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We have a 5 month old golden, and we're trying to train her to go potty outside. We've been trying to be more diligent in taking her out on a sort of schedule. However, our yard doesn't have any grass (we're renting), so we take her to a nearby park that's about 3 blocks away. However, she often sits down once we go outside and refuses to move. Even when we manage to walk for a bit, she will choose not to move again and want to go back home. So I've often had to carry her some of the way to the park or drive there, after which she walks for a bit on the grass and does her business.

Any tips to have her walk all the way to the park? It's a hassle to try and drive there when it's only 3 blocks away… I've tried to lure her with treats, but it only works a few times along the way. She also gets frustrated when I don't go back home when she wants to.

So my puppy had been struggling recently with multiple different things, some I have seen improvement and some we have yet to find a solution. I just want to explain them here and ask for advice on this, as for some of these issues im just so lost on what to do. To start the things he does really with are potty training, friendly with other dogs, crate training, still listens to commands pretty consistently, and has seen major improvement with leash walking. Now the bad stuff:

Counter surfing:

My mom and me made a grave mistake when we first got our puppy, she would occasionally feed him our food from the table (our first dog, i should’ve told her not to its mostly on me) and since then we have had massive problems with him counter surfing. The second he sees our food on the table he just goes crazy. If unleashed he will just dive headfirst into our plates, and eat the food. This is one of the only times he will fully ignore commands and not listen at all. It has gotten to the point we just have to leash/crate him in another room while we eat. We have tried multiple times to train him not to eat our food and he just ignores all if it:

Resource guarding:

This one is weird, and I honestly have no clue about this one and how it started, maybe a behavior before we adopted him. He has a really bad habit of grabbing random objects like hats, shoes, or even stealing our food. Once he takes it he becomes extremely possessive and if you try to take it from him, he will growl and snap. This is the most serious problem and the main reason I am on here, because of this behavior i am scared to bring him around younger family members :/

Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Again this is my first dog ever and I know I’m probably not great at it, but I’m just trying to raise him right and give him a happy life. Thank you!

My puppy is so nice 90% of the time until he gets either too hyper or has to poop. When he has to poop he jumps and bites and is just mean. Tonight I started to take away his independent outside time if he’s going to be aggressive about having to poop. Instead of letting him out and having him do nothing until I step outside and him attacking me I decided to take him for a walk around the block. His favourite place to poop is the police station so we walked that way and he got a bit aggressive when we first left the house but then was just happy to walk.

I don’t mind taking him around the block to poop but this isn’t a long time solution as I can’t always take him for a midnight walk. Has anyone else experienced this?

i have had my vizsla pup (male) for around a month now and he is still having accidents inside, i havnt raised a puppy in years but have had adult dogs forever and am just needing a bit of help with what to do!! (this is editted as i didnt word it properly before:)

I have a berner turning 5 months next week. I got her at 9 weeks, and have been crate training ever since. I keep her crate in the office right next to my room. She takes about 2 naps a day in her crate and sleeps in there at night. Usually, I’ll walk her to the room and she’ll lay down or sit at my feet instead of going in the crate, so I coax her with treats or try to pick her up/direct her into the crate. Sometimes if I put her to sleep way too late she’ll walk in by herself, but if other than that she never chooses to sleep in her crate. Once she’s in, she’ll go right to sleep, but it’s always a small (albeit adorable) battle getting her in.

Should I just keep moving forward like this until she gets used to it or should I be doing something different? She’s my first puppy of my own outside of family dogs so I’d love any insight! My past family dogs were never crate trained.

Me and my wife took in a puppy (we think he’s a Staffordshire bull terrier) that my friend found in the park. The other option wasn’t the best for him so we decided we would try to take him on to give him a shot at a life.

We already have another dog that’s been apart of the family for 2-3 years. We got through the initial blending stage and he seemed to mesh well with us, we have slowly built a routine which works for the most part, but recently he has been barking from his pen/crate area CONSTANTLY. I mean he would often bark an hour almost non stop. We make sure his needs are met ie feeding, toilet, play time ect. But if he doesn’t go to sleep immediatley he will bark the most ear piercing bark for an insanely long time. We keep him in an area of the house that isn’t reachable from our other pets. We try to keep the area as low stim as we can. We have tried white noise. We try to burn as much energy as we can but nothing seems to work and it’s becoming an issue. We don’t want to place him elsewhere as the options aren’t great where we are in the world and we’re worried he may end up in a bad situation. It’s literally becoming an issue with our neighbours and we keep him inside. We aren’t trainers by any stretch but we have managed to raise a dog before this and he is extremely well mannered ect.

Please, any help will be appreciated. We don’t want to have to look into other options but as it is we cannot keep things as they are.

What can we do to try and get a cap on the constant barking for attention.

TLDR: pup randomly barking at noises and sometimes nothing. Stopped sleeping through the night doesn’t want to be in crate

I have a cockapoo pup (mini poodle x cocker spaniel) she’s 5 months old now and for some reason she has started not sleeping through the night?

2 nights ago she woke us up around 2am husband took her out and she went potty and he put her back to bed. She kept crying, he went down again and realised there was vomit on her blanket so we removed it and put a different blanket in her crate but it took her ages to settle she was whining and howling off and on for quite a while.

Last 2 nights have been similar she wants to sleep on the sofa and not in the crate but my parents are looking after her in 5 weeks when my husband and I go on our honeymoon for 2 weeks so we want her sleeping in the crate. We do wonder if the crates too small? She’s 6kg. She will go in it when we put her to bed with minimal fuss.

She randomly barks at noises now such as planes flying over, birds chirping sometimes and sometimes at seemingly nothing.

Any help and advice is much appreciated!

My 14 week old cavoodles potty training was going so well until it rained! Now she has had a few accidents inside or on the outdoor lounge rather than her grass patch which is wet.

How does everyone get their dogs to potty outside when their patch is wet?

Unfortunately, she is not crate trained. She got so distressed in it she bit the latches and broke them but I’m waiting for play pen gates to show up.

A few weeks ago my family and I rescued a stray beagle that was walking down our street. She’s generally been really well behaved and gets along with our cats and our other dog. I have noticed that she seems to have some issues with resource guarding, but it’s a bit odd.

If a cat or the other dog comes around while she’s eating she’s fine. She’s even shared her crate with the cats and a bed with the other dog. But if a cat goes near the closet where I store her food or near her toy she’s not even paying attention to she’ll bark at them and go after them (to clarify she just barks and runs them off, she’s never hurt them). If any of the humans in the house go near those things she’s fine. She doesn’t growl or snap at me when I remove her food bowl when she’s done with her meals.

I’ve since hidden that toy and moved her food elsewhere but I’m afraid she’ll just keep finding other items to protect. I’ve had many dogs as a kid but this is my first time actually taking care of one and being involved with the training and I want to do right by her.

I’ve been feeding her at specific times away from everyone else and picking up the bowl when she’s finished. I’ve also been switching up her food and not giving the same thing every day.

I will also mention since it might be important but she is more than likely pregnant (our dog is neutered so she was pregnant when we found her) so I’m not sure if maybe that’s playing a role. The vet said she’s about 20-30 days along.

Any and all advice would be appreciated :,)

Iv started letting my puppy sleep and nap in bed with me (usually he sleeps in crate) and I noticed IF he cuddles is only with my feet? I want him to cuddle more but I’m lucky if he spoons my leg. Just wanted to know if anyone had any insight to why he does this and maybe how I could get him to do it more?