Category: Top Dog

Hey everyone!

Just after a bit of advice with my 10 week old Neo Mastiff x Cane Corso pup.

She’s actually pretty good with the basics. Shes knows sit, stay, down, and will come most of the time, but her name recognition and recall aren’t great. A lot of the time she just doesn’t respond to her name, especially if there’s anything else going on, and I have to keep trying to get her attention before she’ll listen. Once I’ve got her focus she’ll usually do what I ask unless she’s feeling particularly stubborn (generally when she’s tired and uninterested), it’s just getting her to tune in that’s the hard part. She’s also not very food driven which makes training a bit tricky since treats don’t really excite her much.

Just wondering if anyone has tips for getting better recall and name response (especially with distractions), building more engagement/focus, what to use for training if your dog isn’t super into food

I know she’s still young, just want to make sure I’m on the right track early.

Appreciate any help!

Hi all, my golden retriever pup is now approaching 4 months, we are in (I hope) peak teething phase and she’s chewing everything, and I mean everything. I done a Google search for chew sticks suitable for puppy’s that might buy me 20 mins peace and quiet. I got rabbit ears, she ate it in about 2 mins. I got something called a bully/pizzle stick. She ate the whole stick in 5 mins, I read these can last hours and hours. I got some antlers she has no interest is these, same as the benebone which was recommended to me by a friend, dog doesn’t touch it. Where am I going wrong? or is my puppy an actual raptor who can chew through bone with ease

We have a 13 week Havanese puppy we’ve had since he was 8 weeks old. He’s quite an energetic and happy guy.

We’re planning on taking an hour long flight. Unfortunately he seems to have a so-so relationship with his Sherpa bag.

With a month to go. Any tips on how we can proceed?

My little guy loves to chew everything, including my hands

How did you get your pups to stop biting without scaring them?

Basically as the title says! We have had our little one for about a month and she is incredibly attached to me. My husband works from home and when I leave she stays on our bed all day and doesn’t really interact. Yesterday she peed once (inside which is unusual for her) and this morning my husband took her out so I could get a few more minutes sleep and she peed on him and ran right back to me. If I leave a room she immediately follows me.

So I guess it’s two things:1. Way more attachment to me and 2. Seems slightly afraid of husband. He is also getting frustrated with her which I assume she can sense.

Any advice welcome!!

Hello,

I have a question about puppies, I see a lot of people on different threads complaining about their own lack of sleep due to getting a puppy. I'll adopt a puppy in the upcoming months and I'm trying to prepare to try, as best as possible, to make things smooth…

What is the reason people are not sleeping due to a puppy and how to prepare to avoid that as much as possible ?

My puppy is 5.5 months old. For context I live alone and I have little to no support.

I got him at 8 weeks old and fully intended to train him to be independent, but two things happened:

1. He started having cluster seizures not long after he came home. I lost count of the number of times I had to rush him to the emergency vet. Because of this, for about a month or two I was too scared to leave him alone
2. A neighbour filed a noise complaint and my landlady got on my case

I hired a force free trainer and her recommendation was to go very slow and build up to longer and longer increments of alone time. The thing is I feel like a prisoner in my own home and based on her instructions I'd be lucky if I get an hour in 8 weeks time.

I cannot stress enough how much this has affected my mental health. I was prepared for the fact that I couldn't leave a puppy alone for long, but because of my trainers protocol I now I feel like I can barely leave my home at all because doing so allows him to "rehearse the feeling of panic".

I lean on sitters and daycare but this isn't a long term solution and my wallet is already drained from the emergency vet bills.

Advice please.

7.5 months old Maltipoo.

I’m fine waking up around 7-7:30 for now, I mean she’s a puppy and she usually sleeps by 9:30pm.

But, before her, I was flexible with my sleeps and on weekends I slept in. Is it possible for them to be flexible with you?

also idk who else experience this but she sometimes wake up way earlier that she usually does and is unable to go to sleep after I take her potty, she throws a tantrum.

We have a 11 week old cocker spaniel, and have found that saying "what's this" has inadvertently become a way of getting her to come back to us (in the house/garden at least) and wondered if anyone else has found that a similarly innocuous phrase goes on to become a command?

My roommate is going to be gone for 3+ months and wants me to watch his dog. This dog is a husky and is very high maintenance. How much would be acceptable to charge him? I was thinking 300 a month but really have no idea. I have a dog of my own but people would pay me to have him for a month. This dog is very….. non trained. I’m reluctant to even accept. How much should I charge?