Sudden onset separation anxiety?

[Jenn and Bogey]

Hi all! Bogey is 9 months old. I work part time (two days a week. Dog walker comes on the days I work). He is crated whenever we are not at home and for bedtime. Yesterday when I came home from running errands, his beard was completely wet. I didn't see any throw up in his crate. Today, again after dropping the kids off to school and running errands I came home and his beard was soaking wet again. He's never had separation issues before and now two days in a row he's drooled excessively that it made his beard wet. Can this be separation anxiety or do you think something else?

[Gail and Bailey]

Same thing happened to a dog I had years ago. He would drool so excessively in his cage that I decided to let him have free reign of a safe controlled area of the house when I was gone to see what happened. He was totally fine so long as he was not in the cage. I decided he was claustrophobic (call me crazy but it seemed that way at the time). He was around 8 months old at the time. Not saying this is the case with Bogey but maybe you could give it a try. I think my current doodle started to be trustworthy in the house around 10 or 11 months old. Every dog is different. Good luck!

[Jenn and Bogey]

Thank you! I've decided to get him checked out at the vet to be on the safe side. Realized he was drooling outside his crate too. I was finding puddles of drool on the floor which originally I thought was water.

[Gail and Bailey]

Hope everything is ok with him. Please let us know.

[Jenn and Bogey]

There was no sign of injury to his mouth so we think maybe he ate a bug or got stung by a bee. Luckily, by Saturday morning he stopped drooling.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Glad to hear he has recovered.

[Gail and Bailey]

Glad to hear everything is ok with Bogey!