Category: Top Dog

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?

I have a 4.5 month old Malinois who weighs about 26lbs. On Friday night she found a piece of cheese and ate the whole thing with the plastic wrapper still on it. She gobbled it so fast I couldn’t even react. She’s been acting totally normal-normal meals, normal play, normal Mal energy 🤪 I’m still so worried. I called the vet Saturday morning and they said just monitor for any changes. I have been meticulously and neurotically checking her poos and no trace of it yet, ugh!! I know she will get into things but the puppy stuff is scary 😓

We brought home a puppy a month and a half ago. My sweet, low maintenance adult dog died when I was expecting our first child, who is now 8 or so months. Puppy is 4 months. I’m home all day with both and handle most of the dog training and enrichment.

I made a mistake and left my puppy outside unattended for 30 mins and she destroyed something my husband had to fix. Now he’s saying he “understands why everyone said not to get a puppy with a baby”, all of his patience goes to the baby, and I need to train her better. She’s basically already potty trained and knows a lot of commands, but still is jumping up on things and tearing at them. She’s crate trained and does well around our baby (not triggered by baby noises, interacts well with him with supervision).

In my mind, she’s still a baby and his expectations are completely unrealistic. I grew up with dogs (this is my first young puppy) and of course his only direct experience with pet ownership was with a cat. He knows how important dog companionship is to me, especially after losing my dog while expecting.

Again, I am the one who handles the majority of dog and baby care during the week- he handles bills and home maintenance things.

I really don’t want to rehome as I would feel terrible, miss my pup and would worry about difficulties getting another dog in the future. We returned an adult shelter pet who wasn’t a great fit (aggression towards our child) after a day so I’d feel especially guilty doing so again. How do I help my husband have more patience with the puppy and convince him it’s worth it?

Please no “rehome the husband” type comments even though I understand the sentiment.

We have a two year old American Staffordshire terrier and she has responded well in most regards to treating her with a treat when she does good things.. but when we go out for walks she just wants to sniff and eat things off the ground.. I would really Iike for her to get over this behavior. She finds like chicken wing bones and weird things that I don't even see… I've tried taking treats with me and pulling her away and saying like leave it! Then giving her a treat but it's been like 2 years and she still eats stuff off the ground sometimes. I can say she does leave trash alone like paper and wrappers and stuff but if there is something food or some weird interesting thing she is going to eat it…her tummy gers upset easy. It would be better if she didn't eat stuff off the ground outside.. .. ..