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Hi everyone! my mom and I have a 4 month old puppy and he’s been doing great in his crate at night to sleep! however, his crate is in my room and I’m in his eyesight at night. I’m going out of town on a trip for 5 days so we wanted to see how he does in my moms room at night since she’ll be here with him whilst I’m gone but we quickly found out that he barks and claws and whines if it’s not me specifically and we’re unsure of what to do. does anybody have any tips on how we can get him used to being in my moms room?

Is $1050 normal pricing for puppy training? It’s a 1 hour private session each week for 6 weeks. And then 3 group sessions. I live in a high cost of living area since I’m sure that makes a different. And we can’t do group sessions off the bat since my puppy is leash reactive.

I’m a bit impatient waiting for my puppy to go into heat for a few different life reasons (per vet’s advice waiting to desex her until after her first heat). She’s been acting like a teenager for a couple of months now but especially for the last two weeks. Given both teenage behaviour and heat cycles are linked to hormones, I’m wondering if there’s any correlation in timing. For those of you with female puppies, did you find they happened around the same time or one happened much earlier/later than the other?

So im moving to Hawaii in a few days for a new job, and I am just now learning that I can't take my dog on the plane with South⁤west unless he goes in the cargo space, and they have a bunch of requirements. The other option is to ship him on a boat or get a private plane. All of those sounds absolutely horrible and definitely cant afford pri⁤vate.

I've seen a bunch of dogs on planes when I travel, so what the heck!!!?

I saw on another post that you can get a PSD letter from this site, which turns your dog into a service dog, and then he can sit next to you on the plane. Is this legit? Has anyone actually done something like this? There is a bunch of conflicting information online.

Kind of stressing about this. Any info would be awe⁤some.

hi, we just adopted a dog, and we are a multi pet home. she did meet our senior dog b4 adoption, and they got along fine. it was unknown how she was with cats or any other behavioral isssues she might have, and i was okay with that, as our cats have free range of our home and our dogs stay downstairs. she is unspayed but was put on a waitlist to get spayed. we brought her home and all was well until she started showinf aggression and resource guarding. the resource guarding, i wouldve just trained out of her as i study and train dogs, but the aggression was where it made me nervous.she is a great dog, but is also very clingy and was starting to already resource guard me. we also have a puppy, who is very dog social, but with the new dog, but they both clashed and he gets extremely upset with only her. this has only ever happened once b4 with a different dog we tried to adopt, where my puppy did not like that dog but still tried, it was just a lot of clashing, now its more aggression based. on top of that, our 2 cats, who are extremely confident and love walking around everywhere, now hide and will not go out of their room until the dog is away. i thought it couldve just been because the dog is simply brand new, but they both have never done this with newer animals until her. also, the newer dog is showing aggression towards the older cat (i dont know about the young cat as she was hiding), and thats a big no no, as its a senior cat, and while she can be grumpy, aggression towards her is not something im okay with. it also ended up to where both the newer dog and cat got into a scuffle. is it time to just give the dog back to the shelter? i kept trying to find excuses as to why all of this is happening but its hard to accept when its out of the norm for all our pets to act a certain way. what do i say to the shelter? what if the shelter wont take her back? ive dealt with a shelter before that wouldnt take back a dog we adopted even though i was having health issues while dealing with my puppy and the other dog becoming aggressive towards one another.

I adopted this stray dog about three days ago he went to the vet today and they are guessing hes about 6-8 years old and hes underweight by quite a bit. Hes 67 pound and he shoukd be 80-90. He's been sleeping on my bed the past three nights (I know i shouldn't have probably done that but i just wanted him to feel comfortable) I dont have a problem with him sleeping up here but my mattress is very old and not great quality and after doing some research im worried its hard on his bones and joints because he has no fat to protect them. I keep seeing recommendations for an orthopedic memory foam bed, but what size dimensions should I be looking at? Im especially worried about the height of the bed and ensuring it won't flatten under his weight. Any advice is very appreciated !!

Also very off topic but he loves to mark things, im planning on getting him neutered asap but im worried its more of a "natural thing" for him to do rather than a hormone imbalance since he's been a stray his whole life. If you have any tips of training that would be awesome too! Thanks yall!

So weird. I want to see everyone’s cute fur babies. Who doesn’t?? Am the only one who thinks this is weird? The cats sub lets you upload pics all day. Super bummed.

How do you deal with a barking problem? My dog barks at everything. It is most bothersome when I have family over and she barks at them when they are in my house. She will even bark when I’m holding her.

I just don’t know what to do about it. Everything I try fails.