Category: Top Dog

As a puppy I carried my pup up the stairs to my bathtub, and gave him a bath there. Well, now he's large and heavy and can't climb our steep stairs (we never tried it, but it isn't safe) so I'm thinking of giving him baths in the garden if it's not too cold outside, or to install a small shower cabin in our garage, but I fear the whole garage will end up wet.

If you bathe your dog, how? The nearest doggy bath station is at least an hour driving away.

I booked a one-way trip to SE Asia for Feb '26 via JAL. The first leg is thru American Air to Chicago, followed by the international leg. I want to take my 15 lb dog in the cabin with me, but it's so confusing to understand the protocols.

Anyone have any experience doing this? Where do I start?

UPDATE: Destination in Vietnam. Will be flying thru Narita then to Ho Chi Minh. Five days later I'll grab a domestic flight to Da Nang for several months. (Or I might take a train to Da Nang.)

I've traveled to Vietnam multiple times for 15 years, but never with my dog. That 13 hour flight gives me real concern for my pet.

Hi! Me and my husband have a 3 year old bichon and we’ve had him since he’s 3 months old. We noticed a few months back that when our pup and I are in bed and I’m sleeping, he gets really aggressive with my husband when he’s about to come to bed.

Our pup is not aggressive. He loves to play and always snuggles with the both of us but for some reason, he now doesn’t want my husband to join us in bed lol. Sometimes, we 3 are all gonna sleep and that’s fine but my husband goes to the bathroom in the middle of night and he can’t come back anymore because our puppy is getting ready to bite him.

Btw, he doesn’t do this when it’s them sleeping. I can hop onto the bed just fine and he’s never aggressive with me. What could be causing his beef with my husband when I’m sleeping?

My 14 week old puppy (Old English Sheepdog) loves jumping up on the sofa (and off sometimes) I try to catch him to lift him up myself and the same to put him back on the floor, but sometimes he's just too quick for me.

He also tries to jump on the bed but fails as he's too short so I lift him up.

I'm so worried he's going to do damage to his hips and elbows.

He gets carried up and down the stairs.

I tried to make steps out of pillows everywhere but it makes it hard for us humans to sit down!

Would some doggy steps help or would that be just as bad as using the stairs?

Hi all! I’ve had dogs my entire life, but this is only the second dog I’ve had as an adult and the second dog I’ve crate trained.

Cassie is my almost 1 year old GSD (halloween birthday) and I love her and her teenage shenanigans to death, but she’s recently started crying after I put her in her crate for a nap. She goes in without protest, knows it’s a good place, gets her meals there etc, but just this last month or so she suddenly really started protesting after being tucked away, usually midday. Night time seems to be okay so long as the house is quiet / the family is going to bed.

I know it’s because she wants to be free and hanging out with my family and I since it’s exclusively when she can hear us talking, but how do I help her settle down instead? I don’t want to tell her “no” while she’s crated and make anything feel like a punishment, so I usually tell her she’s okay and maybe stop by with a treat after she stops for a bit. If she REALLY protests I’ll take her outside on a leash to see if she needs to potty (never does smh), let her sniff somethings, and then put her back.

It would be cool if my family could watch a movie without GSD puppy yelling in the background. what can I do besides wait out the teenage phase? her crate is in the living area of the house in a quiet corner, and the only change to the household was me putting my senior dog down months ago before this.

I live in a duplex with a neighbor upstairs. We just got a puppy (with landlord's blessing) and of course he is barking sometimes. Overall he's pretty quiet but gets riled up sometimes when playing, and especially will bark/whine when I try to crate train him. When he does bark more than once or twice, my upstairs neighbor starts shouting at us to shut up our dog. She has started blasting music at all hours of the day to "drown out" the dog noise (again I swear he's quiet 95% of the time). If we're even being "too loud" unrelated to the dog like watching a movie at normal volume at 8pm on a Saturday, she loudly bangs our ceiling to try to get us to quiet down. (I measured the decibels, the movie was 50db at the loudest and certainly not nearly that loud upstairs through the ceiling)…

All that to say: how can I attempt to crate train my 9 week puppy without incurring my neighbor's wrath? I'm worried she'll try to retaliate.