Category: Top Dog

Dear God. It’s midnight and my 16lb dog just ate half of a Pearl massage bar from LUSH.

I’m furiously googling ingredients. Anyone have any experience with a similar situation?

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**Introduction** 1)Will this be your first dog? If not, what experience do you have owning/training dogs? * It will not and I have had about four dogs before 2)Do you have a preference for rescuing a dog vs. going through a [reputable breeder]( http://ownresponsibly.blogspot.com/2011/07/identifying-reputable-breeder.html)? * Rescuing 3)Describe your ideal dog. * Basically a chill and laid back dog that doesnt cost a lot in vet bills 4)What breeds or types of dogs are you interested in and why? * Basset Hound because they seem pretty cool 5)What sorts of things would you like to train your dog to do? * Sit lay down spin fetch 6) Do you want to compete with your dog in a sport (e.g. agility, obedience, rally) or use your dog for a form of work (e.g. hunting, herding, livestock guarding)? If so, how much experience do you have with this work/sport? * No **Care Commitments** 7) How long do you want to devote to training, playing with, or otherwise interacting with your dog each day? * Maybe an hour or two 8) How long can you exercise your dog each day, on average? What sorts of exercise are you planning to give your dog regularly and does that include using a dog park? * About 30 minutes 9)How much regular brushing are you willing to do? Are you open to trimming hair, cleaning ears, or doing other grooming at home? If not, would you be willing to pay a professional to do it regularly? * Once or twice a week I'm open to trimming cleaning and doing other grooming at home **Personal Preferences** 10)What size dog are you looking for? * Small or large 11) How much shedding, barking, and slobber can you handle? * Not a lot of shedding or barking but I can handle slobber 12) How important is being able to let your dog off-leash in an unfenced area? * Not very **Dog Personality and Behavior** 13) Do you want a snuggly dog or one that prefers some personal space? * One that prefers more personal space 14) Would you prefer a dog that wants to do its own thing or one that’s more eager-to-please? * A dog that wants to do its own thing 15) How would you prefer your dog to respond to someone knocking on the door or entering your yard? How would you prefer your dog to greet strangers or visitors? * I'd prefer them to not bark unless it was a threat 16) Are you willing to manage a dog that is aggressive to other dogs? * No 17) Are there any other behaviors you can’t deal with or want to avoid? * Barking a lot or being aggressive towards its owners or people **Lifestyle** 18) How often and how long will the dog be left alone? * Not very often and for no longer than a few hours 19) What are the dog-related preferences of other people in the house and what will be their involvement in caring for the dog? * Very similar and very involved 20) Do you have other pets or are you planning on having other pets? What breed or type of animal are they? * No 21) Will the dog be interacting with children regularly? * Yes 22) Do you rent or plan to rent in the future? If applicable, what breed or weight restrictions are on your current lease? * No 23) What city or country do you live in and are you aware of any laws banning certain breeds? * United States of America 24) What is the average temperature of a typical summer and winter day where you live? * Summer is around 100 and winter is around 50 **Additional Information and Questions** 25) Please provide any additional information you feel may be relevant. * No additional information. 26) Feel free to ask any questions below. 

I took my dog out to use the bathroom today. in the process, her normal collar slipped off. so I went tried to grab her flea collar so she wouldn’t run into the street. The flea collar ended up breaking. When i tired to put it on I realized I couldn’t get it as tight as it was before but it’s still on just more loose than before. Is the flea collar still affective or do I need to buy another one?

My dog bit a pigeon that lay immobile. It tried flying but my dog bit his feet I think. I quickly pulled him away. The bird then sat and did not move. It tried walking away and was not able to. And my dog again went at it and I think caught his feathers.

The went to a corner and lay there facing the wall for a while. I gave it some millet and water but it did not take any. In a few minutes, it was dead..

I feel very guilty and also worried if my dog would have contracted anything from the bird. Our vet is on leave and told us nothing to worry.

Im aware it has to do with affection, but he kept on doing it for about 10 minutes straight! He only went for my right arm only for some reason, completely avoiding my left arm.

