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Im aware it has to do with affection, but he kept on doing it for about 10 minutes straight! He only went for my right arm only for some reason, completely avoiding my left arm.

*** Before this gets automatically taken down we are NOT using dominance method to train our dog. *** Me and my boyfriend recently got a dog from a girl on Facebook. He is a 1.5 year old fixed and fully vetted male pitbull his name is king we had a 9 yr old pit male named moe already, and king is CONSTANTLY obsessed with him. He’s hovering him all the time, licking his back hovering over his back in the position like he’s about to hump him or does just try to hump him. Never leaves him alone. Constantly terrorizing him not even in a playful way, but in a constantly asserting dominance way. We can’t give him back to the owners and we want things to work with him but he does NOT take no for an answer for shit. He doesn’t listen and doesn’t leave Moe alone when moe is trying to set boundaries. He has 0 boundaries. We’ve tried everything. Verbal “no, leave it, leave him alone, go lay down” we’ve tried crating him or “place” command when he’s just NOT leaving him alone which he’s still struggling with place command. We’ve tried keeping them separated but king just jumps over gates or any barrier we’ve put in doorways. He gets destructive if tied up or closed behind doors. I hate having him in his crate all the time. I’ve had to legit shove him away from moe sometimes coz he will not respect his boundaries at all. Even when moe has attacked him over it, he either stops for 2 seconds and instantly starts up again or has attacked back and pinned him down. He knows he’s younger and stronger than moe and is constantly trying to intimidate him We really aren’t having this shit though. We don’t wanna give him up or anything already it’s only been a little over a week. Any advice at all? Desperate atp.

When our dog (Moseley, bernedoodle) was a puppy, my husband and I were not a united front on crate training. He would often give into attention-seeking barks, making them louder and last longer. Exasperated, we gave up and just repurposed the crate as his time-out zone for a few months before we stopped using it altogether. Fast forward several years—now he’s 6yo and gets into dangerous stuff when we’re gone from the house. I’m desperate to keep him safe, so I want to commit to crate training. Do we stand a chance?? Is it too late? Will he associate it with punishment? Do I need to buy a new one and/or sterilize the old one so there are no scent associations?

Help me. I know most people would have given up by now, but I feel like I can’t, because what if someone else doesn’t care for him?

I have a 3-year-old male Yorkie, and from the very beginning, he’s had issues with peeing inside. The problem was constant during the first couple of months, which led me to try crate training—a method I’ve never used with my other dogs. It’s helped in some ways: when he’s in the crate and I’m not around, he doesn’t have accidents.

At 1.5 years old, I had him neutered, hoping it would help; it improved things slightly, but the problem persists. For context, I also have a fixed female Pomeranian, the smartest dog I’ve ever had, and an 8-year-old Rough Collie who’s amazing in every way.

I got my Yorkie from an out-of-state breeder at 6 months old. The original buyers returned him because he was starting to turn gray, and I had just lost my Chihuahua six months earlier at 18 years old—another rescue I had saved from the pound. I couldn’t let him be left behind.

Now the problem has escalated. If I leave him alone for even a short time to work in my office, I sometimes find he has jumped on the kitchen table and peed (I clean with enzyme cleaner). I’ve never seen or heard of this before. I’ll take him out for 30–40 minutes thinking he needs to relieve himself, and sometimes he doesn’t go outside at all—but comes back in and pees within minutes.

I don’t understand what’s happening. I’ve trained dogs my whole life—my family bred, trained, and showed German Shepherds for 30 years, and I’ve never struggled with this before. I’ve always been around dogs and known how to teach them, so this situation is completely baffling.

Hello,

I have a pembroke welsh corgi who is turning 1 year old in a few weeks and the potty training has been a bit of a struggle. The main weird issue is that she specifically pees ON her beds. She’ll even sit/lay down in her own pee puddles when she pees outside.

I started potty training her the second we first got her. I don’t have a large backyard area but a fenced in balcony-ish area with a doggy door where I have her pee when I’m gone at work (over 8+ hours, Tue-Thur). Aside from that I usually try and have her pee on morning/evening walks outside.

Ever since we got her she had a weird habit of peeing on blankets/beds and then lying on them. This is weird, since I thought dogs naturally avoided doing so. She would choose to pee in her bed than drag her chews and toys and lie in the peed bed. To counteract this I’ve removed all soft things (blankets/beds) for the past few months.

She hasn’t peed in her crate since I’ve removed all the soft things but she used to when she was a little puppy, and I’m worried about her picking up this habit again.

Additionally, since the pee smell from the balcony can drift in to the living room, i clean up and spray down the balcony every day. We also IMMEDIATELY enzyme spray and vaccuum/mop whenever she pees inside, because we do NOT want the pee smell to linger. She tends to pee in different spots each time, it’s not a specific spot she always pees in.

She pees inside occasionally, maybe once a week when I’m home. However, whenever I leave the country and have my roommate watch her, she starts acting up and pees inside CONSTANTLY. Is this behavior BECAUSE I’m gone?

I plan on redoing crating/pee schedule training when I get home from vacation this time, but I would really like some more advice. Why does my dog lie and roll in her pee? Is something wrong? My recent vet visits concluded she is perfectly healthy and I plan on saving up to see a behavioralist if this continues 😞