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My dog does not love eating food out of her bowl but if I put it on the floor she will eat it right away. I’d keep it in the bowl but then she doesn’t really eat. Any tips?

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So I recently rescued a 6 month old terrier mix. He is a very sweet dog and he is doing pretty good at potty training. The issues I’m running into is his behavior with my current dog. I currently have a 3 year old Boston terrier. At first they got along pretty good, besides my new puppy playing a little rough. But the past couple of days I’ve noticed my rescue puppy snapping at my Boston over attention. Last night my puppy was laying on me, and my Boston came over to get pet and my puppy snapped at him. Then today, my puppy snapped at my boston again today and was growling over attention. I have been giving them equal attention as well. Is this normal behavior for a shelter puppy? If it is what is the best way to nip it in the butt? My puppy is pretty stubborn, so the redirecting and gentle training isn’t working out the best. I also don’t wanna put him in his cage for time out because I don’t want him to associate his cage with punishment. If anyone has some advice I’d really appreciate it. I really wanna see them become best buddies, because my Boston was best buddies with my last dog who passed away.

Hi all,

We have an 11 week old mini bernedoodle puppy that we've had for a little over two weeks. This subreddit's resources and posts have been very helpful in navigating our time together so far, thank you all!

I have one problem I can't figure out. We live in a 1 bedroom apartment with an open living space. He has access to the living/dining room and we have baby gates to keep him out of the bedroom/bathroom and kitchen. He can see the whole apartment, even with the gates and I don't normally close any of the doors. When I go into the bedroom, he whines/cries and puts his front paws on the top of the gate. It doesn't feel like actual distress or separation anxiety, it feels like FOMO. 75% of the time, he'll give up after a few minutes and go back to what he was doing before I left.

I've seen/heard him actually distressed when I've had to leave and in the beginning of crate training before we reworked our approach and this doesn't seem nearly the same. He would be much louder and throwing himself at the gate. I know separation anxiety/stress is normal for a puppy but he can see me, I'm at most 20 feet away and I always come back to his space pretty quickly. I don't want him in the bedroom as it's not puppy proof and I need to get dressed, put away laundry, etc. He sleeps in there in his crate but thats all.

I've tried talking to him, ignoring him, not coming back until he stops whining, not re-entering the living space until he gets off the baby gate, nothing seems to change. What do I do?

I have a french bulldog puppy, he is 13 weeks old. We have had him for 5 weeks now, we’re living in Denmark where it’s pretty cold and we have tried to take him out / walk outside since we got him. He really hates it! Everytime we’re going outside, he’s peeing/poops and then wants to go inside again or standing still and beeping a bit. He doesn’t want to play outside or snacking. He just want to go inside asap. We have tried with a warm shirt to him because of the weather, but it makes it even worse. Is this normal french puppy behavior, or do you have any recommandations?

Is it normal or i should be worried about it.

I rubbed his head and back since he was a puppy but it didn’t work

My French bulldog will be 10 weeks on Thursday. She’s a baby. I know. I did all the research. I read and watched all the things but just like when you bring your newborn home you don’t know till you’re in it. I’m missing life before puppy. I’m wanting and needing her to get better with her crate.

We play games in and out of her crate. We toss treats in there. We place her in there for naps as much as possible. She protests. We have to leave sometimes and she loses her mind.