Pretty Flamingo
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Hi, my daughter lives overseas in an apartment. Strangely she was given advice by the dog rescue centre that as she worked all day and therefore was away from her home for 9 hours, it is ok to have a small dog. Personally I was against it but of course I can't tell her anything - she is stubborn and an adult! She spends all her time with the dog, it wants for nothing, and she loves it to bits obviously. Stanley is his name, a Yorkshire Terrier.
He is about two years old and was rescued from a house with nineteen other dogs and is very timid, terrified of people and hides under her bed when a visitor drops by. He won't play with other dogs and just sits by her side when out. Neither will he play with toys. He is by all accounts lovely, and is happy but she wants him to get company and exercise, of course, mid-way through the day when she is at work. He won't accept the dog walker coming to collect him even though he has had an opportunity to get to know him from a visit and even though no other dogs would be walked at the same time.
My daughter is frustrated as she knows it is no good for Stanley to be alone.
Again let me say I tried to persuade her not to get a dog but she went ahead knowing that a dog walker could be used if she found one she trusted.
I suppose in a way I am just sounding-off, a bit of a rant as it were. I gather a lot of you may have good experience with dogs, or even use them as working dogs, but provided a dog is ok at being alone for 9 hours in a day and doesn't have an accident, what are your views on leaving a dog for that length of time if the dog simply will not accept being taken out by a dog-walker?
Thanking you in advance for any replies.
He is about two years old and was rescued from a house with nineteen other dogs and is very timid, terrified of people and hides under her bed when a visitor drops by. He won't play with other dogs and just sits by her side when out. Neither will he play with toys. He is by all accounts lovely, and is happy but she wants him to get company and exercise, of course, mid-way through the day when she is at work. He won't accept the dog walker coming to collect him even though he has had an opportunity to get to know him from a visit and even though no other dogs would be walked at the same time.
My daughter is frustrated as she knows it is no good for Stanley to be alone.
Again let me say I tried to persuade her not to get a dog but she went ahead knowing that a dog walker could be used if she found one she trusted.
I suppose in a way I am just sounding-off, a bit of a rant as it were. I gather a lot of you may have good experience with dogs, or even use them as working dogs, but provided a dog is ok at being alone for 9 hours in a day and doesn't have an accident, what are your views on leaving a dog for that length of time if the dog simply will not accept being taken out by a dog-walker?
Thanking you in advance for any replies.