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my puppy can get crazy. especially before nap time or when she is tired. But one thing really bothers me meaning how she plays with other dogs. she just slams into them. she is 3 months 10 kg labrador that can run into grown German shepard. she jumps on them bites them and slams her body into them. maybe one on 10 dogs do not mind because they are crazy too. but most will growl at her and bark at her. this only makes her go more crazy. today unfortunately i met a dog without leash that had muzzle on. she jumped on him he was literally crying before i pulled her away but for her his crying did not stop anything just made her jump on him and biting worse. Well I know i can control her on the leash but how is she gonna learn to play with other dogs and socialize with them? she got bit once because of this started to yelp and it's the only dog she will leave. when dog growls at her because he wants to be left alone even she can start to growl and jump on him. it's very tiring any suggestions? btw she was like that from day one. not scared of literally anything always ready to bite. i know it's play bite for her but can't shake the feeling that her overconfidence will become a problem sooner or later.

I have a super sweet 3 month old German Shepherd/Husky mix.

I just got her last night and wow was this a doozy.

She hates outside. She hates her harness. She will bite the sh*t out of me trying to get it on. When I try to take her outside she is petrified. Shaking and to the point where I have to physically pick her up. And when she is set down she immediately wants to go to the stairs and back inside.

She is not potty trained so it’s been a nightmare. Enticing her to go outside is its own problem so tackling potty training is a complete conundrum.

I also unfortunately live on the 3rd floor so I cannot just get her outside immediately if she’s mid pee. She also has no tells for peeing – she will just squat and G O.

It’s wearing on me and I’m completely overwhelmed to the point of tears.

My 4 year bulldog regularly wakes up at 4:30 in the morning. When he wakes up at 4:30 to 5:00 he does eat his first meal, i’m unable to take this habit away yet because he does bark when not fed and i live in an apartment. He does have ample exercise when the temps outside are good and enrichment inside the house. He does not need a lot of it, he’s an english bulldog. He sleeps by 8:30 to 9:30 in the evening. One thing i am trying out is taking away his water bowl before his last pee for the night, i usually leave it at his spot the whole day. Apart from that, i have no clue as to what can be done. Healthwise he is doing well. All in all he is just awake 5-6 hours a day.

Any tips? I feel defeates but i’m pretty sure someone out there has an answer for me!! Appreciate it!

I’m so sad. We adopted the most sweet, gentle puppy almost a month ago (a week before adopting her, we had to put my soul cat to sleep from CHF). She was almost 8 months old when we adopted her. A Dalmatian/husky mix. She immediately bonded with me and I immediately loved her. She followed me around EVERYWHERE for 3 weeks. I spoiled her with love – my first dog (only had cats before). Well she wasn’t acting herself last Thursday so I got into vet Friday. Didn’t get many answers. Brought her back in Monday. They admitted her overnight for two nights (tonight is night two). vet called me tonight and said if there isn’t improvement in her bloodwork or if we don’t get answers from pathology on what her body is fighting, he recommends putting her to sleep. I’m devastated. Two pets sent to the rainbow bridge in less than a month. When we adopted this dog, I told her “please just give me 10 good years”. I jinxed that , didn’t I? My heart hurts so bad. I am so sad. I loved having her as my shadow. Life was so cruel to her. She lived six months in a pee soiled kennel with her siblings. One month stressed at a shelter and only one month of love from us. Not long enough.

Hi everyone. This past Friday, I had went and gotten a 1year old intact Jack Russell. I picked him up from a lady who bred corgi’s. So the reason this dog was rehomed, was because the Male corgi did not like him. They got into fights, fighting over the females. So she had to rehome him. I was very excited to finally get a dog, and give him a loving home. I take him for walks, and he’ll bark at people until they come up and he gets super excited, wagging his tail and just getting all the love. My husband was not home from Friday, until today..Monday. So this dog has had the time to bond with just me. When he had came home, the dog was barking at the door, and whatever. I instantly showed my husband some love, and my husband sat on the floor to introduce himself to the dog. The dog instantly started peeing everywhere, growling. After some time alone, some treats and pets. He had seemed to warm up to my husband. We had taken him for a walk. I noticed that the dog would wait for me, would walk beside me and not my husband. He tried to move towards me, at some point I walked away, to allow them to walk together to spend time together. They did fine, everything was well. Later in the day, we had taken him for another walk, and I was ahead of them again while my husband and dog were behind me. The dog had saw another man, and he did fine. Barked a bit and tried to go towards the man, then he had gotten tangled up so my husband had tried to untangle him, and the dog got all crazy, and was peeing. Then he had bit my husband. I immediately took him back by leash, instead of him walking him. We had “punished” by putting him in his kennel.

