Hey everyone! I’ve got a 4 year old standard poodle and she swallowed 3 maybe 4 inch long piece of an ol ray bully stick. Should I be worried? She seems to be acting normal. Thank you!!

Currently have a 15 month old dog. He’s our first dog so I don’t have anything to compare him with.

He is sometimes in a grumpy mood or growls when you touch his face in particular, such as teeth, eyes etc.

We made sure to touch his paws, face, ears etc a lot as a puppy. I would regularly brush his teeth with no issues. However, ever since becoming a teenager he growls at us when he either doesn’t want to do what we ask him to do or brushing his teeth etc.

He’s been to vet and has no physical issues. The second he growls we stop and I respect that he is communication he isn’t happy but I am wondering where we went wrong as we did touch his face and trained with him since being a puppy. Are adolescent dogs prone to mood swings? Do they tend to mellow out as adults?

I want to continue working on brushing his teeth, touching his face etc cos I think it’s important the vet can check on those things safely and I feel it’s my responsibility to make sure the vet can do those checks without him air snapping/growling.

We adopted a 1.5 year old from the shelter in October. Shes SO fixated on our cat. It’s never aggression (I don’t think). She barks, and does the play pose and bounces around, and chases her but she backs off when the cat smacks at her, but only for like a couple minutes and then she’s harassing her again. She also harasses our senior dog the same way, but she isn’t fixated on staring at our other dog or like watching where she is at all times. (The cat has an escape route to the extra bedroom that neither dog can access)

My wife is just annoyed that her already unsocial cat doesn’t spend much time out here anymore before she retreats.

(In case it’s important, she’s 61% Chihuahua, and the rest is like 25% Australian Cattle Dog and 7% Dachshund)

We try to stop her everytime but she just does not seem to get that shes annoying them. She gets lots of play, enrichment, etc with us.

Everytime my dog licks herself the whole room she's in reaks of dead fish smell. It happens even after we shower her. I bought cleaning wipes hoping to help and it just masks the smell slightly but doesn't make it go away. Weve switched her diet 3 times and it hasnt done anything. It even makes her breath smell just as bad and if she kicks anything it smells too. Does my dog just have a gross snatch? Is there anything I can try to help her.

Good afternoon all
Ok so monster is probably a bit of an overstatement but im looking for advise how to train out a particular behaviour from our pup.

Our pup is an 18 month old Morkie – Maltese cross with Yorkie. She has plenty of the Yorkie traits.
So shes taken to training very well and we've mastered commands when out on a walk. She walks to heel on "heel", runs away from me on "fetch it" (not ideal but its what stuck) she returns to me circling back to the left on " come by" (used to have working collies so whilst this isnt the usual behaviour for this command again it just stuck) and does the same to the right on "away". Weve used this for her to find thrown balls and toys when on the park.
Clearly she has the capacity to learn.

However here is the problem
As a baby she was scared of the back yard, would not go out at all. So being a big strong daddy I picked her up, carried her around the garden talking to her saying "look no monsters here" as we looked up at the roof, over the gate and along the back fence.
She loves to be carried by me, therein lies the issue. Now every morning she barks until i go outside. When i go outside she runs to me stands between my legs and waits to be picked up. If i dont pick her up she barks constantly. If i dont go outside she barks.
If she wants to be picked up outside she barks at the back door to open it. This upsets the wife – because she thinks the pup needs the toilet but really she doesnt – but we have to get up to let her out every time just in case its a toilet need!

Ive tried ignoring her, it doesnt seem to stop the behaviour, in desperation we've tried noise and vibration collars – all this does is upset the cats and we really dont like them ouselves either they didnt last long. Usually a sharp "No!" stops any bad behaviours but No doesnt seem to stop this. Im reluctant to use treat/reward as she already is a gannet for any food or snack.
I love that she seems to want this closeness with me but I have to stop it. I am not well, wont be around forever (terminal diagnosis). I know my wife wont be able to cope with this behaviour. I need to train it out

Any pointers?

Hello!

My dog ollie was a stray. We have had him for about 4 months now. Hes around 10/11 months old. He’s recently been having accidents in the house so we bought potty bells. It’s been about a month and he still cannot understand to ring it when he has to go. We ring every time we go to let him out. But he just lays down for us to put his leash on, has not learned to ring it himself. The problem aswell is that he will pee by the door if we take too long. So i feel like i have to rush and can’t take my time to show him to hit or touch the bells. He knows touch and shake, but he’s too excited when by the door to do them. Any help would be much appreciated for our sanity.

Thank you!

Just adopted a ~1yo hound mix last week, Thunder, maybe some Rhodesian Ridgeback in him. About 55 lbs, probably 10-15 lbs underweight.

