when I am not at home

[weimlt]

When I am not at home, my otherwise perfectly obedient 7-month-old boy, decides that our bed is there for his naptime.

Since there's no point in explaining this to him when I get home (too late for finger-waving) does anyone have any ideas how to deal with such issue?

He really understands that "human" places are off limits for him when we are home, but what to do when we leave for a couple of hours?

He does have toys, kongs, pig-ears and other things to occupy his time and he's usually tired from running and playing outside, so a nap on our bed looks very inviting to him, understandably so

[ennu]

Hi,

Have you yet found a solution for your problem?
We have several things our 15-month male weim does at home we are at work. To mention a few...
- opening kitchen cabinets and drawers
- if the last one out the house forgot the bin, it will be all around the living room and all eatable eaten.
- eating the tips of leather shoes, if any available (I've learned to put them out of reach after 7 destroyed pairs...
- taking everything eatable of the kitchen table, fruit, bread etc....
- pulling coats from the rack and sleeping on them...
and the newest thing opening the Freezer! not nice to have a melted freezer every day..

He never does any of this stuff when we are at home so we are never able to catch him in action and this makes it hard to school him from this bad behaviour.

He is left home, with fresh bones, kongs, radio on and other activities but it doesn't allways seem to help.

Some days he has been an angel and nothing bad has been done and some days its total chaos. But some things like the bin door will be opened every day to just to be sure if they forgot to take it out...

I know, that my dog might suffer from very mild separation anxiety, but I hope that this might be just a thing that he will grow out of... hopefully.

Does anybody have similar experiences?

[Wetdog]

Ennu----you need to either crate your boy, or create a room for him to be in where he can't get into mischief.

As for the door to the trash and other things---check in a hardware store, you should be able to find some cabinet locks to keep him from getting into things.

[weimlt]

Dear Ennu--

I find that taking out my now 1.2 old pup for a good hour of play time with other dogs does the trick, he's warn out and sleeps when left alone.

[tasha]

I have dog gates up so that they know which rooms they can have access to and those which they can't but they can easily clear them so to make sure I shut the bedroom door.

Hope your boy realises your comfy bed is not his because they can take up ALL the room!!