My father works regularly from Monday to Friday and my mother works Mondays, Thursday and Fridays. We are 4 kids and usually out at school until 3:30pm. Now most of the time Mickey is home with somebody (my mom may start like in the afternoon and work until 6pm) but on some days he is left home alone all day.

Today is an example of "one of those days". When he is left home alone all day he gets sectionned off to the kitchen and everything is cleared out except some toys, his food and water bowls and some newspaper so he could pee. For some reason he ALWAYS pees on the newspaper, so we never have a problem with that. The thing is when I got home today he was SO excited to see me. He would run out, slipping everywhere, jumping, crying, shaking a little and moving everywhere around the house. I let him out to pee and kicked the soccer ball a bit so he could run. After a few minutes he was fine but the newspaper was ripped up and scattered everywhere. He HAD peed on it (two puddles).

I am just wondering, is this behavior normal? The shaking and crying and jumping, and the ripping up of the newspaper? It's happened only a few times that he'll be left home alone all day and each time he acts the same way. Is it normal? Thanks.