The reason we think Jameson has seperation anxiety is because when we would leave in the morning - we'd come home to find items we touched the night before moved around the house. Or a shirt that was just washed and on a chair to dry would be moved from to where Jameson's bed was. He also likes to take the dish cloth off of the oven and move it to the other room. This would happen with blankets and pillows as well. We do shut all bedroom / bathroom doors while we're gone and move remotes from harms way. Could I be wrong about the seperation anxiety? Does he just need to be kenneled to get used to the rules of our house?
To help with the seperation anxiety at night and while we're home, we randomly will put on our coats and shoes, get the keys and have Jameson lay down on his bed. Then we'll walk out in the garage and stay out there for a few minutes. We've been gradually staying out there longer and longer to help him get used to being home alone. He seems to be responding to this and getting better about us being gone.
I do have concerns about leaving him unkenneled at my parents house with both the other dogs around. I'm afraid the 4 year old dog (Harley) is making Jamo anxious - we visit my parents house for one weekend a month and sometimes Harley is there and sometimes he isn't. Jamo has been left alone with Toby (the 14 year old dog) and there weren't any problems. This last time all 3 dogs were left home along together and Jamo ate the 2 remotes.
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