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Our 12 week old puppy is going to do me in. (1) He HATES the crate. He actually pees on himself in there and doesn’t care🥺. He needs to be in the crate when I go to work and I’ve tried treats and puzzles, his favorite stuffy (and they get peed on too). When I try with the bribes he refuses and then I have to put him in while he’s freaking out and I’m thinking I’m going to scar him for life. At night he prefers to sleep in our room on the floor by my side of the bed. He did perfectly the first night and now is peeing by the door. He never whines or cues us when he has to pee..

(2) He rings the bell to go outside to poop and does pee there but he has been peeing in the house a lot including on his new dog bed and after his bath peed on my clothes I literally just took off. We’ve talked to the breeder and of course she said her dogs have never acted this way and he’s manipulating me with the getting up at night and others who are like he’s not sleeping through the night yet?? which makes me think there is something wrong with him.

(3)He’s a biter, especially me. I know puppies bite. I get it. But I’m his person out of everyone in the house ,the one who feeds them, gets up with him, walks him, trains him, all of it. When I say no firmly he could care less. Anything to bite my skin or my robe. He’s bit me dead in the boob before😖. I give him a toy to deflect and eventually just have to move away from him. I don’t know if he’s tired or overstimulated and can’t tell the difference. I am the most patient person so I know it’s going to take time. I just want to get out of the puppy trenches unscathed and do the absolute best for him.

I know there are a lot of the same answers when it comes to make a puppy pen a safe space but the thing is this

So our pup is now 11w and when it comes to staying alone she does pretty fine in her crate. She just sleeps and when we come home she acts like it's a normal thing super proud of her but she eats 4 times a day. So in my break of 12pm I go home and let her eat and walk. But i work from 9am and my girlfriend works in shifts so the alone time varies but in this case max 4hours. And even though she do it just fine we really want her to see the pen as a normal thing and in a later case be able to do a pee or poop or have a little stretch in the pen while we work because I can't always come over in my break to relief her forever.

So she cries a bit at first, maybe moves the pen a bit because she is active but i get the feeling she doesn't see it yet as a good place… we always give her food in the pen and she knows it by now. But what did you do to make a pen fun or safe space? we really don't want to force things or make it something negative but we want to slowly let her have more space to move when we are gone or play by herself maybe

we also keep an eye out with a camera when she is alone to check from time to time

Guys, I have a 58-day-old puppy and she poops and then eats and I don't know what to do to stop this behavior, she has already taken a dewormer but continues to eat. What to do?

I'm having a lot of trouble teaching her to pee on the carpet too, it's really difficult.

I’m struggling to get my puppy to nap in his crate during the daytime. Common problem I know. He’s been fine in it at night and in the evening. I know my puppy is tired in the daytime because he will fall asleep on my lap. Just given up again after 2 hours and he’s on my lap falling asleep… I’m happy for him to do this occasionally but I’m trying to establish a routine where I can leave him to at least have an hour to myself in the day.

He has actually napped twice in here alone with the crate door open this week so I know he CAN do it. Once for 40 mins and once for 2 hours.

If I lock him in the crate in the day he will rip up his vet bed and eat it. I’m tempted to take it out but tbh I’m scared to force him in the crate incase he decides he hates it at night time. If I can’t get a break at night I’m going to lose my mind. It’s literally the one thing keeping me going atm knowing he’s good at night. We toss treats in the crate and he knows ‘go in your crate’. He seems to like it in there.

I’ve tried signalling for nap time, closing the curtains partially and putting on white noise. Removing all fun toys. I tried covering his crate but he just messes with the blankets.

He will seemingly find anything to do where I HAVE to give him attention. His latest one was bashing into his playpen walls so much that he was able to make a gap underneath to try and get out.

I’m really struggling. He’s a good puppy but I’m finding the afternoons so difficult with him. We do one socialisation trip a day with him to tire him out plus snuffle mat/puzzle/chew low energy type activities in small sessions. I’m trying to do everything by the book best I can.

I’ve just been crying all day I just don’t know what to do. I feel like anything I try I could do wrong. I want to just lock him in the crate, take out all bedding and do enforced naps but I’m worried to make him hate it. But on the other hand I know people have to just pen and crate their dogs when they go to work etc and they’ll be fine. Constantly torn between worrying about being too mean and to soft with him.

He’s a 12 week old chi. We’ve had him 12 days.

Please help settle an early AM turkey-prep argument: MOST (vs some) American dog lovers will have the Thanksgiving parade on TV followed by the National Dog Show, then Football.

Figured this would be the thread to ask dog lovers…

Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night and he was laying by my feet. He stood up and moved to lay next to me. I tried to pull my blanket out from under him and he started yelling and stood up. It wasn't just one yipe it was continuous for about 5-10 seconds and then he just stopped and laid down. Is he okay? Did I do something wrong?

Hey guys, I really need your advice on this please.

Our puppy is now 3 months old. We had her since she was 8 weeks. She poops and pees outside, has a routine of bed time, happy in her crate (although whines a bit sometimes), has enough chewing time, sniffing games, etc. We have a trainer working with us so we’re grateful for the support.

Now, here is the issue. She constantly picks on my fiancee. She barks, nibbles, bites her. She also listens to her less during training sessions. Bear in mind she doesn’t do anything like this to me. Obviously when she is overstimulated after being awake for quite some time she does this to me although very rarely and she happily will be in her crate to nap. I’m not sure what to do as this is affecting my fiancee’s relationship with our puppy.

It is on my kitchen tile and hallway wood floor… i managed to get the majority of it up using a plastic dustpan to scrape it up, but im struggling not to upchuck. Please! Does anybody know what i can use to solidify and deodorize it so i dont add to the mess??