Category: Top Dog

Hello, i have 8 weeks old pup, we got him when he was 7 weeks.. It's been 1 week and a few days and he's doing great with potty training and no biting, knows 3 basic commands perfectly and I'm still trying to teach him more,,, everyone was saying that I'm overloading my pup but i don't truly see a problem.. Maybe it's that he's been with me only for 1 week? Might his behavior get worse or training? (not talking about teenage stage)

I picked up an 8 week old lab this week and he’s settling in well, potty training is going ok (I think) and we are working on basic commands already (sit, stay, come). He hasn’t learned his name yet but I know that will come soon. It’s certainly hard work and I am looking forward to the day when I get a full nights sleep!

He is super bitey especially when he’s tired – completely normal for a baby I know, I just wondered if anyone has any tips as redirecting him to a chew toy doesn’t really work! He will go to the toy for a couple of seconds and then decide that humans are much more fun to chew on! The only place I can give time out when he gets too much is his crate but I’m reluctant to use that as a “punishment” space as I don’t want him to form a negative association with it. At the moment he loves his crate and we had no issues with him sleeping in there from the day we brought him home.

Me and my mauled hands would really appreciate any advice!

I’m struggling big time. We have a 6 month old unknown breed boy. He is a nightmare no matter what I do! I redirect which just makes him even more excited and bitey, we try ignoring which again makes him even more excited and tries biting. I can’t even walk to another room without him attacking me (not angry attacking), if I ignore it and hold in my pain so I don’t make noise he still keeps going! I can’t even sit on the couch! We will sit on the couch and he will have his favorite toys and bones but no, he wants to try and jump ontop of me and bite my arms then tries humping my arm. I’ll push him off and ignore when he does that but every time he gets more aggressive with it and I’m just not sure what to do anymore! He will even chase my cats and try to bite them. Any help is appreciated! He gets plenty of play and outdoor time he just never calms down

Hello everyone! I’ve had my German Shepherd for about a month now, and I was wondering if anyone has advice on how to appropriately enrich her diet. At first, I was feeding her just kibble to help her get acclimated and avoid upsetting her stomach when she first came home.

Now, I feed her kibble (Royal Canin Size Health Nutrition Large Puppy Dry Dog Food) along with additions like plain Greek yogurt, broccoli, pumpkin, chicken with broth, blueberries, and carrots. I don’t always give her the same extras, I rotate them. She also has a variety of lick mats and slow feeders to help her take her time and not scarf everything down.

I was also gifted a bag of Freshpet chicken chunks, which I haven’t given her yet, and I was wondering if anyone has experience with those as well.

I’ve had family dogs before, but this is my first personal dog that I’m fully responsible for, and I really want to do right by her. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!

Anyone willing to explain how rescues pick adoptees among many applicants? Thank you

I will keep his blanket, favorite chew toy, leash, collar. But I feel guilty throwing out things like his little backpack, food bowls, paw booties, etc.

What did you do with items like this? Are there places that readily accept donations?

Hi!

I just need some help finding the best size for my Pembroke.

He is about 34in long, 19in tall, 11in wide, and 38lbs.

According to the recommendations by the company, a medium would suffice for the safety reasons.

But with this, how much room would the dog have inside?

The kennel will be used for a flight from Seattle to Japan, so it has to able to meet the requirements of the airline size wise.

Should I just grab an intermediate?

My dog has been lost for over a week now. Everyone who spotted our dog always posted it on Facebook, but I don't get a notification about every dog posted, so I always see it way too late, and then the dog is no longer wherever he was spotted. Facebook's search function is also trash. When I search for dog, I see posts from all over the world, posts from 1 hour ago and 10 years ago all mixed up. There's no good option to filter it to this location or sort by most recent. Only option is to search each group manually, but there are many many groups from the area where I live.

This made me think that we need a better option to find our lost pets. Im thinking of developing an app for lost pets. I searched the play store, there's already several, but none have many lost pet listing of my area, even though I know there are many as Facebook has way more. So the only way an app like this would work is if everyone would install it and use it.

Im thinking of the option where the owner can add some pictures/videos, a description of the pet, and of course its name and age etc, and choose a location on a map where the dog was last seen. And a phone number. And since when missing.

Then when other people see a dog, they can go into the app, add a picture if they have one, or a description, and a map again where they can choose current location or a different location. All these fields would be optional so that people can do it really fast without it taking much of their time.

Then an algorithm which can estimate how far the dog could have walked based on how long the dog has been missing, and within that distance, constantly search all listings of spotted dogs, and match the description and picture with lost dogs to find matches, very loosely, because not all people will add a very detailed description or add a very blurry picture, and any spotted dogs what could be a match automatically get send to the owner right away with a notification. The owner will be able to see the pictures and description to see if it could match and then go there right away.

I would also add a chat function so that the owner could message the person to ask for a better of the dog.

And then I would also add some sort of overview of all lost dogs in the area as posts which other people can view so they can keep an eye out for them, and a different overview for owners to scroll through all posts of dogs spotted, in case the algorithm missed something. This would be sorted on most recent first.

Now "dog" is just an example, i would make it work for any pet.

The only issue is, the only way this could ever work is if everyone used this. If not everyone uses it, it cant find and match all missing pets.

I was also thinking that people could upload other people's posts of different platforms such as Facebook, so that even if the owner doenst use the app, someone else can upload it for them, and then there should be an option to disable chat function and only add phone number.

What are your thoughts? Would you use this app? And would you share it with everyone else? Obviously the app would need to start with from scratch, meaning you could be the first to ever download it and there wouldn't be any listings yet. So its essential that you would share it with everyone you know to get the app to work properly.

I would need to make 2 versions of the app, a android version and iPhone version, so that everyone can use it, but rhis will take an insane amount of time to make and keep updating it. I don't want it to be subscription based as everyone hates paying, instead I was thinking donations. If people found their lost pet, they can delete their listing and make an optional donation. Would you make a donation?

What other functions do you think would be essential that I havent thought of yet?

We are divorcing.

We got two dogs after moving into the house. One was from a breeder and one was a rescue – different breeds. They bonded immediately.

Both are family dogs. Nobody is their favorite.

She wants me to take one and her take the other. I don't know how I feel about that. She and I are divorcing, the pups didn't do anything. She does not want to give up "her" dog. I don't want to give either of them up.

Should I allow her to take both dogs for their sake? I feel like breaking the dogs up is kind of mean.

How bad would it be on them if we broke them up?

Need to settle an argument