Any ideas anyone? Our black lab of 5 years has started howling when left alone, we've only noticed it happening in the last month or so - this weekend we were at a wedding and left our 5 year old black lab in the hotel room for a few hours, to hear on our return these awful blood curdling howls coming from our room and to be met by complaints from the manager about it (embarrassing).
He's never to our knowledge done this before - BUT several things have happened in his life since May this year: 1 our 11 year old lab died of cancer - his constant companion since he was 6 weeks old - he hadn't shown any obvious signs of pining; 2.he had a bad injury to his leg 2 months ago, when he slipped his lead chasing a cat and ran into a car - he's physically recovered but maybe not mentally, and 3 we have recently moved house.
He has become more clingy, he likes to be with us - e.g. he'll lie at our feet at night when we watch tv, since his accident when we had him in our bedroom at night so we could stop him licking his injury and again since we've moved house he's been coming into our bedroom to sleep.
He is a very chilled affectionate loveable and loving dog, who is very much the alpha male who we've nicknamed the big daddy. Short of giving him more affection and reassurance we don't know what else to do to help him. Any ideas?
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5 yr old dog has started howling when left on his own
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Nellymay · 02/09/2013 23:38
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