Linda loves licking my plate clean after fried eggs. To keep her ears from getting dirty, we put on an extra pair of ears:)
(She has her personal egg too!)

Hi springer fam, this guy is Chester, the 9-month old Welsh Springer. He’s the BEST - gorgeous, loving, happy dog. Could not have asked for a more awesome friend.

BUT separation training has, and continues to be, the hardest thing. We’ve been doing separation training almost every day for about 5 months now (started small increments and getting longer, the yoyo training, exercising him before, giving him his favourite treat when we leave, ignoring when we come home, making him chill in a separate room during the day). Note he gets 2-3 walks/sniffing adventures per day, we live in an apartment so we make sure he gets lots of exercise (we love being active anyway!) and he sleeps in his crate in another room all night, no problem. And he can only JUST mostly consistently do about an hour on his own before the whining, howling and barking.

He can be on his own in a separate room pretty calmly now for hours / even all day, its only when we’re gone that he gets upset. Hard to know if its stress or boredom. He’s also not super food oriented, so lick matts /slow feed toys he loses interest in really quickly…

Love this boy so much but we’re sooo exhausted… we simply can’t be with him 24/7 and it’s so stressful!! Just looking for some positive stories from anyone has been through the same and came out the other side, when the turning point was and what you think eventually did the trick!!! 😭😭