Category: Top Dog

My 7 month old golden has been getting up way too early! He goes to bed at 10pm, sleeps in our bed and then at 4:15am jumps down and is a bit wild. If I ignore him, he'll have an accident. I take him out and he pees and sometimes poops. Then, we go right back in – I keep it boring and dark and keep him gated in the kitchen until breakfast at 5:30am. He gets exercise during the day and doesn't drink too much water before bed. He eats dinner around 5:30-6pm. Please any suggestions?A few days ago he slept until 5:15an but that’s only been once

I have never successfully trained a dog with any kind of decent recall so we’ve always been stuck on leash even when we have access to acres and acres of land. I now have a 4 month old gsd who we’ve been working on training constantly since 8 weeks old, just started heel today and knows “between” where he sits between my legs. After I was out training him in the yard today we were just walking around and the leash got wrapped around my leg and I forgot to grab it, he was probably 20ft away from me at that point. When I called him to heel he actually did (with some extra bunny hops mixed in). I call that a success with my previous track record. My question is, how do I keep this going? He knew I had treats in my pocket, I’m sure he was just performing for food but I want him to always come back to me.

We have an 8.5 week old mini Goldendoodle who we’ve only had for 5 days. We’ve been putting him in the crate at night but he absolutely hates it. When we put him in the bed he falls asleep right away and doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night. I just don’t find it necessary to train him to be ok in the crate, since he’s perfectly fine not being in it.

Can I get some opinions on crate training vs no crate training? TY!