Category: Top Dog

I tagged this as puppy blues although I don't really think that's right. He is now 9 months so not even sure if that still counts as a puppy. I am just really struggling right now. My pup is currently snoring away beside me and thank goodness he is because he is so overtired. We have currently had a lot of snow. And overnight we went from a daily hour long walk to being unable to take him out. He is a cavalier and I didn't think to get him booties. I live somewhere which means I cannot just go get some and I need to order them online which I will be doing tomorrow. He has had a lot of the christmas period and I have done my best to give him rest time too and he has done amazing. But now without walks he is very restless. I am giving him lots of play but he is mostly refusing to sleep until he is EXHAUSTED and whining to get out in the snow. He is loving playing in the snow but I don't want to risk his paws with a walk where he can't get into the warmth quickly. I just feel like I'm failing him. My husband has made the point that if I wasn't a good dog mum I wouldn't care so much or be over thinking things so much. I just feel like I'm doing something wrong

Are there any good leave in moisturiser/conditioner I could use for my dogs dry coat? Particularly any that absorbs quickly and I can do on a semi regular basis?

Thank you for anything! It would help my boy a bunch!

Hi all! picked up a little street puppy who was roaming around my neighbour’s lane in this winter cold. He drank a bit of milk 🍼, peed, had a dry bath, and is coming with us to the vet tomorrow 😀 he’s mostly just sleeping and stretching a lot (while petting), for a while he wakes up, jumps around, sniffs the house, and then crashes again. From what I’ve read, puppies can sleep 16–20 hours a day and may sleep even more when they’re recovering from the stress of being on the street and the cold weather. is this kind of long sleep normal for a rescued puppy, or is it something to worry about before the vet visit?

any advice or suggestions! thanks

Hello everyone, I’m new here 👋

I’m planning to buy an Akita Inu because I really love the breed, but I have two concerns and I’d appreciate advice from experienced owners.

1️⃣ Smell: I previously owned a German Shepherd and a Labrador, and both had a strong dog smell. How is the Akita in comparison?

2️⃣ Weather: I live in Egypt, where summer temperatures reach 35–40°C. I do have air conditioning at home, but I’d like to hear from Akita owners who live in hot climates.

Any real experiences or honest opinions would be very helpful. Thank you 🙏

Our dog is a rescue, so we don't know her actual birthday (but then again, she doesn't know it either). The rescue organization put down a date of January 10th, so that's when we celebrate. We sing happy birthday, put a hat on her if we have one handy, and give her a delicious once-a-year kind of treat, like a hamburger or a piece of steak.

As it happens, though, my son's birthday is January 11th and mine is January 18th. So the day after we sing the birthday song, and it's fresh in her mind, we sing it again the next day, but it brings no treats or special attention. And then again, a week later! After that, there are no more family birthdays until August, and then there's one in November. But just when she's forgotten the song, we get back to January, and it all begins again…

Does your dog turn his head when he hears an odd noise? Does your dog bury their food with your pants? This is the thread to ask why.

Please keep this thread to non-medical issues only.

I'm looking at getting a place bed and I realized, doesn't it do the same thing a crate does? Does it have any actual separate benefit? Just wondering. If I have a crate command wouldn't that be the same as a place command? Also saving money from a place bed would save me $40

Edit: she has a crate in the living room and a blanket(her bed) on the floor in my room

Max (5 years old) is a reactive/anxious dog who is scared of thunderstorms and fireworks; we always know how to deal with those episodes (and he does too), but a couple of months ago we moved into a small apartment near the airport — I quote it because we are not that close to it, but we hear the planes frequently — and this guy got scared AF, or at least I think he is because of his behavior. Let me explain:

Fireworks / Thunderstorms → Max goes to a safe space and hides.
Planes → Max doesn’t rest, lifts his ears, and cries.

In both situations, he doesn’t like to be pet and goes wild (once he bit me when I tried to pet him in that state of stress), but he likes to lick his lick mat. He stresses out for a while (half an hour or so), and then the restlessness comes back along with the crying.

And the biggest issue is that this happens at night. We are in a cycle: we go to sleep at 10 p.m., Max wakes up (and wakes us up) at 12, I get him his lick mat, we sleep for 2 hours, he wakes up at 2 a.m., more licking, wakes up again at 4 a.m., and so on until 6 a.m., when we finally start our day and go for a walk as if nothing happened.

The vet suggested pregabalin during the holidays, but only for a week. The very next day we stopped the meds, the cycle started again.

Has anyone faced the same situation? I love Max, and I’ll do whatever it takes to give him a life without this suffering, but I am really worried about him and my marriage. Being unable to sleep 8 hours a day is destroying us.

Is he psychic? Am I crazy? What’s going on?? It’s been years. No one believes me.

our vet thinks our girl has elbow dysplasia but second opinion says she’s fine we’re abit confused what to do.

we’ve have x-rays