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Overall, my dog is doing better as she gets older. She's crate trained and does really well in her crate, no chewing, no damage, not even to her bedding. In fact, when she's in the crate while I'm away, she just sits quietly and doesn't even chew on her bone.

However, when I leave her out of the crate while I'm not home, she gets into everything. especially chewing on cords. Interestingly, when I'm home, she doesn't chew on anything inappropriate and sticks to her bone.

I'm curious why she feels the need to chew on things like cords when I'm away and she's not crated, but shows no destructive behavior when she's in the crate or when I'm around

So I take my 10 month old puppy to a rover in home daycare. The last week the lady has told me she is peeing in the house constantly and today told me my puppy peed on her (daycare lady) foot twice. My dog is completely potty trained at my home and has been for months. Has had once accident in 6 months at my home. I’m not sure what I can do about her not being potty trained at daycare if she is at my home? What can I do about this? And why would she pee ON someone?! In the 8 months I have had her she has never peed on anyone, even as a small small puppy. I don’t know what to do!

EDIT to add- at her daycare she says that my puppy has full access to go in and out all day (doggy door) which she does not have at my house or anywhere she has been. So I did explain maybe she just doesn’t put 2 and 2 together. Every time I take her out she is on a leash (I live in an apartment) but she does go out at my moms when we visit without a leash so I am unsure if that’s the issue?

I rescued my dog about 4 months ago and she is just absolutely terrified outside. We don’t know her past but she is now to the point where half the time I take her out she doesn’t go to the bathroom and is just terrified and trying to get back into the apartment (we live in a big city). I’ve had to go back on my own anxiety/depression medication because she makes me cry every single day and I feel like an utter failure and wake up with anxiety attacks everyday. We’ve done tons of training, us and with a professional, and she’s on week 1 of anxiety meds (I know these take a while to kick in but who’s to say if they will even help). She’s still nervous in the suburbs but was so much better than she is here in the big city. It’s been a few months and I feel like she’s getting worse, not better and I just don’t know what to do because I’m starting to hate my life and the idea of rehoming her is awful because she’s the perfect dog inside and I love her but I can’t tell if this is worth the pain for both of us

I have somehow, and I don’t know how, trained my dog that when I open the back door and he’s outside waiting to come back in, to just wait for me to ask him to come in?

I know this is crazy but is there any way I can train him to just come in when the door opens instead of waiting for me to “release” him? No commands, no motions, just please come on in.

He’s 6lbs so there’s no issue of him barreling in. He’s a super obedient and polite dog , super smart. I just want to be able to open the door and he walk in if he wants to lol

My one year old husky is the absolute sweetest dog I have ever had. She's extremely cuddly and affectionate and absolutely adores other dogs and people. She's never shown any signs of aggression, and hasn't even so much as ever growled at anyone or another dog before.

I also have a 1.5 year old male dog and a young 5 month old puppy. She's always loved both of them and they all play together all day long. She adores the puppy and plays with her, grooms her, cuddles with her, etc. There's never been any conflict between any of them whatsoever.

On Friday night, she was playing together with the puppy and, completely out the blue, started acting aggressively towards her. Chased her snarling with hackles raised and stiff posture and backed her into a corner and towered over her. The puppy was terrified and rolling on her back and acting submissive and trying to lick her.

I separated them immediately. Now she randomly alternates between being friendly and wanting to play with the puppy and acting aggressive to her growling and hackles raised. She's also started acting like this with my male dog today. She's also started obsessively sniffing the puppy's bum and pacing around sniffing the ground.

Seems completely normal aside from has been more tired and sleepy than usual since Friday morning and licking herself more than usual. Just earlier this week she went to her training classes and was extremely friendly with all the other dogs with no issues so this has been completely out of the blue. Any suggestions as to what it could be and how to deal with it?

We bought some training treats. We were hoping to use them to help with training. We bought some treats labeled as training treats, but our dog was not at all interested.

Any recommendations on a (yummy) treat that would motivate most dogs during training?

I have a six month old female standard poodle, Josie. Well-bred, well-socialized, good manners. I think she is entering her adolescent fear period, which is maybe relevant–some things outside our home have been startling her that haven't before, such as loud trucks on walks. We have three cats and she takes correction from them perfectly. She plays with the neighbor dog, a retired show lab breeding mom, and she takes the lab's very gentle corrections well too. Immediate back off, lay down, occasionally belly up, to both the lab and the cats.

My parents just adopted a 3 year old Boston terrier/Chihuahua mix (mostly–they did Embark and he's 35% each of those, plus a bit of Aussie, daschund, and "supermutt."), Russell. He was surrendered to the shelter by a family who said they had 3 kids, 3 other dogs, and 4 cats and he wouldn't stop pooping in the house.

Russell has been with them 3 weeks and is mostly a very calm, lazy dog. He has not had any accidents inside. Two incident prior to today made me a bit wary. First, my 7-year old was rubbing his belly and ended up near a tender spot (skin infection from the kennel, they later found out). I saw whale eye for about two seconds and as I was telling her to stop and move, he lifted his lip at her. That was it. She moved, incident over, seemed to me like appropriate warning signs for a dog who didn't feel well.

That night after we left, my dad startled him from sleep and he went after my parents' cat who was right there. Listened and stopped when my dad yelled. Other than these two things, he has seemed very chill.

Today I brought Josie over for the first time. In restrospect, I realize that I did two things wrong–i should not have brought my kids and we should have met on neutral territory. We all just assumed he'd be chill as usual, he'd issue normal warnings/corrections as needed to Josie, she'd listen as she always does, and that would be that.

We had them meet in my parents' fenced back yard, off leash. I think Josie did everything right. Stood back, tail wagging and ears forward, let him approach, let him sniff her. He allowed her to sniff him back for a moment and as she started to play bow, I saw him stiffen and he lunged at her. She immediately retreated, tail between her legs, and he chased her, growling and snapping. She ended up on a patio chair (higher than him) and he stayed below and would growl and lunge/snap any time she moved.

My mom then leashed him and I took Josie farther away in the yard so he could just watch her for a bit. He went back and forth between what appeared relaxed watching vs vigilant staring. He would growl and lunge if she got within about ten feet.

Notably, he never actually bit her. He seemed more anxious than like he was picking a fight. Lots of panting.

My primary two concerns are 1. He didn't let up when Josie submitted and listened to his corrections. She was not pestering him or being annoying puppy in any way. The over-correction worries me 2. He was moderately better when I asked me mom to go inside and have my dad hold him. He has chosen my mom as his person and I wonder how much of this is him resource guarding my mom

Mostly I am worried about what this means for my kids. It's very easy to just not bring Josie to visit my parents, but they take a kid for a sleepover once a week. They behave well around dogs, and my parents do supervise, but my mom can be a little rose colored glasses and if this is a dog that overcorrects and guards her, are we looking at a situation where she's going to supervise as he bites one of my kids? She didn't notice the whale eye before he raised his lip to my daughter. Because I did, daughter was already stopping petting when he showed his teeth, but what if she hadn't been?

Idk, I just can't decide if I am being overprotective and overreacting or if I am right that these are red flags to be seriously concerned about. Especially given the surrender situation–its clear he doesn't actually have housebreaking problems, so I worry he was surrendered because he bit a kid.