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I knew he would be very energetic but little did I know! I love him so much!

I love my ~5 month old puppy! I have had her for about 2 months now. She is quite trainable and is doing well with housebreaking… except when I come home after being out. If I am only out for 20 minutes or so it is okay, but if I leave for more than that when I come home she "happy" pees. Sometimes it is a little dribble and other times it is A LOT. I live in an apartment building so I cant just pick her up and run her outside. I put wee wee pads now outside her crate in preparation for the excited explosion, but I am wondering if there is a way to train her out of this? Or is this a normal female (spayed) puppy thing that she will grow out of?

Hey everyone..I gave my 6mo old puppy her first nexguard plus-flea dose yesterday. my girlfriend came home today and accidentally gave her the second one.

Has anyone run into this? The AI world says just monitor her she should be fine..keep an eye out for puking such.

My toy poodle is 2.5 years old, and I have been crating her everytime I leave the house.

I work from home so the only time she is really created is 1-2 hours max when I leave to do errands.

I want to be able to leave my dog by herself without needing to create her. I want to trust her, because I know the older she gets it’s harder to train her.

So today I set up a camera and watched what she does, and she started smelling around looking for treats, and climbing on top of the ottoman, and I want to be able to trust her. Any advice?

Hi, my bf and I have been struggling inserting eye drops for our 12 week old Aussie puppy. One of our cats scratched her eye when they were playing and we took her to the vet same day.

The vet and staff had trouble with her. She is incredibly squirmy and likes to threaten bites when we try to get her in position to give the eye drops. We have tried positive reinforcement with high value treats, tried warming her up to it, giving her prescribed gabapentin from the vet and I wait till peak effectiveness to try inserting the drops and it’s still so hard to insert the drops. She doesn’t even want the syringe in her mouth for the gabapentin.. Any sort of holding her causes her to go crazy.

I kinda just squeeze the drops in the general direction of her eye when she is still enough and hope for the best now lol. Does anyone have any other advice? I want her eye to get better but I can’t tell if we are actually getting it in her eye and I feel bed when she screams as if we are hurting her which I know we are not. Please no negative comments. 😞 we are just at a loss now and want to make it a more positive experience for her.

Hi guys, especially those with older puppies, if your puppy falls asleep outside of the crate, do you let them or move them? My puppy will be 6 months soon and i started implementing some chill time outside of the crate. (She has been struggling with relaxing outside of it, which i hear is normal at this age, but after staying with some older dogs she now will sometimes lie down in her bed). I let her (until she starts pacing etc), hoping it will help her when she is older and we eventually get rid of the crate. Can someone chime in how was your journey with relaxing outside of the crate? When did it start “clicking” to them? How do you guys deal with this?:)

My puppy, Salem is 6 months and hella hyper. I take her on walks/runs, fetch and recently started taking her to play in the lake however she still is hyper after.

I don't mind, I signed up for it but I still need to get chores and school work done + take care of the other animals that got temporary tacked on after adopting her. I'm looking for any activities that tired her out or doesn't involve andfood bc she already gets a lot of treats when training. I'd appreciate the help and any recommendations <3

Sie freut sich riesig auf das Geschirr und die Leine bis zur Gartentür springt sie in die Lüfte, sobald wir draussen loslaufen dauert es keine 2 Minuten und sie fängt an vor meine Füsse zu springen, und möchte in den Arm genommen werden. Ich habe sie seit sie 3 Monate alt ist überall mitgenommen Restaurants, Einkaufsmeilen, Freunde besuchen. Sie liebt alle Menschen und ist sehr sozial, aber Laufen möchte sie nicht. Sie macht auch super selten draussen ihr Geschäft, erst wenn wir wieder zuhause sind lässt sie alles entspannt im Garten raus 😥 . Ich bin schon kurze Strecken, lange Strecken, Strassenwege, Waldwege gelaufen, bisher hat nichts geholfen… habt ihr weitere Tipps?

I’ve got an 8-month old pittie and a 1-year old coydog, both are very pretty girls and usually well behaved. USUALLY.

The pittie is dumb. She doesn’t know what’s going on half the time, so unfortunately, she’s the one the coydog is always trying to peg. We can’t get her to stop, and after tonight, this is probably the fourth or fifth time it’s happened. Usually when it happens, we automatically stop her and put her in the kennel for a while.

I have a brussels griffon who is 1 year and 7 months. We noticed signs of separation anxiety since 6 months and we’ve worked with a trainer who trained under Julie Naismith. He’s on max dosage for Reconcile for his weight, which he’s been on for under a year now in conjunction with gabapentin given 1.5 hours before his training sessions. We were going very slow and we were so confident that he could handle any time less than 2 hours. All of sudden, he’s sitting at the gate at 40 minutes and 2 minutes one time and not able to settle at all and he’s whining when he hasn’t done this since we started training.

Nothing has changed and we’ve been training for a year. All of this has taken a mental load on me with no support system and I’ve spent so much money on him with training (he also is reactive). I’m at a loss. What do I do? What is happening? We’re looking to switch medications but that’s a whole other process of tampering him off and I’m just so tired of trying so hard and being stuck at home for so long.