Category: Top Dog

Toppl users – how long do you let your puppy work at one?

I recently got my four month old mix a toppl. Is there a time limit for these things? Like is it ok for her to sit there and lick at this for an hour or more? I see some people say they feed their animals their dinner in them and I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t harmful to give her one that could take her a while to finish. We were going to feed her frozen dinner in one tomorrow for the first time.

Any time I’ve tried to google I haven’t really found an answer.

I need advice. I’ve had a senior foster dog for a few days. She was found on the streets of Philadelphia and was taken to a very overcrowded shelter. Eventually she ended up with me on a two-week trial basis. She is sweet and lovable. She is tiny (less than 10 lbs). She eats like there is no tomorrow and loves chewing on safe non-rawhide bones. Beyond that, I can’t figure out whether it’s kind or cruel to keep her alive. She does seem to enjoy being petted and probably would be great with someone who likes to sit for hours with a small creature in their lap, petting her for hours. That’s not me. She sleeps A LOT, which is kind of a relief for me, because she’s truly helpless. She doesn’t know what to do in my fenced in backyard, even when I stand there and it’s beautiful and sunny. She can’t hear me if I say anything so she startles every time I pick her up. I did take her out in a dog stroller while I walked my other dog on a sunny day, and she seemed to enjoy it (I think). If I put her down somewhere that my other dog has shown great interest in sniffing, she does also. She’s estimated to be ten years old. She has beautiful soft fur. So basically, her existence is: sleep, eat, sniff, pee, and poop. Can’t play and shows no interest in toys. Can’t run for sure. I’m inclined to keep fostering her but to ask the shelter to post her for adoption with someone who is sedentary. But I keep asking myself the existential question of whether there is a point to this. Please don’t be unkind in responding. I am a huge dog lover and want only the best for her.

I have a 2 year old golden doodle (Maisie) and a 4 month old yorkie bichon (Murphy) and they never stop fighting. Maisie bites Murphy’s neck and pins him down and Murphy bites Maisie’s ears and mouth very hard. I don’t think it’s play fighting. What should I do to make them less aggressive with each other/teach them a better way to play? They both instigate it and they sometimes seem to be having fun but then it elevates to too aggressive and I’m worried one or both of them is gonna get hurt especially because of their size difference. We separate them if it seems to be getting to aggressive but I would like them to become civil with each other.

The day has come, she chewed her way out of her crate and took some of the surrounding items with it today! Her crate frustration has been getting worse lately, she started out on in the crate and then slowly got really anxious. What do I do from here?? Do I attempt to trust her unattended in the house when I’m gone? Anyone else experience this?

My family are relocating from NYC back to London somewhat unexpectedly (visa issues). We have a 5 year old mini aussie shepherd who is pretty anxious at the best of times

We obviously want him to come home with us, but the only options seem to be $2k to fly in cargo on the same flight as us, vs $9k to take a shared private jet back (including cost of one person).

Hoping people can share some positive and negative stories from doing either of these to inform our choice – it's obviously absurd to be considering spending $9k on a flight, but if it's a choice between that and traumatizing him for life we'll probably just suck it up and pay

Or if anyone did anything creative on the NY-London route that they'd recommend, we'd love that!

I have been supeerrrr excited to get this puppy! I’ve been thinking my current dog needs a companion for awhile because he loveessss other dogs, but dog parks have proven unsafe, and we haven’t been able to find a good daycare in the city we moved to last year. So anyways, I’m sure it’s going to work out just great, but I’m getting some last minute nerves!!😅😅 I would love to hear success stories, and how happy your original dog was with a sibling! Also, surely the first dog will be way happier with a companion at home when I have to leave him for work right?

So I have a wonderful 15 week old puppy. When I got him I highly underestimated the amount of work it will take to raise him. Still adapting, reading, watching, taking a course…

On his 4th day with me I took him to my bed. By accident first, he was sleeping in the box by my bed and early morning I took him out just to get some more sleep (and it worked).

I wanted puppy to sleep with me, even when he grew. I planned to do it later, when he’s able to use the bed stairs I got. But I went with the flow.

We’re still not through vaccinations, so he goes on pads in the apartment. He had couple of accidents in the bed, one of them after he learnt to use bed stairs. Ok, happens, I moved on.

But last few days it suddenly got worse. I do enforced naps in the crate during the day (usually hour up/two hours crated). When at night we go to the bedroom puppy goes berserk. Jumping, playing, rolling, destroying… last three days it took over 2 hours for him to calm down and go to sleep. And today he managed within 5 minutes to make two pee puddles.

I put him in the crate, he calmed down and fell asleep. Did I set him up to fail by taking him to my bed too soon? Should I crate him for the night, at least while I complete toilet training?