I'm guessing this would go here because it's behavior. Mods feel free to move it.
The back story is that I put Pepper in boarding for a week so I could move Travis to Florida (I'm still in Michigan). Soo when I picked her up, 2 big changes. A week without her routine, and daddy's missing. Oh, and I have a bad case of bronchitis, so I'm not acting like myself.
The first day home, she was tuckered out, as expected. She played in the evening, and went to bed early. That was Thursday. Since then, it seems she has caught on to daddy not coming home, and does nothing but sleep. Or it could be the boarding. She's still eating the same amount. She has also lost all of her house training. I've turned to preventive potty trips outside for the time being while I re-train her.
My question is, is this the boarding throwing her off this much, or is it the fact that an alpha from her pack is missing? We had family watch her for the same length of time when she was younger and she did fine. But both of us also came home, too.
I'm concerned because Travis is coming home in 2 months, but it will only be for 2 days. I don't want to have to do this all over again if I can prevent it.
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