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Does your pet have 'separation anxiety'?

Vets are warning that a growing number of dogs and other pets are suffering from separation anxiety.

Many dogs are left at home alone while their owners are at work.

Sam Gaines from the RSPCA and dog behaviourist Cathy Philips tell the BBC owners may be unaware that their pet is suffering.
Video here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32014047

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chlosmum
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23-03-2015, 01:12 PM
No. Neither Georgina nor Gwylim suffer from separation anxiety and I can leave them both in the house for several hours knowing when I get back nothing will have been touched. Three years ago when I fractured my hip and was rushed to hospital, apart from a neighbour coming once a day to feed and walk them, M'boi and Chloe spent 3 days alone in the house until my son arrived from the UK. He said he thought that both of them had spent most of their time sleeping on my bed!
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CuteRotts
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Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 352
Female 
 
23-03-2015, 01:28 PM
I do worry that my 2 do (I work but come home for 45-50 minutes everyday - I only work up the road).
I doing video them occasionally and see nothing untoward.
Having said that, I have come home now to a huge fuss, and within 2 minutes they're both playing in the garden together completely ignoring me sat here! Can't miss me that much then!!
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lovemybull
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Joined: Mar 2014
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23-03-2015, 09:51 PM
Sophie all but has a visible cord connecting us. She's gotten better, she used to wind around my feet when I washed dishes. 60lbs of pooch wrapped like a boa, it was difficult sometimes. She's still always two steps behind me and whines at the bathroom door but she has made progress.
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