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Hey all- looking for some advice please.

Have a 4 a bit month old goldendoodle who is doing great generally. One slightly annoying things is that she consistently wakes up at 0500.

She goes to sleep at 2100 and now sleeps through until 0500, but when I take her out to the toilet and then try and settle her again, she barks.

I live in a detached house and I can’t have her bark a lot at this time disturbing my neighbours.

She’s currently still sleeping next to my bed in a small pen/crate combo. Plan is to move her slowly out of my room once she’s had a couple of weeks of solid sleep (she only started sleeping through the night on the weekend).

I tend to wake up as she starts moving and take her to the loo at 0500 before she starts barking and making a fuss.

Any ideas please?

Hey all thanks in advanced for the help and I’m glad to have already picked through this group for some great info here.

My question involves a puppy we just got a week ago. She’s an 8week old Aussiedoodle. I know they’re high energy and I know she’s a puppy and I know she needs to get used to our life and how we function and fit into our schedules.

My issue involves crate training and what I can do to ease what I believe is just puppy separation anxiety. No she’s not ripping apart at the cage and freaking out, but after a few hours she decides she needs to bark and yelp in hopes of getting somebody’s attention. (Yes I know a few hours is long for this age but she’s honestly already such a good girl)

I work nights 3 days a week as a nurse and my wife works during the day as a school nurse. Currently about to finish my first shift since we got the puppy and I plan to run her tired after I get home before I try to sleep. My wife can come home on her break to let the dog out and run her tired before going back on the days I sleep, and then after work she’ll be home. It will eventually work out well, but I need some ways to help reduce the puppy anxiety. I got some puzzle toys coming from Amazon, and she sleeps with our t-shirts in her bed in the crate for the scent. Currently she has a Kong toy with treats and some bone toys. She does have a pee pad she uses at least twice without issue

We’re in NJ and once winter is over and I can walk/ hike her 3 times a day we shouldn’t have any issues.

Tl;dr- I’m looking for ways to help my puppy get used to the crate better and help her cope better for longer time frames.

As the title says, my 15 week old min pin puppy won't stay settled in the crate during the day.

I brought her home a week and a half ago, and she was great, would sleep in there for up to 2 hours, I could leave the room for short amounts of time. The last few days she will not sleep in there during the day.

She'll happily go in for a play, on her own, or let me put her in when she's sleepy. She'll curl up, but within 10-15 minutes of me closing the door she'll perk up, cry, bite and claw at the bars and refuse to settle.

At this point I've given up, I'm letting her sleep next to me or on me so she gets her naps in, but that's not sustainable. any tips or ideas would be really appreciated!

Hi so I have an australian cattle dog mix— I know that ACD’s are usually double coated but my girl is a mutt. How am I supposed to tell if she has one? She really loves the cold and snow- and rarely ever gets cold even in temps of 20 degrees or less. I want to know how to tell so I can stop worrying about her being cold 😭

I have a golden retriever/husky mix that's about a year and 3 months. She's been really into sleeping in our bed with us since about August of last year. I have no issues with this and for me, owning a dog involves co sleeping with one. However- this little beast takes up a disproportionate amount of room despite her size. It's me and her + my husband. She has really begun to irritate my husband and impacting his sleep and honestly….same. I often wake up trapped between them and super uncomfortable. What are some of the solutions you have thought of in your experience? I would love to continue having her in our bed but the impact on sleep can be a lot sometimes. She can have her own bed but she'll just end up in ours regardless. What works?

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After some advice/Maybe just venting!

Last year we got a Cockalier (Cockaspaniel/Cavalier mix). We tried to do everything as best we could, reading up on how to get the foundations right, taking her to puppy and adolescent dog classes as well as breed specific training sessions.

In a lot of ways she's been brilliant, she took to toilet training straight away and we never had issues apart from the usual puppy accidents in the first few weeks and she's never been disctructive.

She's very obedient, knowing loads of commands now and she's sweet a lot of the time however there are a few issues of concern.

She's quite reactive to sound currently, if she hears something outside or elsewhere on the house she barks a lot at it. She does a lot of attention barking if we are sitting up to eat or cooking. She has also shown signs of resource guarding against other dogs when they visit the house so we are managing that.

Most concerning is she has started to growl in the evenings when she's approached in her bed or the sofa or if she thinks we are going to pick her up. Not very aggressive growling with teeth etc. but a quite low level grumble.

She's crate trained and if we ask her to go into her crate she's right in there with no issue, but I'm worried that she seems to have started getting a bit grumpy in the evenings and it's at risk of escalating which in turn make us anxious.

Where has the best selection of clothing/supplies for a very small dog (1.4kg)? Having a hard time finding things small enough 😅🐶

I am looking into getting a dog now, and whenever I look at a given breed's club and breeder recommendation list, they all seem a bit scary. They almost come off as standoffish saying that you will be drilled for questions over a long period of time, and some information I am finding on breeders says that they will occasionally ghost people or just ignore them outright. One specific thread I was reading had a person complaining about this, and another redditor said that you were supposed to keep pestering the breeder to "show you really want the breed"! Another comment I found mentioned that when finding a breeder, expect to wait at least a year, likely more to actually get a dog (the breed being referenced was greyhound, in case that matters).

Surely it cant be this difficult to get a dog? I fully understand questioning and am ready to go through that but the questioning for months, years of waiting, ghosting and the pestering mind games must be an exaggeration, right? what was your experience like?

Hello everyone, i have a 13 year old small mix who will absolutely NOT use puppy pads. Cloth or disposable. Ive tried high reward training.

He cant be completely confined because he will start howling (LOUD) and crying and ripping up flooring, and self injuring. its only when i try to coop him up in any way and its been this way for 10 years.

I have not been able to get him to use a pad one single time the entire 10 years ive had him. I have tried.

Crate training was like i was actually torturing him.

Diapers wont work because he is very oblong and he slides them off after making his back end go completely limp like he’s paralyzed.

He is now dealing with consistent accidents of 1-2 times a day in the same spot, sometimes other spots. I have tried covering the spot but he pees around, or physically moves the barrier.

I have carpets, i live in a rental, wtf am i supposed to do.