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My 6 month old puppy is pretty much potty trained using a bell, but he’s been having “accidents” lately in the house. He always seems to go in one particular place and because it’s carpet, I think that’s why, as everywhere else is hard flooring.

This is really frustrating me because he knows how to use the bell, but it’s also really making me feel disgusting because carpet is more difficult to fully clean than hard flooring. I’ve been using the Simple Solution cleaner and I feel like it’s just not working.

I’ve been following the instructions exactly as listed, including leaving for 10-15 minutes, but he keeps returning to this same spot.

Can anyone recommend an anti-enzyme cleaner (in the UK) that actually works to prevent repeat marking?

It’s getting to the stage where I just want to rip the manky carpet up and douse the floor in Dettol 🤢.

Have an Aussie and looking for a companion for him. He can be slightly territorial. Should I try, or leave him as an only dog? I would get training to help introduce.

I’m about to adopt and 8 year old chihuahua. She is said to be rather shy I havnt met her yet but I’m really excited. The only caveat is that I have to work a couple long shifts a couple days after the adoption event that she’ll be in town for. I have already secured a sitter who lives in my area and also has an elderly chihuahua so I think it will be a good fit for my long days, I work 3 10 hour shifts 3 days a week and then 2 8 hour shifts on the weekend. I can bring her to my second job on the weekends but not my primary job during the week. In the next couple months I’ll be full time at my second job and will be able to bring her to work with me but in the meantime I will need a sitter during the week. Im a bit worried that bringing her straight to the sitters house after only being in my house for a couple days will stress her out so I was thinking of having the sitter come to the house 2-3 times during the day and spending some time with her. I’m worried about her being alone in the house tho for that long even with someone to come check on her. I know the 3-3-3 rule is important and i really don’t want to stress her out by so much change is such a short period. I dont know whether it would be better to bring her to the sitter or have her come over. There are also 2 cats in my house that I have to slowly socialize her with so she’d be in my room for most of the day, I’m not as worried about that as she is a tiny girl and I have a big room and will have lots of toys and places for her to snuggle up but I’m still anxious. What should I do?

I'm always looking for small dog training videos for tips and breed research because I'd like my next dog to be significantly smaller than my current dog and I've noticed something a little weird.

I know what the typically trainable small dog breeds are:

Poodles, bichons, havanese, papillons, poms- but those are almost NEVER the dogs trainers have lol

If the trainers do agility they probably have a papillon. But if it's anything else- they have a chihuahua doing obedience training.

Like I want to say 70% of good small dog training content I find is with a chihuahua. What's up with that? Are they super biddable or something?

Do you have a different experience?

This happened to me with my dog and it honestly scared me. She is not off-leash trained.

I was walking her like normal, and somehow the clip on the leash unclipped on its own. I didn’t even realize it right away. Thankfully nothing happened, but it really made me rethink how secure those clips actually are.

I always assumed they were pretty reliable, but now I’m not so sure.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a known issue with certain types of clips?

As the title says im trying to arrange an appropriate home check to enable me to adopt a rescue dog. The Rescue is in West Yorkshire and is a Husky rescue, however im in Wiltshire( on the Bath/Bristol side) and although a request has gone online for a volunteer to come and do a one at my address, it seems there are none close to me. Is there a Home check network where I could request help or is there anyone here with Husky experience that could help me with my home visit?

Thankyou guys in advance as you could be doing me a massive favour ☺️☺️☺️☺️

ok this might sound dumb but I’ve been noticing something with my dog lately

he doesn’t just lick randomly… it’s like he does it more when I’m stressed or when I get back home after being out

and sometimes it feels less like “affection” and more like he’s reacting to something??

idk if I’m overthinking it but it started making me wonder if licking actually means different things depending on the situation

like do your dogs do it more at specific times or is it just random?

Does your dog turn his head when he hears an odd noise? Does your dog bury their food with your pants? This is the thread to ask why.

Please keep this thread to non-medical issues only.

I have bought two Diggs Pet's crates before for my dog and recently my dog chewed the bottom door latch. I have read this can be a somewhat common occurrence. I reached out to Diggs about buying a new one and they suggested I reach out to on the warranty part of the website. To my shock, I received the following message from their customer support. I cannot imagine treating customers like this is good for their business. Beware!

Diggs Care Team

4:23 AM (4 hours ago)

to me

Hi there [my name] ,

You are stupid. Fuck off. You're data is compromised with Diggs.

All the Best,

Alexandra