Welcome! You must live near Seattle! I live in Northgate. I love Old Dog Haven, they are such an amazing group. I feel so horrible for those dogs, and I admire you for opening your heart & home to a senior!!
I definitely feel sad sometimes having to leave my dogs home alone for 8 hrs, 4 days a week, but I spend a ton of time with them the rest of the week. they are the center of my world. and honestly, its harder for me to leave them than for them to stay. they are used to this schedule and just sleep while Im gone and look forward to going on a walk/run, the dog park and/or a game of fetch when I get home. I do take them to work with me when I can too.
but honestly, most dogs in the world stay home while their owners are at work and are perfectly happy and content and lead normal, happy lives. if you are concerned though, you can leave her with things to do like a stuffed/frozen kong, a buster cube or tricky treat ball, you can hide treats around the house for her to sniff out/find, or even get really creative and stuff a few kongs, wrap them each in an old cloth or sock, and then hide them around the house. she'll have to hunt out each of them, dissect the kong out of the cloth, and then work on getting the food out. you could also hire a dog walker to come in and walk her once during the day, or if shes good with other dogs, send her to dog daycare once or a couple times a week, even for just a couple hours.
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