Hi, so these might seem like a few dumb and easy to answer questions, but here goes.
I have a 6 month old lab x staffie, and since day 1 we have crate trained him, however this was only done during his night time routine. He has never been left home alone for more than 45-60mins. Right now its not really a massive problem for me since i work from home, however i soon plan changing my job meaning that i wont be home all day everyday.
our other 2 old dogs have basically been left home alone since they where very young pups and we never had a issue with them being home alone, so I'm not 100% sure on how to deal with this issue and get the young pup used to being home alone.
The dogs all sleep in the utlitly room (3 crates all with the doors removed so they can walk in and out of there beds when ever they like + a flap to the garden which is closed at night).
I was just wondering if you guys would think that its a good idea to start leaving the pup in the utility room by himself for regular intervals throughout the day, and eventually make it so the access to the garden is shut off.
A behaviourist told me that i should close of the access to the garden, and leave the pup in the utility room for 5 mins every hour/ every other hour, so would it be fine to slowly increase the duration?
I was thinking of trying to put him in there for a hour in the morning, a hour at lunch and a hour in the evening, any suggestions or recommendations would be great. thank you.
I have a 6 month old lab x staffie, and since day 1 we have crate trained him, however this was only done during his night time routine. He has never been left home alone for more than 45-60mins. Right now its not really a massive problem for me since i work from home, however i soon plan changing my job meaning that i wont be home all day everyday.
our other 2 old dogs have basically been left home alone since they where very young pups and we never had a issue with them being home alone, so I'm not 100% sure on how to deal with this issue and get the young pup used to being home alone.
The dogs all sleep in the utlitly room (3 crates all with the doors removed so they can walk in and out of there beds when ever they like + a flap to the garden which is closed at night).
I was just wondering if you guys would think that its a good idea to start leaving the pup in the utility room by himself for regular intervals throughout the day, and eventually make it so the access to the garden is shut off.
A behaviourist told me that i should close of the access to the garden, and leave the pup in the utility room for 5 mins every hour/ every other hour, so would it be fine to slowly increase the duration?
I was thinking of trying to put him in there for a hour in the morning, a hour at lunch and a hour in the evening, any suggestions or recommendations would be great. thank you.