Moping dog
When it's for a short trip, like to the store or even to work, the moping is minor. However, when she's gone overnight, the full moping begins. After 3 days or so, the moping eases, but the dog still doesn't seem "happy". Joan really didn't believe me when I told her this (She probably thought I was anthropomorphizing), until I took a couple of overnight trips in the last few months. Then Jake moped when I was gone, too. If Joan returns within 2 or three days, the greeting is exuberant and the Velcro level is very high. If she's gone longer, the greeting is nice, but it's almost as if she wasn't gone for so long. Is it just my dog or do other dogs exibit this behavior? 
-Ron. |
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| Yes, I do believe that dogs have some sense of time - even though Guinney does seem just as glad to see me when I have been gone 2 hours as when I am gone for 8.
But it seems that Guinevere does not really "mope" but is a little less rambunctious when it is only one of us - me or my wife - at home with her. I work a part-time job a few nights a week, and my wife says that Guinney is pretty calm until I get home and then at 11pm she wants to play with both of us there! I have seen the same thing when my wife is working - Guinney will greet me when I come home from the day-job by jumping and licking and the usual OES stuff, and then calm down and lay in "her" chair for the most part until it is time to go for a walk and then settle down again, until my wife comes home from work - then it is time to play! I think all dogs have a certain rhythm that they fall into once they know what the schedules of their uprights are, and each one - thank goodness - is a little different! Cheers! Guinney's Dad, Kevin Z. |
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