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What a crock of ****

My now 1 year old golden is starting to be an absolute terror!

we haven’t done professional training because as a puppy he honestly was so easy to train ourselves. He potty trained quickly, great in public, loves other dogs and people, sleeps thru the night etc!

Recently, he’s been super active in the middle of the night, chewing on everything he’s not suppose too even though he has a million chews and bones for him that he normally loves!

Super reactive in public and around other dogs unless he’s off a leash

super active no matter how much exercise he gets!

And isn’t listening to any commands he definitely knows!

He gets these crazy spurts of energy where all he wants to do is bite us and redirection/ time outs nothing works!

We are looking into professional trainers to work with us but just wanted to see if anyone else has advice or tricks 😭 no one is sleeping and our entire day is spent trying to exhaust him.

Picking my puppy (he’ll be 7-8 weeks) up in approx. 30 days. Should I start the process of setting up his health insurance? Should we start to buy all of his puppy stuff now

Or is it way too early lol? My boyfriend things I’m just excited and we should wait until it gets closer but I feel anxious and I want to prepare! Lol when did you all start the buying process ?

My 12 week pup is sliding on our hardwood floor but I've had to remove the large rug because she associated it with pee/poo. What's a good solution to help her not slip inside without a rug? Thanks!

My sweet little 19 week old puppy and I have been living at my parents house since she came home at 8.5 weeks. She’s been okay until recently when home just with my parents (never quite as happy as when I’m around) but this week has started shutting down entirely when I’m not there – doesn’t want to leave her crate/growls when my parents try to get her out of it. She’s alright with me leaving the room when I’m in the house, it’s really just when I’m not there at all it seems.

She started puppy daycare a couple weeks ago 2x a week – not sure if that could have anything to do with it? The first day there she spent a lot of time cuddling with the trainer, and they say that she’s a lot more confident now than she was at the start, playing with a couple other small puppies and does a nice job in her crate. When she comes out she’s always happy and wagging before she sees me too, so I think she enjoys it.

Any tips on getting her to be ok with my parents? I’m trying having them feed her (she’s not super food motivated so that’s tough). Should I leave her with them more to get her more used to it?

Hi all!

Sorry for the BILLIONs of posts I’ve made.

Can you all please comment essentials that you recommend I buy before getting my 8 week old puppy? Thank you!

If a crate is too big I get that the puppy will go toilet one side and sleep the other, but will this slow down potty training, if it was smaller would my pup still have accidents in the house etc?

13 week old Frenchie (yes I know a baby still) knows to pee outside, but she doesn't give me any signs to go and will sometimes watch me as she squats to pee. Doing all the usual like out ecvery 30 mins or so treats and praise etc