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I have a 12 week old Giant Schnauzer and I’m at a loss for what to do for potty training. I have potty trained so many dogs before and usually by this point, notice some progress with bladder control.

Please tell me what I’m doing wrong. My puppy has his last call for water at about 7:30 pm and we do a potty break. After which, he goes in his crate. We do a potty break at 8:30pm then again at 10:45 . After which, he goes out every 3 hours. First at 1:15 am, again at 4:00am and again at 6:30am.

Well tonight, he went out at slightly different times at 8:15, 9:15, and 10:30 because he was whining, which he typically doesn’t do in his crate at this time. He did pee the last two times he went out. At 1:00am, before I could wake up, I smell his urine from across the room and woke up instantly. He had peed all over his crate and was fully laying in it. I took him out, and he pooped. Now I’m sitting here trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong.

The reason his times are slightly staggered and not every 3 hours on the dot is because i try to wake up in time to catch any accidents instead of pushing him to his limit.

Something else that was different tonight, normally when he goes outside in the middle of the night, he’s very sleepy and will potty then come sit next to me as if to say “Back to bed pls” but tonight, he was bursting with energy. I had to chase him from chewing a stick bc no one has time for that at 1am.

This puppy bubble is killing me bc I can’t exercise him enough so maybe he’s going to bed with too much energy?

He did have a urinary tract issue about 2 weeks ago. Not an infection but just inflammation. In which he was going anywhere, at any given time and we couldn’t track it. That seems to have cleared up but what has remained his pungent urine smell and unpredictable potty schedule. Lastly, his crate divider is as far as it will go to ensure he doesn’t have too much space but I fear it still may be too much.

Overall, I feel like we’re still having accidents when he goes outside almost every 30 minutes to an hour during the day. Which I expect but since his UT thing I feel like we’re regressing in training. I swear if I don’t go back to sleeping at least 4 hours at a time, I’m going to lose my mind!

Should we go back down to every two hours? I’m also inconsistent with the treat/praise thing when he goes outside if we’re going out in the middle of the night. Most times in my sleep haze, I forget to grab a treat on my way out.

hey all! i’m getting my girl spayed tomorrow and was wanting to get insight from you all on how to best care for her afterwards as i have never spayed a dog on my own (my family has always had previously spayed rescues). my girl is 7 months but has been excellent with free roaming alone at home- i was bringing her to work but recently discovered that she doesn’t like it at my work and is stressed when she’s there. my issue with leaving her home is there is nobody home during the day to take her out, but i know that during the recovery process she will need to be in her crate and not running around with my roommate’s dog. i’m wondering if i just bite the guilt and the anxiety and crate her while we’re all at work and hope that someone will be home to take her out every few hours, but that’s not promised; my other option is to bring her to work, even though it’s not her favourite place, but at least i can keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn’t run around and break her stitches. this is a long post just to say that i’m unsure what would be best for her. she’s gonna be uncomfortable and hate me for the 2 weeks of recovery but i just wanna see what option would be better for her and her comfort 🙂 ty in advance!!

Hi , I know this is an old question, but need help please ! We are not new to puppies but we now have two new cavoodles we got at six weeks I think it was (allowable time to be taken from mumma from a breeder). We are having a hard time toilet training these two. We show then the dog door, take them out first thing in the morning, talk and touch grass and tell them what is is, wait for ages , one might do a wee, is praised and given a tiny treat, nothing for the other one , we finally go inside and after a minute they will both poo. This goes on and off all day, one is getting better, will poo outside and come in for a wee, but the other has no clue. They are brother and sister. What else can we do, if husband has to clean up once more think he will be out lol. We are both home with them all day everyday so they get plenty of times to be shown, we take them out to play as well not just toilet. HELP please .

My pup is 5 months old and every walk he will start biting his leash and tugging on it making walking extremely hard. Any advise or training anyone can suggest that would help? Thank you!

Helloo! We have a lovely puppy (4months) for 2 months and a little. She's doing great so far but I'm concerned about possible food reactivity and how to handle it. I've noticed 2 things: 1. Sometimes when she's eating, I would call her name so she knows I'm coming and pick on her ears, tail, paws for seconds so she's desensitive of me touching her. As soon as I got close she got stressed or something and started swallowing her food really fast, so I stopped that. 2. When we're out on walks and eats something of the ground, I immediately try to get it out and that's where she becomes the devil, pulling away, turning her head around, getting on two feet and scratching me. I need to note that at home she doesn't act like that and when she picks a sock or something else, she lets me get it out easily. She also lets me lift her lips to check her teeth. So I need your advice on how to let her feel safer with me searching her mouth and how to handle this behaviour.

Hi folks, I own a male basset hound and live in an apartment. I keep getting complaints and looks of disgust whenever i take my hound in the elevator to take him out. They all complain about his odor. Even when i wash my dog, they still complain of his smell. I changed his harness because that was starting to have an odor but it didn't help and after a while the new harness is starting to smell a bit. I obviously cant tell as much since I live with my boy, and the only smell i can sense is from his breath.

The only logical thing i think of is if its because of his teeth/breath that's causing him to give off that dog smell in the elevator? Or is just natural for hounds to smell. It's getting quite annoying and offensive seeing people hold their noses right in front of me when taking the elevator only 3 floors down. I've struggled to brush his teeth since he was a pup. He is now 5. I'm planning to take him to a dentist to get his plaque cleaned off since I've never had any luck brushing his teeth ever. Any advice would be great. Thanks.

We have a doggy door that leads to a step to the back yard. Our husky keeps laying on it when their is another step five feet away that is exactly the same and keeps blocking the doggy door for our other dogs.

I need something that is big enough to stop him from laying on it but also that the other dogs and people can get out, it need to be able to be screwed into the wooden porch.

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for some tried and true lotions, supplements, sprays, conditioners, anything for dogs with dry skin! We recently took in a dog that was dumped on our property. We did some digging trying to find the owner, and instead we found the shelter where he came from. We got his medical records and found out he most likely has color diluted alopecia (he is a 3ish y.o. blue/white weimaraner mix according to the shelter.) He is also heartworm positive so he is on doxy, and I'm not sure if that might contribute to the dry skin. We have only had him for about 3 weeks now, and the previous owner will not answer despite several attempts of contacting them, so we don't know if this is his norm. The temp in my area has dropped significantly in that time and now his skin is flaky and dry. Any recommendations would be super helpful! I have done some google searches but found very mixed reviews on so many products. If anyone has had any similar issues with dry, flaky skin on their pup, I would love to know what yall have used that really works! It's mostly on his lower back area near his tail, so we need something that won't make him sick if he licks it. He definitely will.