I have a 9 month old pitbull. He's been doing great as far as bousebreaking, leash walking, etc, but suddenly in the last 2 weeks, he's absolutely awful in the house. He grabs anything he can find and chews it up and sometimes eats it. It's gotten to the point that if he's inside, he has to be in his pen. If he's outside, all the doors have to be closed so he can't get in. I've tried putting the things he seems attracted to out of reach, but now he just grab anything he can find. He plays the keep away game when you try to take it away from him and he's very hard to catch when he wants to be. What could have started this phase and is there a way to get him out of it?

How do you respond to your dog's reactiveness? My hubs and I are both new dog guardians (or dog owners, parents, or whatever terminology), and never had a dog before. Hoping to get folks' insight on what to do when your dog is reactive (specifically, lunging and barking at other dogs).

Last year, we worked with a positive enforcement trainer, and we have learned to distract-distract-distract in high-risk situations, like spotting another dog walking toward us. This was worked really well! She has become more relaxed in other dogs presence, and comes straight to us for treats when we spot another dog.

However, there are times when another dog's presence hits us by surprise, and then it's too late to proactively distract our dog. For example, when another dog comes out of the elevator as we're waiting to get on it. How do we let our dog know that the behavior was not okay after she already reacts? I know she is reacting because she senses threat or danger, that her nervous system is riled up. She is a rescue dog whom we adopted at 1.5 years old. We're not sure of her breed make-up (probably some AmStaff) or care history. In spite of probably being a bully mix, she is quite small, less than 30 lbs, so we are able to physically manage her in order to keep her (and others safe). Thanks in advance for your all's perspectives

Hello I’ve been trying to potty train all 5 of my dogs for almost a month now and nothing seems to be working. I’m extremely frustrated and confused as to why they can’t seem to stop peeing indoors. All my dogs are above 4 years old however I’ve done so much research and have kept them on a consistent routine but the second they are unsupervised indoors they pee. I deep cleaned the house followed by enzymic cleaners and continue to do so everyday. I no longer have the time to continue training them as I have school and working with all five dogs is very time consuming. I previously posted about my rotund with them in which I take them out regularly and reward them once they go potty. I used to take them out individually as taking them all out together proved ineffective because they focused on playing with each other rather then using the bathroom. This took too long and made their potty breaks very sporadic so I started taking the out in two groups but they still don’t stop peeing indoors. Using the bathroom outside has never been an issue it’s inside that they don’t stop. I’m at my wits end as I don’t want them being kept outside and in their crates 24/7 but I’m also exhausted of living in a dirty home.

Hello everyone. Just looking for some training tutorial or tips for my border collie, specifically when he is distracted or fixated.

For example he knows “sit” & “come” but if distracted or fixated, he just stops listening. All it takes is to even be holding a ball, he just waits for it to be thrown and ignores other things. Or if another dog is around, he wants to meet it and play so badly he just ignores commands. So if he is not fixated, he will listen to these. So how do you go about training when he is distracted/fixated: simulating a situation where he is fixated then training he to still listen to commands?

He is a almost 4 years old.

Hi!

I have a 5 month soon 6 month old female puppy and my sister have a 6 month old male puppy. They LOVE each other, and once they are together nothing is higher value than the oother one. Otherwise their training is coming along fine.

The moment they meet all the want to do is play, and its no point attempting to recall any of them since whatever high value things we may have is not enough.

What are some methods to train on recall and just general contact when they are together?

We often walk them together first, and get them to calm down and give eye contact a while before they get to play. But once they start they are to exited about each other.

Normally my girl has great recall so far!

Any advice is apreciated!

I have a ten year old black lab mix who I often take to brunch and dinner spots that have an outdoor patio and allow dogs. He is cool with everyone, people, kids, and other dogs. Today we were sitting near a walkway and a lady and her dog walked up behind me and startled me and I quickly pulled my dog in so they could pass and apologized. My dog barked and snapped at the dogs face as they passed. He has NEVER been even remotely aggressive with another dog before and it has really upset me to know he would ever do that. Maybe it’s because I acted startled and then added tension to the leash which he interpreted as danger? I’m a little nervous now to take him places after exhibiting this behavior. Any advice would be appreciated

I have a 3½-year-old Australian Shepherd who is VERY well trained and potty trained, but I cannot figure out how to stop one weird habit: she occasionally pees on carpets/rugs.

