Category: Top Dog

I am looking for a shampoo for my 3-month-old Shih Tzu. Will be helpful if its available on Amazon India.

For weeks I was getting annoyed because my dog kept barking at the same window in the middle of the night. I figured it was a cat or something random outside.

Last night I finally checked my outdoor camera… Someone had been walking onto my property at night and checking cars and doors. Exactly at the same time my dog barked every night.

He wasn’t being annoying. He was trying to warn me that someone shady kept coming near our house.

I gave him extra treats today. He’s a hero.

We have had our whippet pup for roughly 11 weeks now and have crate trained him from day one of getting him.

He doesn't mind jumping in and out of the crate, hunting for treats in there, having dinner in there (door closed), drinking, licky mats, chasing toys. But if we put him in there for a nap when he's tired (or over tired) he just screams and cries and bats at the crate walls, trying to dig in the corners…

He just won't go down without a massive fight and it's driving me insane. He's so so so good with everything now, but his teakettle cry is just too much to bear.

His naps are always following an hour and a half of up time of big play or walks or something big and stimulating, followed by snuffle or bone chewing for calming, pee and then in the crate.

We have tried to establish a routine for naps based on his regular daily behaviour of getting tired at certain times, so there is a schedule but that's done nothing.

The only time he accepts the crate with very little protest is at night time bedtime.

Any tips???

Hey everyone!

I live together with my roommate and their cat. I have a mini dachshund who’s almost 4 months now. The dog and cat get along well and often play together, but I’m worried my puppy is being too rough.

We figured the cat would show him if he had to back off, but he doesn’t seem to be doing that (a lot). The puppy bites the cat’s throat and belly a lot, as well as his face, and it looks pretty hard.

I’m not sure how to handle it? I assume he’ll calm down as he gets older, but I was wondering if there’s anything I can do now? On top of that, the puppy is about to begin teething so he’s biting harder and I don’t want him to hurt the cat. Should we just keep them separate? Do we let them play but put the puppy in his pen when he gets too rough? Any tips welcome 😅😁

I love my six-month-old puppy so much, but being around her and taking care of her has been making me feel extremely depressed and anxious. Having repeated suicidal thoughts, and even coming close to acting on them, has made me realize how serious my depression has become. I’ve been doing CBT, counseling, and taking antidepressants this whole time, but things keep getting worse. I have anxiety, ocd and depression, has done my homework before getting the puppy and know what i was getting into, started gagging non stop since we got her, daily migraines that can’t be fixed by medication/painkillers, stomachache due to stress, stressed all the time, invasive suicidal thoughts daily, genuinely thought that I’m going insane.

I’m now starting to seriously consider rehoming my puppy, but I feel completely torn. I’m scared she might not be treated well or that a new owner won’t understand her little quirks. And the thought of being separated from her is heartbreaking. She’s a good puppy, well-behaved, relatively well trained, never does anything wrong, and I feel awful for even thinking about giving her up. We’re so bonded, and she loves me as much as I love her, but I’ve never felt this depressed, and I’m trying everything I can. The depression has only started getting worse since we got her.

These recurring suicidal thoughts scare me, and I don’t know what to do. I know people might downvote me so much for posting this, but I’m genuinely hoping someone who’s gone through something similar might have advice.

My dog had an accidental litter of 12 puppies, this is my first time to experience weaning puppies. They are around 5 weeks old now. When do I start socializing and how exactly do I go about doing that? I am doing my best to give them a happy and healthy weaning experience. Any resources or advice would be appreciated!

