..and *I* have separation anxiety missing my dogs!! :)

Oh dear what a muddle I am sure it will all work out for the best. How long have you been away from work or not in work? and are you returning full time?

I will be in the same boat shortly I have just i.e. Tuesday had knee surgery and will be off for at least 8 weeks so I will be in a nice routine with Bella and not sure she will appreciate me returning to work then...

Nearly ten months!! The dogs are fine with the change as we have a great dog walker and daycare to start next week but i miss them!

I feel the same Inka, at the weekend I'll be away overnight, Daisy will be fine, her most favourite person in the world is staying over , so she probably won't miss me one little bit, but this is the first time I've ever spent the night away from her, and I'll be suffering separation anxiety.

>and I'll be suffering separation anxiety

I'm smiling at that!  Whenever I've had a bitch to stay, and the owner is worried about their bitch pining, I always say the same thing.  You will miss her far more than she will miss you.  I always take visiting bitches to bed with me, I then know exactly how they are acting. 

I've only ever had one bitch that was distressed and she was demented.  The owner was not happy that I phoned her to ask her to collect her bitch.  She wanted to know if I could just make her bitch mate!  Her bitch wasn't ready, but I was then told that the bitch slept in kennels with her GSD's.  The poor thing was missing her mates, not her owner.

However, I took my bitch to be mated, and it was a long old drive, so we agreed that she would stay for a week.  Bear in mind, I had already been shown the stud dog owners bedroom and dog beds by the side of her bed.  And stayed a few hours, so knew my bitch was totally happy.  Yet, as soon as I arrived home, I phoned to see if my girl was ok, as I was already missing her.  :-)

I always worry less about leaving them (they are usually at home with family) but I hate it when they leave me!  I really do not like my house without the dogs in it.  I can manage if they are out for a walk with my husband but if we've ever had to put them in kennels or they've been staying with friends and we have a night at home before collecting them it's horrid.

My daughter often takes a deep sniff of the dogs (in a bone crunching type of hug), breathes them in, then declares this is what home is - the smell of dog...  Charming!  Although I know what she means, it's not a doggy smell in the house, but their distinctive outdoorsy, grassy, sweet earth smell that feels like coming home :)  She's 17 and just told me that I can't ever expect her to leave home without the dogs - guess she's staying home for a good few years yet then

 

> then declares this is what home is - the smell of dog

I have a plaque hung up in the house.  It says A House is not a Home without a DOG.   Know what you mean exactly.  :-)

Hope you are doing okay