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My 10 year old dog has cataracts, diabetes and is seemingly almost blind. If you’ve experienced this, other than not moving furniture and clearing a path, is there anything else you did that helped your old dog feel more secure?

We recently just adopted a little guy from a rescue who is heartworm positive. We knew this before adopting him and feel prepared to get him through treatment. Luckily the rescue is paying for treatment, so the financial aspect isn’t a concern. He is overall a pretty chill little guy for being a one year old chihuahua. He gets the occasional zoomies in the morning before we go outside for our walk, and sometimes gets curious and wants to look out the window. All this considered, I am still concerned about how intense the activity rest needs to be once he begins injections next week.

Anyway, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

My 2 year old cockapoo barks in the house and garden from morning to night – anytime a car, a person or a dog far away starts to bark my dog goes bonkers.

We’ve tried using the word stop, put her on time out, collars that sound alarms due to barking etc and nothing works. Any help on stopping excessive barking would be greatly appreciated!

Just recently purchased a pug puppy from a breeder I had found through a Google search. I tried to do my due diligence but unfortunately made that mistake. The puppy sold to me came with a "health check" that said that the vet confirmed that the puppy was healthy in a typed up letter, written on the letter was that my puppy had no left ear canal found. Upon reading this I scheduled an appointment with my own vet and requested the vet the puppy had been brought to to send the files over. The puppy was sent home having been partially treated maybe for 4 different parasites that I was not made aware of and the treatment was not completed as it was 5 day treatment and I had received her 3 days after the treatment would have started and received no medication from the breeder. My puppy will be deaf in her left ear but I will be following up with my vet to keep my puppy healthy and happy. Puppy was purchased in Stirling, ON. What can I do to help prevent this from happening to others?

Hi!

I’m adopting a dog and I was curious if methods of bonding for rehomed dogs is the same as the methods suggested when you adopt a dog from a shelter. I am still obviously adopting him, but most websites talk about trauma from being in a shelter.

We ended up getting to adopt a dog from someone who couldn’t take care of their dog anymore, but as far as I can tell from talking to the owner as well as the many many pictures I’ve gotten, he’s been living a pretty happy life. The previous owner did pick him up from a shelter and there was suspected “issues” from the owner before and he’s been an anxious dog since because of it.

Are there any different bonding techniques you’d suggest when we pick him up? Or does Google pretty much have it covered? Thanks!

I have this little dog who's 13. She's a bit of a weirdo, and particular about her footing. Lately she's had trouble jumping on the bed, but I suspect she's going to be dramatic about using a ramp or stairs.

Has anyone had luck with any of these devices with a similar drama queen?

So at my school (I'm in the 10th grade) we have a dog grooming program for the teachers where agriculture students will bathe brush and trim your dog for free, and this one teacher brought in their male black poodle mix (as far as I can tell), he was on the grooming table and his mats are so thick you can barely see his skin, there is matted fur under layers of matted fur, it's especially bad on his chest and he dislikes his paws being touched they gave him a bath and he was incredibly dirty and our instructor told us to de mat him because the teacher that brought him in said she didn't want his hair cut and he was "a little matted" and she planned to cord him sort of like a komondor. But this dog is matted to the skin, all over. What can I do to help him, right now we're just trying to get the mats out with combs and slickers and conditioner and he's been a really good boy and very compliant. I feel really helpless because I know this dog needs to be shaved for his health and comfort and de matting is a really long process

What can I do? My instructor is not receptive to any suggestion of shaving

Hi!! I adopted a 1 year old terrier about a month ago. He’s pretty anxious and very attached to us follows us around, sleeps by our heads).

We would love to crate train his so he’s comfortable if he ever needs to stay overnight somewhere plus we want our cat to have freedom at night to cuddle with us and roam the house. They get along okay, but cat is not very fond of dog.

When we first brought our dog home, we focused on bonding with him and therefore let him sleep with us as he pleased. We’ve been feeding him in the crate, and he will sometimes go to sleep in the crate (next to my desk) during the day.

He is very nervous to go I. The crate still, keeps his hind legs out when we throw treats inside and certainly doesn’t feel comfortable when it’s closed.

Is there any hope for crate training him to sleep in during the night or when we’re away from the house?

Advice appreciated!!

We recently got a golden retriever puppy and we are having trouble with night times. For context, our house hold is myself, my partner, and our 5yo Golden Retriever. When raising Arlo, based on the info we had available. We made a safe area for him to be in during the day when we weren't home and also slept there at night. We gave him treats and toys in there and tried to make it as fun as possible. This worked really well and he is now confident sleeping wherever, which was our goal. With our new pup we wanted the same thing, we have followed the same process but she cannot stand being in there. We put her in there for naps during the day and she is okay, as soon as she wakes up she whines to come out, we have been waiting for 30sec of quiet before we get her out so we don't accidentally reinforce the behaviour. At night it gets a lot worse, we go to put her to bed and even if she is dead asleep as soon as it we close the gate and turn the light off. Instant whining which turns into panicked vocalisation, this can last for upwards for 30 minutes before she falls asleep. We initially thought it was due to toileting but we have got her a grasspad she uses with no problem during the day and at night. But the problem is exactly the same. We are now at the point we are worried we are creating some form of separation anxiety. So we will most likely have her sleep in our room with our other dog and us to hopefully ease that.

This has come down to my big worry. What do we do when no one's home, I have read through the wiki and from what I can find it essentially comes down to repeated exposure of increasing time by herself in there. But literally as soon as she is put in there she starts whining, so I'm not sure if that is even the right approach?

Any guidance or suggestions on this would be much appreciated

i have a german shepherd/labrador of 4 years old. she was adopted almost 4 years ago, and she is my baby. however, she has extreme anxiety. she is afraid of loud noises, won’t go in certain areas of our house cause of fear, and will pee on my bed almost every night.

i’ve noticed the pattern of 3 things when she pees; 1. she pees for what seems to be the hell of it, 2. i take her out to pee before bed, but she just stands there looking dumb, and wont move off the porch, and 3. i forget to take her out before bed (usually after midnight), even tho the back door is open the entire day and into the early night to a large backyard where our other dogs (and her) all go pee.

this all started back when i moved out of my parents house into an apartment where she didn't have our other dogs with her, and i guess she was just more scared. she would literally shake when kids would be playing and laughing outside despite all my comforts, and started peeing on my bed there. she would pee on the floor inside when she was a puppy, but we trained her out of that (or so we thought lol).

i really don't know what to do, its always been a lingering problem, but recently its been practically every week that i have had to strip my bed apart and put it in the washer in the middle of the night. she will also pee on my parents bed, so its not just my bed. does she just hold it in from laziness?? she will literally lay in her own pee until i notice it.

someone please help me. my sister took her to the vet a bit ago, and they recommended some sort of medication but it didn't seem to help, nor has a trainer helped. what should i do? take her to the vet again? or try some at-home remedies? i'll do anything. i'm leaving for college again soon and i really don't want to leave this burden on my parents.