Category: Top Dog

I have a 7 month old male Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. We adopted him from a shelter at 4 months old, and they neutered him. When we first brought him home (4 months old) he would try to hump is dog-brother, or us if we were sitting on the floor. We would firmly say “no” and redirect. It wasnt too often, and he quickly grew out of that phase with us. Yay.

Unfortunately there was a lot of humping in December. He would try to hump other small dogs, children, and our friends that owned dogs (assuming it was their scent). The human humping, especially children, I am not okay with. We spent a lot of our holidays watching him like a hawk making sure he wasn’t tying to hump anyone, which was a burden. We did had very similar socialization moments in November when he was 6 months old, and humping was not an issue with other small dogs or people then.

Again, he’s 7 months old and already neutered. I’m hoping this is just a phase and he’ll grow out of it? Is there anything else I can try doing to redirect this behavior?

My cavoodle puppy is 5 months old and turns absolutely feral at the beach. Runs as fast as she can in every different direction until her leash jerks her backwards, eats all the sand (and has pure sand poos for the next few days), rolls in it and gets sand all through her eyelids and under her eye bags that we have to try and scoop out.

I see other peoples puppies just running and playing at the beach like normal but I can’t even take mine any more. Did anyone else have this problem and manage to calm them down to act normal?

I’ve come to this sub a ton for my puppy when I got him and it felt like my life was over as it was. Freedom gone, I have this animal that won’t listen to me, etc etc.

Now he is an angel and today I am chilling with him on New Years Eve and we just hung out inside all day. Didn’t need to be worn out, didn’t need 2 hours of mental stimulation… it’s just good to be here

I didn’t come here to brag, but I remember what it’s like when I only dreamt of this time, it’s been a lot of hard work, but it definitely all pays off. To everyone out there hang tough and keep up the effort because it will all be worth it

I bought an online dog training system. The videos progress from basic to more complex exercises. The program is designed so that dogs learn the skills step by step. It seems suitable for owners who prefer to train their dogs at home rather than hire an outside trainer. I'm still in the early stages, but I find the program effective.

My 5 month old working line Collie is a happy energetic, confident little guy. He's also extremely sensitive to noise and he has been known to get very obnoxious and bitey at the vet's when he was quite ill. Today the poor guy got so scared of this really random noise in the living room (boardgame tiles being pushed around) that I had to take him out of the room crying and lunging. After some calm down time with me in a quiet room, I went to put him down for a nap in his crate (having to cross the living room for that again) but he completely freaked out and wriggled, snapped, growled and frantically tried to bite drawing some blood as I was trying to restrain him.

This reaction is clearly coming from a place of fear. I could have handled it better as well but it all happened so quickly. Would you sound the alarm and call in the behaviourist cavalerie or is this puppy/adolescent fear phase stuff?

Hi I have a new-ish chiweenie puppy (got him at 8 weeks, hes about 17 weeks now), and he weighs about 7 pounds. He's very small, and has short fur. He wears a sweater most of the time, or else he shivers/shakes.

The problem is my older dog, who is much larger (~35 pounds), LOVES to play with him. They are the best of friends. I want to be clear this isn't a fear issue. Wagging tails, excited body language, no signs of aggression.

But my older dog drools when she gets excited 😭 It's decreased some since new puppy came home (from strings of goo hanging from her mouth and making puddles on the floor to just normal excited spit levels), but it's still a lot of spit to cover a 7 pound dog in.

They play for 15 minutes and he's soaked to the skin all over the back of his neck/head/shoulders and it makes him cold 🙁 And super smelly! I dry him off only for him to get wet again immediately. His sweater gets wet too, covering him up does no good.

I don't want to stop them from playing, but I can't seem to get my older dog to stop soaking him… I'm at a loss. Any advice on how to get my older dog to stop mouthing him so much while they play? I separate them when I'm not supervising, but they ALWAYS want to play lmao

My 4m old pitt mix likes to nip at our legs while we're walking and, if we're wearing pants or any long fabric, start tug-of waring with the material. Can anyone share strategies for getting him to not?

Feel like I’m a bit underprepared here. How do I sleep if this guy needs to pee in the middle of the night? I’m a pretty heavy sleeper and have a hard time waking but to alarms so I’m pretty worried. And how can I ensure he doesn’t get depressed while I’m at work?

I washed my dog three days ago and now she got into mud and is super dirty and smelly and i would like to wash her and it would only be one time, but would it be bad if i washed her now? Btw she's a pomeranian.

NSFW for topic, not graphic text though.

Was walking the puppy, Daisy Mae, with a friend (luckily not alone or with a kiddo) when a giant muscle of a dog ran from its yard, gate opened no leash, and attacked our puppy in the road. Her yelp was beyond pitiful.

She got bit right away and knew she didn’t stand a chance. I tried to restrain the other dog and it got loose from me to run and attack my puppy again. It was beyond comprehension. Owner was slow, inept and useless. We called animal services, obvs, and through a friend network are conferring with a vet. Fortunately? the other dog only had eyes for Daisy and did not bite my friend or me.

Daisy is and will be well cared for, however, I am curious about people who have had a dog attacked and what that looked like for you after for socializing with other dogs and her first walk post-incident?