Category: Top Dog

My grandma dog just stares at me and smells my feet kind make me feel like something wrong with me btw I have anxiety

i've recently bought a deshedding tool for my pomeranian and did some research on them. i read that they can irritate the dogs skin so i shouldn't do it too much. any good routine suggestions? should i reduce the deshedding to just few days a week since its kinda hard to tell when i should stop and i dont wanna do it too much? obviously id continue with a normal brush daily. just looking for some advice to keep my doggy's coat nice thanksss

I had a super long petting and praise session with my dog (think several minutes of me vigorously petting her and singing her songs) and my dog entered a trance like state. She just laid on the floor staring straight ahead for at least 10 minutes. Normally when I finish a petting sesh I get little tail wags or noises asking for more.

After at least 10 minutes she sat up and asked for more pets lol

I’ve had my dog for about 4 years now. She’s a supermutt, very smart, but I’m officially at my limit with one specific behavior: she opens every door.

Whenever I put her outside in the backyard and shut the doors, she just… opens them. Sliding glass doors, knob doors, you name it. I really don’t want to have to lock every single door that leads to the backyard (there are a lot of them), because it’s a hassle and honestly I already hate cleaning, adding constant locking/unlocking feels like it’s going to blow my circuit.

The thing is, I never taught her how to open doors. I swear. The only commands she knows are super basic: sit, paw, lie down, roll over, etc. One day she just figured it out on her own and I was like “okay lol, guess that’s a skill you have now.”

But now she’s getting demanding. What bothers me the most is cleaning time. She CANNOT stand seeing a door shut. Like genuinely cannot tolerate it. She’ll go out of her way to open closed doors inside the house too,including sliding doors and even the bathroom glass ones. No door gets a pass.

It’s not a safety issue (front door and garage are always locked, so no escaping), but it’s driving me nuts that I can’t close a door without her hearing and BOLTING over to open it again.

Has anyone dealt with this? Is this a training thing, a boredom thing, or did I just accidentally end up with a dog who believes doors are a personal insult? Any suggestions appreciated.

We adopted our girl back in January of 2025 and once the warmer weather came, we realized she was absolutely killing our grass with urine. We don't have a hose hookup in the back of the house so we couldn't hose it down every time she went. Is there any solution to this? We're going to have to completely replant the back lawn this Spring and worried she's just going to kill that too. She's never gone potty on walks, just doesn't seem to be her thing so she needs the yard.

Is dog poop bad for grass the same way dog pee is? My dog is about 8 months old and the only time shes had hard poops was with a food she stopped eating, we've had to change her diet 4 times ,and there just isnt any break from runny poops ,I pick up what I can and hose the rest down with water. Other wise if left there she eventually brings It into the house on her paws.

But am I ruining the grass doing this? What have other people done when you can't actually pick it up and its so frequent.

Hi there, I just brought home a Toy Poodle. One main issue we’re having is that he is bitting everyone at home all the time. What can we do to teach him not bite us? We’ve given him toys, however, as soon as he sees us he starts bitting us.

Anyone found good ways to deal with same?