Mom and Dad are retired so they don’t have to go to
work every day for long times like some of your humans do but they do go out
sometimes and leave me and DixieLee alone. We don’t like being left alone
because there is nobody to let us in and out when we want and there is
nobody at home to give us cookies.
Those are really stressful times.
Also, it is our job to help guard the house and when
our humans are gone, guarding the house is all OUR responsibility. A responsibility we take seriously.
Mom says it’s okay for them to be gone because they
will come home soon. Really? How does she know that we will not have a
Zombie Apocalypse while they are gone?
Here are some of the things we do at our house to
make being left alone less stressful.
Get
a Good Work Out.
When we are sleeping, we are not stressing. The bestest way to get a good work out is to
go for walks. We love going for walks
but long walks are not always possible especially if you live in a place like
we do where yucky weather makes going outside not always fun.
When we can’t go outside, we have exercise by
playing tug of war or Fetch Extreme. Playing Fetch Extreme is like playing
fetch but you have to run up and down the stairs. Boy, you can get tired easy when stairs are
involved. (Not recommended for dogs who are not as fit as DixieLee and me).
Soothing
sounds. We keep the television on all the time, even when
Mom and Dad are in other rooms or far away like in the yard. Some humans like music playing all the time.
So, when the television is on, we know that everything is okay. Rumor has it that there are television
stations that play dog friendly stuff all day long. I think that is a great
idea!
Puzzle
toys. Another good
idea! When we have something to keep us
busy, we forget that we are alone. I like puzzle toys but DixieLee gets
frustrated and kills them.
Secure
spaces. We love our crates!
It’s like having our own room in the house where it is ours alone. No one bothers us when we are in our
crates. They are big enough so we can
stand up and turn around and have comfy blankets and when we are left alone, we
have a caribou antler (or other safe toy) to chew on.
When we are in our crates, Mom said that we only
have to protect that space since we can’t get to other parts of the house.
Our crates are on different sides of the room but
the fronts face each other so if DixieLee and I want to talk to each other we
can, if not, we can turn our backs and not be bothered.
Hello
and Good Bye.
We’re really good at the Good Bye part since we get a treat but we do tend
to get a little over excited at the Hello. After all, we weren’t sure we would
ever see you again.
It's been days, okay, a couple of hours, who keeps
track of time, anyway it is annoying when Mom and Dad ignore our pitiful cries and
casually let us out of our crates. No
matter how much we carry on, they act like it’s not a big deal.
Being left alone is not fun but it doesn’t have to
be stressful either. Think of it as a
time when you can just chill in your special place and listen to the blah, blah, blah of
the TV guy or the singers on the radio and dream about cookies and squirrels.
Chill,
Zeva
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