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my dog is slowly aging out of puppyhood and he's turning 11 months old on Thursday. recently, he hasn't been as enthusiastic with his breakfast and if he does eat some, he'll be a little bit fussy during dinner. in my mind this means that it might be time to start transitioning him to one mean a say, but I wanted to know if 11 months would be safe to do so and if anyone's had similar issues and successes.

I have a 12 week old lab puppy and I can’t stop getting him to stop nipping/biting me. Play time/ pets immediately turns into my puppy putting my entire forearm in his mouth nipping at my pants and sweater when i attempt to leave. I’ve tried so many things like timeout in the crate very calmly and with no expression, I’ve tried to ignore behavior and withdraw pets and it only makes it worse. I’ve also tried adding more enrichment ideas, enforcing nap times, and doing training daily. I’m out of ideas and pretty stressed here if anyone has more ideas I’d appreciate it!

grew up without pets so this is all new territory for me. We're getting a labrador puppy next month from a breeder my coworker recommended. Everyone keeps telling me insurance is non negotiable but every policy i look at reads like a legal document. also worth mentioning, we're thinking about getting a cat as well sometime next year too, so ideally I would love to find one company that covers both. does that even exist?

I’m looking for some advice and just to see if this is normal. We’ve had our girl for a little over 2 months now. She is currently 5 months old and is a great pry/ collie mix. This past weekend has been potty training hell and it’s been so odd. She had been doing well with potty training since we got her, she would sit or bark at the door to go out if she needed to go potty. Prior to this weekend she had a handful of accidents in the house but in the past 2 weeks leading up to this weekend she didn’t have any so I thought we might be in the clear for potty training. This past weekend it rained all weekend and we are pet sitting my parents dogs. She has gone pee and poo inside multiple times. I’m not sure if it’s the break in routine of the holiday weekend and the rainy weather but we have let her out multiple times. The one time she was playing outside with my parents dogs and pooped with in a few minutes of being inside. I’m not sure if she might be getting distracted by them and not thinking about pooing outside or what. She barks a lot more in general now so it’s hard to tell if she’s play barking, barking at something outside, or needs to go use the potty. Any tips? We try to stay consistent at letting her out every few hours but I’m not sure what to do. She always goes out first thing in the morning and anytime she barks at night we let her outside. She is being crate trained and doesn’t pee or poop in the crate we don’t usually leave her for more than 3hrs either. Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

My partner and I have a 4 month old mini dachshund puppy, and we've had her for 2 months now. We've made considerable progress with crate training where we can either leave the apartment or go into another room and she'll happily sleep in her crate for up to 2 hrs. However, if we're home and we make even the slightest noise, she's up and won't go back to sleep. She only whines once every 5-10 mins or so, and then after 40 mins awake, she's had enough and wants out. I work from home full-time, so I'd like to start having meetings in our office room alone while she sleeps in the living room (where her crate is), but even a camera shutter wakes her up (I also do product photography work on the side). I also want her to stay asleep during this time because she's still so little! Has anyone else had this issue?

Edit: we have a white noise machine that gets turned on every time she goes into her crate during the day.

We've had our puppy for going on 3 months now.

Almost every night without fail, our puppy will wake up and let us know she needs out of her crate to go outside to pee or poop. She doesn't cry or bark unless it's urgent but she'll paw at her kennel and maybe whimper to let us know she needs to go. She always falls asleep immediately afterwards but I'm worried that she should be able to hold it overnight by now. Occasionally this happens twice a night even. It typically happens between 3AM and 4AM.

The only times she doesn't do this is if she has had an extremely social day and she stayed up longer before bed than normal – think Friday or Saturday after having a long day out on the town and going to different places. Her nap schedule isn't perfect on the weekends but she gets at least 15+ of rest on those days (much less than on weekdays)

I'm not sure if it's because we're giving her a nap before bed or what. Her sleep and nap schedule is very regimented typically 1 to 1.5 hours up 2 to 2.5 hours down daily. The last nap she has before bed starts at 6:30ish and goes until 8:30pm or 9:00pm. We keep her up until we're ready to go to sleep and make sure to get a good amount of exercise and engagement before bed. I'm wondering if we should disrupt her sleep and wake her up earlier around 8 so she can wear herself completely before bed and get all the pee out.

This has been something that has left my family exasperated and worried for our future over. Our 4 month old puppy keeps demand barking for food when we are cooking, whether we put him in the kitchen, away from the kitchen, or in his crate upstairs (usually his nap time, sometimes he will wake up and smell the food and start up). our house has a more open floor plan, so unless we stick him in our small bathroom or laundry room- we don't really have anywhere to put him when he demand barks, and idk I feel bad about putting him in a small area not to mention he's not fully potty trained so thats another risk. We've tried ignoring him, and he just barks until we are literally done with the food, we taught him place (he still barks from there and leaves place soon after being put there which might mean we need to keep training him on it) taught him quiet (he only quiets down for a little bit bc he expects a treat) and wait (he waits for a treat and doesn't impulsively bark or jump as much, but he barks if we are distracted or if he doesn't get fed within 20 seconds), and will start barking again as soon as he's done with a treat- I'm worried he's learning that barking= quiet command= quiet for a second to get treat= again barking after treat gone. We have given him kongs but he finishes them in about 20 minutes while cooking can take at least an hour. He's always been a stubborn little shit and I'm worried this is a hill we can't get over and this may carry into his adult life. I've tried looking on other questions posted that have similar issues, but none of them seem to have this specific problem. The advice also tends to be varied, with some saying ignore him, leave the kitchen whenever he's doing that (still need all my family to try this, also kinda hard when cooking), teach him quiet/ place command. My question is; do we stay consistent and work on enforcing on what we already taught him, or are there better methods to deal with this? The only one we haven't really tried is leaving the room when he starts up, is that a good method? and also, what worked for you? I care for him a lot, but this has genuinely started affecting how close I feel to him.

I had to do it, just no way around it. I had no words for my 4 mo lab after he came out of a 2 hr nap which usually makes him fun to be around and launched from a foot away and grabbed my hand as I reached to pet him.(actually I was using a lot of words in my head). So I stopped talking, acknowledging or barely looking at him. After about ten minutes it was so hard to keep a straight face. He tried everything, crappy stuff first, chewing leg on stool so I moved the stool with no reaction. Untying my boot laces which is constant game for him, no reaction, dumping water bowl. Then the cute stuff, bringing every toy and dropping it at my feet, when I was standing still laying on my feet, throwing the ball for himself and bringing it back to my feet. What really got me was when he sat in middle of room and started that head tilting stuff as if to say “what do you want from me?” I wanted to say “ now you know how I feel “ and I broke and started playing again. Maybe some of you can relate

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I’m now looking for first-hand experiences with reputable UK breeders.

If you’ve bought from one, I’d appreciate:

Who you used

How the process was

Thanks.

Y’all….im on the struggle bus.

I have a 4 month old puppy (Pyrenees mix), who is super smart, but I’m at my wits end with him and sleeping through the night.

He does so good when we go to bed, settles, and goes to bed, and sleeps until usually 3:30a-4a. Here is the struggle…when he wakes up, he whines/barks, so I take him out to potty (it’s super boring), and then he comes back in, will settle for maybe 30 minutes, then it’s a bark/whine fest until our alarms go off at 5:30.

I’ve tried to take him for 2 walks a day and tire him out, and I’ve tried to take him to potty later. Anyone have any advice? Thoughts? I feel like I’ll try anything at this point 😂