Category: Top Dog

I have a 10 month old rough collie who is the love of my life, but dang she has been getting on my nerves! Weirdly enough, I found the first several months much easier. She was a menace but she was so small and portable and she slept all the time. I have a complete demon now! I thought I could finally give her some unsupervised time, and she takes that time as an opportunity to be super destructive. She gets two 20 minute walks daily, plus lots of play (tug o war, fetch, flirt pole), and brain games. She also has access to a large yard where she gets zoomies like crazy! I redirect her when she chews on things but that barely seems to help. Maybe helps for 3 seconds and she’s back to the couch or whatever it may be. Any advice would be great, but also just some reassurance that it does get better and they do naturally get through this “destroy everything” phase! I’m about to put this girl in doggy daycare a few times a week even though I work from home because I just need some peace!😅

Hi all, my standard poodle boy is now 14 months and for the most part, now fully grown at 25kg.

He is a really sweet and loving boy, however is desperate to say hello to, and play with absolutely everyone he sees. As part of this hello he is jumpy and quite vocal which is generally not recieved well by all, especially if off lead.

We have worked on most thinsg with him and his training is coming along well apart from this. The jumping and lunging has always been a problem as he goes deaf to me. We have got it mostly under control in the house by making interactions boring until he is more calm, but this is obviously impossible to do outside.

Any help on this would be appreciated

Sorry if wrong tag not sure what to tag as

When do I start training stuff like basic commands (sit down etc) and leash training, etc I dont want to overwhelm them.

I got them monday its thursday while I write this, they have shown more personality now and more calm so I have started with sit, down and name recognition when do I start going out to learn leash skills, socialization etc, I want to do this right 🙂

thanks!

My cousins recently adopted a 6 week old puppy. They both work full time and wanted my help potty training him.

My idea is to keep him in the kitchen area (the only area in the house that isn’t carpet) he’ll have enough space to play, eat, sleep ect…and I’ll have potty pads there for when they’re working and can’t let him out. And then they will let him outside morning and night.

Right now, I’m puppy sitting him and taking him to potty every hour or so.

I love my little boy to death. He’s nine weeks and six days. We’re only on day 6 with him. I’m losing my mind. My head is pounding.

We’ve been sticking to a good routine. Not a single accident inside and he’s learning so well. He does great during training time and he’s taking to the crate very well.

I’m his full time care taker and I feel so alone. I can’t get a second away. He’s such a light sleeper. So if I sneak away during his nap, he’s up and crying. We also live with my roommates who have his littermates and parents and the adult dogs are not house broken or trained what so ever, so there is always mess on puppy pads. My roommates also work nights so they get home around midnight-4am and their dogs will bark for 45 mins when they get home. Their dogs also constantly bark for hours when the neighbors are outside doing ANYTHING.

Me and pup have been confined to my bedroom and office while we’re working on potty and crate training, but sometimes the adult dogs bark for a million years and disturb his nap or even the big sleep. My roommates are also like constantly screaming. Like they just communicate via scream???

I feel so bad, because he is such a good boy and I love him so much. I don’t regret getting him, I just really. Really. Really need some sleep. And peace and quiet. And probably a bath.

Only a couple of weeks until we move, just trying to hold on until then, I know things won’t change much, but at least I’ll only have one dog to worry about. And he won’t be disturbed during nap time.

(He’s 12 weeks old) (messed up the title)

It’s been a really long time since my family and I had a puppy. I really want to have him on a proper food thing and I feel like I’m under or over feeding him. I have a large breed puppy food (blue buffalo life protection chicken and rice kibble) and I wet it a little. How much should I feed him? I have a slow feeder and I wrap some of his food in a towel for him.