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So pup (almost 5 months) was going almost a month strong of no potty accidents in the house, so I decided to take him upstairs while I cleaned our bedroom. I took him out more frequent than normal (30 min), had him on a leash with my eyes on him, but I was a few minutes from finishing up my last task so pushed his potty break another 10 and well I learned that lesson.

The worry though is now the holidays. Totally get it. Upstairs is a new space and seems like fair game, but now I'm really worried about the holidays and being in a new space with all these people. I'm going to my parents house and my dad doesn't love dogs. I also have family coming to visit that I haven't seen in years that don't love dogs either. I can't skip because my grandma is getting older and I don't know how many more times I'll get to see her. Really just my mom (who has a perfectly trained senior dog that bothers no one) will be okay if my puppy has an accident. The rest of the family will act like he peed in their food.

I'll definitely be running a stricter crate schedule than I do at home of 2 down 1 up since the senior dog is unfortunately not able to play like they want to (13 with bad back legs) and I want to make sure pup plays nice. He'll also do a lot of play in their large backyard so I expect he will need the rest. Plus I don't want to wait until he's showing signs of being overtired before putting him down. I plan on taking little man out every 30 minutes when he's up and inside. Any other ways to try and minimize accidents?

Hello,

Long time lurker, we have a 7 month old spoodle who is an angel for a puppy.

We have tried everything to make him sleep on his bed i.e. made his bed comfortable, letting him cry out , tried teaching him off but he never still sleeps in our bed.

We accidentally disturb his sleep in the night as I am a restless sleeper and he has got hurt and growled.

He has shown no signs of resource gaurding with food or toys but we are not sure what can we do to make him sleep by himself.

I've noticed my puppy will always go for the "new" thing, even if the choice is between something he really likes like boiled chicken or liver and a new vegetable or treat that he has never seen before.

This becomes problematic when I'm trying to get him to leave things/food/garbage he finds out during walks. He resource guards these things (but only outside on walks) and growls/snaps when I try to take them away. If I try to trade up with chicken or liver or pretty much anything else, he just ignores it and keeps trying to go for the garbage.

Today I finally managed to get him to leave some garbage alone during a walk by offering him a cookie he had never eaten before. But it's not really practical for me to figure out and carry entirely new treats to trade up with him for every walk.

I'm not sure if it's signs of separation anxiety or just a normal puppy phase. Basically I work from home and I'm away in the study door closed and my just turned 10 month old boy is perfectly fine with settling and minding his own and I can be in the study without a beep from him (unless he sees something outside) for a good hour or 2. But the second you leave the front door he barks like mad. I set up a camera the other day when I dropped someone off at the train station I was gone for about 15 minutes total and the full 15 minutes he was barking.

I'm assuming the difference is the fact he knows I'm still in the house when I'm working?

I've been doing the opening the door stepping out and immediately coming back in, ignoring him when we come back until we're settled in.

I was very conscious about him developing anxiety because I work from home which is why i set the boundary of him not being allowed in the study.

does anyone have any advice on how to get him to settle. I tried giving him a chew the other day and set up the camera and for the 3 minutes he was chewing he was fine then the barking started. I"m thinking of getting him a freeze ball which would last a lot longer than a few minutes. We've also got him a lavender teddy but he's not really interested in it.

My work contract ends on the 5th December so I'll have a few good week/ month or so to properly work on it with him before I start work again(which could potential not be fully WFH). leaving, coming back, building up the duration etc so just trying to gather as much advice as I can

The dog in question is a German shepherd/shiloh shepherd mix.

The 2 I’m contemplating is on that is 120x60cm and the other is 107×68 cm. I know that they are almost the same size, but which is the best choice – a longer crate or a wider crate?

I feel like I’m overthinking it.

My wife and I adopted an 8 yr old Westie mix about a year and a half ago. She’s definitely hard of hearing with not the best eyesight.

She’s a bit of a barker-which we attribute to her not hearing or seeing well. She likes to sit in one spot in the yard and just bark and enjoy the sun and the vocal musings of her people. Now the question.

Whenever we have visitors, she goes nuts-she barks non-stop and goes after feet and legs. Not really a danger, so much, as we had to have multiple of her teeth removed. She might gum someone to death though. We generally place her behind a dog gate. Once calm she can come out.

But she only does this if my wife is present. If it’s just me, she fine and happy with company, including no barking or lunging. Including people of both genders entering our home. We are both women, FWIW

Thoughts? Any ideas on how to correct?