Category: Top Dog

Hi everyone! My puppy is 7 months old now and all of his adult teeth seem to have grown in well except for his canines. His adult canines are growing in but his puppy canines are still in tact and won’t fall out.

I was wondering if anyone has experienced this and had to extract their teeth? And did your pet insurance cover the extraction? Only thing I’m worried about is my pet insurance not covering the extraction because it’s not necessarily an accident or illness? Thanks in advance!

Hi all! Me and my partner have adopted a going on 6 months old dachshund mix about six weeks ago. She is doing great in our home: she feels safe, she likes her play pen and crate, she is almost fully potty trained, and no noise in the apartment scares her – she’s unphased by the vacuum and popping bottles of champagne!

But we live in Manhattan on a pretty busy road. We’ve gotten her used to going potty on three trees right outside our apartment complex and she feels pretty safe there. However getting her off the block towards a higher traffic avenue is impossible. She starts shaking and crying immediately. If I take her outside of our higher traffic service entrance (where the dogs SHOULD be coming and going from) she cries and shakes so much. She also won’t even accept treats because she feels so unsafe so I can’t even work to create positive associations with that space.

We are working with a trainer who has suggested we just carry her when she starts acting fearful. We’ve been doing this for now but she’s also getting really big. We know she LOVES walking because she doesn’t leash pull in Central Park or other smaller parks even closer to us and feels right at home there. We are lucky to live so close to the park too, but walking the five blocks there is so hard right now because she just gets scared as soon as she sees cars and trucks on a bigger avenue. Even at the dog park she tends to hide under benches when a large truck is a couple hundred feet away.

The only time she does walk off our block and all the way to the park IS however when we have one of her doggie friends with us. She will follow them into oncoming traffic easily when guided by one of her three best friends. I really want her to feel as safe with me as she does with them as her friends can’t join us daily for a walk!

Any advice appreciated. I’m sure our trainer will help over time of course since we’ve just had one in person lesson and one phone call, but she really isn’t improving just yet.

Hi, I'm getting a puppy next year, and I live in an dog-heavy apartment building. Because of this, I don't want to have the puppy walking around outside the building for the first couple months while they aren't fully vaccinated.

I am thinking of having a grass turf pad or maybe a real grass pad as a potty area in my apartment, and still having the puppy on leash when we go to the potty spot inside. Does anyone have experience with this? Is it a struggle to get them to go to the bathroom outside if this is how they were trained while they were young?

Any advice or thoughts on how to best navigate this are appreciated. Thanks!

Hey everyone, over worried dog mom here. My boy is 6 months and has been teething the past few weeks. Over the last two days he has cried a few times when he bites down to eat. When I touch the right back side of his jaw when petting him he pulls away and also has cried. He has never not let me open his mouth and look in but right now he’s really on guard. His breath smells like blood. My question is this normal for a teething puppy ? I have called my vet and will see her Wednesday just to rule out infection or something stuck in his gums.

Hello,

I have a 5 month old Coton de Tulear. She has never been super interested in meals, although I still give her 3 a day and she has a little pick. She is healthy and a healthy weight (per Vet), it is just her normal and has gotten worse with teething. She sleeps in a lot in the mornings and goes through breakfast, usually waking 10-11. I was wondering when would be a good time to switch from 3 meals to 2. I have been finding a lot of conflicting information online so am just looking for some opinions and personal experiences!

Thank you in advance!

My pup is 15 weeks old, and I believe she is in peak teething mode. She never bites us, only her toys. When she’s overtired, she chews on all her toys like crazy, and just can’t get herself to sleep. She just can’t stop doing it? I never take away her toys, because I don’t want her to start chewing on other stuff or us, but I wonder if there are any other ways to get her to sleep? She’s not crate trained, because I live in a country that doesn’t use crates like they do in the US. She sleeps in my bed at night, without toys, and she sleeps through the night with no issues. The intense chewing is only in the afternoon and evening when she’s super tired.