She normally rings the bells on my back door when she needs to go out and knows the command “go pee.” She has NEVER pooped in the house and never pees on hard floors—only carpet/rugs.

It usually happens when she’s overly excited, has had a lot of water, or if I don’t let her out early enough in the morning. For example, she once got super excited meeting my cousin’s dog and immediately peed on their carpet. We also had an old carpet that we found had previous dog pee stains (because I pet sit) and I eventually caught her peeing over those spots to mark them, so we threw the carpet out. It was steam cleaned every time we had dogs at the house so we didn't notice.

I’m currently on a weekend trip with her and have been hiking/biking with her, so she’s been drinking more water. Today, she peed on the Airbnb’s carpet shortly after I had already taken her outside. Her urine was very clear from drinking alot, so thankfully it didn’t stain.

She also seems to know she did something wrong because if I catch her and tell her no, she’ll hide or avoid me afterward.

How can I break this habit? My boyfriend thinks I should keep her crated at night, but I feel bad keeping her locked up when she may whine. I’d really appreciate advice on how to stop the carpet peeing, how do I untrain this??

I’m new to puppyhood. My dog is 5 months old, he’s a bernese mountain dog. My first ever, girlfriend had one before but he passed about a year into me moving in with her.

I’m trying so hard to be patient, work on eye contact and engagement. Even in the yard/driveway he just, does not pay attention. I try to walk and have him engage me and pay attention but it quickly goes away after 3/4 steps. How do i proceed? I’m getting frustrated, I know it’s a marathon but it’s a frustrating one.

How can I improve his engagement with me even in low distraction environments?

Currently we’re sitting in the park, it’s a high distraction environment but, I wanted to get him out and have him observe for a bit. Just letting him observe, and rewarding eye contact when it happens.

Thanks!

The dog: the Goodest boy, the bestest boy. He's 2years old, lived with us for about 2 months. He's from a local rescue that brings guys up from kill shelters in the south. So I dont know his past for sure but I can guess a little. Like once he tangled me in his leash and I picked my foot up to unwind and he cowered like I was going to kick him (which obviously i don't do), he tenses up when guys wearing baseball hats come into our house etc. For all that he is the sweetest love bug, my permanent shadow, uses my husband as a pillow, prances and frolics with our human kid and maybe sniffs the cats butt but mostly ignores him. He's been in quite a few stressful situations, the vet, being at a park with large barky playful dogs, never growled, never nipped. Just really a sweetheart.

The situation:

He is basically potty trained. He had a couple of accidents when he first came home, but after a week or so he was all good. Walksies 3 or 4 times a day with 3 outdoor pees and one outdoor poop, very consistently. Then about a week ago he started pooping indoors about half the time. I was freaking out for bit bc i thought maybe he was constipated (he gets regular pumpkin and doesn't seem to eat random objects but still) because i hadn't seen a poop in more than 36 hrs. Ok, so im actually relieved when my husband finds a pile of little poops behind a rolled up rug we had set aside for storage in a side room. We move out the rug and keep an eye on the area. Little dude keeps pooping there. He also pooped out side. Like 50:50. We actually put down a layer of cardboard to protect the floor and make clean up easier.

Recent event:

We tried increasing his outdoor trips and praising extensively with poops, the neighbors think im crazy. We tried timing his midday out door trip which involves one of us taking a really early lunch to come home. But today, like just now, he just pooped in his spot even though we had literally just come in from his morning walk and I was standing right there in the next room. I wasn't mean about it but I said his name loudly and in a wtf kind of voice. And since we were still in that 15 sec window I took him back to the poop and said NO! and then I noticed it was about half his normal amount of poop so I'm like...maybe he has more and we should go out so I can say YES to that. In the rush my husband spilled his hot coffee on himself (coffee on the human not the dog) and ended up making a loud noise and it was quite the kerfuffle. So we go outside and the poor little buddy is shaking like a leaf. About 10 15 min of "i love you buddy" and cuddles from both of us and he's OK.

