Senior Dog With Separation Anxiety Calms Down Only When He Cuddles With Mannequin Dressed Like His Dad
Marc and Kristen have both worked with animals their entire lives. Their house is also home to other animals, but Shorty, a pug that Marc rescued from a Philadelphia shelter, has been with him for 11 years. Marc and Shorty have always been together, but the dog, who is now 15 years old, is not as fit for travel as he was before.
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Kristen has tried all sorts of ways to calm Shorty down, and even wrapped a pillow with Marc’s shirt, with no results. When everything else failed, Kristen bought a dummy from a Halloween store to disguise it as Marc. She put one of Marc’s worn shirts, a cap and then placed Shorty beside the dummy on the couch. It didn’t take an hour for Shorty to fall asleep. What’s amusing is that not only Shorty likes the dummy, but all the other dogs in the shelter do as well. “It’s actually been completely adorable. The other pups will lay next to the dummy or on its feet. Last night, five of them were huddled around the dummy.” Kristen said. Check out some photos of Shorty below with the dummy they named Farc, short for Fake Marc.
