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My two month old beagle bit me and there are no visible marks or wounds. In fact I only have the slightest burning sensation on the skin. I think I have invisible scratches. He only got his first vaccination and my mother is extremely worried about getting rabies or my puppy having rabies. I did wash my skin thoroughly using soap.

We have a 7 year old rescue who has a marking issue. He was unfixed when we adopted him at 2.5 (edit: we neutered him when we got him) and we believe that his previous owners either let him just pee in the house or used puppy pads. It’s been soooo difficult to break him of the habit. We used to live in an apartment where it got really out of hand, he marked all over the place. We moved to a house a few years ago and we’ve had a couple of incidents so our preventatives are:

• he is crated when we’re gone or having to leave him alone for more than 5-10 minutes and at night (wife wfh so he’s out a lot)

• he is restricted to our living room/dining room/kitchen area since that’s where we also spend 95% of our time when we’re not sleeping.

• (edit) should have been obvious but he gets tons of potty breaks and I do watch him go when he’s out there. At least every 3 hours or so, except at night when he’s in his crate.

This has pretty much worked until now.

Sometime between two weeks ago when my wife cleaned the walls and today, he has decided to start marking our kitchen island. This morning when we woke up my wife was letting them out and he lifted his leg and she was like what the hell? And we looked and there were a handful of spots where he had marked.

We doused it (like probably way too much) with the enzyme spray we use, it’s the pink spray bottle by Out! called oxy-fast.

But I’m wondering if this isn’t good enough? Does anyone else struggle with this issue and have found a good enzyme spray to use?

Other advice is welcome. Vet appt is in a few weeks but this is an ongoing issue so I’m sure he’s fine. He just had his annual like a month ago and he was good. Thank you!!!

I am still struggling with; am I enough for this dog? Are we the right family for this dog? Will these thoughts go away? I’m struggling with walking her now, she’s getting heavy and she’s pulling towards every person and jumping at them and dogs. She will not walk past a dog. She might walk past a person but more often than not she jumps at them. I just don’t know if I can keep doing this. We’re going to pay a trainer to help but it’s more money I just didn’t think we’d need to spend especially for this breed. I love her so much but I don’t want to do wrong by her and not give her what she needs. I just want to think of something else other than the dog for 5 minutes but I’m constantly worried that im not doing enough for her and constantly searching tips for walks and certain behaviours. I’ve had enough 😢

Does anyone have any recommendations of good online puppy training courses? Paid for it fine, but not astronomical prices please!

Looking for help on the basics, just to give our training some structure. Until he’s fully vaccinated and I can take him to some in person classes.

UK based so ideally UK but not that bothered if it’s good training!

I have a Pomeranian puppy, he's 11 weeks old and he's been with me for about a week. Poms are supposedly not the easiest to house train and he hadn't been taught anything when I got him, so I'm trying to be pretty attentive about getting him on track. At the moment he is crated to sleep in my bedroom and is doing pretty well – he takes naps and sleeps through the night without much complaining (I do stay in the room with him until he's asleep for now). When he's awake I have him with me in the kitchen only and i take him out into the garden frequently to pee/poo. He seems to be getting the idea but still has accidents if I don't watch him like a hawk.

I have a couple of questions about scheduling. I have been reading that a puppy should sleep 18-20 hours a day – I've seen recommendations of an hour of awake time, then two hours of sleep. Is this accurate? It seems like a LOT of sleep! I'm a little nervous to put him on this schedule because he is sleeping through the night and I don't want him to start waking. On the other hand he can get a bit wild sometimes and I'm wondering if he's overstimulated and tired.

I'm also wondering about feeding him, whether this should be on a schedule. At the moment he doesn't eat much at any given time so I've been giving him small amounts of food throughout the day, and water whenever he wants it until an hour or so before sleep at night. However he seems to need to pee very frequently, like he mostly won't have accidents in the house if I take him out every half hour, but sometimes he will pee 15 minutes after I've taken him out. I take him out, tell him to do his business (my command for my other dog) and click and treat him when he goes. If he needs to go he will do it pretty promptly but if not he will just play – if he does that should I just bring him back inside?

He can definitely hold it for longer than he often does because he doesn't have accidents in his crate. I know it's very early days but how can I get him to go longer between potty breaks? He is a little tiny thing at the moment, about 3 pounds.

Thanks for any advice anyone can offer!

Abbiamo una cucciola di segugio svizzero da una settimana, ultimamente ogni volta che si porta fuori per farle fare i bisogni non vuole uscire, inizialmente aperta la porta ci segue fuori, ma dopo aver annusato un po il giardino e dopo essere arrivati al cancello di casa inizia a tirare per tornare a casa. Ho provato inizialmente a fermarmi abbassandomi e ignorandola aspettando che venisse da me per poi proseguire, ma spesso inizia ad ululare ad abbaiare e a spingere con piu foga per rientrare, il chiamarla non funziona, e l’aizzarla con dei premietti inizia a non funzionare piu nemmeno quelli le interessano, vuole sempre tornare a casa. Ho letto che i segugi sono testardi e vanno presi con rinforzo positivo, ma in sta situazione non ho proprio idea di che fare, aiuto perfavore

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