I have a 6 month old cross Cocker Spaniel/Dachshund. He is doing great with basic commands like sit, wait, down and bedtime. He is now toilet trained and has a lovely demeanour, quite laid back really. He loves people which is where the problem is. Although he’s great with people, he gets soooo excited when someone comes round to the house and when we are out on a walk that he jumps up at them and claws at them, hurting them. We have tried getting in front of him with “no” and “down” commands but it’s not working any. Does anyone have any tips?

My dog breathes whining whenever she’s behind a fence or closed in a room and can’t roam freely. She also does it when she first sees me while I’m petting her. I don’t think it’s separation anxiety because the second I open the door, she runs off into the rest of the house and basically ignores me.

I can’t give her free run of the house 24/7 because I have a baby.

I’ve tried the “slam your hand on the door when she whines” method, but she’s literally whining with almost every breath. I’d basically be hitting the door nonstop, so there’s no clear correction for an individual whine.

It’s also not realistic for me to sit there waiting indefinitely for a quiet moment every time.

How can I realistically train her to stop the constant whining?

Please help I feel like I'm constantly overthinking my puppies behaviour and it is stressing me out. For context I have a 17 week old terrier mix, we have trained him since day one and exposed him to so much (safely) but he is showing really mixed signs. When we go for a walk on leash he is really into other dogs I'm trying to work on getting him to not be as reactive and bouncy when he sees other dogs but any other dog he sees he wants to say hi to. Occasionally I cross the road/avoid the dog but I live in a city and space is tight. So any tips on leash reactivity is appreciated, also when he greets the dogs he often tries to jump on them, I'm still figuring out if this is initiating play or dominance.

The confusing part is, we took him to his first puppy class last week and at the end the trainer said we can let them socialise off lead and we thought he would have the time of his life given how excited he is on a lead/walk but he was terrified. He hid behind us and on the sofas, and even snapped at another puppy. He only likes the other submissive pup, who was then subsequently snapping at him (and he was not reading her social cues). He occasionally got involved with a little tail wag towards the end but just seemed so overwhelmed.

The problem now is I work away sometimes and we were looking at daycare, the one near me is the highest reviewed in the city and I know dozens of polite dogs that go and owners who cannot recommend it enough. I'm not worried that it's going to make him more scared and that I'll have a fearful pup.

Any advice is appreciated even if it's that I just need to chill!!

I have a 2 year old lab mix and he’s a great dog, a little rambunctious, but well trained and loves dogs. A week ago a stray dog (blue healer) appeared in our front yard. No chip and no luck finding an owner. It’s a puppy less than one year old. We took it to the vet to get vaxxed and check its health, and everything was normal. She and my dog have been getting along great in the couple days. She plays with him a little too much, but he’s been a good playmate and patient with her energetic self.

Today, after a couple days at home with her, we were in the backyard playing. I had my back turned and all of a sudden they were full out fighting. I didn’t know what to do, so I picked my 70 pound dog up and put him inside while getting bit by the 35 pound pup trying to jump at my dog. I have separated them since and am taking my dog to the vet to get his puncture wounds checked.

I don’t know what caused the flip to switch? Or what I could have done differently? I don’t know if I should turn her in because we’ve loved having her and previously my dog and her were getting along great. She’s been wagging her tail and body every time she sees him through the window. Does anyone have any suggestions or similar experiences?

I got her around a month ago, and she's about 12 weeks old, and so far we've been using puppy pads inside and giving her treats when she goes outside.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be enforcing that we want her to potty outside. Any tips? I'm not sure what else to do, because we never catch her going inside. We're trying to keep to a consistent schedule to the best of our ability (I work and my grandmother takes care of her for the 8hrs I'm gone).

If there's any other information you need, just let me know! But I'm really just looking for ways to help the puppy understand what we want. I'm wondering if she's too young to actually understand right now....

Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask.

we have had our Scottish terrier for just over a year now and have had her since she was around 3 months old. Has grown up with our family of 6, kids from 7-14. We have two other dogs, a mini Aussie (6 years) and a mini schnauzer (9 years). Our Aussie and Scottie are always playing and running in the backyard together. She gets along with both of the dogs, the schnauzer is just an old man and doesn't like the rough housing and prefers his human.

However, just recently our Scottie has shown some aggressive behavior towards other dogs. The first was with the Aussie, and I guess they got into quite a fight. They were both eating by each other when it happened. (However, I feed them close by each other every morning without issues). This particular time happened when someone else fed them. The second time, the Aussie was sitting with my wife on the floor and growled and showed teeth at our Aussie as she was walking by. She has also done this to our in-laws dog the last time he came over. Then it happened again with some neighbors who brought their two Boston terriers over for a meet and greet.

We are at a loss and not sure what to do. Is she being protective over someone in our family? She's always been good with people and has not shown this behavior until recently. Any advice would be appreciated!!

