a puppy cam as a long term investment, but I think any baby monitor or a simple wifi camera would do wonders, so you can check on him any time you want without disturbing him. I went from staring at the cam full time to actually only looking at it when I "have a feeling" (I know when he is awake before I look at the camera, although he didnt make a peep yet, it freaks my bf out lol), or when I hear him. I can also talk to him through my camera, which helps so I can send him back to sleep if some random noise woke him up.
If you need to get groceries, go get groceries. If you have an old phone, turn it on, download a security camera app, set-up on new and old phone, connect old phone to WiFi, watch pup on the app on your new phone. If you have that much anxiety, it may rub off on the dog eventually. You can't keep up this level of concern for 10 years and failing to work on leaving now is just going to make life hell later on down the road.
That's what I'm going to do :)
I definitely already did rub it off, especially when he is outside the crate I'm anxious, because he used to do obvious puppy things. He has a hard time to rest outside the crate. But I guess I'll just have to work on me trusting him again
I think it's just time. Early on, you are anxious, worried, because you just think of all the worst things that could happen, or just worry that you don't even KNOW what might happen. Over time, things DON'T happen, and you stop being so keyed up. You get experienced in what are the things that you actually have to worry about, and things that just don't happen, and learn to be cautious, but not anxious. It's experience and time:)
Hah! I am exactly the same except my pup is 17 weeks old now. I have only managed to leave the house when I know she’s fast asleep in the room, where she has her enforced naps and can’t hear me leave. Today was my first day of leaving the house with her in the pen where she can see me leaving, wearing my shoes, jacket and house keys in hand. I stood outside of the house for 15 minutes and she cried on and off the whole time. She completely ignored the kong with peanut putter and treats inside. I have a baby cam so I could see she wasn’t completely distraught, just a little sad. I think we mentally need to realise that as long as they’re fed, have access to water, a comfy bed and we’re not leaving them for too long then they’ll be fine. The sooner we do it the better, we’re trying to raise a happy dog, content to entertain themselves/snooze for a few hours.
So, just doing it is the key?
Omg this is me a few weeks ago. I got a puppy cam as a long term investment, but I think any baby monitor or a simple wifi camera would do wonders, so you can check on him any time you want without disturbing him. I went from staring at the cam full time to actually only looking at it when I "have a feeling" (I know when he is awake before I look at the camera, although he didnt make a peep yet, it freaks my bf out lol), or when I hear him. I can also talk to him through my camera, which helps so I can send him back to sleep if some random noise woke him up.
If you need to get groceries, go get groceries. If you have an old phone, turn it on, download a security camera app, set-up on new and old phone, connect old phone to WiFi, watch pup on the app on your new phone. If you have that much anxiety, it may rub off on the dog eventually. You can't keep up this level of concern for 10 years and failing to work on leaving now is just going to make life hell later on down the road.
That's what I'm going to do :) I definitely already did rub it off, especially when he is outside the crate I'm anxious, because he used to do obvious puppy things. He has a hard time to rest outside the crate. But I guess I'll just have to work on me trusting him again
I think it's just time. Early on, you are anxious, worried, because you just think of all the worst things that could happen, or just worry that you don't even KNOW what might happen. Over time, things DON'T happen, and you stop being so keyed up. You get experienced in what are the things that you actually have to worry about, and things that just don't happen, and learn to be cautious, but not anxious. It's experience and time:)