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What do your daily schedules look like with your 6m old, high energy pups ? 🙂

My dog has been getting older (11 years old now) and has recently started having mild arthritis with his back legs. We live on the third floor of an apartment complex and aren't in any position to move, so we're getting worried about his mobility up and down the stairs for daily walks. He's about 65-70 pounds, which I can carry fine, but he doesn't like being carried for so long and it's not a good permanent fix. We don't have any elevators either.

Has anyone had a similar problem and come up with any good solutions? Rehoming isn't out of the question if his quality of life isn't good here any more, but I'd hate that so much. I've had him all his life and he'd be so confused to be suddenly relocated so late in his life.

Looking to put my 5m old mini poodle in training classes. Petsmart seems to have the cheapest option. They’re offering beginner, intermediate, and advanced classes (18 weeks total) for $300.

More info incase it’s relevant: I’ve had my puppy for a few months now. He’s never bit us (besides playful bites that don’t hurt at all), he doesn’t bark much unless he needs to potty or he’s playing with us, and he’s just overall a pretty good puppy. Has been from the beginning. Potty trained and crate trained.He will occasionally bark at other dogs/people, but more times than not he doesn’t bark. He’ll just stand there watching them.

I really just need help with basic commands and leash training. He tends to pull a lot and he is constantly crossing infront of me on walks and almost causing me to fall. Is it worth going to Petsmart…? Do I need all 3 training levels, or is the beginner training enough? I’m confused as this is my first time owning a puppy/dog.

We have a dog that is German shepherd/husky and also mixed with blue heeler. When we first got her she would pee all over if she got excited, even if someone just said her name, it was worse though if you pet her. she has stopped doing it thankfully. Having to pull the couch out multiple times a day to mop under there was not fun. but we talked to someone else that got a puppy from the same litter and they asked if our dog does that because they can’t get their dog to stop peeing all over. Is it part of those types of dogs or were they just born with over working bladders? Lol.

I have a 2-year-old dog and she hates people, we have never done anything to her and with the family she is a love but with other people she is too aggressive

How do yall get your dog to cooperate when brushing their teeth?? Mine just wants to bite my hands off. Or are all pomeranians just this fiesty

So I can't say 100% sure that they are nightmares. But she will whine, cry and even howl in her sleep. It used to be just whining, and twitching. So I thought maybe she was playing and running in her sleep. But last night I woke up to her full blown crying in her sleep loudly. I don't understand. I never hit her and I don't let anyone else either. And my whole life is dedicated to her. She's my reason for being alive and is my Soul dog :/. I've had her since she was a little puppy. It is possible the people who had her before me may have been abusive or atleast harder on her than I am. But I don't know what else the nightmares could be from and I can't say whether they were abusive or not. I truly do not know. There aren't any signs that they were besides her having nightmares every single night. And they are becoming more frequent.

I bring her with me everywhere, I even take her with me to work often, I have some family that will occasionally dog sit for me but she's been doing it since well before that :/. I can't figure it out. I don't know what the nightmares are since I can't ask her. All I can think to do currently is comfort her when she starts to whine in her sleep. I'll sit beside her and pet her lightly to try to not wake her and maybe change the direction of the dream.

Does anyone have any ideas what I can do? Or can anyone tell me maybe I'm wrong and they aren't nightmares? I'm at a loss 💔 .

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If there is anyone that'd be willing to talk about what a typical contract looks like? The contract I was sent feels like it may be favoring the seller.

The warranty is for 1 year only, the puppy can be "exchanged" for up to half a year and I as the buyer can not claim attachment, or taken away for examination if a claim is made, even if there was rghteous claim the buyer will not reimbure veterinary care that they did not approve of, and treatment would even in that case only be paid up to 1,5x cost of the puppy, to give some examples. As far as I understand, there are no reimbursement options.

When I 1st contacted the breeder I made it clear health and temperament are my priorities, and it appeared as though we were on the same page. So this reluctance to be at least partially accountable for either feels like a rd flag. The contract explicitly states I chose the pup based based only on external characteristics like color, which is untrue, I picked based on temperament. Granted last I bought a puppy was 15 years ago, but I don't quite like it.

Any insight would be appreciated, as well as international differences (Europe vs USA esp.). Cheers.

I have 2 dogs and 2 cats. I just recently got my second cat and one of my dogs gets a little over excited with her, so to prevent him from playing too rough with her over night since we can’t supervise every interaction my partner and I are crating my dog over night. He also wakes up in the middle of the night and sneakily pees in the house, so that’s another reason we thought it would be a good idea to start crating him over night. The thing is we all have always just slept in the bed all together, and I feel so awful to start crating him over night. He doesn’t cry in the crate like he used to when he was a puppy and we give him treats before and after crate time, but I still feel so bad. Am I doing the right thing by crating him?