[chooch709]

I have two dogs - a near 11 week old female corgi (Freya) and a near 7 month old male corgi (Loki)

Loki is plenty old enough to stay in his crate while my gf and I are at work (usually 9:30 am -> 5:00 pm) but Freya obviously isn't. We have set her on the schedule that we used for Loki when he was a puppy... during the day shes at home from 9:30 -> 12:15, then my cousin comes over to let her outside, feed her, let her out once more, and re-crate her around 1.

The problem is that while this is going on, Loki is crated in the kitchen with Freya. We did this intentionally so that they would become used to being around each other all the time, since eventually we'd like for them to be able to spend their days together with free reign of the house. This is quite clearly going to take a couple years to implement. :P

Whenever Freya goes outside with my cousin in the afternoon (or if the same situation happens with me in the morning) he barks his head off for about 5 minutes, then realizes that I'm not coming back inside because he wants me to, and stops.

I figured after a couple weeks of this happening he would just kind of get over it, like when we used to ignore him when he was a puppy and didn't want to be in his crate. But alas, that is not the case, and we're now 3 weeks into training Freya and he still cannot stand to see her go outside if he is locked in his crate.

My cousin doesn't have enough time to take from work to let him out or to let them play mid-day, its pretty tight for her to get to our place, feed and walk her, bring her back in, and get back to work as-is.

The only other thing I can think of is to put him upstairs or something, but that doesn't work for 2 reasons:
1.) As I said, I'd like for them to be near each other all the time and to practice being calm in their crates all day, side by side.
2.) If he is upstairs locked in a room/crate and there are people downstairs causing all sorts of commotion hes going to start barking as well...

Does anyone have any suggestions outside of just continuing to ignore him and hoping that he gets the hint?

[TooneyDogs]

I'm not sure I understand why they both can't go out during the break...

[chooch709]

Originally Posted by TooneyDogs

I'm not sure I understand why they both can't go out during the break...

My cousin gets an hour from lunch for her job. Luckily she lives about 10 min from our house. 10 min to get here from work, and 10 min to get back to work leaves about 40 minutes to get the new pup outside to go to the bathroom, inside to eat a bowl of food, back outside to eliminate one more time, eat lunch herself, play with the puppy, and re-crate her. If she brought both out they'd just want to play nonstop and wouldn't do their business.

The bigger dog has no problem holding it all day long, so he stays in the crate while the little dog goes out.

[Gates1026]

Originally Posted by chooch709

My cousin gets an hour from lunch for her job. Luckily she lives about 10 min from our house. 10 min to get here from work, and 10 min to get back to work leaves about 40 minutes to get the new pup outside to go to the bathroom, inside to eat a bowl of food, back outside to eliminate one more time, eat lunch herself, play with the puppy, and re-crate her. If she brought both out they'd just want to play nonstop and wouldn't do their business.

The bigger dog has no problem holding it all day long, so he stays in the crate while the little dog goes out.

You just described my exact lunch time situation, I have a 1 year old papillon and a 6 month old papillon. I take them both out over lunch and they dont have a problem at all. I would suggest trying it for a week or so to see if it can work out.