Category: Top Dog

My 7 or 8 year old american foxhound has started peeing inside in the last few months. She almost always does it when she is home alone, one night she did it in the middle of the night while I was home. Her routine has not substantially changed, in the past I've left her alone for the same amounts of time/same frequencies with no issues. I take her outside right before I leave every time, and I leave her at least 3 or 4 enrichment toys every time so she is busy. From what I can tell by checking the camera, she is not in distress, she is usually asleep when she finishes her enrichment. She has also done it at my mom's house when she spends the day there while I'm working, also only when she is alone. We went to the vet last week and she has a clean bill of health. I make sure to clean the spots fully. Any ideas on what could be happening/what we can do to resolve the issue?

My bf and I have a 9mo old corgi puppy that we got at 12 weeks. She is still having random accidents, as well as peeing in her kennel most nights. I've restricted the kennel to just enough space for her to stand and lay down but we still wake up to her having accidents. She also has increased the number of accidents during the day. There were periods where we could go several days without an accident but now there's multiple a day despite us taking her out every 2-3 hours.

we have another corgi who's almost 3years old and is 1000% house broken.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong with the puppy because our older one was basically good by this age.

please help

The subject is a greyhound, five years old. Me and my wife rescued him at age 2, when he'd been imported from Australia. As best we can tell, he didn't have any racing record, so he was probably just in kennels most of the time. He bonded to us swiftly, and he's a real sweetheart, except for the problem I'm about to describe.

He will, very sporadically, deliver a warning snap if he is approached while lying down. Sometimes, it's preluded by a second or two of growling first; often, it just seems to be sudden motion and a snarl, with or without a light bite. While it's usually just a graze, a few weeks ago he landed one on my wife's face. There was a panicked ER trip, with too much blood initially to assess the damage. Fortunately, it proved to be mostly skin deep, but merited 15 stitches across several wounds.

We've had operating theories about the behavior to the effect of him just being startled awake, and perhaps he has some PTSD from his past that makes him particularly responsive to such rude awakenings. However, my wife just had it happen again, where he was clearly awake and tracking her, she sat down on the couch to pet him, but he started growling as her hand approached, then snarled (no bite) as she started to withdraw.

I have to emphasize how intermittent this behavior is. Weeks, or more often months, will go by between incidents. Otherwise, he's exactly as chill as you'd expect a greyhound to be. In fact, he generally seems fine immediately after the "attack".

Some other factors include that he's done it to both of us, as well as our other greyhound. We have a lot of soft spaces for our dogs, and over time we have seen the behavior across many of them. Resource guarding is one possibility we have considered, but that the bed in question doesn't seem to make a difference confuses things. There just hasn't been any factors we can think of that seem consistent, and no way to tell if getting near him will suddenly go very poorly.

My wife was clearly traumatized by the facial injury, but nevertheless has made the attempt to still treat him lovingly, but with this most recent incident she just flat out no longer feels safe in our home, and I don't blame her. I'm anxious because obviously she needs to be able to be comfortable, but none of my research on dog behaviors have turned up anything quite like this. I'm at a loss.

Any thoughts? Much appreciated.

I recently had a situation in an airport in taking my dog through TSA. I travel across the country several times a year with him so he is very accustomed to it, does great in the airport, ignores people, doesn’t bark, etc. He’s friendly but doesn’t like being picked up by strangers. I’ve always thought this was a very reasonable boundary for a tiny dog to have and I do not let people pick him up. Usually when we go through TSA, they make us go through the metal detector separately, I will put him in a sit stay, walk through, and then call him through after me. This time, the TSA agent had me send him through to her first and then come through. When he came through, she immediately grabbed him and tried to pick him up. This startled him and he tried to run towards me, but she grabbed his back legs to stop him. He then snapped at her. It wasn’t a bite, just a warning snap, and the TSA agents laughed because he’s tiny, but I was embarrassed and apologized profusely and also felt terrible for putting my dog in a stressful situation. But I was thinking about it and wondering if it would be a good idea to get him used to being picked up. If there were ever some kind of emergency and someone else needed to grab him, it might be a good idea. But I also think it’s fair for a little dog to not want to be picked up and I want to respect his agency as much as I would with a big dog. What are people’s thoughts on this? (And to clarify, I have no hard feelings for the TSA agent, she was just doing her job and it was entirely on me to manage that situation, which I didn’t do well)