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Does anyone get sad thinking about one day your dog is not gonna be there? Or that I’m only ever going to get THIS particular, special one of kind dog in my lifetime. Also this is my first dog. I just really love this damn dog his my boy. I’m sorry for kinda ranting

Hello! This forum has been so helpful! I have a 14-week-old ALD. He is such a great puppy. The one problem we are having is with a bit of separation anxiety/crate barking. Areas where he excels in his crate: sleeping through the night, napping in my office while I work from home, and also if we leave the house. Where he struggles in his crate is if I am physically in the house, but NOT sitting next to him/within view.

So to be clear, if I put him in his crate and leave the house, he settles within 2 minutes (we have a camera on him) and then sleeps for several hours. If I put him in his crate and sit at my desk, he goes right to sleep and will rest until I get him up. However, if I put him in the crate, and I leave the room to fold laundry, or if I put him in his crate in the same room as me, but I'm up and about making dinner or helping my kids with their homework or tidying up, etc, he will bark loudly and constantly. It's like he either wants me to sit quietly where he can see me and know that I'm not doing anything without him, OR he wants me to leave the house completely. Haha.

Do you have any suggestions for how to work on this with him? We do some crate training every day with him in the crate, dropping a treat, walking to the other side of the room, rewarding calm/quiet, and doing it again. He isn't easily distractible with toys or chews. I am definitely the thing/person he is most interested in. It's slow going, which I totally understand is normal. But I also need to be able to fold laundry and help kids with homework and maybe shower more than once a week! I'm afraid of making the situation worse by stressing him out a ton.

We already have a 3 year old dog and are adopting a puppy, who's 8months old. Just curious how much work a 8 month is versus raising a puppy from 8 weeks like we're familiar with doing haha.

Hi,

My dog went to the vet today because he stepped on a bee.

She was in a lot of pain, so I called the vet and they recommended me to give her Gabapentin and Trazadone before taking her in. I took her in and she got antihistamines and now she won't leave the car. I think she is afraid of having pain while getting out. She ate a little bit but she has been in the car for about 7 hrs now. She is 100+lbs so it is not that easy to get her out from the back seat.

She was adopted in May, so she might not fully trust me yet. She has growled at me a couple times when I tried to coach her out. The car is in the closed garage and has both doors open.

How do I get her out? Food is not working, coaching is not working either.

Trying to keep this post short because I tend to write essays every time I post lol, but I need help with crate training my 9 month old aussie. For background, I got him a week shy of 3 months old. I attempted to crate him overnight for bedtime but it was difficult because I live in an apartment and obviously can’t have him barking during the night so that went out the window by day 3. Since then he’s been allowed to be out in the living room only during the night with me on the couch. I know this situation isn’t ideal and I’ve had to compromise his training in some ways due to the apartment living (we do plenty of physical and mental enrichment activities don’t worry) but I’m ready for him to sleep in his crate overnight again. He goes into the crate willingly when he knows I’m about to leave for work/errands/etc. so he has no problem with the crate itself. I will say there are virtually never times where he’s crated when I’m home, so I have a hunch that that will be the first hurdle we encounter. Basically I’m looking for advice and training on how to keep him from barking in his crate and the best way to transition him from free roam to crated during the nighttime. I appreciate you guys!