Category: Top Dog

I have a 6 month old border collie, when I ask her if she needs to go toilet, she perks up and holds eye contact. I then let her outside. If she happens to need to go and I haven’t asked, there is no attempt to let me know in any way. She doesn’t always circle/sniff, sometimes she will be lying half asleep on the foot of my bed, and simply sit up and start peeing.

How old are puppies when they “tell you”? I ask her every hour/two hours, much more frequently than the length of time she can hold her bladder, so it isn’t as if she must be busting.

I praise and treat her heavily when she goes outside, and either redirect or ignore when she goes inside.

We were told she’s a spaniel mix but unsure of that.

I think it’d be fun to do this for my rescue lab, looking for recs

My dog always comes and finds me after he eats his meals, and rubs on my legs all excited looking for pets, it’s like he’s saying thank you. Tonight I gave him a pretty big piece of salmon and afterword he came up on the couch and smushed his head into my chest in the most loving way. I swear it’s the cutest damn thing 🥹

I just adopted a rescue dog. He's awesome and I love him, but the one thing is that he's terrified of getting in the car from a parking lot. I know that's weirdly specific. The day I brought him home from the shelter, he had my car scoped out from a surprisingly far distance, immediately did a "pancake" on the ground, and actually managed to get out of his collar and bolt. (Someone at the shelter grabbed him). I already knew the dog pretty well because I volunteer at the shelter and he's never been the smallest bit afraid of me–he follows me around all day, sleeps in my bed at night, etc. I figured I'd have some trouble getting him in the car when I adopted him, but nothing like that. Since then, I can get him in the car fairly easily from a garage to go places. I have to coax him in but he'll do it. I've been taking him to the park, and he's fine the whole time, not scared or timid or anything, but when we go to get BACK in the car it's the same thing. Pancake, trying to duck out of his collar, cowering…I'm terrified that he's going to get away again and this time I won't be able to get him back. Luring with food doesn't even help in that situation. He'll take food as long as can reach it without climbing in the car–and he's getting better and better at "reaching" food that's far away. Getting into a car from a parking lot seems to unlock a bad memory. Ordinarily I'd just wait and work on the car another time. But I'm at school and I need to get home at the end of the semester–which means driving him across the country in like six weeks. Any ideas?

My 8 month old teenager got spayed 3 days ago and she is bouncing off the walls even with trazodone 2x a day!! We were nice to her and let rules slide for 12 hours and now it seems like she has forgotten every bit of training that she had and has gone deaf to the sound of our voices.

Any and all suggestions for how to get my dog back and also how to entertain a crazy dog for the next 11 days