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Context: 9 week old Labrador, crate set up in the living room, no pen, access to living room, kitchen ana hallway when supervised.

Hello, we brought a gorgeous 9 week old boy home almost a week ago. It's been tough, but also very rewarding. I think that the main unwanted behaviours were experiencing are: – not settling in for a nap leading to him being overtired

– biting and pulling on clothes

Could someone please give me some reassurance if what in doing is right or give me some pointers? I do not want to ruin the bond between the puppy and us, I don't want to poison the crate, I do not want to do anything to him that would harm him, because he's such a sweet boy. Our day looks kind of like this: He wakes us up, we carry him downstairs for toilet. He goes in the same spot for a pee and if he doesn't go for a poo within the first 5 minutes we go back upstairs (he gets super distracted outside with all the dead leaves, branches, etc). He pulls on his training lead quite a lot when exciting things happen during poorly break and I feel so bad when I am holding the lead firm. I always try to redirect him with a cue or a sound but not always successfully. If he gets too excited I just carry him home. We then give him fresh water and play with him a bit and try to do some short training, even if it's just reinforcing "sit". I try not to do training sessions for too long or to play with him too hard, because I don't want to overtired him. We try to settle him down for a nap in his crate. We give him chew toys, but he wants to play with them outside of his crate, which is ok, as long as he will be ok to chill in the crate afterwards. I don't know if the chew toys calm him down, or excite him when he accidentally throws them in the air, or pushes them away. We try to lure him to his crate with a treat and when he's in down position, we close the door and stay next to the crate. He then starts to whine. If he starts to bark, we wait for him to calm down, give him water and try to settle him again. If he barks again, we take him outside. Usually after that when he gets back to the flat he only whines in the crate, and doesn't bark. I know that sometimes he just wants a cuddle and we let him fall asleep in our lap and then move him to his crate. And it breaks my heart when he cuddles up and I was just having really negative thoughts and frustration towards him just minutes ago. When he goes berserk on zoomed, he bites our ankles and latches onto our clothes and growls. We started putting him in the crate (luring with food) for timeout and we leave the room. This usually clears his mind a bit. We hear if he's whining or barking and then we give him water and take him outside.

Are we doing the wrong things? I know that's he's a baby and he's only been with us for 6 days, but I want for him to have a great experience when he's with us. I know it should get a bit easier when we can take him for longer walk once he's fully vaccinated…

Thank you for your help, this community is really lovely and I hope that someone will be able to point me in the right direction

Hello all.

I have a 9.5 week old black Labrador puppy who i am beginning to love very much. I had severe puppy blues the first week, but this week i think i have just become accustomed to the absolute bone exhaustion that comes with his little fat self lol.

I had created a schedule ahead of time that had our whole day planned out. With room for naps, training, play and socialisation. But it seems it has all went to shit.

Pup will sleep anywhere from 6 hours at a time to half an hour before waking up and either needing to poop or just wanting attention. He is not very consistent at all and wont allow me to settle into any kind of routine, even if i dont sleep that often i would enjoy a very basic consistency level.

Does anyone have any advice on how to stick to a schedule? Due to my own personal exhaustion im sometimes awake at 6 am, sometimes 10 am and anywhere in between. He sometimes misses his breakfast slot (lunch is in an hour anyway) because of this.

How do we settle into any kind of schedule when we are both so disorganised?

Can I leave my 5-month-old maltese puppy at home alone for long hours as I need to work daily for approx. 8 hours? i will have her a playpen so she can be free and wont roam entire home and destruct anythg illl have a litterbox will pellets and pee pads for potty ill get her toys and enrichment mat slow feed bowl as well

Hello everyone I have a puppy for a month now, he is a cute 3 months old golden retriever but has big food agression/ressource guarding problem. The breeder told us to often be there when he gets his meals and touch the kibbles which we did. He has no food agression with his kibbles/treats. When he was a bit younger, when he had a big treat he would growl if we got near him but calmed down. Now , we decided to let him eat his fancy treats in peace, praising him each time, petting him and he seems pretty content with that and doesn't show any agression with those fancy bits.

The problem comes when we're outside. He tries to eat EVERYTHING. Sticks are OK for us as long if there's no risks of choking. He usually has no problem except if it's the stick. He shows a bit of agression towards tissues as well, but as it's dirty people's tissue and obviously it's tissue I don't want him to eat that and try to get it out of his mouth but simetimes he growls and try to bite my hand off.

He does the same when he finds food but ten times worse. Today he found a big chunk of something that seemed like bread and tried to eat it as fast as possible. I tried to get it off his mouth once again but he growled and bit me. Litteraly bit my finger.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, or what to do to correct this behavior. I've never had this issue with my former puppies. None of them showed any food agression, and were pretty okay if we took something out of their month when they ate something they shouldn't.

Any advice ?

Hi, I moved in with my fiancé and his family and they have 7 dogs. 4 of which are older mutts (2 males, 2 females), 1 puddle mix (he's younger than the 4 but about a year older than the 'trouble' makers) and 2 young female mutts (about a year and a half, maybe 2). . None of them are trained. They know their names (as far as I've noticed) but they fight a lot. Growl over food, and even have started to fight, as in one of the younger ones would growl at one of the older ones and the other young one went for her neck and vice versa. (They are kept separate for a period of time after such a thing happens, now even given food separately but not behind a door so if other dogs finish before they get close). . I've looked online but I'm not sure what resources are credible. I'd preferably want to have the youngest three semi trained or at least learn how to deal and prevent these situations in the future.

Thanks