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Hi there! I have a 1 year old corgi puppy. The gist of the matter is that suddenly, for the past week, I've been waking up to my puppy having pee accidents when previously he could sleep for 8 hours through the night without problems.

I think part of the problem is that I've been staying up much later than usual lately so he winds up more active at night. I still take him out to potty before I head to bed though (as late at 2am), so he definitely has had enough breaks before I retire for the night.

I'm not sure how to handle this. I don't crate him anymore but am considering going back to it. I'm also considering waking up earlier if my body allows. He's otherwise pretty perfect about potty training other than the morning accidents, so I'm at a loss. Any tips would be appreciated.

My family has been researching getting a puppy for quite a while. I have a whole month off of work, and wanted a younger puppy so I could shape and mold her behaviorally, as we want a true family dog.

She is a lab/heeler mix according to the shelter, and is 10 weeks old. I've had two previous puppies in my adult life and crate trained both of them within 72 hours.

This puppy, though, won't even let me leave the room. I'm trying all of the recommended tricks to get her to feel comfortable in her playpen and her crate.

She seems to settle a little better in her crate, but if I leave the room without her being extremely exhausted, she howls. I live in an apartment so I don't want to let her go off forever.

I understand all the factors at play here, like that she is an infant and a breed mix that is specifically meant to be with one person. But I'm concerned that I will not be able to crate train her when I have to go back to work at the beginning of March.

Please share any suggestions that you think might help based on your own experience!

We brought home a rescue lab on Sunday who was found as a stray. He’s finally a bit more settled during the day, no whining 24/7. But from about 7-10pm he is really difficult; Nipping at our 3 and 6 yo and biting us. But the real problem is after the kids are down for bed between 730-8, anytime we correct or redirect the mouthiness he barks the most piercing bark and gets stuck in that mode. It wakes up the girls. While sleep for him and us overnight is totally fine, that witching hour is wreaking havoc on our girls sleep and as a result our nervous systems. Do we need to do training? Rehome him? This isn’t our first dog but our first rescue and first puppy with the kids. Our first family dog was already 6 by the time the kids came along. We’re really struggling and want to make sure we do what’s right for both the puppy and the girls. TIA 🙏

My little piranha will just walk around, take a little chew on the furniture, couch legs, or the newest one, grabbing onto the couch seat cushion and try to shake it like a dead chicken, and I’m pretty sure she does this when she wants attention (she gets lot), is bored, and/or overstimulated.

What should I do in these situations? I’ve been redirecting her, and telling her to leave it, and I’ve thought that this behavior would stop when she gets older. After doing some reading here though, it sounds like since she’s past teething, this is a behavioral problem now, so I think I need better techniques of handling this. 😅

Thank you guys!

My husband and I got our lab puppy a month ago. We’ve both had dogs growing up, but it’s been quite a while since I’ve had a puppy and I certainly wasn’t the one doing the work when I was growing up. But we researched everything and my bestie is the biggest dog fanatic I know, so we knew what to expect. Middle of the night potty breaks. Crate training. Piranha Puppy behavior. Educating our kiddos. Essentially going back to having another toddler since the puppy would need constant supervision and attention. Part of me felt a lot of anxiety, especially at the thought of the constant sleep disruptions.

But our dude has been awesome. He’s been all of the work mentioned but he’s been worth it. He’s taken well to learning to use the bathroom outside. He runs to the back door 90% of the time and if there is an accident it’s either right in front of that door and I just didn’t get it open in time, or I was distracted and missed his cues of starting to sniff around.

He’s def in his teething and biting phase but we’re all quick to pop a chew toy in his mouth or put him in the crate for a nap when he seems way overstimulated and he comes out much calmer.

Crate training has been great. He naps in there and is finally sleeping through the night. We feed him his meals in there so he associates it with a super positive experience.

We do lots of enrichment toys and spent time during the day going over some obedience things like “sit” and “paw” and “down”. He’s a quick learner.

He’s been really exhausting and my hands are chewed up a bit but his personality is coming through more and more and I can see the amazing dog he’ll become. If you’re in the trenches, please stick with it. It DOES get better. Consistency is key, along with having grace and compassion for them and yourself.

My 7 y/o German Shepherd has always been a bit of an oddball. When he was a puppy, he was a super picky eater and he really only wanted to graze. Scheduled meal times almost always resulted in him only eating half of what he was given. A month or so before he turned a year old, I put his food bowl down on the ground and he ignored it like usual. But then he picked up this pink spiny ball, squeezed it in his mouth a couple of times, dropped it, and then circled his bowl a few times before laying down in front of it and eating his whole meal. This was probably one of the first, if not the very first time he ate an entire scheduled meal. However, he’s a BIG boy. To give you reference, he’s 160 pounds now and his vet says he is not overweight for his size. With his size and breed comes the worry of his stomach flipping. Through research online I’ve found that it is not recommended to have an elevated food bowl or to let your dog lay down to eat when they are a deep chested breed. So despite my celebrations that he was finally eating his full meal, I would always try to get him to eat standing up. But as soon as I would get him to stand up, he was uninterested all over again. Eventually, it turned into a new problem. He completely refused to eat his dog food without squeezing that pink spiny ball, circling his food a couple of times, and then laying down to eat. Eventually, I gave up and just made sure that he ate slowly and throughly and that he wasn’t exercising before or after the meal. 6 years later and he still refuses to eat without performing this ritual. Additionally, it has turned into exactly three squeezes of the ball, and three circles around his bowl. Sometimes he lays down an inch or so farther away from the bowl than usual and he has to redo it all. I’m mainly curious as to if anyone’s else’s dog has a quirk like this or if anyone has any sort of explanation for it. Is it dog OCD? It hasn’t really affected him in any other way. It also doesn’t really cause either me or him any problems. He doesn’t seem to be stressed out about it and we always make sure we have plenty of pink spiny balls on hand, but I do find it oddly specific and strange.

If anyone uses this for their dog, the human generic version + GoodRx got it down to about $30 for 90 tablets compared to over $100 on Chewy and Allivet. I was wrestling with my vet and the online pet pharmacies before I realized this. Huge savings and my vet was fine with altering the script (as long as the mg is close/same).

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Does anyone have recommendations for dog diapers for female dogs that would prevent blowouts and poop falling out?

She has incontinence and doesn't have much function in her back legs. I'm looking to get her a wheelchair too but right now after the costs of meds and 3 vet appointments I'm just looking on Marketplace.

She constantly has blowouts and I just need to find one that would prevent her from pooping all over, because once she realizes what happened, she slides in it because she can't stand.

When I took her to the vet yesterday, he said she wasn't in pain and that her quality of life looked fine, but is it really if she can't stand? She's 10 yrs old too, 40 lb cattle dog. It just sucks all around.

Anyway, back on track, any recommendations that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg, or am I going to have to deal with giving her a bath everytime it happens, which is at least once every few days if I'm lucky.

I just rescued my dog recently and she killed a possum and has never had a Lepto Vaccine and is not up to date with rabies…. Advice please