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she has had separation anxiety since we got her, though it seemed to improve a little during covid and is now mostly just a thing when my wife leaves. when we leave she would pace and cry at the door unless we crated her and when we checked in on the camera she would mostly just lay staring out of her crate whimpering on occasion. we don't love the idea of having to crate her when we are gone because she clearly prefers to sleep in the living room (out of sight of me in the office) our routine hasn't changed much since early march when all of my work disappeared and has since become remote.

we have had our girl olive for almost 1 year now (her gotcha day is next week) and she has still been showing signs of separation anxiety. after taking her to a Grey meetup she started being a bit more needy than usual so we took her to the rescue to potentially meet another sibling. she seemed to tolerate one who we ended up bringing home to foster 4 days ago. at this point she still just seems to tolerate her and seems a little upset that she is no longer getting 100% of the attention and still gets a little upset when my wife leaves (not much change from before) I'm aware that her world has changed but is this all just normal?

I usually just lurk around here but decided to chime in to this. we had a similar issue a few months ago with our girl and determined that it was due to hookworms and most likely her diet. we were giving her the chicken and rice food from Costco (pink bag) and switched to the lamb (green bag) and are also now giving her the Purina sensitive skin and stomach wet food for dinner. previously she had lots of gas and consistently loose stools and most of that has gone away, we are currently still battling the hookworms though so it seems most of the benefit came from the food. we also tried the Purina SS&S dry food and it did not seem to irritate her digestion either. hope this helps.