Category: Top Dog

Ivory is my 5 month old Doberman puppy a she used to be potty trained perfectly. I taught her to scratch my door and wait for me the moment she needed to pee or anything and she was doing absolutely wonderful but now she pees inside. She still poops outside but she completely reverted and doesn’t pee outside. I know why tho but I wonder why she stopped asking for my help. She’s to big for our doggy door which is why I never taught her to go though the doggy door and to grab me. She would anyways but now she is too big cus it was made for our small dogs. I don’t understand why she stopped scratching or telling me that she needs to go pee tho? I know she’s terrified of my grandma but she is 100% safe with me so I’m guessing she’s scared? Cus my grandma will sometimes leave her outside until my grandma decides she wants her back so I definitely think it’s fear related but I always go outside with her. Idk I need help and advice. Do I retrain her completely again?

So I recently bought a townhouse at the end of last year and now that I am no longer in an apartment I am looking into getting a puppy, likely a standard poodle. I've been in the house since mid November, the previous owner had a golden retriever and a cat. Is it safe for me to take a new puppy out in the yard to potty before he is fully vaccinated? If not what is the best way to navigate this?

hello! my puppy is turning 11 months old next week and I'm starting to run low on his purina proplan. I *could* buy another bag of it but the small bags are pretty pricey, so would there be any detriment to just moving onto adult food once he runs out of his puppy kibble? he's a medium breed (40lbs) and I know it's usually reccomended to wait until a year old, but surely switching a little under a month early won't cause too much harm?

So I’ve been crate training my 3 month old Labrador and he goes down for his naps no problem and sleeps for around 2 hours when downstairs where he isn’t bothered, however when it’s night time I’ll move the crate to my room he’ll sleep for a while but around 4 am he starts barking and won’t stop no matter what I do even if he goes to the toilet, has food and water, we don’t play because I don’t want to reinforce the idea that 4am is play time, he won’t calm back down if he hears the slightest noise from me, should I move the crate downstairs full time? I’m just scared if I do he’ll start barking in the middle of the night and panicking and I won’t hear him as I’m a heavy sleeper usually and I don’t want to ruin crate training

What should I do?