[Ayoka]

Much of My original post seems out of place given the post before it.

But your dog goes into the kennel at sometimes and is spereated from you at night without a fuss I would tend to think maybe it's not the kind of seperation anxiety that I've heard of that has dogs jumping out of glass windows (breaking them-not open ones.) and wearing their teeth down on metal. Maybe there's degrees of seperation anxiety?

I got a rescue at 9 Months and we had much of the same thing a few minutes of noise (which seemed an eternity at first) and then he'd settle down. Since I had 3 roomates at the tim and one of them worked shift work she'd often be sleeping when I left for work so It was important to keep Bear as quiet as possible. What worked for us was a Peanut Butter or sweet potato filled Kong frozen over night. It seemed to keep him occupied for those fist few minutes when he seemed to throw his fits. I think it also made getting into the crate every morning a fun thing!

I'm sure that there is something that your pooch likes even if he doesn't "play" per se. I don't know many dogs that can resist Peanut butter but you can stuff just about anything into a kong if you cut it up small enough-cheerios, cheese, blended veggies, whole veggies, meat scraps.

PS-A friend of mine gave me the "I'll be home soon" book it was helpful to me in that it helped me realise that my dog was not really suffering from the medication requiring type of Seperation anxiety...