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Hello!

I just got a puppy (5mo) on Jan 14/26 in the evening and she was kennel trained at her foster house prior to me adopting her. Since then she whines and barks like crazy in her kennel, I have tried covering it, creating a positive association with it, and starting with small successes.

Today when I left for work I put her in with toys, treats, and a frozen lick mat but when I had somebody come to check on her 1.5hours in, she was still crying and barking.

I live in an apartment (I have notified my neighbours already so they are aware and hopefully will have a bit more patience with me), but she cannot keep barking in an apartment.

Does anyone else have any ideas and experience with this?

Im following up on my post from yesterday. Our trainer suggested that the kibble i feed (Orijen Puppy formula) is too high in protein and might contribute to overexcitement in my pup? Pup is 4 months and Im already questioning the trainer so hoping to hear some experiences

19 week cocker spaniel puppy, we’ve had him 9 weeks

hes never been a big sleeper, recently been tracking it and we reckon he gets about 13.5-14.5 hours a day (including his overnight sleep). I know this isn’t enough

we have started to enforce naps and whilst this has been a big help in how often he falls asleep, it’s not really helping to extend said naps. he won’t really sleep for more than an hour at a time during the day.

we’re making sure he has white noise on, dark room. we do plenty of enrichment games during wake hours and he has 3 x 15 min sniffy walks per day (slightly longer off lead walk at weekends where he can socialise with other dogs)

I think the other problems we face like separation anxiety and quite bad bitey, lungey episodes all relate to the fact he’s likely chronically overtired. not sure how to get him to sleep more / for longer? should I reduce his wake periods to 30 mins? fear he would just protest if I did this as he wouldn’t be ready to nap again

Heya!

Kota my 9 monts old australian shepherd is starting to get very reactive to humans,

For the past weeks hes been getting more vocal to people when he dont trust them. to the point today we walked by (in the dark tho) our neighbour, a elder female who he almost jumped on and barket very angry and loud. this does not seem normal nor friendly. i dont know if he would bite. but i dont want to figuire this out.. How he acted now to our neighbour kinda scared me cause im really sure actually he would have bite here

sometime's i bring him to my work and he barks to people, but yesterday aswell he started to bark and act like he might bite someone.

I am atm looking for a training who specialise in this kind of stuff. but i dont know how long this will take. Mabye someone can help me out with some tips or what i can do or try

Weird thing is when im outside in the city with lots of people its fine, he dont bark to any of them. yet at random time or people he does.

Would love your opinion about this.

I’ve had my 7-month-old Sheltie for 5 months now. Ever since we got her, she has been very vocal and barks a lot. She doesn’t bark much at the usual things like people ringing the doorbell, loud noises, etc., but she barks excessively to get attention. She wants something to be happening all the time—either training or play.

My partner and I have tried ignoring her when she barks for attention, but we’ve been doing that for 5 months now and we’re starting to feel desperate. We’ve also tried putting her in another room, but that doesn’t help either. If she gets mental stimulation, she starts barking again as soon as the activity is over because she wants more. She has a very hard time just lying down and relaxing. If we move around the house, she follows us everywhere, even if she was lying down sleeping.

It’s taking a toll on our mental health that she barks so much. Does anyone have any suggestions for what we can do?