My Mistress has been reading a book about separation anxiety in dogs and I have to admit as a breed we don\u2019t come out well. I suppose it\u2019s not that surprising that Entlebuchers commonly suffer separation anxiety when it is out nature to stick to our main human like glue. The book made my Mistress laugh in places \u2018Does your dog sit outside the bathroom while you are in there?\u2019 She was able to answer quite honestly \u2018no\u2019. That however is not because we stayed wherever we were before she went to the bathroom, it\u2019s because we are in the bathroom with her! \u2018Does your dog lie in the hallway?\u2019 Again \u2018no\u2019, but not because we are balances individuals off doing our own thing and not keeping tabs on our human. It\u2019s because we will be sitting where we can actually touch our human and so know exactly where they are. Our attachment to our main human has, rather unkindly in my opinion, been described by some as \u2018pathological\u2019. I prefer to think of us as \u2018superglue dogs\u2019. We will stick to our human in all eventualities. Oh, you can train us to be ok without you for short periods of time, but you need to know what makes us feel safe when we can\u2019t hold your hand with our paw. For me, it\u2019s being in my crate, which is my favourite place in all the world if I can\u2019t be sitting with our Mistress. For Shadow it\u2019s the snug and for Alfie it\u2019s our Mistress\u2019s bed, where he can smell her and know she\u2019s not so very far away. Of course, we quite like going into kennels as she got us used to that slowly and we love the people there too, but we\u2019re always happier if there are two of us, rather than one, and you should see the bruises we give our Mistress when she comes to collect us!<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Here\u2019s a photo of our Mistress with my Mum from the other day.<\/p>\n