Goodbye to Jess

I'm afraid to say that we decided we had to rehome Jess. There have been quite a few difficulties since we got here (eating our food, trying to eat neighbours chickens, keeping neighbours awake howling) but we thought these were just natural difficulties that you could expect with a puppy and with perseverance things would get better in time.
However there were more frightening problems between her and Oliver. Jess was trying to establish her place in the hierarchy and put Oliver below her, Oliver is too young to know that if a puppy is chewing your toy, you don't kick her and also if said puppy comes racing across the field and bounds up and knocks you over, that is just natural exuberance. The mutual antagonism culminated in Jess nipping Oliver in the face which was when we thought enough was enough.
Another of Jess's problems is that she suffers from separation anxiety and cannot bear to be left alone. She became reconciled to being left alone between the hours of 12 and 6 and would also tolerate being left in the house for perhaps two hours, during the day if we had to go out, but if we wanted to do anything upstairs which meant shutting her in the kitchen she would whine frantically and claw at the door trying to join us.
So I am delighted to say that we have found Jess, a new and probably better home, where there are two other dogs to keep her company at all times. Although it is with a family, all the children are teenagers or older and unlikely to be intimidated and best of all they live in a house with a fantastic three acre garden for Jess to express all her boundless energy in.
I am very grateful to Claire and Andrew for coming to our rescue.