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Separation Anxiety Solutions

separation anxiety solutions for dogs

Anyway, about the separation anxiety. I was gone into Raleigh for five or six hours one day and left Mason with my Mother. When I got back she told me that he ran from his favorite window where he can see everything to the door I would come through when I returned, over and over, back and forth. He would not eat anything she offered him, including special treats I had left that he usually loved. When I got back home, he would not leave my side, even went with me to the bathroom, waited for me outside the shower, watched me as I walked from my desk to the kitchen and back, and got into my lap as often as possible.

(If you missed last week, this is part two in a two part article series. Read part one here.)

I knew that I needed to take Mason to see our favorite vet, Dr. Potosky, to see if she had some separation anxiety solutions for us to try out.

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Separation Anxiety in Dogs

For this week’s article and the next I want to talk about separation anxiety in dogs; something that lots of loyal pups can suffer from. But first a story (you know how I love stories).

A sad Labrador retriever is not my dog, but this does give you an idea of how he sometimes looks when I leave my house even for a couple of hours these days. It’s a byproduct of my staying home almost all of the time for the last 2 ½ months.

When the coronavirus hit and we were told to stay home, I did, and Mason has had me with him almost constantly ever since.  We have sat in the house as I read, watched movies, did some writing, all of this with him living up to the Yorkie’s designation as a lapdog.

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Being Thankful During Coronavirus

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First of all, since this is supposed to be a blog about my dog and it mostly is, I’ll tell you how thankful I am for little Mason.

During these long days of very little contact with other humans except my mother, who is wonderful, and I live with her, but I do miss other people, people outside my living environment, but anyway, I have my loyal, loving little dog, who lives for me and is right behind me everywhere I go. When the weather is nice, and it has been perfectly beautiful this week, he and I take long walks. Sometimes he gets tired and I carry him part of the way, so he’s my ten-pound weight to strengthen my  arms.

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Ladybugs!

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I know this is a dog blog, mostly, but sometimes I’m going to talk about other things, interesting things to me, and I hope to you as well.  I have been fascinated by ladybugs since I discovered that they are sold in places like Lowe’s Home Improvement and other stores with everything you could possibly need for your garden. Ladybugs are sold in the same area as pesticides because they are a type of living pest control!

Ladybugs are great for your rosebushes because their favorite food is aphids, which are tiny little insects that devour roses! And there is absolutely no downside to ladybugs. Besides all that, they are cute. I tell you all of this because they get inside our houses or apartments when winter comes. I looked this topic up on the internet because I wanted to find out more, and some of what I read amazed me.

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