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hi everyone, i need advice on what to do when we leave the house. our puppy is almost 5 months old and not settling when we leave the house. he barks/howls/cries the whole time we’re gone whether it’s 15 minutes to 2 hours. everytime we leave, we make sure his needs are met (pee/poo and drink water) but he barks non stop for the whole duration we’re gone. he’s in a playpen with access to his crate the entire time but won’t settle on his own. any advice?

For the last few months I’ve had to enforced naps for my puppy and it’s been very consistent around the same times each day. I noticed she’s able to settle down in her playpen.. not outside of it yet haha. But it’s a start. It seems to me we can slowly adapt to a more non structured nap schedule.

I’m just worried because I usually use her nap times to leave the house so I’m scared if I don’t follow a schedule, she could still be awake when I need to leave the house and idk I guess it’s more crate training but i’m a bit lost on how I should approach this since I’m a very type A person and she’s been extra clingy and starting to resist her crate. Which is funny because when we do crate games it’s like she knows it’s just a training session so she’ll jump right in and won’t protest.

So my puppy of 10 months ever since 8 weeks has slept in a separate room from me alone. This was to teach him independence and he caught on instantly. We have a family member moving back in with us and they need to use the room he was in so now he’s sleeping in my room with me. I don’t know if it’s as difficult as doing the opposite but he’s always been raised that when someone was opening the door to his room he was getting let out. Also there will be times due to my work schedule where I will be going into my room well into the night when he is sleeping. He’s never had to deal with someone coming into a room with him and not letting him out of his crate. Is this as difficult as I’m making it think in my head? It’s weird lol because I’m doing the opposite of what people usually do.

I was holding my puppy with one hand and kinda wiggling his snout with the other hand in a playful manner, we rough-house a lot and he's very playful. He twisted around and fell down out of my other hand and started crying and whimpering. I picked him up immediately and held him and pet him and the whimpers subsided. I gave him a treat, he's limping around on his right front paw a small bit but he can still put weight on it.

I gently lowered him onto my bed and he's fallen asleep. I'm taking him to the vet tomorrow for shots, will they examine his leg too? I fell so so terrible and I really hope he's ok!

As the title describes, my 7 month old German shepherd x husky will refuse to go poo on walks/hikes sometimes. 90% of the time he will poop right away but all of a sudden one day he will just decide to not go poo! He is fully potty trained BTW! He's never had an accident in the house thankfully but sometimes it seems like he's just holding in his poo for some reason? I cant figure out what I'm doing wrong, I've even started to add a little bit of pumpkin puree into his lunch and dinner. His stool looks healthy and there is no clear indications of any heath issues. Can someone please help me lol some days I wanna pull my hair out. I walked him this evening for almost 1 hour in a nice secluded field doing laps but no poo ): I keep him on a strict schedule too. I always walk him first thing in the morning, again around 11:30am, and again around 3:30 and one more time before bed which is usually around 7pm. I feed him on a very strict schedule too, so I have no idea what's going on. Some days he will just refuse to poo! Please help.