Category: Top Dog

Hey everyone, my puppy is 9 months old and we spend a good amount of time training. Between working with a trainer and at home, we go through a lot of treats. She’s very food motivated which helps a lot in this. I have financial resources to put towards her, training and supplies but I’d love to brainstorm and get ideas for cost effective treat ideas, we’ve got lots of months ahead of us. I mostly use freeze dried chicken or freeze dried liver dog treats bc it’s easy to tear one cube up into very small pieces. What are treat training ideas others use that I can also try?

We also use clicker training and marker words

I have a six month old shepherd mix and we walk every morning at about 6 AM and it takes us about a half hour to walk 1 mile because she wants to stop and sniff literally everything. Is this normal or is it just puppy behavior? will she grow out of it?

We live in an apartment in NYC and our puppy has not been able to go outside until fully vaccinated so he’s been trained on potty pads.

He is officially ready to go out, but we are unsure of how to transition from potty pads. Do we take him out every single time, even early morning or if he wakes during night? Or do we leave potty pads for now until he seems to get the hang of it? I don’t want to confuse him but not sure the best way to go!

We have a 9 week old golden and we’re starting to house train him. He’s learned to go pee outside with no issues but when it comes to number 2 he won’t do it.

He’s only gone about 3 times outside to poop we’ve rewarded him with treats and pets but he keeps pooping inside his crate at night even after taking him out every hour overnight.

We’re going to try mowing the lawn today and see if that helps, any suggestions would be great.

A month ago, I moved into an apartment with my dog. I should mention that she’s never been without a backyard. She’s around 12 years old and sleeps most of the day. Every night around 3 or 4 a.m., she goes to my bedroom door and starts crying and scratching because she needs to go potty. I always take her out because I don’t want her to have an accident. She’s never done this before — she used to sleep through the night without waking me up. It’s strange because I always make sure to take her out one final time before bed, even if she doesn’t seem like she needs to go. Lately, she’s also been doing something similar in the morning, around 6 a.m., asking for food — even though she normally gets fed at 8. I know it sounds cruel, but in the morning I get up, see what she wants, and she leads me to her food bowl. I go back to sleep because it’s not time yet, but then she starts scratching and whining at the door again. What do I do? Is there anything I can do, or should I just deal with it?