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I have a 7 month old Husky named Shadow, every morning around 6 AM he barks. For a while I figured he just needed to go out which was our norm, he'd go out, do his business and then come back inside. Now instead of going outside to do his business he either walks around my living room or goes outside and eats my banana plants or walks around trying to find lizards to antagonize. I'm kind of under the impression he's only doing it now because he knows I'll get up and let him out, any ideas on how to stop it? If I don't let him out he just whines for a while and it's driving my husband crazy.
Part of me thinks it's stemming from when we initially adopted him and he had crazy separation anxiety, he was surrendered at barely 6 weeks old and we adopted him from a rescue at 8 weeks so he had changed hands a total of 5 times (from initial owners to their local rescue, they gave him to our local rescue, they then gave him to a foster family, then he went back to the rescue and came home with us 48 hours later) so he really struggled with being alone in the beginning which broke my heart so I'd sleep in the kitchen on the floor with him so he wouldn't be alone. Probably a bad idea but I love this boy, when we got him his lips were swollen and bloodied from biting the gates at the rescue.
Thank you for any input, I have had dogs before and my husband has raised Huskies in the past, just never one that was from a rescue which he thinks actually made a difference with his attitude. He gets great exercise since I'm sure that will be a question.
Part of me thinks it's stemming from when we initially adopted him and he had crazy separation anxiety, he was surrendered at barely 6 weeks old and we adopted him from a rescue at 8 weeks so he had changed hands a total of 5 times (from initial owners to their local rescue, they gave him to our local rescue, they then gave him to a foster family, then he went back to the rescue and came home with us 48 hours later) so he really struggled with being alone in the beginning which broke my heart so I'd sleep in the kitchen on the floor with him so he wouldn't be alone. Probably a bad idea but I love this boy, when we got him his lips were swollen and bloodied from biting the gates at the rescue.
Thank you for any input, I have had dogs before and my husband has raised Huskies in the past, just never one that was from a rescue which he thinks actually made a difference with his attitude. He gets great exercise since I'm sure that will be a question.