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I have a Male German Shepard who is 16 months old (Dee-Oh-Gee). I also have a 2 year old Yellow Lab(Rastus). They are good friends and that is part of the problem. I walk Rastus every morning. Do to some current growth problems I am not walking Dee-O-Gee.

When I leave with Rastus Dee-Oh-Gee howls, barks and whines almost the entire time we are gone. My neighbors have complained and it is very anoying.

Dee-Oh-Gee has never been alone. When we brought him home he was with me all day every day for the first six months. When he went outside Rastus was there with him. He doesn't even like it when I let Rastus play in the front yard without him.

Any advice or reading recorces would be greatly appreciated.

Scootter

>>I have a Male German Shepard who is 16 months old (Dee-Oh-Gee). I also have a 2 year old Yellow Lab(Rastus). They are good friends and that is part of the problem. I walk Rastus every morning. Do to some current growth problems I am not walking Dee-O-Gee.
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>>When I leave with Rastus Dee-Oh-Gee howls, barks and whines almost the entire time we are gone. My neighbors have complained and it is very anoying.
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>>Dee-Oh-Gee has never been alone. When we brought him home he was with me all day every day for the first six months. When he went outside Rastus was there with him. He doesn't even like it when I let Rastus play in the front yard without him.
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>>Any advice or reading recorces would be greatly appreciated.
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>>Scootter

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For their own future welfare, they need to learn to be apart, and the dog who isn't used to being alone needs to learn to be alone. It's emotionally crippling for a dog to have this problem, and things can happen in life that make this problem a threat to his survival. You will want to work him through this. Perhaps if you worked with a behavior specialist on it, your neighbors would be understanding that you were doing something about it. Or it might be easier to move--that's what I did!
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Kathy Diamond Davis, author, "Therapy Dogs: Training Your Dog to Reach Others," 2nd edition, and the free Canine Behavior Series at www.veterinaryforum.com

We're trying to move!

Is there any reading matterial I could find. We don't have the money for a dog specialist to work with him.

Thanks,
Scootter

>>I have a Male German Shepard who is 16 months old (Dee-Oh-Gee). I also have a 2 year old Yellow Lab(Rastus). They are good friends and that is part of the problem. I walk Rastus every morning. Do to some current growth problems I am not walking Dee-O-Gee.
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>>When I leave with Rastus Dee-Oh-Gee howls, barks and whines almost the entire time we are gone. My neighbors have complained and it is very anoying.
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>>Dee-Oh-Gee has never been alone. When we brought him home he was with me all day every day for the first six months. When he went outside Rastus was there with him. He doesn't even like it when I let Rastus play in the front yard without him.
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>>Any advice or reading recorces would be greatly appreciated.
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>>Scootter

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I don't know what you could do to keep the dog quiet while he is alone in this situation. If the neighbors are complaining, your best bet may be to just not take the other dog out without Rastus until you can move, unless someone can stay with Rastus and keep him quiet while you are gone. The law about the noise is very strict, and giving up the walks for a time would be better than having to give up your dogs. There just is no magic cure for this.
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Kathy Diamond Davis, author, "Therapy Dogs: Training Your Dog to Reach Others," 2nd edition, and the free Canine Behavior Series at www.veterinaryforum.com

I live in a town with less then 1000 people and around 500 dogs. It's a little valley town with one Barney Fife cop. The law as he stated it to me simply says the noise can't be annoying or disturbing to any one, purty open to interpitation. He told me this after my next door neighbor stopped mowing the lawn in the middle of the afternoon to call him. Yup, stopped an operation that was making more noise then my dog makes so she could complain. Who's annoying Who?

Any way, I'm walking Rastus as much for me as for him. during the time I walk him only one neighbor is home and he's never complained. I just want to know how to fix it so Dee-Oh-Gee doesn't have this problem. Not to keep my idiot neighbors from complaining.

Thanks Again,
Scootter

>>I live in a town with less then 1000 people and around 500 dogs. It's a little valley town with one Barney Fife cop. The law as he stated it to me simply says the noise can't be annoying or disturbing to any one, purty open to interpitation. He told me this after my next door neighbor stopped mowing the lawn in the middle of the afternoon to call him. Yup, stopped an operation that was making more noise then my dog makes so she could complain. Who's annoying Who?
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>>Any way, I'm walking Rastus as much for me as for him. during the time I walk him only one neighbor is home and he's never complained. I just want to know how to fix it so Dee-Oh-Gee doesn't have this problem. Not to keep my idiot neighbors from complaining.
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>>Thanks Again,
>>Scootter

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Just give him a treat-stuffed toy when you go out the door with the other dog. And make a point of spending one-on-one time with him that he can learn to count on.
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Kathy Diamond Davis, author, "Therapy Dogs: Training Your Dog to Reach Others," 2nd edition, and the free Canine Behavior Series at www.veterinaryforum.com