We have a 5 month old mini schnauzer who is generally a great dog. She is pretty good with her crate, she sleeps in there overnight and we usually put her in for at least one crate nap during the day (of 1-1.5 hours) and sometimes we can get her to go in a second time. If we need to go out we can put her in the crate but we try to wait til she is asleep in there and “sneak out” LOL.
However, we are trying to set up a pen kind of situation where we can leave her for longer stretches. We have a room which opens on to our balcony where she has a patch of grass for potty and we have a baby gate that blocks the room off, giving her balcony access and access to a single room.
We were hoping by we could work up to being able to leave her in here for longer stretches but right now if we leave her in there – even if we just leave to go to the kitchen – she freaks out.
I should say that we work from home so she is used to always having someone around and generally being able to follow us everywhere. The room she has access to is the study, so she is used to use being in there with her.
Any advice as to how we can make this situation work so we can build up to leaving her for say 3-4 hours at a time?
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