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Hello everyone, I have a cocker puppy which is around 16 weeks. The puppy never goes outside no matter what. I have him on a schedule, I always know when he needs to pee or poop. However, once we go outside, he holds it and never go. I tried waiting it out and we ended up staying outside for 3 hours, but still nothing. Did anyone face this? What can I do? It is getting super frustrating as I get super tired for literally nothing. The puppy is crate trained, so I tried shorter periods and put him in the crate and so on until he goes outside. He stills holds it so much until he pees sometimes in the crate. He never goes potty in crate and one time he did hold it for around 20 hours until he did it outside (only one time)

Thank you!

First night with our 2year old corgi in a hotel. She has done many nights away with us but this is the first hotel.

So far (1hour in) she has been a bit grumpy when loud noises from people have gone past but okay other wise.

We’ve tried to keep her routine normal as possible and have made sure to bring things smelling like home.

We have her calming music on which helps block out noise without being too loud for us!

She does seem confused by it only being a room and is staring the whole door waiting to be put to bed in a different room – her normal. But otherwise okay

Fingers crossed!

You guys have been so helpful so far to this complete novice puppy owner. Today’s dilemma – our puppy potty trained easily and while at first we would go out in the yard with him, now we just let him out whenever he rings the bell on the door.

Hes 5 months. The problem, he poops wherever and what sometimes feels like intentionally everywhere in our large backyard.

With winter coming, I’m wondering if we should restrict him in the backyard to a section (would be pretty challenging but we can use some sort of temp fence) to get him used to one poop area? But also, he loves to run and play and check out neighbor dogs so I think this would kind of suck for him. He also loves the cold and snow so I forsee a lot of outside time for him this winter.

We have 3 kids and tons of neighbors and while I poop scoop daily, I inevitably miss some and this leads to nasty shoes. So winter is our best time to get this down so he has a designated area by spring play time.

Help!

Okay, those of you who have introduced a puppy to an older cat, give me all the tips!

My cat is a female dilute torti, super social and affectionate, 12 years old. She’s been around dogs her entire life but has never really loved them, more so tolerated them and ran from them when they instigated play time (typical cat and dog relationship). However, she and I have been without any dogs for a few years, after my soul dog, as well as my senior girl, both passed within a year of each other. Surprisingly I noticed a shift in my cats demeanor after this, and I realized she missed her dogs too.

So fast forward 3-4 years, and I’m getting a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy on Nov 22nd. It’ll be the first time in a long time she’s had a puppy in the house, and I feel like the last time I wasn’t the best at introducing her. So I want to get it right this time. I don’t want to stress her too much and really want to ensure she takes to the puppy and eventually realizes he’s not there to harm her.

Any tips? Anyone have any good success stories introducing their older cats to a puppy?

First I'd like to thank this subreddit for the helpful resources and shared experiences.

I have a 10 month old pup, we've had him since he was ~10 weeks old, so 230 days so far. He has never spent anytime alone and we know we really need to work on that; he has always been with my partner or I, or on special/important occasions a sitter or family member.

That being said, I would really like to go out with my partner! Now that winter is here we don't get to go on long outings with the dog or sit on a patio. This is our first dog so we don't really know what to do. Do you have any experiences or resources you could share about having a social life that occasionally includes your co-parent and not your dog?

TLDR; How do you do things (alone if you're single or with your spouse) in the winter when you have a 10 mo. puppy and no one to watch the dog except always relying on a dog sitter you need to book in advance and costs $? We're still working on leaving him alone at all and I need a break!

I feel like it's an obvious answer, "train the dog to be alone and in the meantime hire a sitter" but I'm hoping there are some other creative suggestions out there or some advice?

Thanks in advance!

My family and I are recently new fur parents, and we have never in our lives taken care of a dog before. We took her from my aunt's manager, who was giving away free puppies because the mother dog had too many in the litter. It has only been four days, and my puppy doesn't want to sleep anymore (at least today). No matter how much we try to settle her, she still resists sleep. What should I do? Please give me advice on how I can make her fall asleep. She just keeps moving and walking around, and I can't get any sleep because I have to take care of her.