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Hi, I'm getting a puppy next year, and I live in an dog-heavy apartment building. Because of this, I don't want to have the puppy walking around outside the building for the first couple months while they aren't fully vaccinated.

I am thinking of having a grass turf pad or maybe a real grass pad as a potty area in my apartment, and still having the puppy on leash when we go to the potty spot inside. Does anyone have experience with this? Is it a struggle to get them to go to the bathroom outside if this is how they were trained while they were young?

Any advice or thoughts on how to best navigate this are appreciated. Thanks!

Hi all! Me and my partner have adopted a going on 6 months old dachshund mix about six weeks ago. She is doing great in our home: she feels safe, she likes her play pen and crate, she is almost fully potty trained, and no noise in the apartment scares her – she’s unphased by the vacuum and popping bottles of champagne!

But we live in Manhattan on a pretty busy road. We’ve gotten her used to going potty on three trees right outside our apartment complex and she feels pretty safe there. However getting her off the block towards a higher traffic avenue is impossible. She starts shaking and crying immediately. If I take her outside of our higher traffic service entrance (where the dogs SHOULD be coming and going from) she cries and shakes so much. She also won’t even accept treats because she feels so unsafe so I can’t even work to create positive associations with that space.

We are working with a trainer who has suggested we just carry her when she starts acting fearful. We’ve been doing this for now but she’s also getting really big. We know she LOVES walking because she doesn’t leash pull in Central Park or other smaller parks even closer to us and feels right at home there. We are lucky to live so close to the park too, but walking the five blocks there is so hard right now because she just gets scared as soon as she sees cars and trucks on a bigger avenue. Even at the dog park she tends to hide under benches when a large truck is a couple hundred feet away.

The only time she does walk off our block and all the way to the park IS however when we have one of her doggie friends with us. She will follow them into oncoming traffic easily when guided by one of her three best friends. I really want her to feel as safe with me as she does with them as her friends can’t join us daily for a walk!

Any advice appreciated. I’m sure our trainer will help over time of course since we’ve just had one in person lesson and one phone call, but she really isn’t improving just yet.

Hi everyone! My puppy is 7 months old now and all of his adult teeth seem to have grown in well except for his canines. His adult canines are growing in but his puppy canines are still in tact and won’t fall out.

I was wondering if anyone has experienced this and had to extract their teeth? And did your pet insurance cover the extraction? Only thing I’m worried about is my pet insurance not covering the extraction because it’s not necessarily an accident or illness? Thanks in advance!

Puppy pees when excited, squatting, standing, lying, sitting THE WORKS THE WATER WORKS! Even after emptying her tank there's always more! In terms of pooping Oh! She'll beeline for the balcony (the designated drop zone). We've tried the quick shuffle the puppy out when they try to pee (no avail), show we are angry [not yelling or scaring](no avail) and don't let them in till she's done (NO AVAIL!).

The fact that she listens her name, avoids accidental poop drop and accidental play bite (she is still land shark stage), somehow likes drinking her own pee (not her sisters) .Loves play fight with her sister 1+ year

What is going on with her? Is it something about her training or something else?!

I have a 3 – 3 and a half months old puppy. Now before I get to her peeing habits I must let you know we do have another dog who is over 1 yrs old and she is fully potty and pee trained. So back to our puppy peeing, she learned how to potty in the right area during the first week she came to us and it made us very impressed. I know it takes time to train puppies for going potty in the right spot but it seems like she has no bladder control when it comes to peeing.

She pees while playing, lying down, standing, when she's excited etc etc. I did try redirecting her in the right direction/area where she has to go to pee but it doesn't work. She does listen to commands like sit, leave it, come here and go there but when it comes to peeing even picking her up and putting her in the right spot doesn't work.

It's kind of confusing cause she doesn't even show a tell tale sign of when she wants to pee, she doesn't even make a sound then. With our first dog who is now over an yr old when she was a puppy she would show and give us a sign of when she was about to pee but our second pup is proving it to be quiet the challenge ( we don't mind it though).

She is very careful not to potty inside but she does pee. There are days when she won't pee inside but when she does pee inside she makes sure to do quite a lot.

I got my dog Maximus from ksl (like facebook marketplace but in idaho,utah, nevada, and Wyoming) on the 1st of this month. I tried texting the guy i got him from on the 6th. He said he'd contact his ex to get all the paperwork. He says he got max from the local humane society. I dont know how long he had him or even an accurate age guess. Post said a year guy said 1-2 years. He gave me literally everything for the dog. Crate, bed, food, gravity water. And he seemed to really care for him. I need to be able to get his microchip switched over and proof of vaccinations/neuter so i can add him to my apartment lease and get him licensed. Issue is its been over 2 weeks since i asked. I texted again on the 7th offering to text her for him and got no reply. Texted again this Tuesday checking in incase he forgot. He did mention he was working quite a bit. I just need advice on what to do. I read that you need to have the microchip manufacturer and call them to switch the information over. Should i just take him to my vet and see what they can do? maybe go to the humane society and see if they still have his information? I'm really at a loss here. Im trying not to bug the guy too much but this is getting ridiculous!

Hi guys I just came to the realisation that I’ve never brushed my dogs teeth before so I googled and google said I should be doing it DAILY?? Am I supposed to be brushing their teeth? Does everyone else brush their dogs teeth and I’ve been left out of that piece of information?? Someone please help me LOL!! Also my dogs would probably bite my hand off if I brushed their teeth 😂 (I give them dental chews and stuff so is that like a substitute orrr…?)

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Hello I have a border collie named stormy and she’s getting very chunky and we don’t have much time to take care for her right ( we shower her one every two weeks feed her 3 times a day with half scoop of food and we play volleyball and soccer with her almost every day) and I was wondering what I could do with her because she also likes to bite.

The last 2 weeks almost every night my 5 year old golden has been waking up in the middle of the night. He wakes me up and he’s panting most of the time. Eventually he gets settled and normally it’s him laying on top of me or pressed against me.

When we have thunderstorms or fireworks he tends to do this type of behavior but neither have been happening. I can’t figure out what the issue is.

I took him to the vet and they checked him out but nothing stood out to them other than he’s having night anxiety.

Anyone know what could be happening or what I could do to help him out?