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I have a 6 month old shepherd, and I raised her mostly alone for the first couple months. I was worried at first about moving in with my family because she might have trouble adjusting to all these new people. It turns out, I had no reason to worry, and the problem is actually that she loves her new family so much she can't handle being locked out of any room for any reason. When I'm alone, she's happy just being with me, but now that the rest of the family is here she wants to be with everyone. She's not experiencing separation anxiety, as such, she actually deals with everyone leaving a lot better than she deals with people being in the home but in a room she can't access. It's the fact that she knows people are there but can't see them, that's what drives her crazy. It's minor stuff, just whining and pawing at the door for a few minutes, but it's really annoying for everyone.

Has anyone experienced this? What do I do about it? Is there any training to make her less nervous about closed doors?

So I’ve had this dog for about a year and when I got her she was like 4 months old. She was found in a box by my old coworker and she asked if I wanted her and I said yes. Maybe I should have said no but that then made 3 dogs in a house with plenty of room and the other 2 are small dogs too.

For reference the two already in the home one is a (4 y/o) terrier mix and the other a (10 y/o) bichon mix. The 10y/o is trained well enough but for the most part both dogs are potty trained, walk great, listen, and I did train both when they were adopted. I was also younger and had all the time and the first dog was a breezy second dog got lucky and also my sister’s pup.

So getting to the point of this story/question. This 1y/o pup she’s high energy, she’s smart and picks things up quick but not the potty training. It is also my fault my sister helped out taking care of her when I was at work and she wasn’t training or keeping up with it. She just kind of let them do whatever and the pup followed the other two dogs.

I have now moved into an apartment with the 10, and 1 y/o and it’s been rough. I’ve been walking them early in the morning when we wake up. I walk them as soon as I get home and after they eat and before bed. Sometimes even extra just so they can go pee those are usually short walks. She still has managed to pee in the apartment, on my bed, the carpet, and on the floor and she even went number 2 inside after the walk. How do I train her and I play with her too it’s not that I’m neglecting any it’s just the 10 y/o is so chill he loves his walks and cuddles and she’s the opposite. I can play fetch with her all day. Idk what should I do or how do I tackle this.

Also during the day she watches dog tv from her kennel, she also loves to chew on things the amount of socks and slippers that have seen better days.

To preface this, I'm not talking about leaving her alone for 8 hours, and she is also crate trained. I'm talking one minute alone so that I can pee.

We have a 12 week old working line German Shepherd, who we got when she was 8 weeks. For the first two weeks we allowed her to sleep outside a crate and gradually introduced the crate before eventually realising we had to just rip off the band aid and make her sleep in there.

She sleeps just outside our bedroom in the crate, and will often complain when we put her in there for 30 secones to a couple of minutes before settling and falling asleep. She takes naps in the crate during the day, and again, we might get a little toddler "I don't want to nap" whining (not barking or howling, just complaining) before she lays down.

We walk her twice a day, play tug and with a flirt pole 4 times a day, free play in the garden and 4-6 training sessions a day. We also make her work for all meals with a lick mat, slow feeder, puzzle feeder, or scattering her food to make her find it. If we're using something that fits in her crate for feeding, she eats in her crate. She puts her toys and chews in there herself and is fine going in and out on her own.

If I give her a frozen kong, I have even been able to take meetings for 30 minutes in another room with the door open with her in the crate (crate door closed). She will also go out for free play in our garden alone, and comes to check in every now and then.

We always have someone at home, and we basically never leave her alone. If my girlfriend and I go upstairs together she loses her mind, howling and barking. If my girlfriend is at work and I go to the bathroom without giving her a kong or something, she freaks out 30 seconds after we leave. We can't go to the store at the same time, and if she naps and one of us leaves the room she'll wake up and lose her shit too. I think we should have started leaving her earlier, as now she always expects at least one of us to be around. If she has a kong and hears the front door close, she loses interest and will start crying, even if another one of us is in the room. We don't make a big deal out of leaving, and try to keep things normal so as not to enforce anxiety. We give her treats when she's calm, similar to how we crate trained her.

How do we reverse this? Do we really need to start with 10 seconds and work our way up? It sounds like it could be months before we can go to the bathroom! Does anyone have any advice?

Today, I decided to stay home from school because I was feeling super sick. My dog still kept following me around, into my room, into the bathroom, and even outside. I thought maybe he wanted food, or to play, or to go outside, but he just kept following me. I guess he can smell that I wasn’t feeling good and wanted to keep me company.

He’s a good dog. I love him so much >^<

Hi!, my dog never liked his paws touched and it got so much worse when the vet cut his nails too short. Recently he was ill and the vet asked to wipe his paws with cleaner after every walk. He would bite my hands and scream and try to get away. I want to keep wiping them even after the treatment. How can I teach him that it's not the end of the world?

Itd be worth it, hopwfully I would be trading 1 year out of a 100 but who knows!