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My lab puppy is almost 4 months old and was doing great in the crate . No accidents , took naps on it , sleeps at night and barks only to go out to pee. Now all of a sudden she doesn’t like it . She barks and won’t stop . I wait until she stops praise her or take her out to go pee put her back to enforce sleeping . I’ve used treats still doesn’t want to be in it . She gets plenty of exercise . I run her in yard with my golden retriever , play , run her again . She’s definitely over stimulated but won’t go to sleep ! Help need advice . I’m exhausted .

I’ve only had her for five days, so I will be patient but the issue is that I take her out and I know she has to pee, but she will not go outside and waits until we’re back inside. Initially I was taking her out every hour or two but it feels a bit pointless to do it that frequent as I’ve now figured out she just needs to go every four hours.

I’m trying to be better about a routine and keeping a very close eye on her when in my apartment. But when I’m reading her body language as she has to pee (and let’s say we were just outside) and I take her back outside, she still won’t pee.

The instances she has peed outside are when we are at a big field by my house and she’s off leash. But that’s not sustainable for me every time as I work from home and have a lot of meetings. I’ve taken her on hour+ walks and she won’t go. Luckily she has one spot by my house that she will poop, so she’s been going that outside at least.

I’ve been putting her in her crate for naps and some play time during the day but let her sleep with me at night as I just adopted her on Sunday (five days ago) from a rescue and took her away from her seven sisters. So my priority has been making her comfortable and getting her settled in. I’m open to putting her in the crate to sleep at night if anyone thinks that would help, but she sleeps through the night in my bed with me no problem. Doesn’t even ever get up, she just wants to be touching me, so that doesn’t feel like the issue!

My apartment is all carpeted so that’s probably why the potty training feels extra stressful! I haven’t been using pee pads because I’ve seen mixed reviews about them. I’m also not great at reacting when she pees inside (I kinda just freeze) so would appreciate any advice on that as well! I’m open to any thoughts or suggestions!!! Thank you!!!

Hi all!

This is my first dog and I recently noticed some brown staining around her mouth. She is a 7 year old golden retriever. I read online that it could be from porphyrins from their saliva. Any advice on how to remove these stains/prevent more in the future?

Hello team, I wanted to get some opinions and advice please. We have a miniature poodle pup, nearly 13 weeks old. It's been hard, as you all know 😁 … I've realised I think I'm picking him up too much and am trying to stop. It started because he was small, he need carrying down our 3 back door steps to toilet, he needs lifting off the sofa of he goes up there because it's too high for him to jump down safely (same as the steps), if he escapes the room he won't come back to me by words, so I lift him up. We carry him round the neighborhood and garden cos he can't be put down yet because he hasn't had 2nd vaccinations yet etc

So many reasons to pick him up

But now, 4 weeks later I realised lifting him was an easy way to control him, like he won't go in his pen/crate area unless I lift him, or trick him with food. He is smart enough to know I'm tricking him and he won't go in the pen to eat etc if we are close enough to shut the door on him. So sometimes/usually, the only way to make him nap/stay near his bed is to lift him into his pen. I can't imagine this is a great dynamic for me to be setting. But he won't do what I ask him. So until I've trained him further, what should I be doing in terms of lifting him? Or is it ok to just trick him with high value treats and shut the door on him? It doesn't feel positive/constructive. The same with him on the sofa, I'm trying not to lift him, so what is the desirable way to get him down and teach him we don't want him up there?

We have a trainer coming Monday, thank God 😁

Appreciate any thoughts 🙏🐩

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Link above to original post. Saw this in my local area. Does anyone have any tips for helping to find a dog? It's getting colder. 🥶

She just started about 2, almost 3 weeks ago to lay on her sister’s bed, and basically take it over. Her older sister has to curl up all the way to one side and isn’t able to stretch. Their beds sit side by side and my younger dog will have half her body on her sisters’s bed and the other half on her own bed with a whole foot of space remaining in her bed. Plus she looks super uncomfortable and awkward when her sister is right next to her. She’ll have a bit of a whale eye and sad puppy look on her face, and I’ve seen her do a paw up to her sister. Also these are large beds too that I got two sizes bigger so they have enough room to stretch and what not.

The first couple weeks we were trying to wait it out and let the older dog deal with her, but she’s a pretty submissive dog and isn’t the type to tell other dogs off. So now we’ve had to intervene and every time we see the younger dog on her sister’s bed we do tell her sternly “uh uh” and “place” and reward her for going back to her place. The last few days though when we walk in to the room where the dogs are the younger dog trots back to her bed from being on her sisters bed and then has the look in her face like she’s waiting for her reward. So I think we’ve accidentally trained her to expect a treat when she goes from her sisters bed to her own.

Now we have no clue what to do. Anyone have experience with this!

I have a Redbone Coonhound and I'm really just wondering what the best dog food that's affordable is? I want her to have a better diet and eat better quality food but it's hard to find an affordable option. I also just don't really know which brands are genuinely good. Therefore I'd like to hear a few peoples input.