Aly, they can be in seperate rooms by themselves, and that is fine. Also sometimes when Mark goes to work (6am) he leaves the bedroom door open and she sleeps in the LR by herself, till she needs me to get up. In the house with us sleeping or whatever is fine. I've just never left them (well, Angus has been left alone in the house, him & Keisha would stay in the house when I was working if it was really bad outside) alone when I've been gone. Should I try it for maby 15-30 minutes at a time or something like that? I also talked to our trainer at school and she gave me the advice of soaking a rag (the one for the tree) in caine pepper and tobasco sauce, let it dry and put it around the tree. So that way she won't chew it. Also someone else said they had very destructive GSD's and he filled a water bottle with hot sauce and water & sprayed it on the things they wanted to chew. Also she (trainer) said for the digging make them their own spot with sand, in the shade and teach her to dig there. Does that really help? She digs just wherever, a hole here, a hole there, it's not to keep cool or anything, because where she digs is in the sun! Sorry this is so long, and thanks for the help! I'm hoping she will get better with age! Oh, I also got her a kong and put pb in it and froze it. Maby that along with the bikerides in the am might help, sure hope so! Anna