*** Before this gets automatically taken down we are NOT using dominance method to train our dog. *** Me and my boyfriend recently got a dog from a girl on Facebook. He is a 1.5 year old fixed and fully vetted male pitbull his name is king we had a 9 yr old pit male named moe already, and king is CONSTANTLY obsessed with him. He’s hovering him all the time, licking his back hovering over his back in the position like he’s about to hump him or does just try to hump him. Never leaves him alone. Constantly terrorizing him not even in a playful way, but in a constantly asserting dominance way. We can’t give him back to the owners and we want things to work with him but he does NOT take no for an answer for shit. He doesn’t listen and doesn’t leave Moe alone when moe is trying to set boundaries. He has 0 boundaries. We’ve tried everything. Verbal “no, leave it, leave him alone, go lay down” we’ve tried crating him or “place” command when he’s just NOT leaving him alone which he’s still struggling with place command. We’ve tried keeping them separated but king just jumps over gates or any barrier we’ve put in doorways. He gets destructive if tied up or closed behind doors. I hate having him in his crate all the time. I’ve had to legit shove him away from moe sometimes coz he will not respect his boundaries at all. Even when moe has attacked him over it, he either stops for 2 seconds and instantly starts up again or has attacked back and pinned him down. He knows he’s younger and stronger than moe and is constantly trying to intimidate him We really aren’t having this shit though. We don’t wanna give him up or anything already it’s only been a little over a week. Any advice at all? Desperate atp.

When our dog (Moseley, bernedoodle) was a puppy, my husband and I were not a united front on crate training. He would often give into attention-seeking barks, making them louder and last longer. Exasperated, we gave up and just repurposed the crate as his time-out zone for a few months before we stopped using it altogether. Fast forward several years—now he’s 6yo and gets into dangerous stuff when we’re gone from the house. I’m desperate to keep him safe, so I want to commit to crate training. Do we stand a chance?? Is it too late? Will he associate it with punishment? Do I need to buy a new one and/or sterilize the old one so there are no scent associations?

Help me. I know most people would have given up by now, but I feel like I can’t, because what if someone else doesn’t care for him?

I have a 3-year-old male Yorkie, and from the very beginning, he’s had issues with peeing inside. The problem was constant during the first couple of months, which led me to try crate training—a method I’ve never used with my other dogs. It’s helped in some ways: when he’s in the crate and I’m not around, he doesn’t have accidents.

At 1.5 years old, I had him neutered, hoping it would help; it improved things slightly, but the problem persists. For context, I also have a fixed female Pomeranian, the smartest dog I’ve ever had, and an 8-year-old Rough Collie who’s amazing in every way.

I got my Yorkie from an out-of-state breeder at 6 months old. The original buyers returned him because he was starting to turn gray, and I had just lost my Chihuahua six months earlier at 18 years old—another rescue I had saved from the pound. I couldn’t let him be left behind.

Now the problem has escalated. If I leave him alone for even a short time to work in my office, I sometimes find he has jumped on the kitchen table and peed (I clean with enzyme cleaner). I’ve never seen or heard of this before. I’ll take him out for 30–40 minutes thinking he needs to relieve himself, and sometimes he doesn’t go outside at all—but comes back in and pees within minutes.

I don’t understand what’s happening. I’ve trained dogs my whole life—my family bred, trained, and showed German Shepherds for 30 years, and I’ve never struggled with this before. I’ve always been around dogs and known how to teach them, so this situation is completely baffling.

Hello,

I have a pembroke welsh corgi who is turning 1 year old in a few weeks and the potty training has been a bit of a struggle. The main weird issue is that she specifically pees ON her beds. She’ll even sit/lay down in her own pee puddles when she pees outside.

I started potty training her the second we first got her. I don’t have a large backyard area but a fenced in balcony-ish area with a doggy door where I have her pee when I’m gone at work (over 8+ hours, Tue-Thur). Aside from that I usually try and have her pee on morning/evening walks outside.

Ever since we got her she had a weird habit of peeing on blankets/beds and then lying on them. This is weird, since I thought dogs naturally avoided doing so. She would choose to pee in her bed than drag her chews and toys and lie in the peed bed. To counteract this I’ve removed all soft things (blankets/beds) for the past few months.

She hasn’t peed in her crate since I’ve removed all the soft things but she used to when she was a little puppy, and I’m worried about her picking up this habit again.

Additionally, since the pee smell from the balcony can drift in to the living room, i clean up and spray down the balcony every day. We also IMMEDIATELY enzyme spray and vaccuum/mop whenever she pees inside, because we do NOT want the pee smell to linger. She tends to pee in different spots each time, it’s not a specific spot she always pees in.

She pees inside occasionally, maybe once a week when I’m home. However, whenever I leave the country and have my roommate watch her, she starts acting up and pees inside CONSTANTLY. Is this behavior BECAUSE I’m gone?

I plan on redoing crating/pee schedule training when I get home from vacation this time, but I would really like some more advice. Why does my dog lie and roll in her pee? Is something wrong? My recent vet visits concluded she is perfectly healthy and I plan on saving up to see a behavioralist if this continues 😞