Blog

Recently adopted a senior dog (she had been a breeding dog for 8 years- not treated well. she’s currently 11) and she is a bit skittish but is okay with people. We let her on any couch or chair that she wants. If she can’t reach it but wants up, we will pick her up and put her on it.

For some reason, anytime someone sits in a specific chair in the living room, she stares, then growls, and eventually it leads to barking at whoever is sitting in the chair. ONLY when someone is sitting there. She isn’t territorial (she’s maybe sat on it two or three times) about it, and she doesn’t want up either. We try to pick her up to put her on the chair and she backs away.

It’s becoming very difficult to have people in the living room because someone HAS to sit in the chair and she will bark and bark until the person is out of the chair.

What can we do?? What’s going on??

Hello – we got our pup, Frank, at 17 weeks. We hadn’t been told that he had NEVER been outside. Only ever used puppy pads. Now it’s been 8 weeks if diligent routine, bell on door training, crate training, every area rug has been removed… now he’s peeing in the couch. Sometimes he signals us by sniffing, pacing, occasionally he rings the bell! But sometimes, typically in the evening he’ll be playing or chewing something get up, walk somewhere and just pee! With no warning. I do try to interrupt him and bring him out but he typically just keeps peeing. Even if I pick him up. This will often be within 15 minutes of him going out. He’s a 6 month, 10lb, poochon. HELP!!! Please…. Feeling defeated.

Hi! Need help on an issue I’ve been having with our dogs, we have 3 dogs and they all technically get along very well other than the fact that two of them “cling” to our one dog. The dog that they cling to is the oldest (almost 5) she is super submissive towards them and tolerated anything that they do. The other ones are 2 and almost 1 year. We repeatedly recorrect the two younger ones and redirect them away from her, but they won’t take their eyes off of her and always grab onto her neck, ears, and sometimes even legs. Because of this we don’t even let them out together at the same time normally as it is resulting in her getting hurt. I haven’t ever really heard of this being a thing before and never experienced it in all my years. Not even really sure how to describe it haha! Does anyone have any solutions on how to fix this problem?

I adopted a dog recently and she’s doing something none of my other dogs have done: frantically barking at other dogs on the walk. To me, she appears excited and eager to play, but our neighborhood is not very social while walking dogs. How can I help her calm when I can’t avoid seeing other dogs out? I want her to have a chance to play without scaring off any potential new dog friends.

So my friend (she doesn’t have Reddit which is why I’m asking for her) has 3 dogs the 5 year old German shepherd is a well trained dog, doesn’t pee, shares toys, doesn’t bark is overall is a good dog. Her new dogs who are 7 months old coonhound+ Australian shepherd mix both girls not yet spayed (she has an appointment booked it’s just the clinic is overbooked rn so it’s hard to get an appointment) the two of them are constantly fighting over toys which she has over 50 different toys for them and sometimes they will want the same ball even tho there’s another ball just like it already out. When one has the toy the other starts to bark and wine and then they fight over the toy. Again most of the time she has 3 of the same toys out for them and even bone treats but they always want what the other has and sometimes even try bullying her older dog out of his toys. They also just wine a lot in general which has been causing some anxiety to the older dog. She’s always try’s to buy multiple of the same toys, give them equal attention she also mostly works from home so she’s around them quite often , tried using a firm voice to tell them to stop etc. She’s looking for advice to stop the toy stealing behavior mostly and keep the winning to a minimum.

I have a 7 month old standard poodle, I have worked with dogs for a long time and I completely understand the teen phase she is very much entering. These are the major issues we are having, chasing the cats or just charging at them randomly, fixating on or pulling on the end of the leash when she sees something she wants, and counter surfing. She does not give a single fuck about treats, toys, anything enticing during these moments. Verbal cues mean little to nothing in these scenarios, even when she does good in these moments if I try to reward her she simply does not care. It’s almost as if she doesn’t understand consequences but I don’t know how to show that to her. She gets plenty of mental and physical stimulation, plenty of naps, she has been well socialized and has good genetics it’s just this phase of her life and any bit of advice to make it smoother sailing is so appreciated.