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My easily excited, major FOMO, under-practiced-at-settling, 10 month old rescue is currently sleeping on me on the couch!!!!!! This is her first time sleeping outside of her crate since the weekend I adopted her in January!! 😭❤️ Everything will be okay.

last night, I was cooking dinner, and everything was completely normal. my dog suddenly sat by the front door and started shaking. we brought her into another room and calmed her down. when she came back to the living room, the same thing happened

we then went to bed thinking she would be fine in the morning. this morning, she acted totally normal until we went into the living room. she ran back to bed and didn't want to leave. this repeated a few times

this afternoon, she has been totally normal and actually spent the entire day in the living room. but it just started again! she randomly just started shaking in the living room

this is highly abnormal for her, so we're worried. I have to emphasize that we have been making sure everything in the living room is completely normal—no unusual objects, neutral temperature, no new light, etc.

not sure if a vet appointment would be able to tell us anything. has anyone heard of something like this before?

edit: also worried about seizures

We have a 7 month old Spitz x Border Collie, who for the most part has been great with training! We've had her since 8 weeks. BUT we are having major issues with her jumping up at strangers and just generally being ridiculously excited around people. She isn't allowed to jump up at home, and we've tried just sitting quietly people watching since she was able to go on walks – no change, just manic love for people. We also enrolled her in a highly recommended group training school, but she just went nuts the whole time and the trainer just kept telling us off for not keeping her attention better 🙁 we actually didn't finish the classes because we felt like us and our pup were being looked down at from how excited she was. My question is – is this par for the course with her age/breed, or are we doing something wrong or missing something with her training? We love taking her out but it's so stressful going anywhere with people! If you have a high energy breed, what worked for you???

I just want to make sure I'm doing this right and not traumatizing him.

Pup came home Wednesday 3/18, and we immediately started crate training. He's taken to it really, really well, sleeping overnight in it since night 2 and taking naps in it every day. He even occupies himself with his toys if he wakes up before I'm awake but he doesnt need to go out yet.

The main problem is that my bedroom would need massive rearranging to fit his crate in it, and I'm hesitant to do so because I'm disabled and more than likely the three of us (myself, my retired and newly blind senior service dog, and pup) are moving soon. So his crate is in the other bedroom.

He's nooooot handling being alone well. We've been sleeping next to him in a temporary setup overnight to keep him calm. I've also been sitting next to him during naps, and if he's out of the crate he's on leash unless we're actively doing something like playing with his ball or the flirt pole. Constant supervision, basically. Until yesterday, I only left him alone long enough to use the restroom because he got really upset with barking and howling even for just those short periods.

Yesterday, during nap times, I've started doing other things I need to do coming in and out of the room. He cries and barks but has stopped howling, and sometimes distress pees. Other than immediately cleaning up the pee, I ignore him and keep doing my thing until he quiets, then I'll either talk to him, treat him, or keep ignoring him if it was something like a nighttime bathroom break for me. I did it again today, same deal. He seems a bit less distressed today, but still upset at being alone, and still distress peed.

Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is this a workable approach to getting him used to alone time? I know he's just a baby and never been alone before Wednesday, so I'm trying to remember that and instill that alone time is A-OK and always temporary. Is there something more I could be doing?

Thanks!

Assuming your pup will simply grow out of any ‘bad behaviours’ is wrong. Dogs will grow into bad habits and behaviours, not out of them.

Barking? Pup eating its own poop? Toilet accidents inside? Begging for attention or food?

We are responsible for every one of their behaviours. Anything you don’t like your puppy doing needs to be trained out. It’s relentless, it’s a full time job.

Your dog may grow out of undesirable behaviours, but this isn’t guaranteed, and can be achieved a-lot faster with adequate training.

Hi I got a 3mo puppy a few days ago. I have two other dogs and need advice crate training the puppy. The older dogs are well behaved and free range. They are very upset about the puppy whining in the crate and the puppy wants to come out and “play” with them. We have a cover on all but the door of the crate. We live in a studio apartment so not possible to move the crate to another room. Should I cover the door too? Any other tips? Everything I see about crate training doesn’t take into consideration other dogs (that aren’t crate contained) Thank you!

Edited to ask about my other dogs barking and waking up the puppy in the crate. Any tips for that? TIA

I have an 11 year old saluki / lab who is a rescue. She has been with us since she was 4 and is so lovely.

Over summer we had a small kitchen fire where the alarm was going off and the fire department came.

Ever since when she hears the oven beeps (the ones from turning on or adjusting anything) or the treadmill turning on she begins shaking heavily and going upstairs (she is older and never went upstairs before this).

I know she is experiencing some sort of ptsd regarding the beeping as she never had this reaction prior.

Does anyone have advice on what we can do to help ease her stress?

I have an 3 year old husky he recently had an baby girl we had to adopt her today due to some circumstances when we introduced her to him in our arms he sniffed her he is not being aggressive in any way rather than he is not letting us get close to her crate and he is constantly crying to be in her room she is really young and we cannot introduce her to him openly he wants to sniff her lick her be near her and is constantly crying

Is it a good sign that they will get along ?or the crying is normal?he is not showing any aggression towards her sniffing but constantly crying and he doesn’t want to leave her alone

My dog is almost a year and a half now. He's a toy poodle and is behind on training because of an injury that happened in the middle of his puppy hood that left him hurt for two and a half months. All he does is bite and bark and me. He doesn't do this with my roommate or family, at least to this extent. I've tried ignoring it, telling him no until he stops and then praising him when he stops, but nothing seems to work with him. We had a trainer who told us to make him bite himself but I've stopped doing that because that makes it worse and I suspect he sees it as play. The trainer also suggested stomping which again I stopped because now he bites feet. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong or why he seems to behave better for everyone else. Everyone who watches him rants and raves how good of a puppy he is, but he isn't with me. I'm still trying the training. I even do reverse time outs and leave him alone for 1-2 hours to be in my room but most time he cries at my door the whole time. I'm so tired, burnt out, and depressed. I just need to know that this is gonna get better. That he isn't some evil problem dog who hates me and that if I keep being consistent he'll train.

I have a 3-year-old mixed breed puppy; we got her when she was 3 months old and we think she may have been treated poorly before arriving to the shelter we got her from. She's incredibly well-behaved overall but we've never been able to get a handle on her barking. When she sees another dog, either from inside our apartment or on a walk, it's like she loses her mind. We’ve tried redirecting her with every kind of treat and incentive imaginable but she is so laser-focused on the other dog(s), it's like she can’t even think about anything else. The only thing that sometimes works in physically grabbing her muzzle and directing her away which I hate doing. Any advice would be appreciated.