Category: Top Dog

My poor baby just now asked to come inside instead of getting in the car with me. Which is crazy because he loves car rides.

The vet had started him on anitol plus joint supplements a week ago. There is at least another week before those have a hope of doing anything…

Gabapenten doesn't seem to do anything

Okay, so to clarify, my question is specifically about when I tell her "NO" and she doesn't listen. Some say it's not an order, but I consider it one. 90% of the time she gives up or turns away, but what should I do when she's determined to do what she wants?

Then, regarding recall, 90% of the time she comes back. But when she doesn't, how should I react?

Unfortunately, someone fired a bunch of fireworks right next to us, my dog run panicked back home and seemed to calm down. But todays morning he is scared to leave the apartament. Will it pass on it's own? Should I try driving him somewhere else?

If you have a dog or dogs that get the zoomies, then I think it’s best to stand still or just maintain your trajectory when they’re zooming past you, or you could try what I did once upon a time with a great Dane and side step the wrong direction and get your world taken out from under you.

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’ve tried multiple things to get my dog to poop outside. He pees outside just fine without issue, but it doesn’t matter how long we are outside he won’t poop outside, the second he’s inside he poops and he knows it’s wrong because he runs from me when I call his name to point it out and put him in the crate, he’s 3 at most however I got him from the shelter he was as there for 8 months and I’ve only had him 3 months, this is the only “disobedience” issue he’s a great dog besides this, husky German shepherd mix

I have two 4 year old mini doodle-mix dogs (one male, one female). They have been with in my family basically since they were born, however for the last two years they have been living solely with my parents as I moved out to finish college and internships and could not bring them with me. Just this week, I was finally able to bring them to live with me in my apartment in a new city.

My parents live on a few acres so they had no nearby neighbors and we generally never took them on structured walks as they were just able to run around in the yard. I knew moving them to an apartment would be difficult and they would have a hard time adjusting to all the new noises and people. I immediately started working on a quiet command indoors with them which seems to be working already as they are barking at all the random noises less and less. However, walking them has been absolutely horrible as they bark and lunge at every person or dog they see. I try to avoid running into anyone but that’s almost impossible as it’s a populated apartment complex with a lot of others dogs.

Another problem I’ve been having is the male has seemed to develop separation anxiety. I live alone and work full time and as soon as I leave the house in the morning he starts howling and will continue on and off for almost the entire 8-9 hours I am gone. He’s never had this issue when he was left alone at my parents house, but he has always been a little bit more attached to me so I’m not sure if that has something to do with it.

Despite their reactivity, I’ve been walking them for 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes after work (sometimes split into two walks), plus playing music while I’m gone to drown out some noise, and giving them a frozen kong before I leave (which the male won’t touch once he realizes I left).

I know it’ll take some time for them to adjust to their new surroundings, but I am afraid someone in my apartment will complain about them if they continue like this for too long. Is it too soon to reach out to a trainer to help with these issues? It was already something I was planning on doing, but I don’t want to push them past their limits being in a new and unfamiliar environment. I’ve also been thinking about getting the male on anti-anxiety meds temporarily as I feel bad that he’s so stressed and anxious all day, not to mention probably waking up some of my neighbors as I leave pretty early in the morning.

I know a lot of their behavior will be dependent on how I handle the situations, but I am just lost on what to do. Any advice would be helpful. TIA!

TLDR; Moved my two dogs into a new apartment with me recently. They bark and lunge at every person or dog we walk past. The male has developed separation anxiety and howls for hours while I’m at work. Looking for advice on how to deal with it, when to take them to a trainer, if meds are a good option, etc.

So I'm specifically asking for advice on the younger dog B. Sometimes when I'm focused on the old dog, trying to fight him off of old food or steer him away from poop piles, or just places he shouldn't be, the younger dog will get distracted by an acorn rolling down the street, a squirrel or any other animal and try to take after it full speed. Because I'm focused on the old dog, I don't notice his attention is on that until he Yanks me really hard.

I keep the young dog very close to me because he's prone to chasing after cars (their neighborhood doesn't always have sidewalks, in their older dog does not always want to walk the directions that the sidewalk is). He also has to be very close to me with the leash taunt because if not he will rip up people's grass and plants by the root.

Today when he yanked me, his leash was wrapped around my hand a couple times and when he yanked me it really hurt.

I get really exasperated with these dogs. The old dog is deaf and stubborn and refuses to walk in any direction that he doesn't want to. He often freezes in the middle of us crossing the street and only wants to resume walking if I completely relax all the tension on his leash and stop walking myself.

My main issue is how do I get the younger dog to stop pulling so hard? If I have my eyes I'll both of them. I can see what he's about to pull and can adjust the leash. When I don't know and he catches me by surprise I end up hurting and very frustrated. For more context, he's a doodle and about a year and a half old.

Hello this is not my first dog but this is my first older dog. I have trained multiple dogs but have not worked with a dog with barking before and this particular barking is weird to me so just asking for help figuring out the WHY.

Just got a new dog 4 weeks ago and working through a lot of training she is a 8 year old rescue super mutt (we have a DNA test pending).

She doesn’t bark at ANYTHING not even when we are gone or at people walking by our house. Once our fire alarm went off and she didn’t even flinch BUT we are in a town home and our neighbors shower makes the pipes make a noise and she barks at it. She doesn’t bark at our own shower and the noise isn’t particularly loud at all a little high pitched but not more so than our shower. I cannot figure out why she is barking which I am hoping to understand so I can train her to not bark at this sound.

Any insight would be helpful on HOW to determine why she is barking. All of the steps say to determine why she is barking but I just can’t figure it out.

Behavior I see:

1. Shower turns on

2. She runs to the wall

3. She barks loudly and also huffs and sometimes growls for at least up to 1-2 mins we don’t let her do it longer than that since we don’t want to be bad neighbors.

I cannot tell if this is alert barking, fear barking, or some secret other option because I don’t have any other barking behavior of hers to compare it to.

Right now we are just mitigating it. If we can grab her collar before she gets to the wall and keep her away from the wall she will not bark at all, but the neighbors shower at random intervals and we aren’t always able to grab her. If we grab her collar and lead her away from the wall she won’t bark until we let go of her collar and she runs back over there and starts barking again.

Hi everyone! Adopted a dog and need some advice on potty training older dog who is currently trained to go potty indoors on pads. I’m adopting a dog from someone who works long work shifts and trained their now 4 year old husky to go inside on puppy pads. I’m really wanting to break the habit but they flat out won’t go potty outside unless they’ve had a ton of exercise. I have a chocolate lab who is trained to go potty on command but I’ve had her since she was 8 weeks old. The husky won’t go potty even on long walks. Just if she’s been running around with the lab. Exercise isn’t a problem. She gets adequate exercise. I also have a mobile dog runner that takes them once a day and I take them on a long walk (2 miles) every evening. But late evenings and early mornings she won’t go potty unless it’s on a pad. Today I removed the pad for the first time and she just peed on the floor after I left for the day. Is there any tips on how to break this bad habit??