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My apartment has a huge dog park with agility courses, and I’ve literally never seen anyone use it. I’ve seen a lot of advice saying you shouldn’t take your dog to dog parks, but I can’t find anything about whether it’s okay if the park is completely empty. Does anyone advise against using an empty one?

I was wondering if there is any recommendations for a sweater or jacket for my little girl. It is starting to get pretty cold out here and I want to be able to continue to take her out and such. She's an anatolian australian shepherd, a little over 5 months old and growing like a weed. I want to be able to find something that is stretchy and can grow with her for another month or two if at all possible, but still be able to keep her warm. Lmk or message me if y'all have any ideas please

Been trying to get a well bred GSD for a year now and it’s been absolute hell.

First breeder waited 6 months only to find out dog didn’t get pregnant

Second breeder got pregnant, but after a week just disappeared and stopped responding to me

I feel cursed and it’s pissing me off so much!

If mine isn’t attacking me for food (it doesn’t help that I don’t have a table in my apt, so I eat on the couch😅) then she’s going wild trying to tear up everything in the living room. It’s especially bad in the evenings.

I’ve tried telling her down, and giving her a treat when she listens, but it doesn’t take her long to attack me again 😅 I’m thinking crating is going to be the answer, but will she learn how to act around meal times if she’s always crated during them? I also don’t think I can crate her for dinner if it’s on a work day, and she’s been crated for a good part of the day already.

Any advice is super appreciated!

My puppy loves bully sticks perhaps more than life itself but I’d love for him to take an interest in things that last longer and are more affordable. We’ve got collagen chews, an antler, yak cheese, benebones, etc. He seems to like beef the best, will sometimes chew on another option for a few minutes but then loses interest unless it’s a bully stick, which he’ll eat all day every day if I let him (I don’t).

Not sure if there are safe sprays or something else to help promote interest in other chews?

TLDR; My puppy eats rabbit poop in our backyard when I try to get her to go potty. I don’t know how to 1) prevent this and 2) successfully get her to go potty.

We have a 15 week old Havanese. She came to us paper trained, and we have been trying to get her to go potty outside.

We have been pretty inconsistent with taking her outside and letting her go inside, which I know is probably confusing her. We decided that we are going to take away the paper and only try to bring her outside.

So far, we have created a small pen outside and been putting her in there to go to the bathroom. This wasn’t working 100%, but we could get her to go in there a few times a day at least.

In the past couple of days, we have started taking her on walks. As a result, she now HATES the pee pen we made and refuses to go to the bathroom in there now. She just sits and barks.

My new plan is to get rid of the pen and stand with my feet planted with her on the leash in the pee spot and see if I can get her to pee this way.

Here is where I get to my problem: my puppy likes eating poop. She eats her own poop every time if we don’t get to it fast enough. And when we’re outside in the grass, she has started eating the rabbit poop that is all over the grass. (Last time she ate rabbit poop, she kept throwing up the next day.) When we go outside now, it seems like she is scavenging in the grass just looking for the poop like it’s a treat.

What do I do? It seems like I can’t let her roam the yard because I can’t keep track of where all the poop is. She also doesn’t know the “leave it” command, maybe that would help.

If anyone has had a similar problem with their dog, what did you do?

I haven't seen my dog for about 3 months now and it will be another month until I'm able to get back to her. The most I've ever been away from her is for a few weeks on family holidays but we all go at the same time and she has a sleepover with someone else when that happens so its different to current circumstances.

I'm just wondering what my dog might be thinking right now. Would she be waiting for me still or has she assumed I'm dead? If it helps at all she's a border collie x jack Russel so she's very smart.

Hello! I have a german/swiss shepherd mix that is a bit much but a sweet guy. He is a little over a year old. His absolute favorite "toy" ever are the little plastic squeakers that he digs out of our older dogs plush toys (we get her new ones). Once he has a squeaker, it's all he plays with and sits for hours just throwing it around. The weird thing is, he doesn't even really squeak it, he just likes to kinda move it around his mouth, halfway biting it.

He sometimes throws his head back and I am afraid he may accidentally swallow it obviously. I always take them away but I can see it breaks his heart and he actively will search for it for a long time afterward and it's pretty sad.

Basically, are there any safe toys that are basically just giant squeakers that you'd find in a plush? I can't tell if he likes the type of plastic and the way it feels on his teeth or what, but any ideas are appreciated. I've seen some toys that sort of fit, but any ideas that are closer to internal squeakers the better! If you have a dog that is similar, what did you do for them?

Thanks for any help!

Trying to find a new container to keep our pups dog food in, but seems like all the dog food specific storage containers are damn near $80 (if not more). Does anyone have any alternative suggestions?

We’re in Florence KY and everyone I know is scrambling right now — some for childcare, some for pet help, some for both. Just wondering if it’s the same everywhere or if our area is uniquely chaotic this year.