Definitely think the comments about seeing a specialist are a good idea.
I have a GSP also and was working from home for the first year with him so completely get how attached they get to you. I had issues with his separation anxiety for a while in the first year (he just turned 1). What worked for us was giving him a space downstairs away from me where I left him progressively, so he wasn't allowed in the office with me. He's crate trained for sleeping but I found it much easier to do the progressive build up of time leaving him alone in the larger space. Started with just few mins at a time and built up over a few months. There were definitely times I thought it wasn't working because he would still go crazy but it got better.
Also just things like not letting he follow me everywhere helped. He was not allowed to follow me upstairs when I went up and we practiced long stays where I would leave the room and come back and reward. The improvement was over about 6 months so definitely not an easy or quick fix but I also couldn't even leave the house and now I can go into the office for a workday and he's mostly okay.
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u/bosley333 Aug 04 '21
Definitely think the comments about seeing a specialist are a good idea.
I have a GSP also and was working from home for the first year with him so completely get how attached they get to you. I had issues with his separation anxiety for a while in the first year (he just turned 1). What worked for us was giving him a space downstairs away from me where I left him progressively, so he wasn't allowed in the office with me. He's crate trained for sleeping but I found it much easier to do the progressive build up of time leaving him alone in the larger space. Started with just few mins at a time and built up over a few months. There were definitely times I thought it wasn't working because he would still go crazy but it got better.
Also just things like not letting he follow me everywhere helped. He was not allowed to follow me upstairs when I went up and we practiced long stays where I would leave the room and come back and reward. The improvement was over about 6 months so definitely not an easy or quick fix but I also couldn't even leave the house and now I can go into the office for a workday and he's mostly okay.