Category: Top Dog

My dog has never really been big on chewing anything other than bones, but I don't what to give him bones in the house and make a mess. He also will chew his squeaky ball sometimes but that can get very annoying very quickly when trying to relax.

Does anyone have any recommendations for flavored chew toys that have worked for people who have had similar problems with their dogs. Bonus points if it has a rope on it that I can play with him using it.

On the weekend my mum rang me up distraught to let me know that our beloved family dog of 12 years sadly passed away. Unfortunately I don’t live at home anymore and could only offer a phone call and kind words at the time. I wish that I could do more to comfort them even though I’m not home. Does anyone have any recommendations? What, if anything would comfort you or provide a useful distraction? If I was home I would bake some cookies or something similar! Thanks you in advance for your advice .

My dog has a problem with peeing in the exact same spot in the house whenever left alone. It started when we first adopted her from her old home, the old family had definitely just kept her kennel most of the time and put diapers on her :(. We quickly started to undo those bad habits and let her roam around the house, most if the house is tile and wood and a small portion is carpet. She decided one day to pee in the her and we scolded her and cleans it up, ever since then when she is left alone for any amount of time she will pee in that spot. We take her out very frequently and she has never gone to the bathroom inside the house in any other place besides a few mishaps here and there. We recently decided to rip up the portion of carpet and do tile with all new wood under and she just peed there again after her being outside not even an hour before! We have the area gated off so she will go many months without getting the chance to go potty there and then one time of forgetting and she will just go straight back to old habits. Is there any tips for making it so she won’t do this? Is her scent imprinted there so she thinks it’s okay? Even thought we scolded her?

My bull breed dog is an extreme power chewer—he voided the warranty on the bully make boxes—so I thought this would be a good toy for him. I got the one appropriate for his size, in the antler shape. 10min of monitoring later, he had seriously broken one of his teeth, requiring emergency surgery. Has anyone else had similar experiences with this toy?

I’m looking for suggestions for an ideal farm dog for a property where security isn’t a concern. Which breeds excel at gentle livestock interaction, pest control, or just being a loyal all-day companion while I work?

Hi everyone, I’m set to put my dog (15 y/o lab mix) to sleep this morning. I’m so scared I’m making the wrong choice. She has a mass around her neck that is really effecting her breathing. At night and anytime she moves a lot she is gasping for air. But she is so so so happy all the time. Sometimes she is able to sleep for a few hours at a time. I’m scared it’s not the right time and she wants more time with me. This is tearing me up… am I making the right choice?

We've been raising our 7-month-old female toy poodle for 2.5 months now. We are way past the puppy blues stage and are now used to all her quirks and naughtiness. The hardest thing for me as a first-time puppy owner is that I worry about her all the time. She sometimes eats things she's not supposed to and jumps and plays wildly. Naturally, things happen that scare me a lot, and I can barely think of anything else until the situation resolves. We are trying to manage scary behaviour and not let anything bad happen twice, but I just get super anxious every time something, even minor, occurs. Any tips on how to avoid that, or do I just need time? I feel like it's inevitable that such situations arise, but I don't know how to handle them.

My Kelpie Ripley (9) seems to have seperation anxiety after we lost his mate Stubbie (15) around Christmas time on a camping trip.

Everytime I leave the house Ripley will dig out of the yard and roam around on the nature strip. He's never left the outer confines of our yard, never goes on the road. He waits around 10 minutes until I've left, digs a new hole and sits next to my 4 wheel drive, which is where he would have last seen Stubbie alive.

I'm getting concerned because he dug under the gate and got stuck in 45°c for 1 hour until someone walking past spotted him. He required a overnight $1000 vet visit due to extremely high body temperature where they thought he would die. We bought him home, lowered the gate, filled the holes in with bricks and he got stuck about 2 weeks later and luckily it wasn't as hot so he didn't require a vet visit.

Ripley did get to see the other dog dead and sit with him on the trip home in the car. I think he's trying to find Stubbie or having seperation anxiety from me. He doesn't dig out when my partner leaves. Only when I do.

I've tried scolding Ripley, taking him to the hole and telling him he's naughty. I've been filling in each hole with a brick or log of wood. But he just digs another hole next to it. I'm concerned he might get stuck again and die or a random passerby might take him home.

I don't know what the next steps are to try and stop him from digging.

How do I teach him to stop digging out ?

A couple of days ago, my dog ate a muffin liner. We've been monitoring him; he is acting normal, and his stool is normal and healthy, but the liner has not come out. Should we worry?

My 14-month-old dog refuses to eat because his instinct to hide (“bury”) food seems much stronger than his hunger—even after days without eating.

Sometimes he goes several days without eating at all, hiding every meal in his fabric bed instead of consuming it.

According to my vet, his body weight should be at least 3.5 kg (about 7.7 lb), but today he weighed 2.4 kg (about 5.3 lb).

I’d really like to avoid having to use a nasogastric feeding tube just to prevent him from starving.

Do you have any suggestions on how to stop him from burying his food and encourage him to eat it instead?