Category: Top Dog

Our 11mo old cockapoo has recently started biting her lead – usually it seems to be when she is getting frustrated with being in a situation where she needs to be on a shorter lead or on lead for too long.

She isn’t responding to cues like leave it or drop it which she is normally pretty good at, and tethering isn’t stopping it either as she just chews the bit she can get to.

I know a lot of is adolescence but anyone have any suggestions of what worked for them to train the behaviour out? She didn’t used to do it and we’d like to avoid her become an adult lead chewer if we can!

Hello everyone! My partner & I recently brought a 8 week old cavapoo home a couple days ago & she is a lil bundle of joy apart from the usual puppy stuff.

We have been crate training her, which at first seemed like a lost cause because all she would do is whine, but she is starting to adjust. At first she would have accidents in her crate & would whine like crazy. We put a divider in her cage & so far no more accidents. She whines a little bit when first put in but after a minute or two she will calm down which I am very happy about. She doesn’t sleep thru the night yet which we expected but day by day she is getting better.

The biggest struggle is potty training. We have had glimpses of success where we will guide her to the potty pad & she will go but she is also still having accidents now & then where she will try to go potty in random spots or even next to the potty pad.

Another problem is that my partner is having serious puppy blues because of the sleep deprivation & is strongly considering rehoming her. I have been trying to convince her that things will get better & that its just gonna take time. I am just looking for some advice, tips or tricks that can help with potty training & helping the puppy sleep thru the night. Thank you!

So we have a 13 week old Frug (French bulldog pug cross) and she is great going in her crate etc, and at night she sleeps 9-2, wakes for a wee etc then sleeps till 5. But in the day, she won’t sleep longer than half an hour. It’s the same crate in the same environment but she won’t go back to sleep no matter what i do.

I always give her ten mins before bedtime to relax and chill, usually with a yak chew, and she goes in fine and nods off for twenty mins or so. Nowhere near the two hours she did a few weeks ago.

I do the awake for an hour and a half max then put her down, hoping for her to sleep an hour and a half at least.

Any advice welcome!

Our labradoodle just turned a year old and whenever we do something like watching tv, having dinner, that doesn’t involve him, he continuously barks at us. We’ve started putting him in timeouts in the hallway and he falls asleep pretty immediately. He also does it when we’ve got people over. How do we unlearn these behaviours and does it have to do with his age?

My puppies been doing great with potty training. We live in an apartment, and we let him pee right outside, which is next to our landlords fence, who has dogs.

My dog was just peeing, and then her dog ran over and started barking and scared our dog, so he stopped peeing immediately.

He went out and peed after, but will this cause any potty training regression, or fear in him to pee outside? Im glad he peed outside after, and im probably over thinking, just need some reassurance.

I just got my female yellow lab puppy on Friday, she’s 16 weeks now. Took her to the vet and she was an angel, everyone adored her. No issues besides an ear infection we’re working on clearing up.

She’s doing amazing with crate training and potty training. We just got into a real schedule this week since my husband is at work and my oldest is at school, so it’s mainly me working with her. She’s so smart and truly just a dream of a puppy. Loves her kennel, sleeps through the night, good with “sit” and working on recall.

My only concern (and maybe I should’ve brought this up to the vet, but I had two of my kids with me and well… mom brain lol) is that she really doesn’t seem to pee that much? She’s very good at holding it. She held it the entire 5 hour drive home from getting her, holds it overnight no problem, I stay home but if I have to take the kids to an appointment I know she’s going to be fine in her kennel. I give her water with all her meals and then mid morning and mid evening I’ll give her some extra. Everything I’m seeing says puppies her age pee around 6-10 times per day, but she’s at maybe 4 times? They are pretty long pees and she isn’t struggling to go or show any signs of discomfort or anything. She also only poops once a day, sometimes twice. Not sure if this is worth bringing up since she doesn’t have any other concerns, or if she just has a bladder of steel?

Today- she peed around 6am, then again at 10:30am (pooped too) and it’s now 4:30pm and I’ve taken her out maybe 3 times since and she still hasn’t gone.

Thanks!

16 weeks old cocker puppy was quick eater since we got him so we’ve been feeding him with slow bowl, puzzle, snuff mat, scatter etc and he would eat normal chewing his food and sniffing for it.

Last night, something changed in him – he started inhaling the kibble without even biting it and sometimes the excessive sniffing makes him eat air with kibble. This happened with snuff mat, slow bowl (we got difficult slow bowl for him and would always work) and his puzzle. He ate his dinner last night like he never saw food before, finished the mat and puzzles so quick and didn’t even chew one piece. Later that night, 2-3 hours after food, he threw everything up and it was full pieces of kibble and then threw up two more times but not straight away and not much. He was acting completely fine and eventually went to sleep for the rest of the night.

Today he is acting absolutely fine, drinks normal, eats normal, poop normal, but he eats like crazy. Nothing works. I have tried slow hand feeding today and could see closely how he just swallows/inhales that kibble whole. Putting a bit of water doesn’t help either. Tried frozen towel with kibbles inside and so he waited for it to defrost and demolished again. He started sniffing soooo much that he could probably sniff that kibble through his nose if it was small enough..

We were at the vet today to trim his nails and nurse also checked him and said he’s absolutely healthy, perfect weight, looks good etc and said that it was most likely the way he ate food that made him sick. She said to try scatter or hand feed today and so I did and it absolutely didn’t help.

Has anyone had this problem before and can advise what to do so our pup starts chewing food again instead of inhaling?

Our springer spaniel had an easy adolescence in the first couple months, but since around 10.5 months old, she's been a lot more anxious about noises and other dogs. She'll still follow commands pretty well– she's just a lot more spooked at things than she used to be.

It's on our walks or park visits that she'll get spooked. Yesterday she didn't wanna go outside because of construction on our neighbor's house (loud hammers etc.). Today she was scared of a loud group of geese on the other side of the park, like lunging to get back to the car.

It never used to be this way. I'm wondering if it's that she's been out of the house less this winter from all the blizzards we've had this year.

Anyway– is this normal for the age? Any advice for helping her?

Hi! I have pet insurance for my 2 cats, and I got a puppy last week. I was wondering if I should add her right away?

Also, which pet insurance do you recommend? I have spot pet and pay about $50 monthly for my cats. It has a $250 deductible and covers 80% of the costs. Is that good?