Category: Top Dog

I adopted a 9 week English Cocker Spaniel (working line) and I have 2 cats. One older cat and one 2 year old.

The old one doesn't do anything that the puppy finds fun, and whaps her in the nose (no claws) so the puppy doesn't do anything to her.

But the other cat has no such spark of violence and just runs, which the puppy loves to chase. I'm curious what is the proper way to stop this? Like do I chase after her and pull her away while telling her no? I dont want to just let it happen or the cat will start getting nervous.

Any suggestions on how to squash this is valuable. I really do not want her to chase the cat. I want the cat to be able to safely disengage during any future play.

Truly awful. Got into my nice hot bath thinking about how awesome it was going to be to have her distracted while I relax and drink a pina colada…and then this overpowering dead animal odor began wafting over. I sat there and wondered if her astroturf pee thing we have on the deck was full again. Nope. It soon became abundantly clear what the smell was as she continued to gnaw on that thing like a wood chipper. Went to Google why it smelled so bad…turns out it is a bull weiner. I don't care how much she likes them…this will not be a repeat buy.

We’re desperate for help. Our 11 week old golden retriever is a biter. We almost can’t walk around the house without her biting at our pants and feet as we go. It almost never stops and we are desperate. We have tried redirecting/replacing with a toy and walking away/ignoring her (this doesn’t work because she continues to follow and bite).

She is smart – she mastered sit, stay, all within a few days but nothing we do is discouraging her. We are desperate for any help! It’s really affecting our enjoyment with her.

I've had my sweet pup 2 weeks today and ngl for the most part, its been okay enough but all of a sudden it seems that sleeping is a distant memory, so like 2/3 mornings ago, I had slept really poorly so decided to let pup in bed with me from like 7-8:30AM to cuddle. Unsure if this was the cause but since then he has refused to sleep in his crate.

He's got a soft travel crate set up in my bed, he started off sleeping next to my head, moved him to the foot of the bed, with the plan to slowly phase him into the living room (where he will sleep long term where he chooses, generally a warmer cosier room, my bed is very high up off the ground so don't feel confident about letting him free in it without strict observation, nowhere to fit a ramp.)

I just don't understand why we're going backwards, he's never cried in his travel crate unless needing toilet etc but I just don't know if I let him cry it out, I don't want him getting used to the bed either as its not a long term solution. I also live alone so its not like I can swap out, its just me and the pup.

He doesn't like his living room crate (working on this slowly) and its also not a solution to leave him in his pen as he does have separation anxiety and I have caught him escaping his pen so don't want him wandering around at night either.

Any advice appreciated 🙂

Hi I have a now 12 week old mini dachshund who has recently begun barking incessantly. We had an initial rough few days transitioning home but since then he’d been great. Pretty much fully potty trained maybe 1-2 accidents a week and that’s on me for not paying attention.He was sleeping in his crate and would even go in there on his own when he was tired. Loved his play pen and all of his toys. We had a pretty strict schedule of 30-45 min wake windows consisting of potty, play/ train, then some sort of chew enrichment activity then back to bed for 1-2 hrs repeat all day until night time. He was doing great and loved the structure. A few days ago he was acting funny scratching at his ears I took him to the vet and he had a double ear infection. Got him treatment but for those few days he was so whiny and only wanted to sleep on my chest nose buried in my neck and anytime I’d try to put him in his bed hysterical sobs and barking. So the schedule really went out the window because of this and we did no training outside of potty and crate at night time. He’s now doing better back to playing and enjoying activities however the crying and barking hasn’t stopped. Putting him to bed is genuinely a test of wills who will givein first me or him. I have changed nothing about his crate setup. I have it covered, litter blanket, old tshirt of mine, white noise, near me etc. and he loved it before this. I do the whole routine of giving him a settle command he settles I take him out to potty he does or doesn’t we go right back to the crate and say bedtime the close the door. He might settle for a minute then immediately is screaming barking you’d think he was being chased by an ax murderer. He’s now been barking during the day the second I’m out of sight. Which he hadn’t done since the first few days home. I feel like we back slid so much and I’m worried he’s forming bad habits despite all of what I’m trying to do. I have tried to pet corrector like air that makes a hissing noise and I swear it just makes him more crazy it’s like any attention riles him up and gives him more fuel. Feel so bad for my neighbors because I am in an apartment so my night time anxiety has been so high. I pretty much cry all night he does eventually tire out and go to sleep but it could be 30 minutes or more of him screaming. Typically he wakes up 1/2 times a night and the whole process starts over of him screaming etc. I know dogs bark and especially dachshunds. So it’s unrealistic to expect him not to bark. How can I best get this under control now before it’s true habit. He doesn’t bark at anything outside he’s been to plenty of coffee shops etc. we live in a big city and has been great around that sort of stuff. I feel myself getting very frustrated with him and I have been having to put my AirPods in and just try and regulate myself with how overwhelming his bark is. I work in a hospital and eventually will have to go back to work and he’ll have to be home for a few hours at a time. I’m just worried he’s formed bad habits now because of me. Any and all suggestions would be helpful. He is extremely food motivated and was doing great with the basic training we did the first 2 weeks. I just feel slightly helpless I love him so much but I’m at a breaking point.

Hey everyone, my golden pup is now 5 months and the teething/biting is insane! The bully sticks were great until she started getting diarrhea. Sadly she ate the frozen cloth and she doesn’t like the frozen carrots or benebone. Does anyone happen to have any other ideas? Thanks!

I love my little lady so so much and we just got her home from getting spayed. The vet was happy with how the procedure went and she woke up calmly and was her polite lovely self, but she's so uncomfortable and I just feel terrible.

It was definitely unrealistic in retrospect, but I thought she would come home and be kind of goofy like the videos of dogs you see post-op online. She's just disoriented and too exhausted to hold her head up and occasionally makes the saddest little whines and whimpers I've ever heard.

We have multiple varieties of cones and recovery suits and have everything set up for her recovery. I know getting her spayed was the best choice for her and for us, and that she'll get better everyday, but I'm feeling surprisingly emotional right now.

She's cuddled up next to me, finally snoozing peacefully, but I just feel like I'm on the verge of tears. I feel silly about it but I'm a little emotionally overwhelmed and just wanted to get it off my chest.