Category: Top Dog

We have a 6 1/2 month old dachshund and an INSANE amount of bunny poop in our yard.

We’ve tried “No”, we’ve tried keeping her away from the piles, but nothing has worked and has only started bad habits forming.

Now when she is chomping away if we try to get it out of her mouth she will occasionally growl and start to resource guard, she doesn’t have a “drop” command reliably yet, and she’s started to run away or pull when on her leash to try and get to the poop we are keeping her from.

We’ve tossed around the idea of muzzle training her, because it’s getting incredibly frustrating and gives her super bad upset tummy, which is making potty training even harder since she isn’t reliable going poo and/ or her tummy hurts so bad she can’t signal before she’s going.

I’m just nervous for any stigma attached to a muzzled dog or outside judgement. Which is probably silly because it will be what is best for her and us right now … any advice??

Hi everyone! I recently adopted a (now) 14wk old German shepherd. I love him to bits and grew up with GSDs so I do have experience with the breed. However, he is my first puppy and the first dog I have personally adopted. I enrolled him in a puppy socialization and training course that starts in a couple of weeks and I am absolutely terrified he will be the least trained/worst behaved dog there.

He knows sit and lay down (these are the only commands he’ll do with no food incentive). We’re making amazing progress with crate and potty training. And I have just started training him the “leave it” command and recall. With this being said, he still play bites, he really only listens when he wants to (when he knows food is involved), he loses all training when meeting someone new or playing with another dog, he’s not leash or walk trained at all (he’s not fully vaccinated yet so I carry him everywhere), he still jumps on people when he’s excited, and I have no idea how he’ll act around 3-5 other puppies and new people.

I know it’s probably just my anxiety talking and we’re literally going to a training class but I see all these videos of amazingly trained puppies and can’t help but feel behind. We train for 5-10mins multiple times a day but I have no idea what else I should be teaching him. Am I behind in something? Should he know something that I don’t even know about? Is there something he NEEDS to have mastered before this class?

This might just be taken as more of a venting post but honestly any advice is is really appreciated!

Ivory my 7 week old puppy acts like she’s starving with the food we give her. How do we train/fix it cus she inhales her food and constantly acts like she’s not eating often which isn’t true cus I feed her every 4 hours and I always top her kibble with some form of wet food now that’s I’ve got her transitioned (I know a little to early but my grandma had stopped buying her wet food cus she was tired of spending money) anyways how do I fix that? Do I start training her to keep still? 😭😭😭 I’m so lost

My little lab pup is 10 weeks old and has been doing well with house training. We've been religious in taking him out but haven't had any accidents in over a week. Today I was working at the table and heard him whimper a tiny bit, just ignored it as he'd been out 20 minutes before and done two pees. Walked over five minutes later and he'd peed by the door. I felt SO bad. He had tried to tell me he needed to go out and I was so carried away with my work, I just ignored him.

I am knackered, although he's a great pup, the disrupted sleep and constant attention needs is wearing and I'm really hauling myself over the coals for this accident, I feel like it could have been a really positive moment – if only i'd listened to him!

Not sure why I'm posting this, I'm just tired and going mildly insane. Hopefully you guys are feeling the same so I'm not completely alone in my insanity haha!

Hi, this is my first puppy ever, so I am really concerned. So this is Ruri and She's about 4 months old. And Wednesday she got one of her vaccines, Thursday she gets sick and we take her to the vet and she has to stay over night to a severe reaction to the medication. This afternoon

Our pug is 17 weeks. He only pees/poops outside successfully if we are able to catch his signals and literally place him outside. He gets a treat and praise each time. Other than that he will go anywhere in the house when he has to. For example sometimes I will say go potty, put him out there and he’ll run right back in just to pee or poop a few minutes later, which I guess means I need to shut him out there until he successfully goes? but I’m not understanding why he would do that in the first place instead of just going when he knows that’s what he’s put out there for.

He won’t go to the door and bark or scratch or do anything to let us know he has to go and to open the door for him. We can’t do a bell because my daughter would have a field day with it. I was debating trying a clicker but tbh he’s a big dopey idiot so I don’t see him catching on to that either. I was also trying the method for a few weeks of crating in between attempts if he didn’t go, but he may pee and once free in the house poop somewhere or vise versa. And it’s not for a lack of supervision, ten minutes ago I’m sitting next to him on the couch and he just squats and starts to pee. I’m losing it.