Category: Top Dog

I adopted a puppy a few weeks ago and his head was fluffy. Now he turned 4 months and everyone asks me if I gave him a haircut.

It looks like he is losing his fluffiness.

Is this normal? Does it grow back?

Our pregnant dog just gave birth of 6 puppies. My family cant handle 6 dog so my parent plan is to let some people adapt it like our neighbor so what age is it okay for puppies to get adapted as long it have eyes and can walk already? Sorry for my bad English

My 11-month-old Labrador recently started marking, and I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad sign. For context, he’s always been a very anxious pup. From about 4 to 8 months old, we really struggled — we could not even walk him in our neighbourhood, traffic noises or even people looking at him would set him off. We would try to help him focus on sniffing to calm down (by throwing down food too), but he was usually too stressed to smell anything unless we were out in nature. We had to take the car for every single walk and go to a park. Now that he’s older, he’s doing much better and has started marking and lifting his leg when he pees (he used to squat). We’ve been letting him do it since I want him to explore smells more, but lately he’s marking every 10–15 steps. When it gets excessive, we either keep walking or gently pull him along. My question is: should I let him keep marking, or is it something I should discourage? Is this something insecure dogs do, or is it a sign he’s becoming more confident? I really want to help him build confidence, so if marking helps, great — but if it’s bad behavior, I’d like to know what I should do instead.

Hey everyone,

My wife and I are first time dog owners and we have a lovely dachshund – 10 weeks old and we have had her for 2 weeks. Both of us are working from home which might not help with creating enough space between us and her.

Did a lot of research before getting her and we are trying everything that the internet recommends to get our girl to settle. Crate training, sleeping next to her, training her to be ok by herself, and although some progress has been made overall, feels like 0 progress when it comes to sleeping.

Crate training – daily serving meals in there (she is quite used to that). treats and games also in the crate. The second she sees the treats bag she knows she has to go in the crate. She sometimes even walks in by herself for a second so she is definitely ok with it. When she is sleepy and falls asleep in our arms, we try to put her in there. At night we try to keep the crate on the bedside table as close to us as possible. At one point we even had a travel crate between us in the bed (which slightly worked better). Seems that we are trying and partially doing everything that is recommended and still very little progress.

Now the problem from my pov comes from her lack of sleep. She is not yet fully vaccinated, so she gets very little outside time.

She will only, like 100% of the time fall asleep only in our arms or next to us, and if we do not allow that she will just not sleep for 5-6 hours at a time until we give up. We do try and put her in the crate when she does fall asleep and sometimes it works for like 30 min then she walks out or cries, or instantly walks out.

Same will happen at night. She might stay in her crate for the first 2-3 hours of the night until the first potty break, then no way in hell I can keep her in there without a whole symphony.

What i am looking for I guess is some practical help around enforcing naps which we havent done, or simply some advice on letting her sooth herself in the crate during the day which will involve a lot of crying I'm sure which we have not quite permitted yet.

Wife and I are struggling and sleep deprived and if we are able to fix the sleep, honestly we would have a great puppy but currently the fear of sleeping with her in the bed, her falling off etc, is just keeping our anxiety levels super high and we cannot sleep.

TLDR – puppy just sleeps in our arms during the day and in the bed at night, and apart from letting her cry herself to sleep I feel we have tried everything with very little success and we are slightly hating our experience right now even if we bloody love the little thing.

Hi all,

My 5 year old male dog has all of a sudden started having accidents at night. He is perfectly fine during the day so I’m not sure what the issue is. I go to bed pretty late and will take him out for the last time at around midnight, then just a few hours later i will hear him barking after he has had an accident. Given the relatively short space of time since being taken out, i find it hard to believe it is because he couldn’t hold it. He usually sleeps in the office but I’ve noticed when we let him sleep in our room, he has no accidents. Could he be having accidents because he’s stressed to be sleeping alone? He was fine before so I don’t know where this could be colour from. Would be grateful for any suggestions.

Hi, so we recently moved to a new condo development and the residents do not like dogs peeing on the grass lawns in the compound.

I've been carrying my dog out the back gate to pee but he's getting really heavy and it's beginning to be a struggle to carry him.

The problem is that once we are out of our lift lobby, we have to walk along a 50m grass lawn til we reach the gate to exit the compound. How do I prevent him from peeing on this rather large grass area? Naturally there are a lot of scents and he sniffs the grass which could lead to peeing/marking.

Any tips would be so helpful. Thank you.