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Hello all, we have 3 month golden puppy. She is crate trained, sleeps through the night, does well during daytime naps in crate 3 naps(1-1.5hours) and sh additionally naps in her puppy pen. I have been able to comfortably leave her safely in her crate when running errands where I’m home within the hour. Nothing longer. At this point, I’d like to be able to go out for an outing or dinner but I’m nervous that leaving her longer for 2 hours might be too much for our puppy. I know the rule of 1 hour per month + 1 is how long they can be in the crate. But she has a recessed vulva and has had a very minor uti that has cleared up. I’m being sensitive bc I don’t want her to have a uti do holding it and I’m concerned she might start to get anxious if no one is home within the 2 hour mark. Is it still to ask? But should we be holding off on leaving longer? Is it better to just get a dog sitter to be with her while we’re out? This is our first puppy so we want to help in easing her transition. What have you done with your puppy that has helped?

I’m having a roommate temporarily move into my house & he’s bringing two large shedding dogs. I’m looking for tools I can buy to help keep the house and air clean. I’ve never owned pets and have always been a bit of a neat freak with my house so I am stressing out a bit. I figured i could get a roomba & air purifiers but looking for other suggestions

Does your dog turn his head when he hears an odd noise? Does your dog bury their food with your pants? This is the thread to ask why.

Please keep this thread to non-medical issues only.

Oi gente. Estou com uma cachorra filhote adotada que peguei há 2 dias. Ela gosta bastante de morder as minhas mãos e meus pés, alguém tem uma dica pra isso? Não quero passar o no bite porque nao quero aquele gosto na minha mao.

Outra coisa, eu preciso deixar ela dormir sozinha numa parte externa da casa que é um pouco longe do cômodo do meu quarto (moro em apartamento), ela chora MUITO a noite inta para dormir, o que posso fazer?

We live in a tick area (upstate NY) and have lots of woods around us. As the weather starts to warm we are once again reminded of the enormous tick problem we have here. Today we went for a walk and I brushed and pulled 9 ticks off of our pup (gross) and this isn’t all that unusual during the wetter months of spring and fall.

We have him on Simparica which does a good job of killing the ticks after they bite. Now we are looking for an additional preventative solution to stop him from bringing the ticks inside the house. We brush him every time he comes inside but it’s not 100% effective and we have a toddler so we’ve often got our hands full.

I’ve done a lot of reading about what options are out there for sprays or shampoos and a lot of them are either chemical kill formulas that kill the ticks after biting, or are essential oil based but contain some of the ones I’ve heard aren’t good for dogs – peppermint, cinnamon, tea tree.

Is there anything out there that isn’t harmful and is an effective repellant for ticks???

My girl is 9 months old tomorrow (should probably leave the puppy sub soon) and I wonder when dogs start shedding? She hasn’t lost a single hair yet and when I brush her, all I get are 4-5 woolly strands of hair.

Does it have anything to do with when girls get into their first heat? Because she hasn’t yet.

She’s half GR and half saluki, so I expect there to be quite some shedding.

So we have a 4 year old Dogo Argentino we adopted him a month ago usually he does grumbled which is fine he is grumpy whatever. But now he has been snarling and showing his teeth and growling when she even steps close to him and goes near him but minutes later will be all happy with him like he didn't just snarl at her for trying to pick him up.

Any advice will help thank you.

Hi guys, I have a few all day events coming up and I’ll need care for my dog. Unfortunately, he won’t have all of his shots just yet so he can’t go to boarding, so I’m looking into pet sitting websites. Has anyone ever used Rover before and can share their experience?

I need product recommendations.

My dog (German Shepard-Labrador mix) and both smart and strong, and he loves cat food. We keep dog food in his bowl at all times to try to avoid this, but he’s much more interested in the cat’s food. We keep the cat food in a 5 gallon bucket with a twist lid. He figured out the lid. So we put a baby proof thing on the cabinet we keep the bucket in, he figured out how to over power that. So I put a security chain on the cabinet door, the kind you find on apartment doors or on hotel doors. He figured out how to remove the cabinet door from the hinges and swing it open the other way. So now I’m trying to find a metal lock bucket big enough to hold a 20lbs bag of cat food. What I have seen so far doesn’t give me much confidence that he can’t get into to it. I’m here looking for product recommendations that will keep him out of the cat food so he will give up and eat his own food.

How do I stop my dog from barking at other dogs on walks? He’s reactive when with family, but perfectly fine when walked by strangers/sitters. We’ve tried trainers before but it didn’t work. How can we fix this?