too attatched???
 Is it ok for her to be sooo attatched to me?? |
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| Okay or not, it is. I have one too - my husband held her Sunday while I laid some track for her and she acted like I had abandoned her - all the while I was no more than 50 yards away!!! when I came back she gave me what for as well - so much for paying attention to the tracking. We had to work to get her to move out to the sheep in herding, she originally had a 50 foot bubble and couldn't be any further away from me.
I try to pay as little attention to her as possible when I come home from work - she is crazed that I "reappeared" but I know making a fuss will only make it worse. let your friends carry really good treats and coax her away and see if that helps - if it does I'll try it  |
| My Aussie, Asia, is very much like that, very attached to me. It took us a while before she would go out in the van with my hubby without me coming along. When they(Chuck/3dogs) get ready to leave, Asia always keeps running back to me tellimg me to hurry up. I tell her I'm not going and I walk to the garage door, she jumps in and I wave good bye. She is getting better about it, but does like to have me "in her sights." sigh. |
| Asterisk is like that, too. She is always at my side. When we go to the dog park, she always has to know where I am. Once, I left the spot I was at to clean up her mess she made. She must have went right past me without knowing. When she couldn't 'find' me, she went right to the spot I had been standing at and was looking frantically. When I came back to her, she acted as though she hadn't seen me in years (I really was only gone for less than a minute to throw away the waste).
She won't go in the car with Josh unless I'm in the car too, she just cries and cries. |
| I feel so wanted and loved I just don't know if it is healthy or not ??!! |
| probably not - which is why we all offerred solutions or empathized. consider that the CGC requires a three minute out of site - ostensibly to prove that if you were in an accident or something with your dog along someone else could hold your dog and it wouldn't get injured.
Your reaction probably feeds into hers. |
Quote: Is it ok for her to be sooo attatched to me??
Yikes! that is a typical Patch reaction. She will pull out my friends' armpits to get to me. I once was walking with her on the trail at the dog park and she went ahead of me running and playing. I stopped behind a huge cedar to talk to some friends and she came off the trail panicked because she couldn't see me - she ran to the gate to see if I left her, then to the benches, etc etc, all of this was about 20 seconds long before I called to her - she ran to me like she was never going to see me again. I never leave home unless I tell her and then she is fine - she loves her home so is quite comfortable in her own surroundings. Maybe because she lived in 5 different places in 1 year before finding her home here, I don't know. She is my velcro girl, but that is just her way. |
| All Old English Sheepdog owners, please remember that these dogs are always at work, they anticipate the commends and your behaviour. They are your live partners amoung other your live partners. |
In my house we call them the "velco dogs". Both of mine follow me around like we are attached at the hip. The older one, now 2 and a half, has gotten better. But the baby, just turned 1, is at my side wherever I go 
We do practice a little exercise you might want to try. I put them both in a down/ stay and step back. They stay, reward with a treat and a repeat of stay. Then I walk out of sight for a split second and return. Treat. Little by little I increase the time I am out of their sight ( or at least further away ). Just to get them used to the idea that its okay if I walk away without them. I will return!
I sort of like the idea that my dogs stay close. Guess you can call me an "enabler"  |
my duffy is the same way can:t even go to the bathroom  |
| Whenever I go to the bathroom, that is the signal to the dogs that an important meeting is being convened...stop whatever you're doing and rush to attend.
If I dare close the door, there would be scratching and whining and Sammy would try to head-butt it open. You think I was deliberately depriving them of the best thing in the world! |
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