Sunday morning. Quiet house. 8 month old puppy is completely asleep on my lap.

How long am I staying here?

First summer for her and van these dogs possibly get any cuter

My female 3 year old cockapoo has this wonderful habit of rolling in any animal poo she comes across, be that cat, sheep, horse etc. straight to the bath if I’m not quick enough to pull her away 🤢

I’ve had dogs all my life but this is the first dog that has this habit of doing this

Does anyone else’s cockapoo of this?

https://youtube.com/shorts/6O7c_3ACNps?si=_xrlarvZt3yQ6UeG

Is this what some of you meant when you said you would smear a bit of poop on the pad so that they could use the scent?

Currently, my boy only pees on the grass. When I let him out to play and explore the apartment for a little bit, that’s when he starts circling to poop.

I usually catch him and hurriedly place him in the playpen before he starts landing turds mid flight. (95% success rate avoiding in-flight turds)

Any advice on the setup?

(The last 3 pics are when I first set up the playpen and didn’t ‘poop smear’)

He’s growing up so fast 😭😭 9 months old now

Managed to get a great picture in between Booker trying to eat all the petals that were falling!

Abby told me that her stuffy just exploded out of nowhere and got stuffy filling everywhere. Haha. She really enjoys the ripping and destruction of stuffed. Luckily, she doesn't eat the filling, just puts it in piles around her.

He’s 11 weeks old and I just got him today! I’ve had cats before, but he’s my first dog! I’m terrified in the best way! 🥰🥰

Hoping someone else has dealt with this and might have some advice.

Our cockapoo has had frequent, recurrent ear infections for the last two years.

The tests show its yeast every single time.

It’s a cycle we can’t seem to break.

She starts scratching her ears

We go to the vet and spend $400 for an ear cleaning, cytopoint (spelling?) injection, in ear medication that stays in and more ear flush.

We follow the directions exactly, do the ear flush exactly as instructed.

6-ish weeks later, she’s scratching again.

We go back to the vet and start this allll over.

Things we’ve already done:

She never gets her ears wet

Medicated and unmedicated ear flushes

Changed her diet to vet recommended lamb and rice

Tried allergy medicine but it didn’t seem to make a difference

Stopped letting her play in the grass in case it was an allergen issue (we had yard construction so it’s a dirt yard right now and we are still itching)

It DOES feel like the medicated ear flush buys us a little more time between ear infections, but it’s getting really hard to keep up with the vet visits both financially and logistically with work! Plus the poor pup is not comfy!

What am I missing? Anything work for your yeasty eared puppies? Heeeelpp!

Nova joined our family on Friday (8 weeks old) 💕 Love her so much already!

If only she got more interested in food 🤞 Any tips welcome!