My seven month old lab follows me everywhere.  From one room to another even to the loo,  Shes not allowed upstairs but sits at the bottom until I come down again.  When I leave the house shes fine and at night theres no trouble but during the day shes like my shadow.  What can I do??

Welcome to the world of dogs, for some bizarre reason they think we're wonderful - the centre of their universe!

Mine follow me everywhere - the four of them even squeeze into the bathroom with me, it's very difficult to find an empty bit of floor to step out the bath onto :rolleyes:

Where did you think the expression 'follows me around like a wee dog' came from :D

My one year old Lab does this with me always has done yet when outside he wanders and doesnt seem to care where I am.
Gill

i've got a cheerful little follower too. he's quite happy being left alone if i have to go out (or be alone with anyone else in the house if i'm not there) but if i'm around he just likes to keep a fairly close eye on me. if i go to the lav he'll sit outside just to make sure the toilet monster hasn't finally got his clutches on me and dragged me down the u-bend but as he's got older this protection from the tm doesn't involve the strangled yipping noise and door scratching that i used to get when he was a young pup and the wrong side of the bathroom door.

nips is 9 months old and not the slightest bit neurotic or worryingly clingy,  in fact he's fast asleep across the room on my pillow, but i'm his person and he just likes to be around me and i think most dogs are the same.

I haven't been in the bathroom alone for nearly two years :rolleyes:

you get to close the door roz? wow :-D

When we first got our GR pup she followed me everywhere, cried if I went upstairs or into another room and it started to really worry me as I (in an alarmist fashion I might add) thought 'omigiod - I'm going to have a dog with major issues, separation anxiety etc etc etc'. I got some advice about repeatedly leaving the room and coming back in before she'd had a chance to get worried/upset and after a while she stopped getting upset and eventually stopped following me altogether. Which is was what I thought i wanted :( But in actual fact it made me really sad. We'd bonded very quickly (as pups do) and I felt by making her more independent that we were loosing that close bond. Anyway, long story short, she's started following me again recently - even if she's asleep and I'm only popping into the kitchen for a drink - and when I hear the jingle of her collar as she's getting up to see where I'm off to I love it. She doesn't get upset anymore, but stops whatever she's doing and when I come back from downstairs she's pleased to see me even after only 30 seconds. I absolutely love it, and we're as close as we were when she was very little.

My two Labs follow me around when they can be bothered as they would much rather snooze :D

They normally follow me when they are after something :rolleyes::rolleyes: :D

Lucy
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:) Its what Labs do....they are very loyal companions, they appreciate human contact....If she is happy to wait at the bottom of the stairs, and is content to wait until you come home etc...there is no seperation anxiety, just a loving bond between you....

It is up to you to make boundaries, and it seems you have, ie: not allowing her up stairs etc... if you do not wish her to come into the bathroom, simply teach her to stay and close the door behind you...

I can be found wandering the house with 9 trailing at my feet :D usually in the hope that there may be, just on the offchance, some food in the offing :D  but on the whole, simply happy to be my companions

Sounds like my three gordons - my English and Irish happily will carry on snoozing don't care when I go to the loo - but the gordons just have to see what am up to and come along if they can!!

Always have at least 1 outside the loo waiting for me or at the bottom of the stairs.

When they are pups they make lots of noise when left out but do grow out of having to make all the noise eventually.

It's only with me and not my OH!  It drives him mad but I think it's jealousy really!!!

I quite like it too! 

How do you not trip over 9 kayc - my three boys have been known to nearly have me off my fit whilst I try and dance out of their way!! to get through the dogblock they have done! :)

>How do you not trip over 9 kayc

Rachel....where in my post did I say I did not trip over them :D :D

In this house, tide mark for dogs, around 3ft....tide mark for steadying myself (handprints on wall) 4.5ft ;)

LOL Feel better knowing that Kay!  Don't feel better that you do trip over them - just don't feel so alone !!!  ;)

The kitchen is getting it's third paint job this year from the good ole tide mark!

My dog sort of follows me everywhere.  What she actually does is lead me everywhere so anticipates what I'm going to do. In the evenings I curl my legs under me and as soon as I swing a leg out she's up an ready to lead me out (she has to wait at doorways but as soon as I am through she's off in front again).  Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's a nuisance like when the phone is ringing and she is sauntering in front while I am trying to get past :rolleyes: :D.  As soon as I pick up the washing basket or garage key she trots to the door. 

She's perfectly happy being left too but just loves to be everywhere I am and I have accepted it.

Kay that will be 11 trailing Labradors then when we come and stay :D :D  Oh yes plus a two and a half year old in charge of them all :D Oh and some ickle puppies :D :D

Only three weeks on Saturday (or Sunday if we decide that the journey is too far and we need a overnight stay somewhere but we haven't decided yet :) )

We need a conference call soon to finalise things ;)

Lucy
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My Dobe is a true velcro dog and also follows everywhere. I admit I take it as a compliment :)

Katie

Yep, I have a velcro dobe too :-D  And am frequently falling over him! :rolleyes:

Oh yes, I always have to watch where I step! LOL

Katie

Our 2 previous Shelties used to camp outside the bathroom door particularly for my Dad.  1 of them did get lazy in the end and stopped at the top of the stairs instead ;)  When it was their 'walk time' or 'tea time' they used to be wimpering and scratching at the door but otherwise they'd just wait til you came out.

