Category: Top Dog

I got her this bone to prevent her from biting me as much and it’s bacon flavored, but I decided that I didn’t want her to have it all the time just because I’m supposed to supervise her while chewing on it since it’s rawhide and when I went to replace the toy with a different one, she latched onto my nose and it started gushing blood and I said very strictly no, and she got off, but I wanna know what I can do to prevent this

Hi! I have a 5 month old miniature dachshund. Overall she’s been pretty good and we have a good routine. I am out of the house from 6:30-3ish each day for work. My neighbor comes every 3 hours on Mondays and Fridays to walk her and plays with her for an hour before putting her back in her crate. My mom is there all day Tuesday, and my sister watches her Wednesdays and Thursdays.

We have utilized her crate since day 1. Not as punishment, but for sleeping and anytime we are gone. She sleeps perfectly in her crate. Sometimes she’ll even sleep for 12 hours without making a sound. But, during the day….wow. I have a Furbo so it lets me know when she’s barking and crying. It’s getting worse for some reason? She is having such a hard time calming down and sleeping until she’s let back out. I have the TV playing for her, her crate is dark, the door is closed, etc. I do have a roommate who is home all day, so she does hear her moving around some, but overall the roommate is upstairs and not near my room.

Does anyone have ANY advice? I’ve tried her crate being open and her being inside a play pen, but then she stopped pottying outside whenever she was let out due to her pottying inside of the play pen.

Literally open to any and all suggestions and help.

(She’ll be starting doggy day care SOON, but as of right now I need some help. I know it’s driving my roommate crazy)

Pup hates getting his teeth brushed and there is plaque building up. How to brush his teeth without getting bitten, thanks!

Hey y’all. My 6 month old black lab puppy was viciously attacked on our walk yesterday by 3 dogs that escaped out of the front door behind the little girl that lives there. After 7 excruciating hours at the ER vet, he’s home with us and healing. His prognosis is good but due to all the punctures on his body he needs a cone.

He also is crate trained and only wants to sleep there. I tried to make a den environment outside of his crate so he had more room in it with the cone but he just kept going back to his crate. We have an extra large dog crate so I don’t think we could size up, it’s just not meant to comfortably house a cone. He does seem to settle once we can get him laid down in a good position but repositioning is tricky for him in the middle of the night. Luckily he seems to be managing sleep well with all the meds he’s on but I guess I just want some advice? Words of wisdom? He won’t be in the cone forever so maybe it’s a “this too shall pass” kinda thing and we just make it work? Anyway thanks for reading my novel. Any and all advice is welcome.

After seeing how other dogs behave (even the one from my dog’s same birth parents), I am happy to say I’m so happy I have my puppy.

He is the sweetest, smartest, kindest boy I know. He is a seven month old German Shepherd Puppy (eight months on the 1st), and has nothing but kindness for everything in his little heart.

I worked so hard to make sure he could live a good life, even during my heavy depression periods, and no matter what, he proves he is just the bestest boy.

I honestly thought I would crumble under the stress of puppy blues and potty training, but he made everything so much smoother, which I didn’t know until I fostered other puppies.

He runs to me when I cry, waits patiently for any and everything, never tries to eat my food, lets me give him hugs, is patient in the bath even if it’s the last place he wants to be, jumps in a river even when he’s scared to save my husband when he thinks he’s drowning (weird but true), acts stubborn when he doesnt want to leave our room (annoying but cute).

There are so many reasons I love my dog, but he truly saves me from myself. Im so so lucky. Im SO proud of my boy.

Hi! We have a 14week cavapoo. She had her vaccinations 2 weeks ago, so today is the first day she is allowed out. Just wondering how much to walk her and for how long? We have been going to the end of the close and back just to let her have a sniff. Once she is used the outside world how much should we walk her? How far/long? Thanks!