We adopted a 4-month-old mixed breed dog a month ago. My partner works at home and I work part-time, so we spend a lot of time at home. We were doing work so that she would be alone, for example both of us working in the office with the door closed and she with access to the rest of the house (the house is prepared for her). She made a lot of progress, at first she cried and scratched the door and finally she was able to relax and be in the living room for 1 to 2 hours alone. We started leaving the house without her, ten minutes, then an hour. He cried at first, but then he calmed down. I thought we had made a lot of progress. Last week for the first time she was alone for 2 hours. We left for 4 hours, she spent the first two hours with a friend who was taking care of her and then she left. We recorded it on video and the same thing, she cried for a while and then went to bed to sleep for an hour. He got up and cried a little again until we came back. More or less everything normal.
The fact is that since that day when we thought we had made a lot of progress, we can't go out for even 5 minutes without her starting to bark like crazy and crying and wandering around. He follows me from one room to another. He cries again if I'm locked in a room, which he had stopped doing. I leave Kong with puppy yogurt and treats, and I spread treats all over his bed.
Any advice? Has it happened to you? Could it be that those 2 hours were too much for her even if she didn't seem so radical? Are regressions normal in this matter?
Thank you so much
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