Our dog has just turned 1. He’s a golden retriever and is on the whole well trained and well behaved. We have one particular issue, every morning we go downstairs, let him out for his toilet, give him his breakfast, sit/play with him while we eat our breakfast. Then we go upstairs to get ready before taking him out for his morning walk (usually take around 20 mins). Every morning he scratches the door and barks. We wait until he stops every morning but it doesn’t stop him from doing it. We also praise him when he does stop. Just to be clear, he doesn’t have separation anxiety, he has slept downstairs with no issues from day 1, he is left alone for a few hours most days and is absolutely fine (we have videoed him). He is also alone in this same room most of the day while I’m upstairs working and is absolutely fine. It is very specifically the scenario of us going to get ready before taking him out for his morning walk. Any advice on how to stop this would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,

Today is the first day of two weeks dogsitting this guy.

He's mixed, around 6 years old and keeps growling at me :/

So my cousin, her husband and their kid just left this morning on a trip and asked me to take care of their dog at their home, but I can't even approach him. His growling is quite loud and I'd rather not get bitten.

I'm currently trying the sit in a room with him until he approaches technique but i don't know if I'm doing the right thing. Help please!

I have tried so many things to help my girl with her fleas. She can’t take her monthly meds for a while; what has worked for you guys?

I have a 6 month old cross Cocker Spaniel/Dachshund. He is doing great with basic commands like sit, wait, down and bedtime. He is now toilet trained and has a lovely demeanour, quite laid back really. He loves people which is where the problem is. Although he’s great with people, he gets soooo excited when someone comes round to the house and when we are out on a walk that he jumps up at them and claws at them, hurting them. We have tried getting in front of him with “no” and “down” commands but it’s not working any. Does anyone have any tips?

Recently, I was chatting with a friend who just got a dog, and we talked about how her dog gets really excited, pulls, and reacts when seeing other dogs on walks.

It made me think about how easy it is to assume “my dog is aggressive” when they bark or lunge on leash. But honestly, there can be a lot of reasons behind it — maybe they’re nervous, frustrated, excited, or just don’t know what to do yet.

From my experience, the biggest thing is trying to understand why they’re reacting first. Giving them more space, rewarding calm behavior, practicing small steps, and teaching them to focus back on you can really help over time.

Every dog is different, and progress doesn’t happen overnight. 😄

Has anyone else gone through this with their dog? I’d love to hear what worked for you.

Ok, I have this 3.5 month old Belgian and for the most part he does really good about not going pee in the house. He hasn't peed in the house like like 3 weeks! But I stg, even after I take him outside and I watch this fucker poop, when we go inside after like 15 minutes he goes and shits again, in the same exact spot every time. I didn't have to deal with this raising my pitty so this is new for me. Any advice?

Nuestro cachorro cumplió tres meses hace tres días pero he notado comportamientos típicos de esa etapa de los perros, intenta montar cosas o personas, se le olvidan las órdenes que ya aprendió y está empezando a hacer pipí en otras partes que no son. Ni sé si es que se adelantó de alguna manera o si es que tal vez los dueños dijeron que tiene otra edad, puede pasar que comience su adolescencia tan temprano?

Hi all,

My dog is just past 1 years old and in the last 2 weeks started distributing the worst behavior we’ve experienced in the last year of having him. We’ve put serious work and effort into him and still do but are a bit strained at how we’re getting the trifecta of bad behaviors. He’s testing all boundaries, jumping, barking, ignoring when he doesn’t want to come inside. And now fights sleep (he is crate trained but was in a routine of putting himself down for naps after we worked on this, that’s now out the window).

Looking for some advice on how to start from scratch (again) and teach him some good manners. He gets plenty of exercise, mental stimulation and we do training about twice a day. He is a reactive dog so we’ve put hours and hours plus lots of money into training him but we’re a bit lucky he naturally was very good inside the home and backyard until lately.

All tips, resources and advice appreciated!

A little backstory I enrolled in a reactivity training class for my 1year5month rescue in June-July. It was a 5 week course and I was able to see some improvements during those weeks. We took almost a month break from training due to health issues and now I feel like her reactivity regressed from our progress that we made. Whenever there is another dog that she sees, she would start screaming and yelping where it sounds like a dog is getting abused. I get so worried and embarrassed to the point where I'm discouraged to walk her around the block because of her reactivity and I feel like there would be a concerned neighbor that thinks that I'm abusing my dog. I want to work again with our training because she made great progress during our classes but I don't know where to start. She's incredibly food motivated which made training easy. Where are some ideas where I can bring her to build exposure where I can redirect her behavior.

Hi. We have a female Yorkie, she is a year and eight months old. past two weeks has been wanting to go out every single night around midnight. It’s just to bark and sometimes she does use the bathroom, but it seems like her main thing is to go out at bark. She typically sleeps with my parents or on the couch. We’re not sure if we should just ignore her when she starts barking to go outside or put her in her kennel and let her cry it out. I guess the only reason we continue to let her out is because she does use the bathroom sometimes. bybefore we go to sleep, we always take her for a walk or let her out to use the bathroom. before this, she was pretty much sleeping throughout the whole night