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I have an American Eskimo (F, in tact) who will be two at the end of May. She has always been pretty sensitive i.e. not going potty in the rain, doesn't like her feet touched/nails clipped but she usually does well in the car until recently. We had to take an hour drive to visit family and it was raining on the drive and she was like panting frantically, pacing out of her bed, shivering and quaking. She will try and jump into my lap or the front seat and if I place her back she shakes worse, she has become extremely clingy recently to the point of always wanting attention if I'm at my desk, driving, in bed, etc.

I deliver groceries part time and have been taking her on my longer deliveries to try and help her see the car is good, but she just looks miserable and shakes. She also loses her mind at visitors/if anyone approaches the car (barking, growling etc.). She has a really nice car seat but refuses to stay in it and i'm just not sure what to do? Advice appreciated!

We’ve had our almost 6 month old husky/shepherd mix since he was 12 weeks old. Since the first couple of weeks, he’s always woken up between 3-4 am and cries to go out, where he usually pees and poop. It’s as much habit now, I think, as a genuine need to go. He goes out for the last time around 10, and we are usually up around 6. After going out, he goes back in his pen. Sometimes he falls right back asleep, sometimes we have to sit with him for a while to get him to re settle. Any suggestions for getting him to sleep through the night? He sleeps in a playpen in our living room (he failed crate training hard, very stressed being constrained). If we ignore the whining it escalates to barking and then a full tantrum.

I adopted my girl about two months ago, she has a great nose and she loves to use it for tracking people and animals when we're in the woods (I swear she would have made a great search and rescue dog, had she been trained earlier!). I'm wondering if I can make an indoor game of this for when she needs mental stimulation, i.e. hiding a toy when she's not looking and getting her to find it. How would I start training her to do this?

I would just give him one.

Hi, I have a 10 week miniature poodle beagle mix (11 weeks tomorrow).

Crate training has been going super great. I have a camera so I can keep an eye on her while I am at work (I come home twice a day during work to let her out to potty). She has not had an accident in her crate in for a few days now, she sleeps the whole time I am gone and settles quick after I put her back in after a potty break during the day. At night she’s also very good, wakes me up to go potty and goes back to sleep right after.

Only issue is enforced naps while I am home, if she hears me in the home, she wakes up and will not settle again to finish her nap. If she cries for 10 minutes and has been napping for about 45 I will take her pee but she still will not settle after I try to get her to go back to napping.

She’s awake for about 2 hours when I get home from work and still will not stay asleep.

I know she’s a baby but it drives me crazy because it’s the only time I have to get things done after work (shower, eat, dishes, and laundry)

I’ve started playing tv shows while she sleeps to try and get her used to hearing people talking/noises happening around her while she sleeps.

Is there anything I can do to help her get over this phase or is it just a waiting game until she grows out of it?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Hey everyone! Im in need of some advice because I’m starting to lose my mind. I have a 15 month old moyen poodle, he’s been crate trained from day one. He sleeps fine at night, he is an awesome sleeper to be honest. He even sleeps in a different room than us and we can leave him home in the crate for a few hours and he’s just fine( it took us a long time to get here but I couldn’t be happier with him). It is important to mention that he has 2 crates, one is a plastic one, he loves that a lot, I think it gives him a more enclosed feeling, we leave him in that when we leave him during the day. He also has a wooden one we use for the nights and that is his “everyday crate” (we use both because we couldn’t transfer from leaving him home in the plastic one to leaving home in the wooden one but it’s in progress.). the wooden one is bigger but more open.

Now for the past 3 nights he’s been awful in the crate, he’s been whining and stress breathing, sometimes clawing at the door. He doesn’t need to potty that’s for sure so I can’t imagine why this happens. He’s always been amazing in the crate, we only had a few nights where he was whining and that was mostly because of a weather front – he’s quite sensitive to those. But this seems different, he really can’t calm himself only after hours of whining on and off. Tonight I put him in his plastic crate and he is doing just fine.

So my question is, what should I do? Is it something that’s usual for a teenager puppy, is it like an adolescent regression stuff, should I let him sleep in the plastic crate for a few nights so he can learn once again that the crate is a nice place? Or should I be worried? As far as I know nothing’s changed in our routine and there was nothing that scared him when in the crate.

For some clarity: we don’t want to keep the plastic crate as an everyday crate for him, it is not big enough for that in my opinion. We are planning to buy some sort of fabric to cover the wooden crate so he can have a more den-like feeling, it’s a custom made crate so we have to sew the cover for ourselves and haven’t had the time to do it. He will stay crated because I believe that’s what’s the safest for him.

Thank you for every comment and advice! An exhausted puppy parent