Hi ,
A good walk in the morning and at night time will help to settle her
down (if you don't already do this ). You could arrange a dog walker
to walk her at lunch time . Maybe she finds it boring being on her own
for a long time . It could be a lot worse though , some dogs can be
destructive when left.
Alison

"Mr B" wrote in message
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Howdy,

Looking for suggestions on what we can try for this situation.

We have a 2 year old Golden Retriever (Belle) that we've had for
about a year. My wife and I both
worked fulltime for a while and she didn't have any problems with us
being gone all day. Then I
worked from home for about 8 months so she got used to me being
there. I am now working outside the
house fulltime again. My wife leaves the house after I do and when
Belle sees her getting ready to
go, she used to come say goodbye and we'd give her some treats in a
Kong to keep her busy for a few
minutes.

Now when my wife gets ready, Belle goes and lays down in a corner in
another room. She is obviously
feeling very lonely or neglected or something. We try to play with
her every evening and on
weekends but we have to go to work so there's not much we can do
about that.

We have thought about getting another dog so they could keep each
other company, but Belle is such a
People-Dog (couldn't care less about most other dogs) that we're not
even sure that would have any
affect at all.

Anyone have any suggestions on anything we can try so we aren't
treated to a very sad looking dog
every time we leave the house?

Thanks.