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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.