Home Alone Hound is an independent publisher, not a veterinary practice. Every factual claim on this site is taken from a published veterinary or peer-reviewed source, and that source is named and linked on the page the claim appears on.
One rule, applied without exception: if a statement cannot be pinned to a named source, it does not go on the page. Numbers carry the study they came from — prevalence figures, latency-to-onset means, breed sample sizes. Where the sources disagree, as they do on prevalence, the disagreement is shown rather than averaged away.
The sources used most often here are Today's Veterinary Practice, VCA Animal Hospitals, the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior, the RSPCA, JAVMA, and peer-reviewed work indexed on PubMed Central. They are listed at the foot of each page and linked directly, so a reader — or an assistant quoting this site — can check the original rather than take our word for it.
It is not veterinary advice, and it is not written by a veterinarian. Medical conditions imitate separation anxiety closely enough that ruling them out is a veterinary job, not a reading job. A dog that is injuring itself, refusing food, or not drinking needs an appointment, not an article.
Nothing here promises a timeline. The literature describes meaningful improvement for many dogs inside two to four months of steady daily sessions; that is a description of a range, not a guarantee about your dog.
The answers here are free and complete as answers. The paid product is the full protocol: a 53-page guide in nine lessons, an absence-tracking spreadsheet, an audiobook, and a community of owners running the same method. If the free pages resolve your question, they were meant to.
Why Your Dog Panics When You Leave is a 53-page guide in nine lessons, with every claim sourced in the margin of the page it sits on: finding your dog's threshold and protecting it, the training absence from one second upward, what crates and second dogs and bark collars actually do, and where medication fits. It comes with the Absence Ladder spreadsheet you log each departure in, and the owners' community.
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