Current Sheltie girl (11 months old and still very much a pup!) gets into the bathroom before you've barely even cracked the door open, stays with whoever's in while they're in, gives the bathmat a good licking and then has to be called out by the person stood holding the door open for her.  Cats just as bad - he'll dive in the bathroom at every given opportunity :rolleyes:

Our girl also will be up and down like a yo yo throughout the day following everyone and anyone who is in the same room as her but then goes out - she just likes to see whats going on, hoover up any crumbs us humans inadvertantly drop (particularly in the kitchen) and just generally be with her human compadres :)  When washing up she lays down behind you so 9 out of 10 times there's a 'dance around the dog' when done haha

It can be a bit of a nuisance at times but IME its nice because it shows that the dog is interested in and close to its human family :)

i have to confess that it is only recently that i've been allowed in my own bathroom unaccompanied! i think nips is playing "chicken" with the upstairs toilet monster nowadays. things are a little more cluttered in the downstairs lav which doesn't have a very reliable door on it so he tends to come in, get bored and wander off again leaving me not only at the mercy of the toilet monster but also in full view of anyone breezing in through the back door and turning right into the utility area!

Well Doodle dog was adopted at around 4 yrs old and while I'm in the house never leaves my side, apart from bed time that is, but that took some doing.  I cant even go to the loo, but in all fairness she draws the line at going in the bathroom, cos she has an aversion to the bath and thinks I'll plonk her in whilst shes there.  SHe has also been know to sleep all day on my bed when Ive been ill, going down stairs reluctanly for food and wees.
If I go upstairs and shut the living room door, she whines and moans unitl my return, same if I go to get somethng from the car...great isnt it.  As far as flos is concerned, she s not bothered if Im here or not, but does make a fuss on my return

Velcro Dobe here. God forbid she miss anything!!

I am feeling very left out here.  Nobody follows me.  When the OH vacationed in Scotland for two weeks last May I hardly even knew I had a dog or cats.  I got lonely eating all my meals in isolation.  Of course, it's because the OH is the one who feeds them from his plate and sometimes even takes food out of his mouth and gives it to them.  They know I won't. 

It´s the first time that I have a dog and when my puppy started to follow me round and watching every move of me after I had her for a few weeks, I thought that was weird and felt so observed.  I told my breeder and she said, Welshies are also called velcro dog, they follow you everywhere.  She is now nine months old and I don´t mind it at all.  Although I do set boundaries, she is not allowed upstairs, or I don´t allow her to follow me downstairs all the time.  But recently I had a bath and she was all the time with me in the bathroom, wagging her tail and tried to lick off the water of my arm, it was so funny, she made me lough and that made her happy.
She is in a kennel just now, because I´m abroad to visit my parents and I miss her terribly :(

You are wicked bagpipe.....he he

Don´t make me feel worse!!!  She is in an excellent kennel and I phone every day.  They spend a great deal time with her.

You phone her every day...... Is she with orange?
No I mustn't tease. I toyed with the idea of setting up a webcam for when OH and I went on a 16 day cruise and we'd left our 22 yr old daughter and BF in charge too. My Dobegirl was never left alone, walked, played with, sleeping on their bed and still I felt terrible. I was calling from funny little phone shacks in the Carribean!

You know how your pooch likes to carry around an item of clothing you have worn?  I read once that our dirty clothes are like a photograph to them.  We carry photos and they carry our worn clothing.  So I leave worn clothing with the boarding kennel.  No, not the dirty underwear she seems to prefer.  I leave a worn sock and I warn the kennel.

I put in an old towel with her to the kennel, which I had with me in bed for a couple of nights, tucked under my nighty, in hope that helps!

No labs here but a velcro lurcher, velcro staffy x adn a velcro sprolliesation... (i got tired of typing springer, collie, gsd).... the saluki x doesnt do velcro - she would rather do stealing warm spot just vacated on sofa!

I tend to miss the dogs most if im away, when i go to the kitchen or the loo and there isnt a small furry tidal wave following me!

Em

I  know I just find it quite normal to have the dogs trailing behind me watching my every move sitting at the bottom of the stairs then when I come back down a greeting with excitement as if I had been kidnapped then returned...LOL

I dice with death everytime I walk downstairs!  The dogs just rush down with me, and one day we are all going to come a cropper and it will probably me be on the bottom of the pile of rather large dogs :D

My 2 year old dobermann follows me around, and he weeps and whines.  Sometimes I walk into a room and shut the door and leave him outside for 5 minutes - just a bit of peace and quiet.

Three velcro staffs here...at least one of them has to be in physical contact with me at any one time, at least I'm never cold! :)