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Hey all.

I used to give my dog bones a few years back but she chews them WAY too hard and she broke a tooth. Now she has a yak chew which has been a lot better but I can tell she doesn’t like it as much. She likes hard things, if ever someone leaves a hair clip or something hard and plastic on the ground she will chew it up. I gave her a soft rubber toy and she destroyed it within an hour.

The yak chew has been good and has lasted a long time, but does anyone have any other recommendations? I want her to have a bit of variety as she’s always been a spoiled brat lol

Headed out to a cabin vacation for 4 nights and my dog will be accompanying us for the first time. She can be very excitable and anxious, and this will be a longer than usual car ride. She will also be in a new place and might be alone for short periods of time. I know she'll love the woodland setting and all the exploring we'll do, just want to help her relax and enjoy the experience. She's a 12 pound yorkie, we've tried busy butter and other calming chews without much success. Thanks

We recently adopted a puppy and he chews through every. The rescue would not let him have a blanket or toys in his crate because he chewed them and ate part of them. So far all he has is a matt in his crate when we go to work (a family member stops over to let him out and play mid day) Today he chewed his matt and the stuffing was all over when I got home does anyone have any advice on what to do from here?

Thank you

I’ll be sending my dog from the UK to Aus next year and it’s really stressing me out.

He’s a rescue so it’s taken a lot to get him to a calm-ish happy place but we can’t leave him here.

I was just wondering if anyone has done this and did any pre training? Anything that helped them to relax and be calm around new people?

Or any tips? I don’t know, any advice would be good I suppose.

Thank you

Basically the title. My 2 year old is in and out of the house constantly, and we've had a problem with her letting our 18 month old golden retriever, Ginny, out accidentally. Ginny has great recall, and it's super easy to get her back inside when I notice she's been let out, and she does stay in the yard for the most part, but there are kids out playing in our neighborhood pretty much all day, and some of them are nervous around dogs after being bitten in the past. I don't want to stress them or their parents out, and Ginny has, on occasion, followed my kids down the street when I haven't realized she was let out. What can I do to teach her to stay in the house if I am not there with her?

So my year and a half old dog has recently started to jump on our bed side tables and our table in our cat/spare room basically everywhere she can get on top of things she is and it’s driving me crazy. She didn’t start doing it until about a 2 weeks ago. She had gotten on our gaming car and then onto our entertainment center and I told her “off” and she got down but now it’s every time I leave the room she’s on our bedside tables or in the spare room on top of the cat table or my plant shelves. I’m afraid of putting something that will deter her on the table bc that’s our cats safe place and he hangs out there. I would hate to scare him from getting on the table or shelves he has. Our dog gets along with our cat really good and she doesn’t bother the table when he’s in there but she will get on other surfaces.

Hi. I am dogsitting next week for 3 dogs (1 is mine and I won't be talking about him too much) 2 of the dogs have a very different schedule than the one I'm going to have to use with them and I'm trying to think of ideas on how to handle them.

My parents (the owner/caretaker of the 2 dogs) are both retired and home about 95% of the day engaging with the dogs. One is 5 year old Corgi, who will settle nicely but has major resource guarding issues (I do have management solutions for this and have watched him before), and is prone to weight gain so on a very strict diet. The other is a 1.5 year old mixed breed large dog (German Shepard, Lab, Pitbull and boxer mix) who has no ability to settle and my parents created a marathon dog with…he is not crate trained and the one I am the most worried about.

I do work 100% remote and have a great deal of flexibility in my work but I do need to be available for meetings and such.

The dogs normal routine is, wake up, go outside to go to the bathroom, eat breakfast, play outside for like an hour (with my dad normally) nap for 2 hours while my dad goes to the gym. Go on a 2 hour + hike, then they come home for another 2 hour nap, then the puppy goes to the dog park for like 2 more hours. Then more outside time (normally fetch), dinner, more outside playtime and then they sleep.

I cannot do this schedule and work. I honestly don't think its a healthy schedule in general for a dog this young, but it's not my dog and my parents have made it clear that they don't care about my opinion here.

My plan is, keep their morning routine very much the same, then for the first walk, give them some each some sort of food puzzle with half their breakfast. I will put the corgi into his crate for this to manage the resource guarding (and likely my dog too cause he has food allergies). Then after I get through work I will take them on a long walk (probably not 2 hours but a decently long walk)…they are all except the puppy good on the leash, instead of the dog park because I have no interest in dog parks. Then they get outside time, dinner, probably split in two again with half in a puzzle feeder for each dog separately, then outside. Then I will also do some brain game training with all 3. My dog won't go to sleep unless we do like 15 minutes of training every night so I'll just work with the other 2…

For the puppy's extra energy cause I know he will have some I am going to bring a flirt pole which he does like, and he does play nicely with my dog which I hope he will do to burn off some energy.

Thoughts on this? Any other sorts of recommendations you can think of? I'm kinda at a loss for other ideas as to how to handle a 75lb barely trained puppy who has no real off switch…I would love to do some settle work with him but I just don't know if it's too late (and I am almost positive my parents will just undo whatever I do when they get back…cause they think its normal to have a dog that only sleeps like 6 hours a day–yes he is 1.5 years old and doesn't sleep through the night).