Category: Top Dog

I’ve called my stepsister (who is hosting our Christmas get together) and already discussed with her the fact that Nova (born Aug 7, 2025) is not yet housetrained. I’m doing all the appropriate training at home, I just don’t expect her to be perfect or even close to perfect in 11 days. My stepsister is okay with her not being trained and has commented that we can clean up any messes that happen. I’d like there to be no messes to begin with! But I also don’t want to be chasing her around all afternoon and evening. I’d like to be able to spend some time socializing. I’m not saying I want to pawn her off completely, but I want to pawn her off a little bit? There will be about 20 people around and several other dogs

What I’m thinking of doing is to collect all my nieces and nephews (7-20) and tell them that anyone who gets a picture of her peeing or pooping outside gets $5 per event. Is this a fair ask?

I absolutely love my furball whippet of 12 weeks called Leia but sometimes she can be so much.

Most days I rarely get more than a couple hours to eat, hygiene and "relax".

I'll be honest I've had moments in which I'm worried this is how she'll be forever eating everything from wires, clothes, shoes the whole lot!! And feel like rehoming her.

Luckily I do at the same time know this is the sleep deprivation and stress talking than me, in the end of the day I love her and she has improved a lot of my life in many ways.

I hope one day when she's more calm and relaxed I'll look back with a smile and laugh.

so we’re still working on potty training our 5 month mini dachshund. She’s a little menace, but very sweet and all other training is going really well. Sit, responding to her name, leave it, she has a great response to and has a solid food drive for it, which has been helpful.

The problem is that only once has she given us a very obvious que that she needs to go outside. If we take her out 8/10 she’ll pee (still refuses to poop outside but doing our best considering it’s winter). The one time she gave an obvious one she sat on her puppy bad a sniffed herself, and stared and lightly whined which was great. We marked, rewarded and immediately took her out and she went.

She hasn’t done it since, and she’s a very interested puppy. As in she will be contained to one small spot in the yard for 20 minutes and still being sniffing like it’s all brand new. That’s the same with her in the house, and I’ve tried watching her very closely to see the difference between intrigue and searching for a place to go and I can’t see any difference. What do we do?

Should we start bell/button training her with potty time? (as in ringing a bell or pressing a button when we bring her out to potty so she learns to interact with those when she needs to go)

Looking for a brand that has similar designs like Zeedog but based in the UK?

I also like Zeedog leashes the type my clip they use!

Guys what do you do when your dog won’t stop barking when you have visitors to the house? We have tried bringing him on a walk and meeting them on the way in, licky mats, snuffle mats etc. They all last for a finite amount of time and he starts the barking again.

It doesn’t seem aggressive, mainly just like he wants to be involved. But it makes the visits a bit uncomfortable for our guests as he is a 40kg greyhound. So not a small pup.

I have a 3-year-old pittie who LOVES blankets. Both cuddling up in them and unfortunately, nibbling on them in his crate.

I’m at a little bit of a loss for what to do because I want to make sure he has something warm in his crate (there is a gorilla dog bed in there as a base), but I also don’t want to risk health issues from him eating fabric. In the summer, we take the blankets out and it’s no problem because he’ll stay warm, but since he’s a pittie and doesn’t have a ton of fur, he needs an extra layer in there. Any advice?

Edit: His crate is in the bedroom, but he’s not above waking us up in the middle of the night when he gets chilly.

Edit 2: Thanks for the feedback everyone! I’ll take the blankets away. He has PJs I could try putting on him before bed to see how that goes.

Edit 3: Do NOT comment with crate training opposition. That is not what this post is about.

Hey guys 🙂 first time posting here, i have a pomeranian puppy, he is supposedly 2 years old, bought him at 8 months… but he has recently, like 3 months ago developed white fur on his nose… like how old dogs turn grey.. was i scammed? or is it just… genetics? how do i determine how old he really is…

Which pet insurance is best for you? Are there any that may cover your dog's current treatment? Did your dog get injured during the waiting period and want to know if you're covered?

Here's the place to ask.

Do know we cannot help you here with medical concerns, and lying or not disclosing things to the insurance company is illegal so we don't allow that either.

We're looking for someone in the Houston area that can take in a high energy dog. He's vaccinated, on flee medicine, primarily an outdoor dog but can be trained to be indoor. We're not looking for money or anything, just a place for him to call home. These are the instagram handles of the folk who have the dog and can give more details. Please spread the word if you can, to find this baby a home. @jere.exe @abree_joy