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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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Staying Thankful

This is a photo I took at sunset in my little town; it’s so beautiful and a reminder to me when I see such beauty to be thankful. The world is full of exquisite and encouraging things to see if we just keep looking.

Bad stuff comes along in life and we weather it a whole lot better if we keep focused on the good things while we deal with the bad ones but don’t revel in them.

This is what I’ve found to be true in my travels throughout life, and now that I have gained many years of wisdom, it’s what I’ve learned to focus on – the good stuff.

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When the Internet was first a thing…

modern internet can take us anywhere, man traveling on a bridge

 I was one of the last teachers in my public school to begin to use the computer for anything besides as an advanced typewriter. All of we English teachers were holdouts until we were told we had to check our email daily. So I learned, and over the years since then I have gained a minimum proficiency in dealing with this modern technology, but only recently has it dawned on me that the modern internet is the equivalent of a huge, endless library of information. If you jump to tell me that the internet is full of misinformation and trashy material no one civilized should see, I can remind you that there is printed material out there of the raunchy variety as well.

(This is Part II of a post I began last week. Read Part I here.)

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Mason is Four Years Old!

mason is 4 years old

My little doggy is no longer a baby, that’s for sure!

Four in dog years is supposedly 28 in human years, so I guess he’s an adult, but I’ve probably already told you a lot of the ways he has matured. 

Last week I was gone for eleven hours one day, which is a long time for a little almost ten-pound-pet to hold his tiny bladder, but he did. I didn’t plan to leave him that long and was concerned about his ability to hold it and hoped that he was make a mistake rather than be miserable.  I think probably he was asleep all day while I was gone though, which made it easier, because he held it, but still! I am proud of him. I’m going to tell you my favorite story that illustrates bathroom problems with small dogs. I knew before I got him of that problem because almost every person I talked to with a Yorkie or a Maltese or small Poodle told me that they are the most wonderful dogs in the world, even if they do pee all over the place.

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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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