Please help me get my dog to be more content without being around me and stop whining.
My family has had several german shepherds and more recently rottweilers. My mom got a cane corso but didn't have enough time to do training with her so I started training her and she became my dog after a couple months. She is great when training and a very smart dog and I work with her all the time. She was crate trained first thing when we got her at 9 weeks and she whined a little in her crate, but it's never been like this.
When she was around 6 months I started working to have her more used to being in my room and after a few weeks she started sleeping in my room on her own dog bed. She could even be in my room alone, but my room at the time has glass french doors where she could see me and the wall was incomplete at the top where when in the room you can hear everything like you're in the dining room.
About two months ago I moved to my sister's room with a complete wall and a wooden door. I left her in my room for about 30 minutes while i was talking to my sister after she got back from a trip and when i went in my room, my dog had chewed up her dog bed. I washed it and sewed it back together and haven't left her alone in my room since. This is the first time she has chewed up anything in my room and she doesn't chew on my things like furniture or even the trash bin. And now when going into her crate, if she is not preoccupied with her breakfast or dinner then she whines(sometimes i've heard her whine in between bites???). She settles eventually but it's inconsistent and she starts up sometimes(i think when she hears me walking or talking).
When trying to correct whining or even ignoring her, she doesn't care. I've been trying to have her spend more time in her crate but my family has been constantly complaining about her whining. For added context, she is almost a year now.
What can i do to get her to be content again being alone? Any advise is welcome, I definitely feel out of my depth here.
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