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We have a 10 week old Australian shepherd x Bernese mountain dog who got all of the Aussie energy.

We’ve been working so hard to keep her entertained, but not over tired her, allow her to heard with a ball only and not us, chew her chew toys and not our hands and everything but I’ve had a few tears and just don’t know what I’m doing wrong. She is great at the basic commands, sit, paw, go to your bed but it’s the nipping and sleep that’s killing me. She goes to bed fine but wakes up at 4am. This morning it was 3:30! She was up and wanting to play. She sleeps next to our bed we don’t lock her in a crate but even if we did she starts to bark when she’s done. I know I shouldn’t let her call the shots but we have neighbours I can’t let her cry it out at 3am. We do very quiet play and may be a frozen Kong, trying not to engage with her too much at this time so as not to reinforce it but she’s done sleeping.

When she’s excited she bites our shirts, hands, feet, socks and long pants are especially exciting. We’ve been training “drop it” when somethings in her mouth but she will listen for one second then do it again. As soon as she does lock into our hands we use leave it or redirect her with the sit command which works and will give a treat. Is she playing us and has associated bad behaviour = correction = treat? I try to praise as much as I can when she’s doing the right thing. The other thing is she will bark and try and jump up when we are sitting on the couch. Again, we do “in your bed” then treats every 30/40 seconds she’s laying there but then is back at it again.

Loosing my mind a bit with the so little sleep and my hands are in shreds. She’s good during the day, will sleep 9-11 when I work then again 1-4 again. Is she sleeping too much during the day? Do I need to push bedtime which is 9pm?

Trying to plan camping trip with my Golden Retriever but haven’t camped with a puppy before.

How do you handle naps? We do 1-1.5 hours up and 2+ hours down.

He sleeps and naps in crate only.

We have a Four Wheel Camper truck bed camper and truck backseat can fit a large crate for him.

What are some different types of edible chews you’d recommend for a 3 month old puppy. Our mini Aussie is a major land shark and giving him a chew to settle down after playtime seems to have helped a ton (at least kept us from getting bitten as much lol). Bully sticks worked for while but he seems to have lost interest in them after a week or so. I also got “yak chews” but he doesn’t seem very interested in them and they seem too hard.

Any other types of chews you all would recommend or have had success with?

Thanks!!!

Hi all! My partner and I recently brought home a 5-month-old American Cocker Spaniel puppy. She is super sweet, adorable, and loving, but we noticed that she is scared of a lot of things! She will bark at objects (TV, book, remote, box), and when we have had someone over to visit, she would not stop barking at them. We tried a slow introduction to the person with her kibble (which she prefers to treats), but it wasn't very effective. She is overall a very cautious and fearful puppy.

I can tell she has separation anxiety already, as she whines when we leave her in the playpen. Just this morning I watched her jump out of her playpen when I left our place. Before, she was ok with being alone and sleeping in her playpen when we were gone, but since Saturday, when we visited my parents, she has been extra clingy. Not sure if she was just very scared and is now worried about being alone.

We were told she got socialization when she was younger, but now we aren't too sure because of her anxiety/fearfulness. We don't know how to approach her training from here besides continuing to practice short periods of alone time and slow introductions. Is this part of her fear stage? Any recommendations?

Hi! We have an 11 week old cavapoo, she’s mostly gotten potty training down but has been having quite a few accidents still. My husband works from home and takes her out every hour or so, we have also incorporated treats hoping it’ll encourage her more (now she just fake pee’s to get a treat, lol) does anyone have any advice on speeding up the potty training? She only is in her crate at night, and during the day when she’s not playing with us she’s in a play pen. Thanks!

Hello. I am in a pickle. Many years ago, my wife decided to add people food on top of my dogs’ dry food. Since then, they will never eat dry food alone. Now, my dogs are getting a bit older, but still picky. However, I believe the people food isn’t sitting well any longer…is there any hope to my dogs eating dry food alone??? And is there any reason to add wet food toppers in lieu of the people food?? Help! My wife is a little blinded by the dogs puppy eyes!

I’m getting a 9-week old Dachshund puppy at the end of the month and I’m SO excited, however I feel like every post on here is about how incredibly difficult and horrible the training process is.

I know it won’t be easy, but does anyone have any positive experiences training their puppy? I’m wanting to crate train mine and specifically have seen just how awful that was for most people.

I’m also SO scared about getting puppy blues which seams to be inevitable….