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She’s doing better about leash pulling, but I want to let her explore without her tripping me every few seconds.

I adopted a 2 month old puppy last week. He settled and got comfortable fairly quickly. The only issue i am having with him is the biting. I know its expected for a 2month old puppy since they are teething but its gotten to a point where playing is no longer enjoyable. And i have come to realize this aggression is only towards me, he will still bite other family members and my boyfriend but when he bites me it is harder and he growls. not sure if its something i did but i need any advice i can take. and yes i have tried the stand up and stop playing with him trick, he just goes straight to my ankles/toes. ive tried yelping really loud and turning my back on him but he’ll nip at the back of my arms or my hair, i have redirected him to his toys but that only lasts a couple of seconds before he charges af me again.

My 9 month old dog was on a good streak with potty training and I thought he was doing well. The longest he's gone was 58 days without an accident.

My Gf Brought home a rescue that she found at a flee market and our 9 month dog has been having accidents again. The accidents usually comes with him over stimulated. It takes him a while to calm ​down after getting riled up or over tired and after that he seems to lose control and not think.

He's had about 5 accidents after his long streak and had accidents again around 7.5-9 months.. he would go a week or two without accidents and then we get out of routine and he'll pee on the floor.

Ex: Yesterday I found him panting when I got home. Maybe he was stressed cause the other dog had a chew in her kennel and my dog takes the kitchen. Whatever it was, I let him outside to pee. Then he played with the puppy a bit, drank water, I took a shower. When taking a shower I left him with my gf. Apparently he was playing woth the cat when I showered. Then me and my gf was talking, and he squats to pee on the carpet (after I just let him outside to pee 40mins-1hr ago). And then I stopped him, told him to go outside and he peed on the grass. It seems like he really needed to go (so he probably chugged water). I've had dogs before, but not really a smaller dog for the last 20years. Goop is small, like 18.5lbs. He's been hard to potty train. What do I do? ​

Tl;dr – for urban dog owners, when did your dog start pottying outside / generally hearing commands outside?

We live in an apartment in a very urban area, and our 18wk yorkie puppy just got cleared to be boots on the ground (but no soil/grass until next lepto) about a week ago.

He’s well potty trained inside. He goes on our balcony. We didn’t use pee pads because he just tore them up. The balcony is concrete, very similar to the pavement on our block. (Yes this is very cursed lol but it rains a lot here and we disinfect regularly)

The problem is outside: he can be in front of our apartment for 40 minutes and not potty, even if he just woke up from sleeping all night and definitely needs to go.

His potty cue word for sure needs work, but he also struggles to listen to any command outside, even though he’s very good about them inside. He also won’t take treats, which happens when he’s nervous. (Edit: the treats are just his kibble as we work out some hot girl tummy issues, so they’re not very exciting to him unfortunately)

For other city dogs, when did the front block of your building stop being so exciting they won’t listen? I assume it will just come with time but I was hoping a week of walking back and forth twice a day would be enough 😭 Would love any tips!

As the title implies, I feel like I’m doing everything wrong for my new pup. We took him home yesterday so this is only night 2 and yet everything I do for him feels so wrong.

I’ve helped raise a puppy before and we had him for 17 years, yet everything that worked before for him doesn’t seem to help my new pup at all?

I know that’s probably a super common thing, or at least I hope. But I just can’t shake this feeling that everything I’m doing to take care of him is the wrong thing.

Maybe it’s the lack of sleep, maybe it’s the nerves, but I have no idea how to get this feeling to stop. What helped you guys?

I feel like I come here every month to try and find solutions. My pup is a maltipoo, 10 months and a week old now. He is still going inside to THIS day. Mostly just in his playpen. It has gotten alot better, like from a couple months ago when he would go after every hours or so. To having days of him not going inside. Whenever he is in his playpen, he will go after an hour, wether we are right beside him watching him until he wakes up, or if we are doing our work and have to put him in his playpen because we cannot look over him. He has been doing this since he was a little pup, but when we are not at home, he will NOT go until we come back home. Interms of him giving us a sign to need to go, he does not give us one. Well its one sniff and boom, just goes right there. We are getting him neurered in about 2 weeks, as our vet and groomer said thay its possible that its just him marking territories. We live on an upper unit, and have a little patio area that he uses with a “realistic” grass patch, the reason why we dont take him downstairs is because he will ring the doorbell that we have set up every 5 minutes or so, and no one wants to keep on bringing him down just so he doesnt even do anything. He knows that he needs to go outside, as whenever he is not in his playpen, he will go outside to do his business. My question is that when he gets neutered, will most if these behaviours go away? With of course more training that i get from my pet trainer. And how long did your pups take until fully potty trained?

Does your dog turn his head when he hears an odd noise? Does your dog bury their food with your pants? This is the thread to ask why.

Please keep this thread to non-medical issues only.

Hi all! I have a 1.5 year old golden retriever who is afraid of the car. We got him at 8 weeks and did our best to socialize him to the car properly, but after a few months he started acting really afraid of it. We asked our vet, tried meds (thinking maybe he was nauseous) – no dice. We're at the point where sometimes he refuses to even leave the house if he thinks it might be a car ride (aka not normal walk time). He's literally never had a bad experience from getting in the car – we take him to the beach, to the daycare he loves, to see family he loves, to go to parks to walk around, and he even loves our vet!

We've tried working with a trainer as well to condition him to jumping in and out of the car for rewards (starting with rewarding when he got close to the car and working our way up to getting into the car), and although it worked a few times when he thought we were playing a game, he refuses if he thinks we're actually going to drive somewhere. We've also tried having one of us sitting in the back with him, which also hasn't helped, he shook the whole time.

I've considered getting him a car crate for the trunk, but I know the good ones are expensive and I don't want to do that if he's going to hate that too. He has major FOMO so I don't know if it would make it worse to not be able to see us.

Wondering if anyone has had this experience and what you did? We can't avoid taking him in the car forever and I hate that he seems so traumatized. Plus, he's getting heavy 🙂

Thanks!

Mine tries to act chill when I grab the leash, like he doesn’t care… but his tail starts wagging like crazy and he suddenly forgets how to walk straight once we’re outside 😅 It’s such a tiny thing, but it instantly makes my day better. Curious to hear everyone else’s little dog quirks.

Shes 13 years old. Yes very old. She consistently gets these twitches. when shes awake, when shes sleeping, eating, drinking. She cant walk anymore and these twitches prevent her from sleeping. when shes deep in sleep she doesn’t twitch. shell sometimes roll over because of these twitches

its really bad and she has this thing where she doesn’t sleep and night and its driving me crazy. i get maximum 4 hours of sleep and thats not even consecutive.

please let me know how to help her.