Tamaskans left home alone

[SilverGhost]

Hi Folks,
I'd like to get some of your experiences with your Tams
when they are left alone in the house;)
Especially if the young Tamy has an older dog for company, which shows no kind of destroying behavior?
anyone here, who has experiences with that kind of situation?

we have a terrier (9) and he stays alone without any problems.
we never ever put him in a crate or something.
he has (when alone) excess to our bedroom, kitchen, guestroom, corridor. only the door if the lounge is closed sometimes (when he changes his coat, too hairy!!)
dont want to have to put our tamy-in-law in a crate...
i read about it that many people have to put them in a crate to protect their inventory..
is that the standard? I hope not:-/
do you think that the pup would learn from the older dog to be laid-back, too?

thanks a lot for sharing your experiences with me;)

[Rahne]

My other two dogs are very well behaved in the house. They have absolutely no problems with staying alone and don't destroy anything.
Konah however is a different story She hates staying home, I can't leave her without atleast one of the other dogs because she will start crying (howling as a wolf) as soon as I leave the door.

I don't use a crate, she hated it so I removed it very soon. I kept her in the hallway for a while untill she tried to digg herself out of it. I then kept her in the living room with a muzzle on because it was just dangerous for her, she chewed everything. At the moment I don't use it anymore, I've left her a few times now without it and so far so good!

I hardly leave her alone though, maybe 3 hours a week at the most. I try to take her with me most of the times or I will take her to my stepfather. He is the only one together with my boyfriend who can watch her when I'm not there. I tried leaving her and Guess (my other dog) with my grandmother once and she had cried for the whole 2 hours that I was gone

[Misaya]

My two stay home alone perfectly well. They are not shut in their crates although they go in and out of them as they wish. When we only had one he stayed alone without any problems:)

[Jen]

There are quite a few posts about this subject on the "Life of Makoyi" thread. As I have said on that Sasha used to be awful as a young pup and would pace , howl and destroy everything she could! However I can leave her now for a few hours as long as the is nothing she can easily chew up (comfy bed being number one!!) and she is with her best doggy mate Bea as they snuggle down together and she feels safe I think.

I gather that this breed does have a tendancy to be destructive when left and I think if you have one you have to kinda come to terms with that idea!! If you then get one that isn't then its a bonus!!

[Sylvaen]

When Jasper was young, he hated being left alone... it took a lot of practice for him to overcome his separation anxiety but it helped a lot when we got Vixen because she is older and calmer (and used/trained to being left at home for short periods). As a puppy he was very destructive, but that was while we were at home WITH him... lol (like when I'd get out of the shower and find that the living room had been destroyed in my absence: all the flower pots had been knocked over, the plants dragged all over the house and the mini CACTUS garden had been EATEN... lol) but as soon as we'd go out and leave him alone (for short periods) he would just wait by the front door and cry (hooooooooooooowl) constantly with such a sad (heartbreaking) sound. Like he'd been abandoned forever.

Once we got Vixen it was a huge improvement. He still had the tendency to howl though and the problem with that is Vixen would just naturally join in... she had nothing to howl about, but Jasper was howling, and howling is contagious, so then it sounded like a chorus of wolves... echoing throughout the building. Needless to say: neighbors were not so impressed and complained that the dogs had been howling "all day" even if I'd only gone out for 2 hours. I found a good solution, to monitor the howling situation, was to leave my computer turned on and record (with the microphone) using Audacity. So when I got home I stopped the recording and could go back to check every time they howled and for precisely how long. I saved all the audio recordings so that, if any neighbors start exaggerating about the dogs howling, especially to the police (if it came down to that) I can show them EXACTLY when the dogs howled and for how long. In the beginning it was quite bad but over time they (particularly Jasper) made great improvement.

You just have to be firm and stick with it. Now my 2 can be left for about 4 hours at a time and they usually only howl once, just after we leave, for about 3 minutes. Then they are absolutely quiet until we come home.

[Blustag]

All mine howl every morning at precisely 6am. I have never been able to stop this and even when we were living out in the forest in Finland they still did it at the same time...weird. They do howl at others times as well, and when one starts the whole lot join in. I don't know who started it off, the Huskies, Malamute or the Tamaskan but now everyone does it as they all copy each other. The wolves in Finland used to start them off answering them which was lovely to hear but not here in the UK as there's always some house or other in the distance that can hear them

[Nino]

All mine howl every morning at precisely 6am. I have never been able to stop this and even when we were living out in the forest in Finland they still did it at the same time...weird. They do howl at others times as well, and when one starts the whole lot join in. I don't know who started it off, the Huskies, Malamute or the Tamaskan but now everyone does it as they all copy each other. The wolves in Finland used to start them off answering them which was lovely to hear but not here in the UK as there's always some house or other in the distance that can hear them

Did the time difference make a difference?
I mean, Finland is about 2 hours ahead of UK (right?) so if they did it at 6 in GB do they do it at 8 or at 6 in Finland ..

Its pretty funny

[Blustag]

haha...nope they did it at 6am Finnish time and you are right they are 2 hours ahead of UK.

[Misaya]

Mine rarely howl. Ayasca occasionally joins in with the phone if its ringing. I dont think I've ever heard Mischa do it at all.

They do whine though

[freshbake]

Hi!

I have one tamaskan and she is 1 year old. We've been practicing leaving her home for short amounts of time. For the first approximately 10 times things went well and she was able to stay 30-45 minutes alone without getting into anything but now she has started to get into things every time she is left alone.

Did you find any strategies that worked to help the dog be successful staying home alone? Ex. located to one room, etc. or did you find that the only thing that helped a tamaskan to eliminate mischievous/destructive beahvior was to get a 2nd dog?

I'm just curious because I worry that if I did get a second dog as company/pack member that my tamaskan would still exhibit that mischievous/destructive behavior even with another dog in the home.

Thanks for your input!

[Katlin]

Wylie is home alone for 2-4 hours every day. When I put him in the crate he'd poop everywhere and smear it on himself and the crate soooo we stopped doing that . I puppy-proofed my room and now he stays there, at 16 months he'll sleep on my bed and I give him some cardboard tubes to rip up and some bones to munch on. Haven't had a problem in months

[freshbake]

Wylie is home alone for 2-4 hours every day. When I put him in the crate he'd poop everywhere and smear it on himself and the crate soooo we stopped doing that . I puppy-proofed my room and now he stays there, at 16 months he'll sleep on my bed and I give him some cardboard tubes to rip up and some bones to munch on. Haven't had a problem in months

Thanks for your input! She does really well going in the crate for our work day but we were hoping that as she got older we could increase her time left home alone without the need for the crate, we just aren't there yet..

[Riyan17]

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[niladri]

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[benjamin111]

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