Category: Top Dog

I want to reiterate my previous question, I worded it very weird lol!

Is the door you use in your home to bring your puppy out within accessible space from your puppy’s pen? I’m torn on having it removed from the area of the door and leaving it elsewhere by still close by, vs having the door “within” the place pen?

I've got an 8 month old Daschweiler – yes that's right he's half rottweiler and half daschund! It's been super cold here recently and we wanted to get him a jacket, the daschund ones are too small now, and anything else seems to be far too short. His back is about 55cm/22" long but neck and chest are much smaller than any of the jackets made for dogs this long. I think the breed he's most similar to in stature would be a basset hound, can anyone recommend somewhere that sells coats for basset hounds in the UK? Or just long dogs in general? I don't want to spend a fortune on a tailor made on right now as he's still growing and we have no idea how big he's going to get!

We took our puppy home about a month ago and he chewed every toy bin we bought(he's good with all the other furniture in the house), so we’re building one that’s designed to be chewed.

I'm not selling, this is just a concept. ChewVault Concept

Would this solve a real problem for you?

I have a Chihuahua and she absolutely loves going under blankets and snuggling right up to whoever is in the blanket if someone is under it. I'm not mad that she's doing it, I'm just curious as to why.

Hi, I’m 16 years old I just attended my first ever dog show today and I would love to get into showing. I have always loved working with dogs. I have two show line German shepherds (one black and one black and red both 2 years old)and my family and I are hoping to get another dog in the next year. I would love to show one of my shepherds but I’m not quite sure if they are too old. If they are it would be fine though because I could into showing when we get another dog. I’m not quite sure how to start the process or the training required.

Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated thank you!

Okay yes this is a vent but i just need to get this out of my system, i have an English cocker spaniel and she's about 1.5yo. So my dog is well trained, recall nearly instant unless she's smelling something intensely or well when a big dog pins her to the ground or cages her in, standing over her and obviously she can't quite leave. And the recall of these big dogs is awful! The owners call their dog back and then nothing. And this isn't in that playful way that the dog pins her.

This happens nearly every time we go on our big walk into either into the forest, big parks etc when most of the dogs are off leash. It's so infuriating because my dog starts to cry and then still the owners dont seem to care. Tonight i was going out with her on leash, we barely went onto the sidewalk and a Belgian malinois lunged at my dog then at me, I said something to her that she's scared and she just looks at me then leaves without even apologizing, my dog was 'yelling' and trying to get away. This lady was smaller than me and she couldn't quite control her dog.

I only had this issue with small dogs a few times, with medium size dogs, even less times. I taught her to get away from big dogs that seem not trained or aggressive. Im not sure what to do, im not confrontational but i might lose it the next time that this happens, im glad that my dog isn't traumatized or is scared of big dogs but she doesn't approach them anymore as much even without me telling her not to, it's always the big dogs coming very hard and very fast onto her.

I know that there is small dog slander but Holy the big dogs are the worst from my personal experience, yeah i know usually this isn't the case but for me it is, even myself i got bitten by a belgian malinois and i myself am wary, she loves to play with all kinds of dogs, from smol to big and today at least she had fun with a big dog that was very gentle and overall they both were running and playing for a long time, overall i feel like the females are less aggressive towards her and she's spayed.

I think that i will start to wave my hand for the owner to get their dog away or shout. Why do these people get these big dogs without training them properly and teaching them to be gentle with other dogs. It's only the bad dog owners, the good ones are amazing.

Hello everyone, I run a non profit animal rescue in southern Georgia called BARC. I visited another rescue that had obedience straining as part of the rescue program, and I was incredibly impressed at how well it worked and how responsive the dogs were to it. I started thinking that our rescue could really benefit from obedience classes like this especially with trauma dogs and youngens, but when I started looking into it to see what the process looked like it seems like it's all over the place and chaotic. I was hoping someone could share their journey or at least point me in the right direction so I can learn the skill. Thank you so much!!!

I have a german shepherd husky puppy and i want to find a good way to keep her exercised while i did homework. i found one on the marketplace for $25 but it sold too fast. would there be any good deals anywhere else or recommended brands?

I have a puppy who loves to eat EVERYTHING and one of his favorite ways to play with things is to shred stuff/destuff toys and honestly I don’t mind him ripping up toys, we have plenty and if that’s how he has fun so be it. However he wants to eat the stuffing/threads/garbage he pulls and that’s what I would like to stop because it can be dangerous. While we work on preventing it, I would love to give him an outlet for this desired behavior that is safe. So if anyone has any enrichment ideas, that would be amazing!

My 9-10yo mixed breed dog (maybe wolfhound cross) usually loves her walks and runs in and out of the water at the beach. We also do hour long walks in the bush. Today after 15mins she lay down and didn't want to walk further. So I sat with her and patted her. Now we're home she's moping around but not going outside. The only change is I fed her some kangaroo bones and beef bones (uncooked) the last few days and she hasn't been doing bigger poos and sometimes no poos. Is something wrong with her? Should I take her to the vet or just monitor her for a few days? She just went to the vet for a check up a month ago and all clear, just got her vaccinations and another set of injections for arthritis. Thanks so much