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hi! i recently bought a 3 year old BC, wich had been started training on sheep.

it is mostly following directions, and have a good stop.

the problem is, when it is not manually stopped by me, or otherwise gets too close on the outruns, it will grip throat or the hip of the sheep, and hang on.

in light of this, i have now set up a smallish pen, where i am in more control/proximity. but almost every time im trying to train with it, shes gripping when she gets too close. wich is a problem now, as the sheep is sheared, and she breaks skin easily.

its getting abit better.

my question are. does anyone have a tip for this behaviour?

or is it just a matter of persistence and repeating, building dog confidence, and correcting the gripping when/right before it happens?

i guess it comes from insecurity/frustration- as she have been trained on dogtrained sheep. wich my sheep most definitely aint, yet

We have a 16 week old puppy. She does great during daylight hours, rarely has an accident and goes out to potty every couple of hours. However, it seems as soon as the sun goes down she needs to go out every 15-30 minutes and if we don’t take her out that often she will pee in the house. She has no accidents in her crate at night. This is just from about 5pm until bedtime, every night. We have never had this issue in the past with previous dogs and aren’t sure what to do, how to fix it, and why this is happening.

My dog is obsessed with the cat. Constantly stands at the door to our room where the cat stays sniffing & staring at the opening at the bottom. When she comes face to face with the cat, she whines & stares at her for extended periods of time, always ends with her chasing the cat until we intervene. Our cat is extremely patient/nice with our dog and will swat her in the face when she gets to be too much but our dog still doesn’t care. Any advice?

Hi! I adopted a lovely 4.5 month old cavalier king charles spaniel just yesterday. Her owner said she’s house trained, and everything I’ve seen so far agrees with that—except that she refuses to pee or poo on a walk. Her last owner had a yard that they would let her wander in, and unfortunately that isn’t a possibility when living in an apartment.

She had a single accident last night, but held it in for hours, despite me taking her for multiple long and slow paced walks that day. Her body language made it pretty clear she felt badly about it too. I cleaned it up thoroughly (no negative reinforcement ofc). I thought that it could just be a new and exciting environment, new people, and adjustment to walking on a leash.

Today, I’ve taken her out probably about seven times, for lengths of time anywhere from 10 minutes to nearly an hour. I’ve kept her on the same three small blocks, so not introducing anything new environment wise (besides the cars and people that come with living in a city). There are a variety of locations—wet grass, dry grass, turf, dirt, rocks, gravel, concrete. Her last owner said the yard was full grass, but it doesn’t seem like that’s doing it either.

I have sat in front of spots for a long amount of time hoping she would just go, but she refuses to the point of actually lying down. We’re now looking at 7:30pm my time, and she hasn’t pooped since at least 2:30pm yesterday, and peed a small amount last night once. At this point, when I take her inside she is clearly looking for a place to relieve herself (pacing, smelling the ground, getting ready to squat) pretty much immediately—I keep scooping her up and running her outside, but then she refuses to go.

Pretty positive it’s a case of new environment, distractions, not realizing the connection between relieving herself in the yard vs. on a walk, etc. and those are all things I’m happy to work on with her, I just really want to know how the heck I can get her to actually go outside so I can get her started on retraining. I’m dying here and really don’t want to take her inside for her to have an accident.

For context my fiancé and I have a dog that’s part chihuahua, rate terrier, and ACD. We got him when he was only a couple months old. Since then we have done extensive research to make sure we are raising our dog the best we can. We’ve done plenty of socializing through daycare, visiting relatives/friends and even getting plenty of exercise. A couple of months after he got neutered, he suddenly became very fearful of people. Even the friends and family that he’s already met when he was younger. This escalated to him being scared to even going outside to potty. We live in an apartment and it’s a short walk down the stairs to go outside but he gets so scared when I put his leash on to go that he’ll try his best to run or hide when he sees me getting up to get his leash. He sometimes starts to pee while we’re going down the stairs as well. Recently he has started to just start going potty in our apartment now too. We have tried taking him out at various times as well and it’s the same. He also used to love going to the park but is now very scared of going there. We have worked with a dog trainer and even him on meds with a behavioral plan but it’s been several months now and it doesn’t seem like he’s getting any better. We have tried desensitizing him by slowly introducing him to the outside by having our apartment door open and treat him every time he gets close to outside our apartment. However, once he’s outside he’s so scared that he won’t even accept treats. He so hyper focused on his surroundings that he doesn’t listen to commands either. What other methods can I try ? Or is this just his personality? We have tried mostly everything from our research and we’re just lost on what to do.

TLDR: Dog is very very scared of people and as a result the outside because he knows that’s where people are. Starts to go potty in the apartment because he’s scared/anxious. Doesn’t enjoy/scared of the things he used to love as a puppy.

Adopted a three year old chihuahua who has been wearing diapers his entire life. He’s basically lived with a bunch of other chihuahuas who wear diapers and use a litter box in a crate. He’s not used to walks and won’t pee or poop when you take him out either.

I got both a doggy lawn and a litter box for him to use. He’s pretty smart so he figured out the use for the doggy lawn. He has no issues pooping in either the litter box or lawn. However, he holds in his pee for an absurd amount of time and will then pee on places that he shouldn’t (his own blanket and my bag). I now recognize when he is looking to finally relieve himself and will take him to the lawn or box but he refuses to pee. I gave up and decided to put a diaper on him before it becomes a medical emergency and thought of hiring a professional who can help fix this. Very shortly after I put a diaper on him, he went to the lawn and peed! So he knows he is allowed and should pee on the lawn or litter box, but will only do it if he’s wearing a diaper. How do I get him to pee without a diaper?

Hi all! I have 3 male (neutered) mutts, youngest are 5 eldest is 7!

We recently moved to a new house and discovered after that the previous owner had a dog who was left to pee/poo around the house….

First few days we moved in we had no issues and got the dogs back on their normal routine of walks and potty breaks, one day I saw one of my dogs lifting his leg at a curtain, of course I rushed him outside but thought it was strange because they had just been on a walk 15 min earlier.

As time when on I noticed marking "piddles" in random places. Now it has gone to full blown every day i find 5 or 6 spots!! They started marking our furniture, carpets, its a mess and i dont know what to do about it! They are out in the kitchen with a doggy door when we are out, but I cannot walk away from them at any time with out them marking….

Can any one offer any advice to help reverse this behaviour?