Category: Top Dog

This is going to be our puppy’s first Christmas with us and we’re in a difficult spot deciding what to do.

The usual rundown for Chirstmas is we open presents at home, and then take my partners daughter to her mums to open presents there, from there we go to his parents for the rest of the day.

The issue we have is that his parents have a reactive-aggressive dog to other dogs. She’s previously bit another dogs ear off (they spoke to the vet at the time and as it was a one off there was no need to put her down). She does play with the dog next door but that’s with a fence between them, and will bark and pull at dogs she sees on walks but hasn’t done anything since that incident.

My partners parents got her at a year old from a dog home, she was found on the side of the road so sadly no known history of what she went through before that.

My partners parents initially said she would be muzzled/in the garden so our puppy can come round for the day but we’ve talked them out of this since it wouldn’t be fair to their dog. And would still run the risk of scaring our pup and making her reactive, the muzzle won’t stop her going for our dog just stop her getting bitten.

Does anyone have any tips or advice?

The reactive dog is a genuine sweetheart, if you met her you’d have no idea she had issues with other dogs. It would be great to know if anyone’s had a similar issue and how they support reactive dogs.

Just to add if we have any concerns at all they will not be introduced and potentially never meet, but this is what we do on Christmas so it would be good to know if this is something we can work towards next year if this years a no go.

So we have a 6 year old chocolate labrador who's incredibly sweet and we were going to get a second dog (golden lab) but we're not sure how she'll react so if anyone could help that would be great (eg, how to introduce them, space sharing etc)

Here are a few of mine:

Stop chewing your sister’s ear, it’s not a treat!

Stop eating my pants!

Aww “insert nonsensical lovey baby talk words here”

Hi! Our 4-month-old puppy is extremely difficult to handle — she bites almost constantly. There is a slight improvement compared to one month ago, in the sense that she sometimes bites a bit more gently, but not consistently, and she doesn’t react at all when we say “ouch.” Most of the time she doesn’t want to be petted (she either runs away or tries to chew on our hands). She constantly tests boundaries: she’s not allowed on the sofa, yet she repeatedly tries to climb on it; the second we’re not paying attention, she chews on the furniture or jumps on the bed.

It’s really hard to feel affection for a pet that shows no interest in being touched or cuddled.

Is there hope that she will become more affectionate at a certain point?

He's a clumber spaniel.
When we first got him we didn't have a pen and he couldn't really be trusted to be left in a room or he'd eat something so we probably hovered too much. Now he's not used to being left alone so he barks and barks and makes a horrendous noise.

He won't settle if I'm another room and he's in his pen- we have to be in that room with his or he starts barking

He sleeps in crate at night – was in room, now in hallway. With a kong he can be ok for like 10 mins but once that's done he'll just make a huge amount of barking and noise and not settle at all. Once we're home he'll fall back asleep again.

Just not sure where to go from here! We have my sister wedding in like 2 week and was hoping to just leave him in the crate for the hour it's on but I think he'll just bark ?? Don't know what the right thing to do is 😭

I am getting a dog next week and have been trying to do some research before i bring my new dog into the family.

Mom is ½ Pembroke and ½ Cardigan Corgi, and Dad is a purebred Pembroke. He is a blue merle corgi in this sense around 11 weeks?

I am curious to know the best dog food and treats and supplements to make him as healthy as can be!

I have done a couple of research but keep getting different answers online lol.

Any advice from corgi owners from dog food, supplements, tips and tricks thank you!!!!😊