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Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love having him. I have always dreamt of having a dog of my own for many years now. He is 55 days old, and I knew that puppies could be a bit handful. But I never realised it would be this hard. I am constantly running behind him, cleaning and wiping him after he goes potty. I am trying my best to potty train him, and I genuinely don’t know what else to do. I am always cleaning up one thing after another. I love him so so much that I would go on a war against the entire world for him. I have only had him for five days now, and I know it’s not supposed to be easy.

But I am not able to keep up with all this. I have to constantly tend to him. Plus, at night, if I am not in the room, he cries so loud. He is constantly whining and crying if he doesn’t see me. I haven’t slept properly in five days. On top of this, when he excretes, he eats his poop. This is giving me the worst headache. When I pot and pooping, I immediately pick it up, but any poop at night, he eats it, and there is nothing I can do. I am so stressed out all the time. I am worried that this is how my life is going to be. Is he suffering from separation anxiety? Or am I doing something wrong? Please, I could use any advice.

Desperately, A first time dog owner.

I know, this will sound awful.

My fiance has always had dogs growing up and wanted one so bad. I never really had dogs and was pretty so so on the idea. But, over time, seeing how happy dogs made her when she saw them, i started to like them too.

I noticed that I got happy when someone's dog smiled at me or wanted pets. And I started to think maybe I would actually be ok with a dog.

We are adults with jobs and a house and we love going outside. After years of the idea growing on me we pulled the trigger on a 3 month old at tue shelter.

We instantly loved her at the shelter and she was so happy to see us. We were so smitten.

But after we got her home we both started to get scared.

I'm not sure she's happy with us or our home. My fiance is worried she just wanted to relive what she had but its not the same with a different dog. And I'm not sure I'm going to be good with her. And the connection just doest seem there like it did.

I feel awful. She is the sweetest thing and I want to want her. And I want to give her the best home. But I also don't want to be selfish and try to soldier on if it's bad for us and for the dog.

It's only been a day so maybe I'm just freaking out.

Any advice or to know if others feel this way would be appreciated. And if im a terrible person, I get it, it's OK to tell me.

Hello everyone 😊

I brought my sweet Cairn Terrier puppy home 12 days ago and he's a sweet puppy. He is 12 weeks. He's doing well at home with our two cats and our two kids. But we cannot for the love of me start potty training as he is scared of the streets. Our neighbourhood is very noisy, lots of motorbikes, trucks even at night, schools and he refuses to go outside, starts shaking also. We called the man we got him from and he told us to force him since he will have no other choice but to live here. I was really angry at this piece of advice I refuse to force my puppy into doing anything.

The only good thing is that he looooves going to the park ! He thrives ! He explores, sniffes, relax. We meet other dogs and it goes really really well, we meet friendly people and he likes them. But he never pees or poops in the park either …

We tried giving him treats when in the streets but he does not accept them. He's too stressed.

Any tips ? 😊

Have a lovely day

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RX Proviable Kit Medium and Large Dog

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• Canine Parvovirus Monoclonal Antibody

My cavalier broke his front left leg tonight. We just got home from the emergency vet. They put his arm in a splint. He is likely needing amputation, which is the route we will have to take I'm sure. My main issue currently is that we are needing to find a way to help him potty in the morning. He's currently in a plastic tote with towels in hopes he falls asleep soon. It's late on a weekend, so we have to call a vet Monday to hopefully get in quickly. He's yelping at any movement. I've looked into slings and they seem to mostly center around back leg support. Any ideas? Thank you all. We are very worried about our sweet boy 💔

Hello. I have an eight-month-old puppy who requires a lot of brushing and trips to the groomer — at home I generally do it when she’s tired, with food and in short sessions, but I am still learning technique so she still seems to mat despite brushing at least a section of her daily. She’s also still learning to be without me and does have some separation/isolation anxiety that we’re working on. Last time I took her to the groomer, he told me she had some behavioral issues — she had a lot of anxiety and wouldn’t stay still (which did result in a few cuts). He suggested it could be related to the separation anxiety, but she does wriggle a lot at home so I suspect it’s also that she’s not good at standing still. Does anyone have any advice on ways I can help her learn this? She’s not super food motivated, though she’ll sometimes lick peanut butter off a lick mat while I trim her nails or let me comb her snout for a few minutes in exchange for a bit of cheese for every stroke.

For context, I'm in the process of buying a house and have moved in with my parents until the sale goes through. My parents have a German shepherd and chocolate lab (both adults). I have a puppy border collie who is almost allowed outside.

My mum takes the adult dogs for a short walk every morning. IMO, they are poorly lead trained and the lab has terrible recall. She is so excited to be able to take my puppy on these walks.

WIBTA if I asked her not to take puppy on the walks until she's fully lead & recall trained, by me? I would like to take puppy on walks, just me and her, so I can train her properly. I think that letting her loose on these chaos walks with someone who has a different training style to me will slow down the training process.

I know that my puppy would benefit from the extra exercise of a short morning walk, but I have plenty of capacity for taking her out on walks, training, dog parks and other activities by myself. I also know that telling my mum this is going to upset her.

Am I overreacting – should I just relax, or do I have a point? I'm more than happy for her to join these walks once she's properly trained but I can't help but feel like this is going to muddy the training waters

We have a new puppy and a home with a dog door that’s goes through the garage to an outside dog area. Currently we put him through the inside dog door then go through the garage and he follows us out the second dog door into the yard. He’s pretty smart and is figuring it out. How can we teach him to eventually do it on his own?