Sweet boy, freshly neutered, little or no manners yet — neuter didn't go well to put it mildly and that saga's probably going to drag on a few weeks. May be exacerbated by his botched neuter and that I can't properly exercise him yet, but he's also up to 150mg 3x a day and still jazzed up much of time.

The good:

• He has name recall and comes back even if he wants to chase something.
• Highly motivated by treats.
• Religiously goes to his crate when I grab the food bowls to fill them up and knows to sit first even if he's not great at actually waiting for me to put it down completely. We're working on that.

The not-unexpected:

• Knows nothing else. No sit/stay/down/wait, and progress on those is slow because he just wants to kangaroo up in the air for treats.
• Some resource guarding, but only with full meals and doesn't exhibit aggression toward me. I just feed the boys separately and this is non-issue. Given he was starved to skin and bones, he's doing better than I'd expect. With treats, there are no issues whatsoever if my other dog is around.

The bad:

• A few dust-ups between him and my other dog (12yo Bassador). I've been bitten twice separating them. Thankfully, they seem to figuring each other out and are able to walk it off after a few minutes of separation.

The ugly:

• The play biting. Relentless. My arms are bruised and scratched up to my elbows. I look like a victim of domestic violence. He's fine when we're walking around but if I'm sitting down he belligerently wants my full attention and treats me like a human Kong toy. It's bad to the point I'm very close to returning him to the shelter. Just getting him back to the shelter this morning for an exam took about 25 min and several attempts to get in the car before I could distract him enough to get the car moving so he'd stop clamping onto my arm. Today's the worst it's been but I'll give him a pass considering he spent all day yesterday resting from his condition and didn't get breakfast this morning in anticipation of a surgery they're apparently going to punt on.

The environment:

• 2BR apartment. I am WFH so the 2nd bedroom is my home office. That's where his crate is but given his howling sometimes when he's crated and I'm in the same room, I'm thinking of moving his crate to my bedroom or living room.

Likely still on limited activity for couple weeks. Not optimistic on getting additional help from the shelter. They're supposedly giving me some contacts for possible behaviorists even though I previously had understood they had one on staff.

Desperately hoping for any solid wisdom on dealing with the play biting in the meanwhile. Everything else seems like solvable problems in comparison, but if this keeps up he's going back to the shelter. I will have no other choice.

Hello.

My dog has always been stubborn, and going potty is no different. Even as a puppy, she would routinely hold it upwards of 12 hours with crate training. When I take her outside, she will clearly have to go, as she will assume the position as she waddles. And if/when she finally does go, it's not a trickle, but a flood.

The problem is that, despite needing to go, she will have to walk around the yard for forEVER. She refuses to commit to a spot. She just circles and circles and circles and circles.

All of this is exacerbated by the fact that she had TPLO surgery 2 weeks ago. Though the vet prescribes certain time limits of activity, we always have to exceed it. It is incredibly stressful and frustrating that my dog will not go potty. I have often had to let her be outside for 20-25 minutes, and even that isn't guaranteed. I also am only taking her out every 12 hours, because there's no chance she will go in a shorter time period, and I'm trying to minimize the time she spends walking.

When she does go, I reinforce by using the words (potty/poopoo), I get so happy and celebrate, I give her a treat. I do every damn thing I've ever read you're supposed to do. She /knows/ what the words mean, but she has never gone on command like that.

She has multiple times since the surgery held it for 24+ hours. There is no way that is good for her bladder (UTIs, etc), but it's just as bad or worse for her to spend excessive amounts of time walking while trying to recover..

She /has/ to be on leash and with a sling, which doesn't help.

But please, what can I do. I already endured this earlier in the year with the same surgery on her other leg. But I am losing my sanity walking circles with this dog, stressing the whole time that she's over-exerting herself. And then stressing if she doesn't pee and will subsequently hold it for over 24 hours.

All the more frustrating is that pre-surgery, on regular walks, she pees a million times per walk. But even with taking her on very slow neighborhood walks, it's not guaranteed she goes.

hello! I have a 8 month puppy who was a rez dog until 4 months old. I brought her home and she never had an accident in my house. She was immediately down to potty outside. it was amazing.

well, when we go visit friends or family, she tends to have an accident at their houses. it’s so surprising, but consistent. shes done this at maybe 4 different houses now. even when she’s been outside.

it seems she hasn’t understood potty “training” to extend anywhere beyond our house but I actually don’t know how to do this with other places. seems like maybe she’s fundamentally not understanding inside vs outside?

we do have a backyard so I just let her out back several times a day btw off leash. not a lot of praise ever for pottying outside at home but when we walk I’ll give her praise. also, she can and does hold it through the night and morning or when I’m gone for 5-6 hours at home.