Hi, So recently our family lost our beloved dog when he was only 2 years old. Since my little sister was really feeling down and felt alone we decided to take a puppy from an animal shelter. Hes only 3 months old and he’s a really affectionate and a sweet little guy. But the thing is that in the 4 days that we have had him he got crazy attached to my sister: even when she goes to the bathroom at night he starts stressing. Now she’s been gone to school the second day and I’m home but he’s still going crazy when she’s not here. He’s howling, barking, and scratching every corner of the room. Then he lays for an hour quietly and starts again. I don’t really know what to do, when she’s at home he feels good and relaxed, but whenever she’s not there, doesn’t matter if someone else is at home he’s very dramatically howling and going crazy at some moments. I didn’t experience this with my last puppy, so I don’t really know what to do. Is it going to pass? Please if someone else experienced this, help❤️

My Bull Mastweiler just turned 1 on Thanksgiving. He is a very large puppy weight 100lbs. We have raised him since birth. Training was a bit harder while we still had his 6 sibilings. But, after 12 weeks when it was just him things were moving along as good as training a stubborn large pup could go. Just when we thought we could pat ourselves on the back for our great Furbaby parenting, He decides now is a good time to test our patience and sanity. In the past month he has started chewing everything he can reach, and I mean everything…. Our son's toys, He is chewing up cans like its gum, pots and pans, clothes, blankets, socks, electronics, feminine products, the couch and other furniture ect. ect. He pulls everything out of the trash, The cats and him got along great until a month ago now he is relentlessly in their space, lifting their backside up with his nose, chasing them and playing leapfrog over them. The more they hiss a swat at him the more he thinks it's play time. He's digging holes in the yard, He's been jumping on us at 3 am in the morning, He's been sitting on our 9 year old Autistic son essentially pinning him down and refuses to get off, if we try to grab his collar he nips at us.
We can tell that there is so malicious intent behind him. He's just having fun and playing. His tail is wagging, has a big smile and gives us all sorts of kisses as he has us pinned down.
what's going on? Is this just a tween acting out? He has plenty of space to run outside, we often take him to have play dates with other dogs. We are at our wits ends. We wake up to a mess everyday and find something important or expensive that he has destroyed. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi everyone,
I have a puppy, shocking, I think we have been lucky with her. she is only mildly damaging in property and pretty relaxed and well behaved mostly.
She is a pomerian-husky cross. she is more to the small side of the breed. (6 months in and 7 kg)
She is overconfident with almost everything except kids.
very social we got her at 8 weeks and have been doing socialising and dog school from week 9.

Here is were you come in.
my few complaints and also what i do wrong. please give me your tips for these:

1. She is not great at leash walking because i dont train it enough with her because she is not good at leash walking
2. the past 2 months it has been improving really well at dog school. On the walks at home with candy it goes wel but that means 15 min of giving her candy every 3-4 steps. when she gets "fuller" she will need it faster or she will get it and run of. by the end of the walk she just wants to sprint home.
3. she wasnt destructive before but the last week she has been more "bored"? so she is starting to try and eat stuff out of the christmas tree… ofcourse i see it in time but before she could be entertained by the cars pasing through the window for an hour or two. now misschief is there instead. she is a bit moree destructive when bored. but mostly we do 3 stimulating puzzles a day, go for a walk towards the evening, play in between (when i have work breaks)
4. 2 times a week she has been home alone for 5 hours as we both have to go into the office on those days so we do half a day. those hours were fine, untill this week apparently. now she is becoming more destructive/bored? I was so happy she could be out of the crate when we left 2 months ago, now i'm wondering if she should be crated back for those 5 hours or if we should make the room she is in smaller (so she cant reach the christmas tree and presents). should i leave more stuff out, i always leave her with a puzzle or something to occupy her a bit.
5. Any tips?
6. We are closing off our garden for her so she can run freely (not leashed) outside as it feels like she needs to have some zoomie time (we now just run back and forth in the living room, parkour!)
7. She loves the cold and at friends places she will be in their garder for hours. I am afraid of her being stolen though. how do you schedule, protect your dog when they are playing and runing out in the garden.

Thank you for going through my whole text! For how stubborn the breed is and high energy , she is doing so well, i love her so much !
What did you do that worked well?