My dog ate my homework...

[Hammer]

Dogs in the wild nest in dens, once trained your dog will like the crate.

I do think she'd adapt to something like this... She loves tucking underneath our computer desk.

I eat first, I'm not talking about a full meal and then she eats. It's as simple as Mae sees me eat a bite of something then I feed her.

I try to do this. But I want to reduce her begging... Though she is good, she just sits and watches you with her puppy eyes. She doesn't get forceful and waits until we offer.

I go out the door first, all doors. Dog gets in the car last (well that's not possible if I'm driving alone).

I usually hold the doors open for her so that I can keep the cats inside. But my fiance and I need to be better about keeping her in the car until we get out. She gets quite excited and bounds over us. I didn't really think about it as much of a problem until I was presented it as an alpha creature problem.

Lastly you wrote "Today I go for a bike ride, I'm only gone for two hours". Remember we have our jobs, lives, our bikes .... our dogs only have us. And to a dog two hours is literally 7 times that.

I understand this too... I let her out for an hour to play in the yard. I went out too to play fetch. I had thought that she would come in to nap, that's what often happens even when we are around. I did make sure that her favorite toys were near by to chew on.

I do agree that we need to figure out a better solution. Thanks for your advice.

Actually, if I could get her to ride in a pull behind trailer. But, I'll wait until I have children for that workout.