Hi all, I have a 10 week old wheaten terrier. We’ve had him for about one week now. We’ve been crate training – he actually doesn’t mind being in his crate and will go in willingly for naps and bed. The only issue is he literally wakes us up every hour overnight to go potty. And when we let him out he does go potty but every hour seems excessive and is also killing me in terms of sleep deprivation. Is this normal? Or what tips do you have to make him go a little longer between potty breaks at night?

I don’t mind being up a few times overnight, but every hour is doing a number on me

Hi all, my wife and I have a 5 month old cardigan corgi.

Overall he has been an amazing dog who is playful, loves other dogs and people and is in general eager to learn and full of personality.

Recently we have found our first potential problem behaviour where he has started relentlessly chasing and air humping my brother in laws dog (during family visits) the dog is older and our puppy just doesn’t listen to her signals.

What’s the best way to approach this. He has already had a few dogs snap at him because of this behavior and one dog looked ready to fight before we quickly separated them.

So, I love to sleep. And recently my 4 month old puppy has started waking up at 10-11am which I find really nice because it allows me some extra rest before she becomes an absolute maniac during the day. But is this okay? Am I a bad dog owner for letting her sleep in?

Apologies in advance for the ramble.

Myself and partner have a 14 week old springer spaniel who we've had since 8 weeks. We've talked about getting a dog for over two years, but waited until our lifestyle fits.

I mostly WFH whereas my partner works nearby, coming home at lunch, but is out the rest of the day on week days. We do make an effort to share the workload as much as possible and since successfully crate training the puppy and him reaching around 12 weeks of age we've seen a fair turnaround and it's been overall more manageable.

I am still really struggling though. I find myself obsessing over doing things wrong, about ruining the puppy's training or creating bad behaviours for the future that I can't actually enjoy him at all. I'm constantly worrying about what I should be doing or what I've done wrong, or overanalysing bad behaviour and trying to figure out what it is I should have done differently. This, plus the fact he is a handful, is leading to resentment which makes me feel guilty and reduces my patience with puppy, creating a negative cycle in my head. Whenever it feels like there's a regression in his behaviour or training I absolutely spiral. I find myself comparing him to a family's spaniel who overall was a calmer puppy, but did also have an older dog role model.

I just needed to opportunity to get this out. I need to remind myself of the improvements we've seen in 5 weeks, and therefore where we could be in another 5…

My puppy, who ive had for two weeks- has settled in very well and was very confident from the start in our house- the problem is at night. We tried putting her in a pen at night with all her bedding (basically crate training) but stopped because she was waking 5 times each night (not going potty when taking her) and let her sleep in our bed (i know but a puppy trainer advised it). She is pretty good at night now except for the fact she wakes up anywhere between 4 and 6 am thinking it is go go go and play time. She will wake me up by bounding on me, pulling my hair, biting me etc. it is near impossible getting her asleep after this. If i do not wake up she will jump iff the bed which is worrying for her joints as well as going into others rooms, peeing there, playing in the living room. She sleeps a lot in the day but we also do play with her, train etc through out the day lots and especially the hour before bed. She goes to sleep at like 9 which i know is bad but it is so so so hard to keep her awake past that. Please help me because my sleep is so ruined and i go back to work next week

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Hi all,

I’ve reached out on here for some advice before and taken this away but I’m still struggling with my 18 week Sprocker Spaniel biting and nipping.

She bites really hard sometimes, this morning I took her out of her crate for potty and she went for my leg/calve and nipped hard. I redirected to a toy and treated her. She does this everyday to the point I have to put her in her playpen till she settles. It makes training/ playing difficult, if she’s not napping she’s biting :/

She’s lost quite a few teeth over the last week and I’m ensuring she’s getting enough sleep/ mental exercise but this doesn’t seem to be helping?

I have puppy classes in a few weeks but I’m worried she’s going to be a nightmare!

Hello! I have a 9 month old puppy. I work from home 4 days a week the other day he goes to daycare. He is crated at night and is fine with it (touch wood).

I used to not crate him in the day unless I was going out but he has recently started becoming very attention seeking and barking a lot. Even if his needs have been met so I have started crating him a couple hours in the morning and a couple in the afternoon. I try not to and give a chance to be calm, capture calmness etc. but am doing this as I need to get work done at some point.

My question is this normal? Is this detrimental, will he start to dislike the crate? And when will he settle more readily again outside the crate? (I don’t have this issue in the evening)

Thank you for your help, I would appreciate any advice. Also if you have or had a teenage dog recently when did you notice more chill behaviour consistently?

We have a 4 month old corgi and she's a sweetheart most of the time, but she barks a lot when she wants attention. My husband was the main person training her since we brought her home (I have to go into the office for work), and she's gotten to a point where we can put her in her playpen and she won't bark incessantly when she's alone. My husband is now gone for a month working, and she barks whenever I'm in or out of the room.

Since I'm at work, our neighbor has been letting her out to pee every couple of hours during the day, and she never barks at her. My parents were also over one morning and she didn't bark at them, so I don't understand why she only barks at me. Whenever she barks for attention in her pen I ignore her, and when I do let her out for "free time" she never actively seeks me out to play or be around me. She was glued to my husband, so it seems that she just doesn't like me. She never growls or seems uncomfortable when I pet her, so I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. Is there anything I can do so that she wants my love just as much as anyone else's?