Too Dependant

[lynmumtosam]

My Sam is fine when I go to work will sit on the stairs waiting for a kiss as I pick up my work bag .
On her own about 4 hours no problems at all.
But on days when I work late ,Mum in law comes and spends the day with her but she will start to warble and drum her feet if im exceptionally late.
It as if she can tell the time. Always a velcro fur baby when we arrive home will ignore everyone else until she has. Had her fuss from me.

[mitches]

Our 18 week puppy is the same, follows us about everywhere or cries if we leave her in a different room for 2 mins!
I thought she would grow out of this but judging by the other replies seems not!!

[JennyBee]

Think I have one of the few dogs who isn't like this - probably as she's too lazy . She will sometimes follow me around, but more as she is nosy and thinks she might be able to steal something  . She usually sleeps downstairs on the sofa at night, despite me giving her the option of coming up with me... When she does come up, she tends to sleep on the bed in the spare room!

Don't get me wrong, she can be very clingy and does like to be with me, but she definitely isn't a Velcro dog. Why follow me about the house when she can snooze on the sofa

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

Charlie walks that close behind me that his nose ends up on the back of my knees and his feet on the back of my slippers. He's always there, his nose is in everything first...I do nothing alone at home anymore. Would I swap it? Not a chance   

[butterflywings21]

TILLY made me laugh out loud the other day. She was off lead and I had looked behind me to see where she was. Couldn't see her so I thought don't panic she won't be far. Couldn't see her so looked around to my right but still no sign so I called her, again nothing. Started to walk off but suddenly caught a glance of her sitting to my left looking at me in her funny look as if to say " really mum I have been here the whole time". I had to laugh out loud. I made a real fuss of her but I think she thought idiot.  This has happened a few times where I think she is exploring but she's right by me walking.

[HBP]

TILLY made me laugh out loud the other day. She was off lead and I had looked behind me to see where she was. Couldn't see her so I thought don't panic she won't be far. Couldn't see her so looked around to my right but still no sign so I called her, again nothing. Started to walk off but suddenly caught a glance of her sitting to my left looking at me in her funny look as if to say " really mum I have been here the whole time". I had to laugh out loud. I made a real fuss of her but I think she thought idiot.  This has happened a few times where I think she is exploring but she's right by me walking.

I've done that so many times  Screaming his name panic stricken and he's stood at my side looking quizzically up at me the whole time 

[Emilyoliver]

I call mine 'the millies' as they're always wherever I am, milling around right under my feet.

[Murphys Law]

The only time Murphy shows any independence is when on off lead walks, just when I would like him to be more dependent

[bambino chicino]

Tee hee  so funny reading some of your comments.
I have started now shutting doors behind me, even if its only for a minute so that he knows I always come back. He does cry and has scratched at the doors but not in the manic way he did when he was a small puppy..
I came home early today and sadly I found him howling and scratching at the doors to get out. I hate hearing him howl, its horrible but Im just hoping that he heard the car or the front door and that he hadnt been doing that all day 
I had to go out to pick hubby up and I told him not to make any fuss of Charlie, even when we were in the car and this carried on when we got home. We always try to make a minimum of fuss when we come home to him (Which is extremely difficult!) and we will carry this on in future and will continue to shut doors in the hope that he does manage to undo his velcro just a little bit!! x x

[EmmaG82]

Jack is happy if we put him in the kitchen and close the door, I usually leave him with a couple of toys and the radio on but if we are just in the house pottering around he wants to be with us, he doesn't stray far. If we go out, when we come back and open the kitchen door he's always just stretching himself out as if to get himself ready for all the following around he will have to now do!

[Welsh cocker]

Tee hee  so funny reading some of your comments.
I have started now shutting doors behind me, even if its only for a minute so that he knows I always come back. He does cry and has scratched at the doors but not in the manic way he did when he was a small puppy..
I came home early today and sadly I found him howling and scratching at the doors to get out. I hate hearing him howl, its horrible but Im just hoping that he heard the car or the front door and that he hadnt been doing that all day 
I had to go out to pick hubby up and I told him not to make any fuss of Charlie, even when we were in the car and this carried on when we got home. We always try to make a minimum of fuss when we come home to him (Which is extremely difficult!) and we will carry this on in future and will continue to shut doors in the hope that he does manage to undo his velcro just a little bit!! x x

Just wanted to offer a little hope. Wilma would cry and howl when left home alone (I left camcorder on to film it...it was heartbreaking    ) but this has improved considerably in past month. She now howls for 30 seconds max, after finishing her kong ball, and then will settle down to sleep or chew a toy. Not a peep for 3 1/2 hrs! I haven't let her longer yet 
However, if I'm in the house....no chance 
Making minimal fuss on return did help and when I slack on this I notice a deterioration in her progress. She's 20 weeks now   

[ShazzaC]

This thread is making me smile...I was discussing the same thing with my husband the other day. Blue doesn't get left for more than 3 hours max at a time during the day, and not very often. But he's happy enough in his crate. However, he is rarely in a different room from me when I'm home. We can have a big walk, come home, dry off and you think he'll just crash out. Nope. If I move, he moves. There might be the remote chance of food after all 
He'll settle happily at night all night downstairs though! Funny thing 

[bambino chicino]

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Just wanted to offer a little hope. Wilma would cry and howl when left home alone (I left camcorder on to film it...it was heartbreaking    ) but this has improved considerably in past month. She now howls for 30 seconds max, after finishing her kong ball, and then will settle down to sleep or chew a toy. Not a peep for 3 1/2 hrs! I haven't let her longer yet 
However, if I'm in the house....no chance 
Making minimal fuss on return did help and when I slack on this I notice a deterioration in her progress. She's 20 weeks now   
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Aww thanks thats very reassuring :-) and it makes me think that closing doors and cutting down on the fuss will hopefully make him better in the long run. What I have noticed is that he is so much better now if just one of us leaves. I used to have to practically hold Charlie still to calm him down and he would spend ten minutes crying and scratching the door, especially if my husband went out. Then he added jumping up at the window to this. Now though, this is all much, much calmer and if he does cry, its for out twenty seconds. He might look longingly out of the window but its more like hopeful as opposed to manic x x

[Charlie Pup]

The only time Murphy shows any independence is when on off lead walks, just when I would like him to be more dependent

Exactly what my Charlie does, he's like a little sucker during the day and will only have a rest if he is in his crate with the door closed, however his recall, is new and pretty non existent and everything outside of the house is far more exciting that me