Category: Top Dog

I've lost like 2kg in 2 weeks due to the puppy stress, missing meals, constantly up and down lol. Anyone else? Damn it.

Hello, I have a cocker spaniel who's a few months older than one. At night, he sleeps in his bed at the top of the stairs outside our room, our door is closed. He was sleeping in our room with us, but we wanted to stop that. When in our room he would never go to the toilet, but when he's sleeping in his bed on the landing he is 100% guaranteed to do a poo somewhere throughout the night. We take him out for a walk around 10/11pm and make sure he does a poo on that – but he'll still muster up enough faeces to leave us a present in the mornings.

He's not whinging or barking to let us know he needs to go out either. What can we do here?

I've posted about this before but didn't get much help. My puppy now 7 months is generally brilliant. However, his nusiance barking is out of control. 90% of the time I have no idea what he is barkjng at so I don't know how to desensitise him… In the garden he will bark at ANYTHING – someone walking past, a cat, a dog, a car, people talking in the distance. In the house he will randomly bark at random things or nothing. I really don't know how to react right now I mostly dostract him. If he is 100% just barking for attention/ that bacon he can smell on the counter I ignore him and call him away frlm it as soon as he stops barking. I need to get this under control asap!

Hi everyone

Our 5 month old cavapoo is really getting there with his training, picks things up super quickly and we are starting puppy classes with him very soon.

I’m looking for either reassurance or tips on his behaviour around other dogs and people.

On walks he is getting better at being more neutral with dogs and humans, but when we go to a families house – he becomes completely chaotic, jumping up, nipping, over excited. He chases their dog (who is old and hates it), ignores her growls to him and is difficult to get to focus and listen and settle away from everything exciting.

Is this normal / is there any way to help regulate this? He has met this dog a few times now under different settings but is still as excited when we go (despite how much we tire him out beforehand)