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My 12 week pup is sliding on our hardwood floor but I've had to remove the large rug because she associated it with pee/poo. What's a good solution to help her not slip inside without a rug? Thanks!

My sweet little 19 week old puppy and I have been living at my parents house since she came home at 8.5 weeks. She’s been okay until recently when home just with my parents (never quite as happy as when I’m around) but this week has started shutting down entirely when I’m not there – doesn’t want to leave her crate/growls when my parents try to get her out of it. She’s alright with me leaving the room when I’m in the house, it’s really just when I’m not there at all it seems.

She started puppy daycare a couple weeks ago 2x a week – not sure if that could have anything to do with it? The first day there she spent a lot of time cuddling with the trainer, and they say that she’s a lot more confident now than she was at the start, playing with a couple other small puppies and does a nice job in her crate. When she comes out she’s always happy and wagging before she sees me too, so I think she enjoys it.

Any tips on getting her to be ok with my parents? I’m trying having them feed her (she’s not super food motivated so that’s tough). Should I leave her with them more to get her more used to it?

Hi all!

Sorry for the BILLIONs of posts I’ve made.

Can you all please comment essentials that you recommend I buy before getting my 8 week old puppy? Thank you!

If a crate is too big I get that the puppy will go toilet one side and sleep the other, but will this slow down potty training, if it was smaller would my pup still have accidents in the house etc?

13 week old Frenchie (yes I know a baby still) knows to pee outside, but she doesn't give me any signs to go and will sometimes watch me as she squats to pee. Doing all the usual like out ecvery 30 mins or so treats and praise etc

My dog is a 10 month old corgi mix.

My condo HOA is terrible about warning us about work happening. The other day, while in a meeting (WFH) with my dog asleep in his crate, I looked out the sliding glass door and saw a man on my 8th floor deck. I jumped a little, which woke my dog up, and he lost his mind. We left the room and there was another man outside the bedroom window, and another walking on the roof (audible through the ceiling). As a woman, I appreciate my dog alerting me to men being where they shouldn’t be.

Today, someone is on the roof again, so we’re hearing loud footsteps and the ceiling is creaking, and they’ll probably be there for an hour or so. My dog is spooked again, he isn’t barking, but his body language is very concerned and he’s “wuf”-ing.

What do you do in this situation?

I have a 6-month-old puppy. She gets dinner between 17:00 and 18:00. Sometimes she poops right after; sometimes it takes an hour or two. When my husband and I have a dinner date and will need to leave at 17:30, let’s say, should I feed her at 16:00 or wait until we get home around 21:00? I worry that she won’t do her business before we have to crate her. (She has breakfast between 06:00 and 07:00 and gets some treats here and there throughout the day.) What do you usually do in these situations?

I have a chow chow that is exhibiting serious reactive behaviors to touch. And I asked elsewhere if it would be better for me to have training done at home or in a kennel, and 99% of the people who also have the same breed answered that at home was better and more reliable.

Between yesterday and today, I contacted the most renowned trainers here in São Paulo – Brazil and none of them do home training, and all for the same reason: the dog needs to sleep in the kennel FOR AT LEAST 30 DAYS so that they can "detoxify" the dog from my house and also be able to bond with him.

But to what extent is this true or just marketing to be able to attend to more dogs simultaneously? In the other place, all the answers are from people from abroad, and even though it's the same breed in both countries, how can everyone abroad be 100% sure that house training works, and here in Brazil everyone is 100% sure that it doesn't? I really don't know which way to go.

I’ve got a very active GSD and a newborn. I’m getting out to throw the pups ball for about an hour a day but feel like she needs way more stimulation. Any ideas for how to help her while I’m beat from changing diapers?

Does your dog turn his head when he hears an odd noise? Does your dog bury their food with your pants? This is the thread to ask why.

Please keep this thread to non-medical issues only.

So I can manage to do 6 days a week of walking with my dog ,but what can I do when it’s too much rain? She’s a fairly high tempo lab and I just want to give her more enrichment than just throwing the ball around inside.