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Location: Sheffield
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Separation Anxiety?
Ok, I hate to say it but I've gone wrong somewhere and Takara hates being left, sometimes she's ok, other times she absolutely goes hell for leather at the door.
I read an article in Your Dog this month about someone who was told their dog had SA due to dominance. He was so worried about the rest of the family as he felt the need to protect them so hated not knowing where they were.
Takara is a pretty happy girl, but she does feel the need to protect us. If nobody is in, she is quiet when people come to the door, if we are in, she goes mental, not aggressive but sounds off until she knows who it is.
Thing is, I do a lot of stuff with her to make her know that I'm leader, not her, but it doesn't seem to help this.
She waits until I say 'paid for' before eating, she obeys me, she is not allowed on furniture, she has to sit and wait while I take her lead off and is only allowed to leave her spot when I say 'go on then' and she sits and waits at the door until I've gone through.
Is there anything else I should be doing?! I feel so stuck - do you think it's because she wants to protect us that she is getting so worried? At the moment she's quite happily laid in the kitchen but when I first go she goes mental, opens the kitchen door and cries and scrabbles at the stairgate trying to get to me. If I let her come upstairs with me, she chooses to be downstairs.