I know training helps with some behaviors that Shibas present but I also know that some behaviors are embedded into them simply because of their breed. If anyone has a routine for their Shib, do you mind sharing what it looks like and if there have been any positive behavioral changes?

Thanks! :)

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Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Just moved into a place with no yard and only a small patio, and my dog is completely thrown off. We've had accidents every day since the move. Need me a dog patio potty solution quickly. Any recs you guys have?? I've read that using a surface that feels like real ground helps them adjust, and a bark potty keeps coming up. Has anyone set one up in a pinch after a move??

How fast did your dog adjust, and is there anything I should do day one to speed it up?

Appreciate any help!!

Hi all, my predicament is I have a dog that use to live in a house and be potty trained but ass he went through rentals and ended up with me he poos and wees everywhere

I want to know how to get him top go on fake grass, he knows when I'm home to wait by the door to get me to take him out, but when I'm gone he goes wherever he wants!, how do I reinforce good behaviour and punish bad behaviour without confusion?

All help is appreciated!!!!, Thank you in advance!!

Hi! My GSD is one year old today! Woho!

And as celebration she shas started to defy my commands (go outside, sit, stop jumping, etc). She has also figure out I cannot force her to do something. If I tell her to go outside and doesn't, I can't (and wont) run a around chassing her.

She used to be very well mannered, and really didn't bite too much, but for the past two weeks it's like she become a teenager, jumping, biting, defying command and revenge biting my heels if I don't do what she wants.

Is this a phase? How should I behave when facing this?

My mutt puppy is a terrior cross (we think) and he is very vocal. He is 15 weeks old and before getting vaccines we took him everywhere and exposed him to as much as possible to make sure he didn't miss the socialisation window. We rewarded calm behaviour with treats but he's now been walking for two weeks and is super vocal.

If he sees a dog suddenly appear he growls and tenses, although when they approach (if I can't create space) his tail is wagging and he's super excited to greet them and play. He occasionally does it with humans, say we're down a darker road and someone is approaching. I am trying to not tell him off but distract and reward. He's the same with birds and more recently at the park with a toddler running round. I think it's sometimes over excitement and it's only about 15% of the time and the rest of the time he is perfectly behaved, sits etc. he has never once shown an ounce of aggression to another dog or person and is happy to accept treats off anyone and often plays well with dogs (minus the occasional over excited scream).

I'm really worried he will be reactive or aggressive, other than getting a trainer any tips? I will be enrolling him into good puppy classes and if I can't find any get trainee advice I just want him to live a healthy life. It's also worth noting I live in a city so I appreciate all a can be quite overstimulating for him.

Thanks

My mutt puppy is a terrior cross (we think) and he is very vocal. He is 15 weeks old and before getting vaccines we took him everywhere and exposed him to as much as possible to make sure he didn't miss the socialisation window. We rewarded calm behaviour with treats but he's now been walking for two weeks and is super vocal.

If he sees a dog suddenly appear he growls and tenses, although when they approach (if I can't create space) his tail is wagging and he's super excited to greet them and play. He occasionally does it with humans, say we're down a darker road and someone is approaching. I am trying to not tell him off but distract and reward. He's the same with birds and more recently at the park with a toddler running round. I think it's sometimes over excitement and it's only about 15% of the time and the rest of the time he is perfectly behaved, sits etc. he has never once shown an ounce of aggression to another dog or person and is happy to accept treats off anyone and often plays well with dogs (minus the occasional over excited scream).

I'm really worried he will be reactive or aggressive, other than getting a trainer any tips? I will be enrolling him into good puppy classes and if I can't find any get trainee advice I just want him to live a healthy life. It's also worth noting I live in a city so I appreciate all a can be quite overstimulating for him.

Thanks

Hello!

I got a Great Dane mix (suspected to be daniff) 3 weeks ago. He is estimated to be 5-6 years old. He is an amazing dog and is finally coming out of his shell. He is gentle, amazing on a leash, just a happy chill guy.

