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i know the title is crazy. i agree that if your dog hasn’t learned something, it’s your fault. my dog is now 13 months old and we have tried almost every method to potty train her. ever since she was 7 weeks we have encouraged pee pads, kept her contained in a playpen, then introduced outdoors once she had all her shots. the playpen didn’t last long, she kept finding ways to climb out of it. so we got a crate which works pretty much only for sleeping. i have tried almost every method i could find for potty training her. i think the biggest problem is that she doesn’t let us know when she needs to go. i’ve tried to find tells in her behavior, i tried a bell on the door. she knows that she goes potty outside. she has a routine that she goes outside and pees or poops whenever she’s let out of the crate. but most of the time she doesn’t go outside and holds it until we go back inside. i’ve sprayed the house of any pee or poop smell so i was hoping it wouldn’t be a consistent habit. lately she’s stopped barking to be let out and is pooping and peeing in the crate on her bedding. i don’t know why this is happening or what else i can do to help. i feel like she needs more of a routine but her poop schedule is almost never the same day to day. my older dog was potty trained so easily so i guess im just kinda lost right now. please help me!!

Hello I was curious, I have a 2 year old english lab. I try to play with him lots but with it soon becoming winter season and with where I live getting snow and temperatures as low as -40 celsius I can't bring him outside as often. So I was hoping you guys had suggestions on how to fix this problem?

I have a 5 month old German shepherd and an older dog. The puppy is constantly biting the older dog on the neck only when they are on a leash. In the yard they are perfectly fine and hang out with no worries but as soon as I take both of them out together it’s like war on the older dog’s neck and leash. I’ve distracted the puppy with rewards I have her calm down before we start a walk/ get leashed. The puppy’s focus is great when we are alone and she rarely takes her focus off of me unless the older one is around. Is there anything else I can do besides just separating them to spare my older dog/ sanity?

We have a 5 yo male chonker Chihuahua/pitbull named Jack with the sweetest, goofiest personality. He was kind of lonely and bored so we decided to get him a companion (not the only reason, but long story short). Last week, we adopted Luna, a female dachshund/Chihuahua mix we were told was 1 yo, fully housebroken, good with other dogs, and had an easy-going personality. What we got was a domineering bully who snarls at our dog and competes with him for every toy, food, and scrap of attention she can. She poops in the house immediately after being outside and snaps at people's faces while being affectionate. She also seems younger than 1 yo to me and was only spayed last week.³

She was a rescue, and appears to have been through a little bit of trauma and neglect, but she definitely has a sweet side and does show signs of wanting to improve and get along. She's smart and seems motivated to do better. I guess my question is, can she? The only dog I have raised from a puppy is Jack, and he was a dream. Is this a sign we should look into rehoming her to a home where she can be an only dog?

Can she change? Is this something that can be trained out of her? Is it just an adjustment thing? I mean, they do play and cuddle sometimes. She's been through a lot in just the last month, including just being orphaned, moved to a foster home for 2 weeks, spayed 11 days ago, then moved here a week ago. I have to choose which dog's life to ruin and it's breaking my heart.

My five month old great pyr puppy has started getting some strange behaviors lately. She has started growling a lot more. If I move her off the couch she growls at me or if I try to take her bully stick holder she’ll growl at me. She’s also started growling at our older dog after she eats dinner or after she’s had a bully stick. Does anyone have any advice? I know it seems like resource guarding I’m just not sure how to fix it especially with my older dog.

Miss. Elektra and her BMF, Mr. Leonard, NOT patiently waiting for breakfast at 7:02 AM…

I have read that dogs can sense when you’re almost home or when ready to go somewhere due to repetitive body language and behaviours you do like doing something at a certain time but can someone explain the following? Half the summer I had been walking my dog almost daily at irregular times and I’d always go into my room while she’d be somewhere else and I’d do my warm up foot exercises before heading out. She’d come running over all excited knowing somehow we were going for a walk. I stopped going out in September due to health issues and after 1.5 months, I decided to take her out today. She was in the living room, I went to my room and prepped. She was at my door in less than five seconds frantically wagging her tail and super excited even though I gave her no signs we were heading out. How does she pick up on this? Does anyone else have pets that seem psychic?