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I adopted Ava in October. She is a 3 year old Chinese Crested. I have 2 boys, too - Sam a 6 year old Crestie, and Codie a 10 year old Bichon Mix (I adopted Codie 7 years ago and Sam 3 years ago).
Both of my boys follow me everywhere and always position themselves so that they may watch my every move. They are my shadows. Ava, however, is very different - She is very clingy at times and then she is also very detached and disappears throughout the day, only to go sit alone, in the dark, laying on the basement sofa. I have a wood stove burning downstairs and sometimes she seems to be sitting watching the flames, other times she seems to be sleeping. She does come to me when I call her...but what strikes me as so weird is that she does have a bit of separation anxiety when left home alone...but when I am home she seems to goes off on her own.
She does have dry eye, but is on medication and it is improving. I had thought that maybe the light upstairs bothered her eye, and she just prefers darker places as it maybe more comforting for her eye, but I am not convinced that this is the reason. She is also a very skittish little girl - she jumps out of her skin if you raise your voice or drop something. My house is kept warm and she is always in a fleece pj, so sitting in a very hot family room in her jammies also strikes me as weird. She tends to run warm, anyway, for a bald pup.
Very little is known about her history except she was an owner surrender (probably due to the medical issue) and had been crated for very long hours for the first 2-3 years of her life.... she was in foster, too, for 8 months with 2 other Chinese Crested boys prior to coming to me. She is excessively overweight and I have put her on a very, very strict diet now, and increased exercise, but she is not losing weight at all. She has tested negative for thyroid, but her doc is ruling out potential health issues slowly.
Otherwise, she is a sweetie...she is definitely the "alpha" in the 3 pups I have and she put the boys in their place within the first 30 seconds, when the first met. She loves to play, and she plays hard, with people, as do all of my pups, although none of them play together. The dogs tolerate each other...sleep on top of eachother at night...and everything appears normal between them.
I just wonder why she is so drawn to sitting alone, in a dark basement...it is a behavior that I am just not accustomed to in a dog.
Any ideas?
Both of my boys follow me everywhere and always position themselves so that they may watch my every move. They are my shadows. Ava, however, is very different - She is very clingy at times and then she is also very detached and disappears throughout the day, only to go sit alone, in the dark, laying on the basement sofa. I have a wood stove burning downstairs and sometimes she seems to be sitting watching the flames, other times she seems to be sleeping. She does come to me when I call her...but what strikes me as so weird is that she does have a bit of separation anxiety when left home alone...but when I am home she seems to goes off on her own.
She does have dry eye, but is on medication and it is improving. I had thought that maybe the light upstairs bothered her eye, and she just prefers darker places as it maybe more comforting for her eye, but I am not convinced that this is the reason. She is also a very skittish little girl - she jumps out of her skin if you raise your voice or drop something. My house is kept warm and she is always in a fleece pj, so sitting in a very hot family room in her jammies also strikes me as weird. She tends to run warm, anyway, for a bald pup.
Very little is known about her history except she was an owner surrender (probably due to the medical issue) and had been crated for very long hours for the first 2-3 years of her life.... she was in foster, too, for 8 months with 2 other Chinese Crested boys prior to coming to me. She is excessively overweight and I have put her on a very, very strict diet now, and increased exercise, but she is not losing weight at all. She has tested negative for thyroid, but her doc is ruling out potential health issues slowly.
Otherwise, she is a sweetie...she is definitely the "alpha" in the 3 pups I have and she put the boys in their place within the first 30 seconds, when the first met. She loves to play, and she plays hard, with people, as do all of my pups, although none of them play together. The dogs tolerate each other...sleep on top of eachother at night...and everything appears normal between them.
I just wonder why she is so drawn to sitting alone, in a dark basement...it is a behavior that I am just not accustomed to in a dog.
Any ideas?
