Category: Top Dog

She’s doing better about leash pulling, but I want to let her explore without her tripping me every few seconds.

I feel like I come here every month to try and find solutions. My pup is a maltipoo, 10 months and a week old now. He is still going inside to THIS day. Mostly just in his playpen. It has gotten alot better, like from a couple months ago when he would go after every hours or so. To having days of him not going inside. Whenever he is in his playpen, he will go after an hour, wether we are right beside him watching him until he wakes up, or if we are doing our work and have to put him in his playpen because we cannot look over him. He has been doing this since he was a little pup, but when we are not at home, he will NOT go until we come back home. Interms of him giving us a sign to need to go, he does not give us one. Well its one sniff and boom, just goes right there. We are getting him neurered in about 2 weeks, as our vet and groomer said thay its possible that its just him marking territories. We live on an upper unit, and have a little patio area that he uses with a “realistic” grass patch, the reason why we dont take him downstairs is because he will ring the doorbell that we have set up every 5 minutes or so, and no one wants to keep on bringing him down just so he doesnt even do anything. He knows that he needs to go outside, as whenever he is not in his playpen, he will go outside to do his business. My question is that when he gets neutered, will most if these behaviours go away? With of course more training that i get from my pet trainer. And how long did your pups take until fully potty trained?

As the title implies, I feel like I’m doing everything wrong for my new pup. We took him home yesterday so this is only night 2 and yet everything I do for him feels so wrong.

I’ve helped raise a puppy before and we had him for 17 years, yet everything that worked before for him doesn’t seem to help my new pup at all?

I know that’s probably a super common thing, or at least I hope. But I just can’t shake this feeling that everything I’m doing to take care of him is the wrong thing.

Maybe it’s the lack of sleep, maybe it’s the nerves, but I have no idea how to get this feeling to stop. What helped you guys?

Shes 13 years old. Yes very old. She consistently gets these twitches. when shes awake, when shes sleeping, eating, drinking. She cant walk anymore and these twitches prevent her from sleeping. when shes deep in sleep she doesn’t twitch. shell sometimes roll over because of these twitches

its really bad and she has this thing where she doesn’t sleep and night and its driving me crazy. i get maximum 4 hours of sleep and thats not even consecutive.

please let me know how to help her.

Mine tries to act chill when I grab the leash, like he doesn’t care… but his tail starts wagging like crazy and he suddenly forgets how to walk straight once we’re outside 😅 It’s such a tiny thing, but it instantly makes my day better. Curious to hear everyone else’s little dog quirks.

Hi all! I have a 1.5 year old golden retriever who is afraid of the car. We got him at 8 weeks and did our best to socialize him to the car properly, but after a few months he started acting really afraid of it. We asked our vet, tried meds (thinking maybe he was nauseous) – no dice. We're at the point where sometimes he refuses to even leave the house if he thinks it might be a car ride (aka not normal walk time). He's literally never had a bad experience from getting in the car – we take him to the beach, to the daycare he loves, to see family he loves, to go to parks to walk around, and he even loves our vet!

We've tried working with a trainer as well to condition him to jumping in and out of the car for rewards (starting with rewarding when he got close to the car and working our way up to getting into the car), and although it worked a few times when he thought we were playing a game, he refuses if he thinks we're actually going to drive somewhere. We've also tried having one of us sitting in the back with him, which also hasn't helped, he shook the whole time.

I've considered getting him a car crate for the trunk, but I know the good ones are expensive and I don't want to do that if he's going to hate that too. He has major FOMO so I don't know if it would make it worse to not be able to see us.

Wondering if anyone has had this experience and what you did? We can't avoid taking him in the car forever and I hate that he seems so traumatized. Plus, he's getting heavy 🙂

Thanks!

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.

Anyone have this mix? We are possibly getting one, but I'd like more info on them! Easy to train or hard, needs, etc? Longtime dog owner however haven't had a dog in 2 years, our lifestyle is super busy but one of us is always home and we only sleep from 3am-6am everyday so potty training would be pretty doable for once 😅 live on a ranch, so lots of space to play.

Pros and cons please! Not sure I want a dog again but also miss having them!

Hello. I have an Australian shepherd that is 4 years old now. We are still having issues with overstimulation and anxiety during leash walks. This manifests in frantic sniffing, excessive pooping that often end up being more on the soft side, scooting, not listening to commands even if we have food and walking from side to side and pulling the leash. Pulling to other dogs in particular.

I can see based on his pacing that he is very overstimulated. But doesn’t want to take treats also.

Any advice on how we can train him? O really would love to go on walks more with him but honestly o don’t now how to deal with it. Thank you

my dog often whines when fx we are at the dinner table eating and shes not allowed around the table because she begs for food and otherwise walks in circles around the table very noisesly, she also whines fx today when she was in my room late at night and i was playing a game on my pc, im wondering since it has been going on for some time, if she should be checked out? or she just wants more attention. thanks in advance for your help