Category: Top Dog

So my year and a half old dog has recently started to jump on our bed side tables and our table in our cat/spare room basically everywhere she can get on top of things she is and it’s driving me crazy. She didn’t start doing it until about a 2 weeks ago. She had gotten on our gaming car and then onto our entertainment center and I told her “off” and she got down but now it’s every time I leave the room she’s on our bedside tables or in the spare room on top of the cat table or my plant shelves. I’m afraid of putting something that will deter her on the table bc that’s our cats safe place and he hangs out there. I would hate to scare him from getting on the table or shelves he has. Our dog gets along with our cat really good and she doesn’t bother the table when he’s in there but she will get on other surfaces.

Should a dog be able to yawn while wearing a Halti head harness? I measured my dog and ordered the size that fit her measurements, but it seems a little small? I spent 2 months slooowwwlly desensitizing her, so she is totally happy wearing it and she doesn't seem to mind too much that she has trouble yawning. She'll try a couple times and then forget about it.

To address all the people who will tell me not to use a Halti: I am pregnant and I need to be able to walk my dog (who is a high prey drive and extremely extroverted working breed) to and from the park where we play fetch. She wears a front clip harness, which (together with training) got us 95% of the way to loose-leash walking, but there is still the occasional moment when she'll lunge at a bird, fixate on a dog/person/rabbit, or find a scent that she NEEDS to track down. I'm planning to use both the front clip and the Halti to reduce the risk of hurting her neck.

I have tried so hard to potty train my weenie and she just will not stop having accidents in the house!

I take her out right when we wake up, after each meal, we walk 1-3 times per day, I take her out right before bed, and I give her a treat every time she potties outside.

I don’t know what else I can do and I’m at the end of my rope. I just want to cry because it doesn’t get better. The problem is most of the time I take her outside she won’t go to the bathroom we just stand in the patch of the yard for 10-15 minutes. Even in the morning right when we wake up she WONT GO! But we will come inside and then she will hide and potty in the house.

Is my only option to try to crate train her?? Are there tips of how I could start that? She’s extremely needy and has separation anxiety so I worry that will also not work well, but I will do anything at this point.

Please help me!, I’m desperate!