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For context, I’m 5 months pregnant with my first baby. I love my dog more than anything and my husband and I treat her like our child.

I was upset a couple days ago and was crying and raised my voice talking with my husband. I hadn’t slept more than a couple hours the past few nights and was highly emotional. Our dog (a 4 year old, 55 lb black lab) is typically very well behaved but gets really worked up when there’s any yelling or too much emotion.

She got excited and stared barking and jumping up on me. She jumped and hit me in the stomach and I lost it and screamed at her to get in her crate a couple times. My husband got her in her crate and she sat in there for like 10 min.

Once I cooled down, I let her out but she wouldn’t come out and just stared at me like she was upset. I was so hurt by her look. I’ve never yelled at her like that before. I feel so guilty and took her out for a special day – went to her favorite park, car rides, got her a pup ice, then gave her some leftover steak with her dinner.

Do dogs remember long term if you yell at them? I’m just so worried I damaged the trust she has with me.

Dig mum guilt has me fked up today aha. I got her when I was young so I just thought you take dogs for walks when they have energy. Anyway she's a spoilt brat now absolutely of my doing, but still fairly well trained apart from a ridiculous amount of barking. So I started focusing on enrichment activities for her energy cause she has a surprisingly high prey drive for her small/ lap dog breed. Its mostly playing fetch, followed by a treat/dinner slow feeder toy that she has to sniff a lot for, shake etc. My thinking is this stimulated her chase + bite drive with fetch. Then when she eats its more chase + bite + shake + eat. She's a different fking dog i stg. No biting, minimal/ far more manageable barking, less anxious energy. I feel so guilty cause she's so much calmer, so much easier to train, so much happier. Like why did it take me 10 years to figure this out I just have mum guilt aha sorry.

Id go to those places where they bet on dogs to win races then tell everydog not to run just to crush the market 😂 create a small time glitch in the gambling era 😂😂

My girl will be gone four years this month. I have so many great memories of her but this paw print, made on the day she died, is one of my faves.

Up until now, I’ve had it just sitting out, unprotected. I’m concerned that eventually it’s going to dry out and crack or at the very least, get covered in dust.

What’s the best way to keep it looking nice for a long time?

I’ve been seeing a lot of headlines about LOY-002 lately and wanted to sanity check what’s actually going on.

From what I understand:

– The FDA accepted the Target Animal Safety (TAS) section

– That’s 1 of the major pieces for conditional approval

– The remaining big step is manufacturing (CMC)

So it’s progress, but not “available soon” yet.

For people with senior dogs — what are you actually doing *today* to stay ahead of age-related issues?

Are you tracking things like:

– mobility changes

– weight

– appetite

– energy levels

Or just going by feel?

Curious what’s actually working in real life.

Wondering if anyone can give me any tips on how to stop my 9 month old from chewing the lead?

We've got a 20m lead which we are using for recall training and general playtime when there could be other people around so we have the chance to grab the lead when her recall fails.

She tends to ignore it sometimes but generally she sees it as a tug

We rescued a puppy. He was in a puppy mill and got him when he was 7 months. I have a really weird guilt that his tail is docked. I would never allow this to happen if I had a choice. His tail was docked before we even knew about him. But I still feel so guilty about it. I see pictures of Yorkies with their full tail and just wish that for him. How do I get rid of this guilt? I know it’s not my fault. I know that there isn’t anything I could have done differently. It doesn’t make sense.

My dog often loses his hair I’ve tried a lot of brushes but the effect is not good and there are many small hairs falling everywhere in my house which gives me a lot of headache

As the title says – are there any medium/small livestock guardian dog breeds out there, or are absolutely all of them large? I tried searching for some earlier, but couldn't find anything on my own.

I'm mostly asking because I got chickens, and I live somewhere without massive predators that make it necessary for the dog to be big – no coyotes, no bears, no wolves, no raccoons, etc. Only foxes, which can be chased away with a broom and a shout, but sitting outside guarding the chickens 24/7 is annoying and we just lost three chickens two days ago to one mean and very insistent fox.

But most livestock guardian dogs are too large, they eat too much to be viable for our twenty small chickens that don't bring any profit outside of personal use, and it doesn't feel necessary to have a whole giant bear of a dog when the only predator in the area is a tiny fox that could probably be scared away with a bit of barking.

We already tried fences and stuff, but the foxes here are all too smart in digging holes and getting places no matter how well we try to secure everything.

This is why I'm asking – are there any livestock guardian breeds that aren't massive and built for coyotes and wolves, which don't exist here?

(note: not asking for you to actually find me a specific dog, I'm mostly asking in general for future reference if any smaller guardian breeds even exist)