Category: Top Dog

5 month old Great Pyrenees Puppy. He goes over to the neighbors house for a few hours at a time almost every day and plays with their dogs. He gets his play time and their dogs get theirs. All dogs are fully vaccinated and he plays great with their dogs! It seems like all he wants to do is go over there and play which I get but should we be concerned on how often he goes over there and plays? The neighbor is great and they love him too. Just concerned he won't ever want to play at home or settle at home or know which one is actually his home.

I've had this puppy since he was 8 weeks old. He's 17 weeks old now. He's a heeler/Aussie mix.

I used to train dogs. I use positive reinforcement. No matter how short and "exciting" I make training sessions he barely knows the cues. He listens to them once in a while and refuses to extend duration of them.

I have a four year old German Shepherd mix and they play but he just gets so annoyed by him. He does puppy things obviously but he isn't learning any boundaries. Anything the shepherd has, it becomes the puppy's mission to steal it. He's obsessed with it.

I play with them both together and separately but the puppy will scream and bark and try to get between anyone and the shepherd. He doesn't like pets or snuggles unless he sees the older dog getting affection. He even gives a lot of attitude back to my dog when he corrected him now.

I knew getting him that he's a high energy mix. But it's been a rough winter since we've brought him home. I try my best with indoor enrichment but he gets frustrated quick. They run together in the yard for a while a couple times a day. He hates training and anything to mentally wear him out is barked at and he finds something to terrorize. He'll go potty outside then five minutes later stare at you and pee on the floor when you ask him to leave something alone.

He's rude to the cat and obsesses over her, too.

He's constantly overtired as he refuses to nap and is up a lot at night.

When do I decide to find him a new home? Do I stick it out with him? I hate the thought of rehoming him, but if I can't fulfill his needs, it might be better before I get attached to him.

What if his puppy quirks get worse and the dogs hate each other.

Is it bad to wash my 6 month old Yorkie once to twice a week? I’ve never owned a dog before so I’m new to everything lol. TIA

So I have a 11 wk border collie pup that I want to get a good harness for, something that will last her a long time while growing and training so I ideally wont have to repurchase anything for a while. So is it silly with that logic to get something expensive like a ruffwear, blue k9 or nonstop dogwear to name a few respected brands? I've also been looking at a brand called twiggytags. I'd love more recommendations for good harnesses for her body shape as well, I'm particularly fond of y-shapes.

I want something safe for her and yeah she might outgrow it but I dont really know how big she will get either, so I feel like it's way better and safer to get a really good brand even if she will outgrow it, right?

My pup is now 3 months old, and she has outgrown the carrier I have been using since I got her. I was using this carrier to transport her on car rides plus short walking trips in public. I also have a dog backpack that still fits her, but she is not a huge fan, and it takes a while to get her into it.

She is still 3 weeks away from being fully vaccinated, and I would like to keep socializing her when I take these short trips down the block, but the fuss of getting her in the backpack is not worth it.

What did you do when your puppy got to this point?

I definitely need something new for the car, but looking for recommendations. She is usually in the front passenger seat, but at times in the backseat if someone is with me.

I am also considering getting a larger carrier, but it seems a bit wasteful since I don't think it will ever be used once she's fully vaxxed.

Hi! I have an 8 week old dachshund puppy and so far she’s been really good with potty training except one thing… she will ring the bell to go outside on our patio but will pee on the patio instead of the fresh grass patch. I tried gating off the patio to make it smaller so the grass is the only option but she still chooses to go on the cement. It’s not necessarily a problem since she’s going outside but still the grass patch is right there! When she starts to potty I will move her to the patch but seems like she just liked rolling and playing in the grass instead of potty! Let me know if anyone has some useful tips or tricks 🙂

So we have a new puppy and he is a sweetheart however he was having hour long meltdowns in his pen so we gated off our living area with our 1yr old and he is so much happier, however him and our older dog are now having a field day trashing the lounge room (our older dog never did until the new pup so I feel it’s mostly his doing). What’s everyone’s thoughts on leaving them outside? We have a decent backyard and shaded area with no line of site to the road. When I look it up all I get is puppies shouldn’t be left alone for more than an hour which is simply un doable. I’m concerned he’s going to hurt himself as he’s climbing up on the couch and was jumping out of his pen, I feel it would be safer to be outside for him.

We adopted a three month old puppy, we’re currently crate training him but no matter what we do he will not potty outside. He watches our other dog pee and poop outside, sometimes he’ll sniff it but that’s about it.

She pees every time we leave the room .. I understand she’s still a puppy but she’s huge and I feel like it’s her being rebellious. Today my bf got her off his foot, she peed. And not like on him. Like she walked away and squatted in front of him And a very tiny amount like she did it because she knows he’d get mad.

Ik she’s a puppy and can’t be rebellious but I really seems like it LOL

I am currently unemployed. So I take her out constantly and she does good. But as soon as my bf get home she acts out.

She also jumps on the cat. She also scratches doors. Fights for food.

I am going crazy

I personally hate puppies, BUT I LOVE DOGS. Puppies are just so much of a pain, I like older dogs with more calm personalities.

I told my bf I would help him, so he could work and I could take care of her.

But I am losing it Any advise..

hi all! i have a 8 month old toy poodle that I got from my cousin. she never worked with the dog, so he does not know how to use a pee pad OR even pee outside. i would like to get him to use a pee pad over going outside, as he’s a small dog. i grew up with a shih tzu who used the pee pad just fine for her 15 years of life.

the dog (prince) will go on the pee pad a couple times, then just stop doing it. we are doing positive reinforcement, we’ve tried putting him in the crate and limiting his amount of roaming in the house, etc. we will do the same routine but nothing is helping. in fact, this week he has started peeing on the couch! he does not like going outside, so he won’t pee outside. trust me, i’ve tried lol. he keeps peeing on our rug and couch when he was just doing good with the pee pad.

we rub his nose in the pee and say no, then carry him over to the pee and show him to go there. when he goes on it, we give him lots of praise and a treat. but he is still getting worse at going on it, going way less than when we first started working with him. i don’t know what to do and im exhausted.

any help is appreciated, just please nice comments only. i am a cat person, so having my own dog is very different. my childhood dog used a pee pad just fine