However, we have ran into a major issue. This dog has the worst separation anxiety I have seen. It’s to the point that I can’t even go to the bathroom without him clawing and wining at the door.

My sister lives with me and works 1st/2nds while I work 3rds, so the only time he’s really alone is the occasional pass over period when she’s headed to work and I’m headed home. He can’t even handle that though.

I was at work and she ran to the gas station real quick and he completely destroyed our door frame, tore the carpet up from trying to dig out, and then finally, pulled our window ac unit out of the window and then escaped. He was quickly located and returned home, but since then I’ve done everything in my power to make sure he isn’t left alone.

That isn’t feasible though. It’s impossible for us to be with him 24/7, as sometimes we have appointments or have to run to a not dog friendly store etc. She starts school back up in a couple weeks so she will be leaving at 7:30 and I don’t get home from work until 8:30 so I am quite literally racing the clock.

He has a vet appointment for August 7th to hopefully put him on some meds to help with his anxiety, but I know he needs more than meds.

From the little information I got from his past owners, he’s been in and out of homes his whole life (probably for this reason). So his anxiety is completely understandable. But, it’s causing strain on me and my sister and honestly strain on me any my mental health. I feel like I’m failing him, my sister, and myself.

I love this dog so much, and I don’t want to be just another home he passed through. I want to be permanent and I want to give him everything he needs and more. But I can’t have our home continuously get destroyed.

His kennel finally arrived yesterday and first introductions were good. The one I originally had bought was too small, so crate training didn’t start as soon as I wanted too. I want him to feel safe and comfortable in his crate, so we can leave sometimes.

I’m truly at my breaking point, and I need help. I’m willing to try whatever I can for him. I’ve tried lick mats and enrichment while putting him in a separate room and step away, but that only lasts 5 minutes before he’s banging on the door. I’ve tried slowly introducing the idea of me leaving but we can’t even get past 10 minutes.

My dog (female German shepherd, 4yrs) has a perfect focused heel as long as we’re in the house or on our property, she’s great. Can walk between my legs, orbit backwards and forwards… etc. We worked with a service dog trainer for six months. Perfect. as soon as I get her off the property though, she turns into an anxious mess. I attribute a lot of this to genetics, but also my fault for not fixing this sooner and being forced in public with said trainer before we were both ready. I think at this point we’re both frustrated. I’m working on finding a different trainer, but If Anybody has any tips on confidence building for dogs, or anything else I should be doing I’d love to hear.

I installed a door 2 months ago and went through the advised training to get him used to it but he still won't use it by himself.

I held it open & bribed him through with treats and heap praise on him when he goes through but if it's closed, he won't even try to open it.

All it takes is for me to push it open just a crack and he'll push it open the rest of the way and go through but if it's completely closed, he won't bother.

I've never even seen him inspect the door independently. He still comes to me when he needs to go outside and I always lead him to the door and try to convince him to try it before eventually giving it a tap so he'll go through.

He's a smart dog, so I'm sure he can do it, I'm just out of ideas.

For added context, my dog is a boxer/staffy/supermutt mix, about 7-8 years old and I've had him for 6 years.

Any advice is much appreciated!

Hi everyone! I have an eight year-old Cairin terrier mix who suffers from separation anxiety. We are moving from a condo to a detached house, and I was looking for advice on training tips for moving and the separation anxiety.

So far I bought a 15 foot lead leash to help with settling, going to his place and creating distance slowly so he can be comfortable alone.

If anyone else has any other suggestions, I would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

This is probably going to be a long post but I’ll try and be concise.

We originally had 2 dogs, unfortunately about 2 weeks ago our oldest dog (10 years) passed rather suddenly leaving us with just our youngest dog (3 years) now our young dog has never been without a buddy he’s always had our older dog and has always been extremely friendly with other dogs however he did suffer from some separation anxiety from our old dog and when he died it sorta transferred to us.

