Revely
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My roommate and I "share" our two cavaliers. Tom, who just turned one-year old is far more attached to me than he is to my roommate, but I'm beginning to think I'm not the best person for his personality.
My friend and I both work from home. My office is upstairs, while hers is down on the first floor. During the day, if I work on the laptop down there Tom is an absolute nightmare! Chewing/scratching at things, chasing the cats, and generally being an incredible nuisance or trying to get my attention. Amy has often said that when I go somewhere Tom is an angel. He'll sit on the couch quietly and sleep or just lounge around with the 11-year old cav, Jane. Right now, for example, I'm upstairs in my office and I put up a baby-gate at the bottom of the stairs. He's down there being a model cavalier! He's sleeping on the chaise lounge.
I'm starting to get a complex about this. *g* I don't know if I make him nervous, or if he's just more excited when I'm around, or what? I'm not an anxious person, so I don't understand it.
It's not an exercise issue: I give him far more exercise and attention than Amy, and he's an ADHD puppy around me. She mostly ignores him (not in a bad way though) and he's just a little relaxed man. I've tried ignoring him too when I'm working, but he gets destructive.
Does anyone know why that might be true?
My friend and I both work from home. My office is upstairs, while hers is down on the first floor. During the day, if I work on the laptop down there Tom is an absolute nightmare! Chewing/scratching at things, chasing the cats, and generally being an incredible nuisance or trying to get my attention. Amy has often said that when I go somewhere Tom is an angel. He'll sit on the couch quietly and sleep or just lounge around with the 11-year old cav, Jane. Right now, for example, I'm upstairs in my office and I put up a baby-gate at the bottom of the stairs. He's down there being a model cavalier! He's sleeping on the chaise lounge.
I'm starting to get a complex about this. *g* I don't know if I make him nervous, or if he's just more excited when I'm around, or what? I'm not an anxious person, so I don't understand it.
It's not an exercise issue: I give him far more exercise and attention than Amy, and he's an ADHD puppy around me. She mostly ignores him (not in a bad way though) and he's just a little relaxed man. I've tried ignoring him too when I'm working, but he gets destructive.
Does anyone know why that might be true?