For 5-7 days after her surgery, Maple wasn't allowed to be left alone unless she was wearing her "cone head collar". Apparently dogs tend to chew their stitches. Maple never tried to, but I thought I should err on the side of caution. Unfortunately, Maple couldn't fit through the dog door with the collar on. And I was not going to let her go to the bathroom in the house again. We're doing so well with the potty training! Anywho, I took Maple to work with me on Monday and Tuesday this week. She was extremely popular with my coworkers. The only real problem was that she barked at people when they came in my office and whined when I left her alone (even to go pee). Luckily, I worked around this by enlisting my coworkers to puppy sit. And she doesn't whine when other people leave her alone, just me. And she doesn't do that most of the time at home. Sigh. We still have some training to do and things to work on.