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Hey guys, what do yall do around Christmas time to protect your trees? By Christmas, my golden will be 8.5 months old (I’ve never had a dog so forgive me if this is a dumb question), and I’m wondering if I need to put a decorative fence around my tree? Or do dogs/puppies not really try and go for it?

Oh how I love my puppy. But sometimes I need a break (writing this when i brought the puppy to my dads so I can have a breather).

My puppy of almost 10 weeks sleeps through the night in his pen (crate with a pen around it), no troubles. Only one accident but I dont mind that if it means I can sleep through the night and we both get our sleep so we can handle the daytime together.

Only the puppy pen training through the day is a nightmare. He only falls asleep in the pen when i’m sitting next to it. And he immediately panics and screams when I leave. Most of the time I can only leave when he is in deep sleep and he doesn’t hear me leave. I work from home so I have a lot of time to manage everything and currently I do my meetings when i’m in the puppy pen myself, lol.

The pen time is important for me so I can have a breather through the day and he can safely play when I can not supervise. But i noticed its breaking me at the moment that this doesnt work.

I’m not for the method ‘crying it out’ since he really panics, starts panting etc. And i dont want him to accociate the pen/crate in a negative way.

What I do now to make sure there is no hassle: Sit with him until he falls asleep. Then I can move and try not to wake him up.

What I try to learn him just to settle when he’s in the crate. Give a lick matt to calm down. Teach him ‘crate’ to enter the crate. Sit with him until he lays down -> Give treat. And that around 3 times. Start sitting outside the crate -> he screams -> settles again > give treat. But the moment i start moving any further it is panic, and treats etc do not work anymore.

I dont know what to do. Just for the puppy and for my mental health it is important that this is a skill we will learn.

He gets all his food and nice stuff in the pen. He loves the pen. Its open in the daytime. Most of the time I follow his own sleep rhythm and I dont have to put him in his crate to enforce a nap. But sometimes it does happen he doesnt get his rest and is overtired, and then i have to put him in his crate for his own sake.

I just wanna hear some tips, is this normal for his age, is he actually doing good etc. Its the first time I raise a dog from the puppy stage. Some days are amazing and some days i just wanna give him to my dog trainer lol.

I also feel weird because he can be in there in the night. But apparently day time makes a big difference.

My dog trainer says I should take him upstairs for the night time. But since we’re not struggling with the night time, i rather not do that. It’s mostly day time crate training we are struggling with.

Hi I have a puppy (7m female) and she will not stop biting. We've tried the yelping and that doesn't work on her. The one thing that mostly works is crossing your arms and turning away. But it doesn't stop the actual biting when she wants to play or wants attention. Like she will put her whole mouth around my wrist and not in a gentle way. Any advice appreciated

I have a golden retriever (she’s about 90 lbs). I am looking for a new harness and collar for her, i love to do a girly print, like pink with some sort of design. I’m looking for recommendations as to where i can find good quality products, and maybe a company who donates part of the price to animal charity? I’ve looked into tags for hope but i see there are many poor reviews. Suggestions?

Hi! I’ve gotten better at watching my 4 month old pup and knowing when he needs to go based on routine and his belly lol. Accidents have gone down to almost 0 in the course of 3 days but he just peed on his bed in the crate even though I put him in the playpen where it’s covered with peepads.

Can someone tell me why he keeps peeing on beds? Or no beds for him till he’s older? I previously cleaned the bed with enzymatic cleaner and he even slept on it without peeing on it last night.

I realised he also likes to lie down in said pee on the bed. Sigh. Does anyone understand his doggy brain? I need help with translation.

Thanks!

NOTE – just fully vaxxed cannot get on grass, no fresh patch in house either.

Basically the title. My poodle is 10 months old, so he's not a tiny baby any more. He's definitely capable of sleeping through the night—he would sleep from about 11pm to 7am starting when he was around 5 months old. I was basically like "Great! This is it!" No such luck, though. Starting at like 8 months—what I'm thinking of as his adolescent phase—he's a very light sleeper and will wake up around 3 or 4am most nights.

He'll be woken up by some noise outside, or just nothing in particular, and then whine and cry until I get up with him. I'm pretty resistant to taking him out, because I feel like it's teaching him that he gets what he wants when he whines, but usually for sake of my sleep I do take him out. He'll pee a tiny bit and then is willing to go back to bed.

So, what is this behavior? I don't know if he really "needs" to pee, since he is capable of holding it through the night, and there are certainly nights where I just soothe him back to sleep and he doesn't pee until morning. At the same time, though, it's not like he wakes up needing exercise or fun—when I take him out, he pees and goes back to sleep. So I'm at a loss. What can I do?