When home alone, my 1 year old dog is not destructive and does not soil, bark, pant, pace, etc. She mostly looks out the front window and stays awake/alert on the chair or sofa watching the world go by. Occasionally she'll put her head down and rest, but mostly she's alert.
We have cameras because she used to cry instantly when we left and we did a lot of training to remedy this over her lifetime. We've worked up to being able to leave her for 1-2 hours and to date she has seemed pretty okay with that.
Today she is much more unsettled though and we are stuck with work obligations where she has to be home alone for another hour or two. After about 45 minutes alone this morning she went and howled by the back door and then went back to the front room and is whining once every few minutes while sitting in the chair looking out the window. I have a meeting soon and will have to stop watching the cameras.
If we didn't have the cameras we would have no idea she was vocalizing. We had our first snow of the year—that's the only thing different about today versus all the other weeks where she has seemed much more settled in our absence.
In the time it took me to type this she has not vocalized any more—she did settle down more into her usual spot, but her head is up and alert/
Is this level of distress/vocalization okay when trying to avoid escalating separation anxiety? Will it get worse?
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