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Hi everyone,
I have a puppy, shocking, I think we have been lucky with her. she is only mildly damaging in property and pretty relaxed and well behaved mostly.
She is a pomerian-husky cross. she is more to the small side of the breed. (6 months in and 7 kg)
She is overconfident with almost everything except kids.
very social we got her at 8 weeks and have been doing socialising and dog school from week 9.

Here is were you come in.
my few complaints and also what i do wrong. please give me your tips for these:

1. She is not great at leash walking because i dont train it enough with her because she is not good at leash walking
2. the past 2 months it has been improving really well at dog school. On the walks at home with candy it goes wel but that means 15 min of giving her candy every 3-4 steps. when she gets "fuller" she will need it faster or she will get it and run of. by the end of the walk she just wants to sprint home.
3. she wasnt destructive before but the last week she has been more "bored"? so she is starting to try and eat stuff out of the christmas tree… ofcourse i see it in time but before she could be entertained by the cars pasing through the window for an hour or two. now misschief is there instead. she is a bit moree destructive when bored. but mostly we do 3 stimulating puzzles a day, go for a walk towards the evening, play in between (when i have work breaks)
4. 2 times a week she has been home alone for 5 hours as we both have to go into the office on those days so we do half a day. those hours were fine, untill this week apparently. now she is becoming more destructive/bored? I was so happy she could be out of the crate when we left 2 months ago, now i'm wondering if she should be crated back for those 5 hours or if we should make the room she is in smaller (so she cant reach the christmas tree and presents). should i leave more stuff out, i always leave her with a puzzle or something to occupy her a bit.
5. Any tips?
6. We are closing off our garden for her so she can run freely (not leashed) outside as it feels like she needs to have some zoomie time (we now just run back and forth in the living room, parkour!)
7. She loves the cold and at friends places she will be in their garder for hours. I am afraid of her being stolen though. how do you schedule, protect your dog when they are playing and runing out in the garden.

Thank you for going through my whole text! For how stubborn the breed is and high energy , she is doing so well, i love her so much !
What did you do that worked well?

My Bull Mastweiler just turned 1 on Thanksgiving. He is a very large puppy weight 100lbs. We have raised him since birth. Training was a bit harder while we still had his 6 sibilings. But, after 12 weeks when it was just him things were moving along as good as training a stubborn large pup could go. Just when we thought we could pat ourselves on the back for our great Furbaby parenting, He decides now is a good time to test our patience and sanity. In the past month he has started chewing everything he can reach, and I mean everything…. Our son's toys, He is chewing up cans like its gum, pots and pans, clothes, blankets, socks, electronics, feminine products, the couch and other furniture ect. ect. He pulls everything out of the trash, The cats and him got along great until a month ago now he is relentlessly in their space, lifting their backside up with his nose, chasing them and playing leapfrog over them. The more they hiss a swat at him the more he thinks it's play time. He's digging holes in the yard, He's been jumping on us at 3 am in the morning, He's been sitting on our 9 year old Autistic son essentially pinning him down and refuses to get off, if we try to grab his collar he nips at us.
We can tell that there is so malicious intent behind him. He's just having fun and playing. His tail is wagging, has a big smile and gives us all sorts of kisses as he has us pinned down.
what's going on? Is this just a tween acting out? He has plenty of space to run outside, we often take him to have play dates with other dogs. We are at our wits ends. We wake up to a mess everyday and find something important or expensive that he has destroyed. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi, So recently our family lost our beloved dog when he was only 2 years old. Since my little sister was really feeling down and felt alone we decided to take a puppy from an animal shelter. Hes only 3 months old and he’s a really affectionate and a sweet little guy. But the thing is that in the 4 days that we have had him he got crazy attached to my sister: even when she goes to the bathroom at night he starts stressing. Now she’s been gone to school the second day and I’m home but he’s still going crazy when she’s not here. He’s howling, barking, and scratching every corner of the room. Then he lays for an hour quietly and starts again. I don’t really know what to do, when she’s at home he feels good and relaxed, but whenever she’s not there, doesn’t matter if someone else is at home he’s very dramatically howling and going crazy at some moments. I didn’t experience this with my last puppy, so I don’t really know what to do. Is it going to pass? Please if someone else experienced this, help❤️

My dog had an accidental litter of 12 puppies, this is my first time to experience weaning puppies. They are around 5 weeks old now. When do I start socializing and how exactly do I go about doing that? I am doing my best to give them a happy and healthy weaning experience. Any resources or advice would be appreciated!

we have a 14 month partially deaf old show cocker spaniel and she is the most ADHD doggy I’ve ever met she won’t sit down she barks at everything and everyone and the worst part in the morning once she is up be it at 4am or 5:30am she will bark no matter what.

Does anyone have experience with deaf dogs and knows how to train them not to bark when they wake up.

for context she stays in the kitchen gated off with the hallway light on and does not stay in her crate as she would never settle e.g shit and piss herself and whine and bark all night long.

please help I am at my wits end.

Hi everyone, we’re having a problem with our 4-month-old puppy. He’s gotten used to using pee pads, and we can’t manage to get him to go potty outside. Most of the time we take him out for about 20 minutes, come back home, and he pees as soon as we walk in. He also pees immediately after eating, but taking him out right after meals doesn’t always work either. The only times he might pee outside are right after he wakes up and hasn’t gone during the night, but even then the chances are very low. What can we do? These are his first real outings, so he spends the whole time sniffing the ground, eating leaves and random stuff, and going crazy whenever he sees someone. Helpp pls

Does anyone have any pointers on how to have a dog open there own gifts? My dogs a nut and could possibly eat the paper. Or is it silly idea?

The family dog (5years old) has been getting increasingly more aggressive. He really likes sitting up against someone while sitting on the sofa, but will randomly turn around, growl, and bite (never hard, hasn’t broken skin) if you move a slightest bit. For example, he was sitting in the recliner part of the sofa against my leg. I shifted my leg the tiniest bit and he started growling and sort of tried to bite my hand. The thing is he won’t actually get up and leave on his own if something was bothering him, and even after biting he’ll sit down against me or whoever else it was. He’s not aggressive about something being “his spot” or anything like that and if you tell him to move he will. It’s just getting more frequent and unpredictable. Sometimes I won’t even move and he’ll just start staring at me and growling while sitting or laying against me.

We’ve taken him to the vet a few months ago and besides some lifelong digestive issues, nothings wrong. He’s active, doesn’t seem to be in any pain, not agressive about something being “his” or anything like that.

Im planning to get a small dog . Please help with suggesting a minimal shedding breed as it would mostly remain indoors..

Im.from a hot tropical country .

Have been considering beagle . Any more suggestions ?

I have a three year old toy poodle who has been around other dogs her whole life. Last week my roommate had an unexpected emergency and had to move out taking his dogs with him. Ever since my dog has become glued to me and when I leave for work my other roommate reports that she is an anxious mess and does nothing but cry and shake. Only other times she’s had this issue was when she would be the only dog in the house. Getting another dog isn’t an option because of the cost associated with it and we’re in student housing so she’s my “therapy” animal and I don’t have the means to have her around other dogs until I move out in May. Any tips on how to regulate her anxiety? I do my best to make coming/going lowkey and walk her twice a day. She’s got toys and chews galore and plenty of space to roam. The only time she isn’t anxious since the other dog leaving is when I am home with her. I don’t want to have to put her on an anxiety medication unless I’ve exercised every other option.