Category: Top Dog

I thought it looked cool so my toddler and I added some more to outline one of her spots and a little pink on her tail. Think that’s ok? It’s just regular chalk. And not a lot.

i have an 13 week old puppy and am struggling with bonding with him. He is not a great listener and is honestly hard to be around. I don’t know how to properly discipline him (i usually will say NO and try and remove him from the situation. I have lightly popped his butt if he’s really hurt me) and i think that’s one of the reasons.

He’s doing good with potty training, and i believe he’ll have it nailed down within the next few weeks. The biting and just being bad (doing everything in his power to bite the shit out of me, eating things that he goes out of his way to get, etc) is just taking a toll. We have basically no relationship other than me telling him to let go of me. Any advice? I want to be a good pet parent but i feel like im letting him down.

Recently I saw some sled dogs with harnesses that wrapped around their front and back legs.

It got me thinking. My dog is a bit of an escape artist, tends to get hot easily, and I often walk her at night, where a larger reflective harness might improve her safety.

She's also tiny, so those harnesses would not fit, but I'm handy with a needle and thread. Do you think something modeled on those sled dog harnesses would be a good idea for walks?

Hello people, as the title says, my shih tzu is 7.5 months now, but he came with a pre built biting manual from 8 weeks old. I genuinely believe it was never about teething with him (which he finished already), because it’s been constant hell since day one, and I really need advice.

He has two types of biting, general biting where he thinks it’s okay to put his teeth on my hands. Crazy biting which he gets into as if he’s possessed, where the more I resist, the crazier he gets (might be a game for him).

I take care of him (80% of the effort), but Inconsistencies exist as we’re a big family, and he also goes to daycare. No matter how hard I try to keep everyone on the same page, it doesn’t pan out. I also am not sure how daycare employees tolerate biting, they might invite the playfullness of it.

Things I’ve tried that I agree with: – stand up, ignore (he then focuses on ankles). – timeout (I dont think he gets it) – keeping my hand still in his mouth until he gets bored and stops. – put toy in his mouth right away and draw attention to it.

Things I’ve tried that might not be accepted on this sub: – pinch his lower jaw when he does it (normally works and he starts licking me instead, but clearly not working long term)

Info about day to day: Gets sufficient naps (14-17 hour sleep per day) , crate trained, plays tug, walks, enritchement kongs in crate, meals are fed through puzzles and lick mats, sniffing games, training commands.

Other issues: trained on pads so still pees on carpets, barking fits, eats everything in sight from ground (leaves, acorns, feathers, etc), cannot be left unsupervised due to biting furniture and everything in site (he’s always bored and cannot settle, despite enritchment).

Housebreaking has just been a nightmare, compared to other stories where puppies seem so well integrated into a home and chilling.

This may seem like common sense but I am quite emotional with worry right now!

My 4.5mth old puppy has strained a muscle in his back leg making walking around painful. He is generally VERY active. 2 x 30min walks a day and racing around the yard.

I need to keep him resting for the next 3ish days to recover. How do I do this? I feel horrible!

We have been to the vet.

Briefly: adult collie is herding the puppy, over-correcting him, and often acting jealous. Puppy just wants to play – any advice on getting them to coexist with less growling would be great. He is already distracted away when he pesters to play – she isn't being left to deal with an excitable baby.

Puppy is a large sighthound cross – 17 weeks and 14kg, expecting him to be 40kg+. He is already the same size as the adults. Been with me less than a month. Adult dog is a mix of collie breeds, from farm lines – she's very much a working dog. We also have her sibling, he's not the slightest bothered by or interested in the puppy.

Collie is very bossy, very much the fun police (she will "fetch" her sibling, and stop him from doing anything she decides is naughty). Both adults get a lot of puppy-free time; they're not living together all week, and on top of that we make sure they get individual attention when they're in the same house. But she's an absolute cow to the puppy – she herds him into one spot and won't let him move, she growls and often over-corrects him for such cardinal sins as walking past her and existing when she comes for a fuss. She gets a time out when the over-correction starts – but we don't tell her off for a first correction.

Puppy asks her to play but is getting frustrated that his overtures are resulting in a telling off – but he is determined and despite getting removed and then distracted, he wants to be her bestie. The more she tells him off, the worse he wants her to love him. They both respond well to side-by-side training (he's just about gotten sit and lie down) or outside walks. But if anyone has ideas on how to get them both to be cool with the other, that'd be great.