Later on in the night. My husband and I are laying on the couch together. Dog comes up, and is rubbing all over us, laying on his back and overall being super sweet. My husband gets up to go grab something, and when he comes back. Dog is on my chest immediately growling as my husband comes closer.

We just got him.. and I don’t want to give up on him. We are hoping that when we get him neutered the behavior will change.

I’m just looking for som advice or tips. Any help at all as this is our first dog together.

I have a 5 year old mini dachshund who will sit next to her empty food bowl, sometimes for hours at a time. If you try to pick up her empty bowls for any reason, she will quickly hover her head over the bowl or jab her snout at you (no growling or biting). If she sees anyone walk towards her bowl, she’ll come running from the living room to protect it. Occasionally she will lunge and snap (no actual biting) at our other dog if he comes near her bowl as well.

We have never taken her bowl from her before except to wash it and we don’t mess with her while eating, so I’m not exactly sure what would’ve caused this behavior. As far as I can remember she’s always sat by her empty bowl to protect it which was never really an issue, but only more recently has she started jabbing her snout at us and snapping at our other dog.

Would it be best to put her bowl up after eating, or would this make the issue worse by making her feel as though she needs to protect it even more? Any advice is appreciated!

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Looking to bite the bullet and finally install a new door. Looked on Amazon (because it’s easy and I suck) but it feels like it’s the same three companies listed a million different ways.

My pup is around, or will hopefully end up being no more than 60 pounds and has a width of about eight or 9 inches.

My door has a few recesses in it and I’m not sure if that would affect the installation so I’m hoping someone who has a similar door and a dog door to make a recommendation. The door itself is about an inch and a half thick. Greatly appreciate any suggestions; thank you so much.

I posted this in dog advice a couple weeks ago and didn’t get any answers, so I thought I would try here. This is the original post:

I’ve had my Shih Tzu since he was a puppy. We moved into our current house about 7 years ago. The house came with a doggie door preinstalled on the back door. After a day or two of training, he has used it without issue for years. Now about a month ago, he randomly has sat outside barking for us to let him in sometimes. When it happens, it will typically happen a couple times the same night (he only does this at night by the way), and then he will go for days without it happening again. I thought maybe there wasn’t enough light out there, so we have tried turning on the patio light. But even with the light on sometimes, he still will just sit there barking at the door. My wife and I have both tried opening the flap and telling him to come inside. He just sits there confused and will whine for us to open the door. It’s just weird because it is random like I said, but when it happens, it happens frequently, and then it just stops and he’s fine for several days, and then it will randomly happen again.

And an update since I posted this:

Over the weekend, we were trying different things to see if we could open the doggie door from the inside and hold up a treat for him to come through. He will come up to the doggie door sniff at the treat, and then act scared to go through even to get the treat. Then we tried going outside to see if we could help lure him back through, and when he sees us outside, he will get excited, and run through his doggie door to come back inside and play. So clearly he knows how to use it still, he’s just not wanting to for some reason?

Hello! I live in the UK in a terrace house with a back garden.

New neighbours moved in 2 doors down about a month ago and they have 2 cats that are constantly in our garden. The back gardens are separated by a big hedge with chicken wire along the bottom and then some more branch hedges. We’ve blocked off as many gaps as we can but they’re still getting in.

This is causing issues as we can no longer let our dog (staffy, 10) out for toilet breaks or run around without throughly checking the garden first and throwing the cats back over the hedge if they’re in our garden. He will chase smaller animals and obviously I don’t want him to harm a cat but also I want us and him to be able to use our garden as and when we want to!

Is there any kind of deterrent we could set up to stop the cats coming in? I’ve seen alarms but I don’t want these to impact wildlife or my own dog. Any suggestions would be gratefully received!