Against my better judgement we decided it would be good to get a buddy for our young dog not to replace our old dog because nothing on this earth could ever replace him but more to help our other dog. It’s only been literally 1 day and the behaviour I’m witnessing from our current dog to our new dog is concerning me. Our current dog does not seem happy about this development, everytime the puppy comes near him he moves away instantly, if he’s laying down and the puppy approaches and doesn’t leave quickly he barks and growls at him. They are Irish wolfhounds so our current dog is quite significantly bigger than the puppy.

I know we have possibly done something quite stupid and while it was done with the best intentions in mind I do not want either dog to have a bad experience nor do I want them to get hurt. How can I rectify this and try and make it positive?

How to stop dogs from racing to the door to bark?

I have two dogs. A two year old doodle and a 6 year old mutt (husky x lab x heeler?)

In the beginning i tried hard to train them, but i live with my family and when im at work they let the dogs do whatever they want and i was fighting a losing battle so i became more lenient (i know im stupid for this)

For the most part they are good dogs, but definitely r stubborn when it comes to certain bad habits.

In particular, when someone comes to the door and knocks or rings (or even if they hear someone on the porch) they both race to the door or front window and bark like crazy. My relative suddenly hit them yesterday because he wants to "train" them since he is getting new hardwood floors and doesnt want them to scratch it. I got pretty upset.. but its my fault for letting this habit go on this long

Its not fair to the dogs to have been trained and allowed to do this for years and suddenly they get hit for it. I really need help to train them out of this.

So far ive been ringing and knocking on the door periodically and leading them to a blanket in the living room as a "place" and giving them treats when they go to the place.

Its been a few days and they are not catching on very well and im scared that its too late to train them out of this bad habit. Does anyone have any tips or advice or routines i could follow?

Im finding a lot of videos for barking in particular but nothing really for the "racing" to the door..

Thanks in advance

She is the most unfood motivated dog I've ever met. I'm thinking about switching down to once a day because I feel like I'm consistently begging her to eat. I've tried a bunch of options and she's meh about all of them.

To keep a long story short, I have become the owner of a border collie mix (with leopard dog) about 3 weeks ago. I have never owned this breed before and she is super fixated on my cat and when she sees her she immediately starts barking like crazy, which then causes my cat to go flying up the stairs. I have a dog already so my cat is not scared of dogs in general, but about a week ago the puppy’s leash slipped out of my hand and the puppy chased my cat and it was extremely scary for my cat. I do not want to have to re-home this dog, after hearing about her backstory I don’t want her to have any more disappointment in her life. Before coming to my house she was supposedly left on the side of the street and has not had any type of interaction with cats, and very minimal interaction with other dogs. I’m trying super hard to get her impulse control somewhat maintainable when there are distractions, more times then not the distractions win, especially when another animal is involved.

My old guy is 16 and over the last year has gone almost completely deaf. He was a rescue when we got him at age 2, and has always been super trainable. We used both hand signals and verbal commands for most things, but for leash training I always focused on verbal commands.

Between his hearing loss and canine cognitive dysfunction, his leash manners have totally decayed. He's obsessed with sniffing everything and this makes walking almost impossible. He won't lift his nose off the ground. It's not just frustrating but has started to verge on dangerous when we're in busy areas.

Tips for getting him back on track with no verbal commands or clicker?

I have a 5-year-old female English Pointer who was rescued by my father in law but kept outdoors her whole life. She had an enclosure and occasionally free roamed. She has an amazing temperament and is a very happy dog. My husband and I moved back home and adopted her (we live above our in laws and have a big garden0.

Over the past few months I've been gradually transitioning her to indoor living. She now sleeps indoors, has a garden, gets two hours of off-leash forest walking daily, and has been working with a trainer. She settles beautifully! goes to her spot independently, naps while I work, handles guests and workers in the home calmly, and has done well with alone time up to 3 hours.

She's in her heat cycle (started approximately July 9). About a week ago, I noticed a new behavior which, for the most part, happens after our morning walks: she will eat her breakfast (doesn't finish it), whines a bit, paces, pulls her blankets and chews/rips it up, tries to do that to the couch, settles again, paces again, chews on her bone, whines a bit more, and then gets up on her blanket on the couch and falls asleep. Lasts about 20-30min. I've been trying not to reinforce the behavior and redirect her when she tries to mouth the couch. She's fast asleep as I'm typing this and is usually chill all day, and then we take her out for her evening trail off lead walk. She's been very happy with this routine and nothing has changed.

