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My dog got neutered over half a year ago; why does he still occasionally like fully hump things & people’s legs?

I have a rough collie who is about 75-80 lbs and he has always been a huuuuggee baby when it comes to being groomed. I tried when he was small, but I should've tried harder because it only got more challenging as he got bigger. He'd literally /scream/ at me if I came near him with a brush and would thrash wildly from nail clippers.. and he'd arrooorrroooo and run away if I turned the dremel on two feet from him. He'd never bite me or intentionally hurt me, he really is the sweetest and most sensitive dog… but he would thrash wildly and even busted my lip once by accident when he threw his head back into me as I tried to touch up his nails. That was fun.

He was banned from multiple groomers because he's just so unruly… literally a big brat, but again my fault for not being more diligent when he was little. So I've done what I can at home, but started really trying to work with him this past year.. I had my biggest breakthrough like a month ago though!

I bought these slow cat feeders because my youngest kitties are little pigs and one day I decided to try to use them to smear wet food into them to distract my dog while I brushed him out. I've tried lick mats and stuff, but he'd get through it so quick. The slow feeders are deeper so I can really smear it in. One can of dog food buys me like 30 minutes of brushing, though I have to refill it 3-4 times.

Then I started to thinking about how it'd be nice to blow his undercoat out, so I ended up doing research and ordering a doggy headband that goes over his ears. I haven't tried it with that yet, but his nails have always been a battle and I hate nail clippers so I wondered if the band would make him less afraid of a dremel's noise.

Dude.. I've used the dremel /twice/ with the headband. First session I'd have to balance his leg on my leg as I used the dremel, but no fucks given really other than wanting to put his paw down sometimes to rebalance himself. Second session.. he's laying down for me and just letting me lift his paws while he licks at the slow feeder! I'm honestly stunned. No arroorrooooing and yelling at me and trying to run away.. literally just laid down and licked up his wet food while I went from nail to nail.

I'm just so happy and relieved.. I've always felt so bad when I found mats in his fur or when his nails got too long. He's looking so handsome and I just know he's gotta feel better tooo! ♥ It's sooo important to socialize and desensitize a puppy to being groomed and handled, I get that now, but I'm so glad we've been able to find a system that works for us.

Hi yall! I'm trying to find matching clothes for my dogs and I, the thing is I have bigger dogs (60-120lb) and it's so hard to find things other than matching hoodies. Does anyone have any recommendations?

My dog is a female golden retriever (spayed), 2.5 years old. Over the past month her sleep schedule has regressed. She sleeps on her bed in our room, as she has since she was 7 months old. Up until a month ago, she’d sleep until whenever our alarms go off for work (and on weekends normally wake up around that time for breakfast).

Recently she’s been waking up at least an hour before alarms go off, and being a terror from that point forward. Jumping on and off the bed, crying, pawing. The people who live in the unit above us are up and making noise around that time, but it’s never been a problem for her until a month ago. We don’t reward her or acknowledge her when she wakes up this early, but it hasn’t make much of a difference. Everything else about her schedule is the same.

Any advice? We’re all getting at least an hour less of sleep a night, and honestly, it’s super frustrating. Any advice?

I have a lovely puppy who is just about 5 months old now. She's been in her teething phase, though things seem to be settling. Her incisors and some molars seem to have replaced as expected, but her adult canines are nowhere to be seen. Both upper and lower canines are still very much the puppy ones, and I don't see or feel signs of the adult canines coming in.

Should I check with the vet or give it some more time? She's a small breed dog and healthy otherwise, I just feel like I remember my other two already having their adult canines by 5 months.

Hi everyone, after some advice…. Collected our 8 week Cavapoo at the weekend and he’s been fed on iams up to collection. I’m wanting to switch him over to purina pro plan. Since introducing a small portion or PPP along side his normal food he won’t touch the iams. He sniffs it and immediately refuses to eat it. But he loves the PPP and wolfs it down, any advice? I know you’re meant to introduce new food over several days but he just won’t touch his usual food. Tried it hydrated with water, dry, hand fed, smushed into a lick mat no luck.

Thanks in advance

What if instead of having their meal placed in a bowl twice a day. I hid their food in towels/slowfeeders/around the house.

My thought is, these dogs were hunters and hunted for their food in the past. why don't we enrich and feed them at the same time for every meal? This would keep them busy for at least 2 hours a day and exercise their brain.

I will do this when the puppy is older of course. let me know your thoughts, I'm getting a puppy soon.

Our puppy has always been allowed on the couch to look out the window from the moment he was tall enough to safely get on and off. It is his favorite spot and he likes watching people. We have a primary school in our street, so in the morning and afternoon we have a lot of children passing by, the mailman comes from time to time, people walk their dogs, we had construction workers working on the street for 2 months and none of this has ever been a problem.

However, our pup is now an adolescent (almost 9 months) and since a week or so, he started barking, sometimes very loudly. It is never really clear to me what sets off his barking. On a leash, he can be very reactive to other dogs, but when I go to look out the window I don't always see a dog. Sometimes there is really nothing to see, but he goes on for minutes. He is a cockapoo, so a mix of two hunting breeds and he might be seeing animals on the street I am missing (cats, martens, mice). He doesn't usually bark at pigeons or other birds in our backyard.

The problem is that he is so used to sitting there during the day, that it is impossible to keep him away from the window all of a sudden. I have also read that reprimanding dogs for barking will lead to them giving no warning signals anymore in real threatening situations.

So my question is whether there is any way to prevent this behavior without keeping him away from the window or whether I should just try to put up with it the best I can?