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Doggy Door leads to digging
Here's my situation:
We adopted a 4 year old cocker from a rescue 4 weeks ago. Fantastic dog! Lots of personality and very smart! Me and my husband both work so we started off by leaving him in the kitchen with gates while we were gone. Well, he climbed the gates, made a mess in the house, and tore up the blinds by the front door because of separation anxiety. We decided that we couldn't leave him in the house by himself as he would make a mess and possibly hurt himself (he's a chewer too). We wanted to get him housetrained, so we decided to crate him while we were at work (unfortunately 10 hours at a time). Well, it worked and he was housetrained 3 weeks later. We both hated to leave him in a crate for 10 hours a day, (plus a few times he couldn't hold his bladder and went in his crate), so we decided to install a doggy door, gate off the kitchen (with homemade gates that he couldn't climb) and give him more freedom to go in and out of the house. He learned how to use the doggy door in about an hour and uses it like a charm now. But we've done this for a week now and every night that we've come home, he's been covered in dirt and there are holes by the fence in the backyard. I've had to wash off his paws and mop the kitchen every day. Today, I have him gated off in the kitchen with the doggy door closed, but I know he'll make a mess somewhere, but I'd rather clean that than to clean him and the whole kitchen. My guess is that he's bored. Unfortunately, I can't be at home during the day and me and my husband are both too far to come at lunchtime and let him out. I give him plenty of chew toys to play with, but he just doesn't want to be left alone. I don't want to start crating him again (esp for 10 hours!) and I don't want to come home to a mess in the kitchen every day. So I dont know what to do. Does anyone have any advice for me??? |
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