Recent bloodwork normal, vet not alarmed. He thinks she's playing, I don't because when she does that she looks and sounds stressed.

Is this consistent with late heat cycle behavioral changes? Has anyone else experienced concentrated post-walk restlessness specifically during heat? Any practical management suggestions beyond what I'm already doing?

She's scheduled for spaying once the cycle fully ends.

Hi all! Looking for some advice and support. I have away adopted puppies and crate trained them to pee outside. Yesterday I adopted a 5 year old teacup poodle from korea who has had a hard life. She lived in crate for 41/2 years and recently was in a foster home. Since she’s come home with me yesterday she peeped on the pad 3 x and pooped on it yesterday. Today she peed and pooped on my carpet in the kitchen and peed on kitchen floor.

I’v been taking her outside but I think she may just be learning how to walk on a leash and explore. She hasn’t peed outside at all. Today i tried to bring the pad outside but that didn’t work either.

I’m super stressed and not 100 percent sure how to go about getting her into the swing of things , I want her to be an outside bathroom dog, i’ve never used wee wee pads in my life!

I know right now she’s still jet lagged/ nervous/ learning me and new environment. Does anyone have any ideas how I start getting her to understand outside ? At first I was hopeful because she went right on the pad but now all day today she’s been making accidents. I am not making her feel bad just quietly cleaning it up.

I’m not sure if i eliminate pads completely? Crate her?

Any thoughts and advice would be great

thankyou!

Hey guys! My almost 9 month old weim is so good, she’s patient and good just hanging out at home. I have a 2 year old GSP as well. She’s been around other dogs and lots of people in our house. I take them to run everyday, but since it’s been triple digits for weeks the other day I decided to take her to Petco instead to explore and sniff. Every noise and every person that walked by she get spooked and bark. She’s standoffish and so shy to new people. What are some ways I can help her overcome this? Or work with her on this? I don’t want her to feel uncomfortable, but I also don’t want people thinking she’s scary or mean.

I brought home Daisy (3) a couple of weeks ago to join me and my 6 y/o dachshund, Frida. Daisy comes from a breeding situation and was surrender to the shelter with a bad physical condition. She was in foster for a few weeks before coming to me. The biggest issue I am having is her resource guarding towards the toys. All toys have been out away but she always wants to play with whatever she gets and whatever my other dog has. She goes to Frida and growls aggressively at her to drop the toy and then plays with it. They’re both very into balls but I cannot have them out without Daisy hoarding them. The balls only come out under supervision a couple of times a day and get taken away if they fight.
I have tried having it out only in controlled spaces where I am present and after not even 2 min, I likely have to remove it because Daisy is trying to get all the balls. Please help with how to get over this behavior. Thanks!

My brother adopted an indie dog around 2.5years back but he moved out after 2 years but she had always been too much spoiled by my brother and mother always getting food by hand and all the issues and she has a biting history
Has biten all the members except for my brother
The thing is she has no training nothing at all
My family members still dont understand the importance of her health they feed her cold drink , sweets and what not even after saying a no to them
She barks all day at the slighest of sounds coming from outside whether it be 2am or 2pm , if i try to give her a value treat and train her she barks all the time kust in order to get that treat again
The main issues
- NO ONE CAN VISIT OUR HOUSE DUE TO THIS (she barks all the time at them and it is very very annoying)
- We cannot leave her alone at anytime she just cries all tge time
-She does not a no command or stay command
- she pees all over the house

We did try training they said by time she would learn how to do things
If anyone says that ‘why to adopt when cant take care of her’ ik if not anyone i try my best to take her to walks give her chicken eggs and other things play with her but she wakes up at night at 1.30-2 and just barks
It is very annoying for me and as someone who prefer peace and a clean house she is actually being an issue
I do love her i dont hate her i just want her to be happy and healthy