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First time puppy owner. Today he was on a 10hr flight and I got him around 4pm. Flight nanny told me he refuse eat drink nor potty. At home I prepared a play pen and inside the pen the fresh patch (grass) and his crate with beds and toy.

First thing he arrived I put him on the grass, he didn’t pee on it but instead on the floor, that’s ok so I cleaned it. From what googling and GPT told me he needs to rest so I gave him .5 cup of food and water and put him in the crate to nap.

He was half sleep half wake as if I move he wakes up so every 40mins I’d go up and put him on grass try to train him to use that, if not back to crate for rest.

I do play with him a bit inside the playpen like holding him etc. after the attempted potty session. (Fresh patch is right next to his crate) right now he seems to use the grass as play area like he would lay on it.

This been kept going for the last 5 hour. I asked breeder what I am suppose to do breeder told him to not keep him in the playpen let him roam around give him love and care, if he pees just tell him no and clean it and put him on the grass, which is not what google been telling me.

The other thing is if I disappear he barks like a lot. Which is normal?

So question is, for tonight, what do I do? I don’t want him to pee in the crate (his bed), so do I just leave the crate door open and let him out in the play pen? I mean grass is right there but I think he would pee on the floor instead of grass given he seem to think that’s play area.

Also breeder told me I am doing it wrong he is very upset, which tbh yea pup does look bit upset he barks a lot if he doesn’t see me. GPT told me to ignore the bark.

So what am I suppose to do??? Just leave the crate door open and let him move in play pen? If he pees I clean up? Or listen to breeder let him free roam and sleep with him tonight?

I am ok with cleaning up accidents but I want to do it correctly.

So my fiancé and I adopted a puppy a few months back and we’ve noticed that she has a lot of separation anxiety when I leave, but not when my fiancé leaves.

We separate the care of the dog fairly equally, I handle the mornings ( feeding, playing, walking, etc) and she handles the afternoon as I often get home late.

When I leave, the dog tends to misbehave, she cries a lot, and doesn’t listen much to my fiancé. But it doesn’t really happen when I’m around.

We both do roughly the same things for training and rules in the house, so we’re at a bit of a loss as to why our dog acts like this only when I leave.

I don't want to be one of those people who anthropomorphizes their dogs, which is why I'm asking this question here. I want to know if I'm reading into things massively or not.

My dog has two distinctive barks. One she uses while playing or greeting someone, the other she only does when in some sort of stressful situation. They sound very different (barkbarkbark vs yip) and the only times I've ever heard the 'yip' sound was when she was showing other signs of unease like licking her lips, tucking in her tail, and crouching in on herself. I don't think its a reach to say that this bark means she's upset at something.

Sometimes my dog also barks in her sleep, and its always the yip sound. She'll occasionally growl as well, which she never does while awake. When this happens I'll usually just wiggle closer to her and hope she can, like, sense my presence or something. I don't want to wake her while she's sleeping, especially if she's gonna wake up freaked out. I also don't want to ignore her completely. Sometimes she wakes herself up and then she'll move to cuddle with me, other times it passes and she continues on sleeping. I don't really know how her past was before I got her, but I know that at points she wasn't receiving proper care.

Could she be having nightmares, or am I just a crazy dog owner jumping to conclusions?

My family and I made the most devastating decision of my life yesterday to have my almost 17 year old cockapoo euthanized. We did it in our home and she passed in my arms.

These past 24 hours have been nothing short of a personal hell. Having to go to bed knowing I won’t see her again was almost impossible, and today hasn’t been much better.

The only thing that has given me some sense of peace is looking back through my camera roll. In the last few years she definitely lost the spring in her step, but finding videos of times when we were on walks, or showing her while we were playing fetch and seeing how excited and happy she was brought me pure joy.

Don’t get me wrong, I cherish every photo I have of her, but there is something special about being to relive a great experience in your pupper’s life.

So here is my request: take as many videos of your pets as you can. Don’t think that anything is too mundane to video, because one day they won’t be with you anymore, but you will always have those videos to look back on and remember them for who they really were.

My 1-year-old dog dislocated her right hip 4 days ago (likely from a bad slip/fall). We took her to ER and was able to manually reduce it (within 3 hours) as her hips look good, no hip dysplasia or fractures.

Anybody has success stories of their dogs successful from manual reduction?

My dog hates the sound of the smoke detector chirping he goes crazy running around, shaking ,crying I feel so bad for him but idk what to do besides just fix the smoke detector but I wanna know if it damages his ears

Hey folks, looking for a little bit of advice please.

Bit of info before the question. I live in Cumbria, UK and have a 9 week old golden retriever working line pup. I'll be returning to work in a couple of weeks and I've made plans for her to come with me, though she is required to stay outside. She'll be in a secure courtyard a few metres away from my workbench (I'm a cabinet maker). I've made a decking area with a secure pen and crate setup, similar to what she is used to at home. The area has a roof and is protected from the wind. I'm concerned about her being warm enough, though there are things I can do to help with that.

I'll also be able to continue the 1 hour play/training and 2 hour nap time schedule that I've got her comfortable with. There's also a field for exercise when she's older.

So, my question – Is it actually okay to keep my puppy outside under these conditions? I feel like it's a reasonable solution for an older dog, considering the alternative of being at home alone all day. But an adult would be more resilient to the weather conditions here in the UK. I just worry if I'm doing the right thing. Is it morally okay? Can a puppy cope with being outside like this?

There is an alternative, which is to keep her in our kitchen area. She could still have a crate and pen and would be warmer. My plan was to use this only during the winter months, but now I'm wondering if it's a better option for all year round…

Any thoughts, advice, opinions, suggestions welcome, thanks!

I swear my dog has stronger opinions about my floors than I do. He’ll happily flop in one room and then weirdly avoid another right after I mop, which made me start paying attention to what’s actually left behind instead of just whether the floor looks nice for ten minutes.

Real experience is, regular water and electrolyzed water did not leave the same feel behind, and I only started noticing because he did first. Maybe I’m overreading dog behavior, totally possible, but now I’m kind of stuck on that whole what’s left behind after mopping question, because pets are literally closer to the floor than we are.