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Overall, my dog is doing better as she gets older. She's crate trained and does really well in her crate, no chewing, no damage, not even to her bedding. In fact, when she's in the crate while I'm away, she just sits quietly and doesn't even chew on her bone.

However, when I leave her out of the crate while I'm not home, she gets into everything. especially chewing on cords. Interestingly, when I'm home, she doesn't chew on anything inappropriate and sticks to her bone.

I'm curious why she feels the need to chew on things like cords when I'm away and she's not crated, but shows no destructive behavior when she's in the crate or when I'm around

So I take my 10 month old puppy to a rover in home daycare. The last week the lady has told me she is peeing in the house constantly and today told me my puppy peed on her (daycare lady) foot twice. My dog is completely potty trained at my home and has been for months. Has had once accident in 6 months at my home. I’m not sure what I can do about her not being potty trained at daycare if she is at my home? What can I do about this? And why would she pee ON someone?! In the 8 months I have had her she has never peed on anyone, even as a small small puppy. I don’t know what to do!

EDIT to add- at her daycare she says that my puppy has full access to go in and out all day (doggy door) which she does not have at my house or anywhere she has been. So I did explain maybe she just doesn’t put 2 and 2 together. Every time I take her out she is on a leash (I live in an apartment) but she does go out at my moms when we visit without a leash so I am unsure if that’s the issue?

I rescued my dog about 4 months ago and she is just absolutely terrified outside. We don’t know her past but she is now to the point where half the time I take her out she doesn’t go to the bathroom and is just terrified and trying to get back into the apartment (we live in a big city). I’ve had to go back on my own anxiety/depression medication because she makes me cry every single day and I feel like an utter failure and wake up with anxiety attacks everyday. We’ve done tons of training, us and with a professional, and she’s on week 1 of anxiety meds (I know these take a while to kick in but who’s to say if they will even help). She’s still nervous in the suburbs but was so much better than she is here in the big city. It’s been a few months and I feel like she’s getting worse, not better and I just don’t know what to do because I’m starting to hate my life and the idea of rehoming her is awful because she’s the perfect dog inside and I love her but I can’t tell if this is worth the pain for both of us

I have somehow, and I don’t know how, trained my dog that when I open the back door and he’s outside waiting to come back in, to just wait for me to ask him to come in?

I know this is crazy but is there any way I can train him to just come in when the door opens instead of waiting for me to “release” him? No commands, no motions, just please come on in.

He’s 6lbs so there’s no issue of him barreling in. He’s a super obedient and polite dog , super smart. I just want to be able to open the door and he walk in if he wants to lol

My one year old husky is the absolute sweetest dog I have ever had. She's extremely cuddly and affectionate and absolutely adores other dogs and people. She's never shown any signs of aggression, and hasn't even so much as ever growled at anyone or another dog before.

I also have a 1.5 year old male dog and a young 5 month old puppy. She's always loved both of them and they all play together all day long. She adores the puppy and plays with her, grooms her, cuddles with her, etc. There's never been any conflict between any of them whatsoever.

On Friday night, she was playing together with the puppy and, completely out the blue, started acting aggressively towards her. Chased her snarling with hackles raised and stiff posture and backed her into a corner and towered over her. The puppy was terrified and rolling on her back and acting submissive and trying to lick her.

I separated them immediately. Now she randomly alternates between being friendly and wanting to play with the puppy and acting aggressive to her growling and hackles raised. She's also started acting like this with my male dog today. She's also started obsessively sniffing the puppy's bum and pacing around sniffing the ground.

Seems completely normal aside from has been more tired and sleepy than usual since Friday morning and licking herself more than usual. Just earlier this week she went to her training classes and was extremely friendly with all the other dogs with no issues so this has been completely out of the blue. Any suggestions as to what it could be and how to deal with it?