She's only 5 months. We're hoping that she'll get a little more independent as she gets older but we're also working on crate training. Luckily she really likes her kennel and hangs out in it a lot. She just doesn't like it when we're not around 
She also had worms when we got her and we gave her the deworming meds in peanut butter. She has never touched the stuff since so her kong has not seen much use lol... Going to have to look for kong filler alternatives.