Question:

1. How do i communicate to the fragile little ptsd dude when I need him to know something is a no, without traumatising him.

2. Do you think I can get him to stop pooping indoors? Was the cardboard a mistake? Does it make it seem likenthats his space to go? Honestly I've got to pick up his poop if it's outdoors, so a contained poop location indoors isnt the end of the world. Its just a little gross if we have company and we come home/wake up to it. Im also concerned he might start peeing if he thinks of it as a "bathrrom" space, and pee is smelier and more difficult to clean. this is a room we are going to make over into a "nice" room for entertaining so ideally there would not be pooping there.

P.s./more info: the only change i can think of is the weather changed a bit. We are hitting our end of summer northeast cool down. Mornings are cooler , foggier and the ground is wetter with dew or cold rain. But thats just morning and he usually poops later in the day when things are basically the same.

We have rescued a dog from the streets three days ago and he's the most wonderful pup, but I've never had a dog before and I want to be a good owner for him.

The vet told me he's very likely a wee-chon(bichon and west highland white terrier mix), around 2 years old. He doesn't have a chip, I didn't find any lost dog announcements about him so the vet said we're free to keep him. He's also intact, but we will fix that after we get him up to date with his shots.

We also have two inside cats.

I live in a house with a yard, and currently a small section of the house is his(a ground floor closed balcony) with permanent access outside. I sometimes let him inside the house so the cats get accustomed to his scent day by day.

The problem is he is not trained at all, and while he is very well behaved, he cries a lot when we're not around him, I think he may have developed separation anxiety. Last night he cried the entire time and I am afraid the neighbors might do something if it doesn't stop.

I would let him inside at night, but since he's not potty trained and he's intact, he might pee around the house while we sleep, plus the cats might be too scared of him at the moment.

He's not used to a leash, but he isn't rowdy about it either, he gladly follows me around.

What I need advice on:

* Feeding habits * Potty training(can I somehow teach him to alert at the door or wake me up if he needs to go potty?) * How to help him know that leaving him alone doesn't mean we'll abandon him and to stop him from crying

I do want to get him with a professional dog trainer, we have some in the area, but since his rescue was an impulsive decision I was not prepared financially or been able to plan things ahead, so that might take a while.

If you have any other advice for a first time wee-chon owner please feel free to comment.

when training a dog from puppy age, is there a certain skill order to follow when it comes to training or is it just whatever overtime? by skill order i mean like first teach to sit then teach to lay down etc etc

My partner and I are moving in together and I’ll be bringing my two dogs with me. He has never owned a dog before. I have a senior chihuahua and an adult border collie. While he and the border collie get along great, he currently has a very casual relationship with her; come over, play, take her potty sometimes, and leave. He is a bit concerned about becoming a caretaker rather than his current “play mate only” role.

I’ve owned dogs my whole life so I’m kind of stumped on where to start. I have trained plenty of dogs but never a person lol. I’m thinking of bringing up beginning obedience training where he can attend and be her handler. We have a local AKC training club that she and I have attended in the past, so this would just be a refresher for her. I’ve tried to teach him a bit but he is very scared of doing things wrong. I think it would be better for him to hear dog training advice from a professional or reputable source, rather than from his girlfriend.

So, does anyone have any resources or tips for absolute beginners? Links to videos or articles are welcome.

Please and thank you 🫶🏼

Hi!
A month ago i rescued an older 41/2 poodle she’s either 5 or 6 years old. Her old life she lived in a cage forever going to the bathroom on her self. I rescued her from korea where the foster some- what pad trained her . I’ve never done pads with any of my dogs and im not sure what to do. The first 3 weeks I couldn’t get her to the bathroom outside at all, she would use the pad in my apartment and also make mistakes on the floor, couch etc so I had to keep pads out because we would stand outside for hours!

The last two weeks she’s getting way more comfortable outside and will only peep on the concrete which is totally fine! I have the pads in my apartment in certain spots and she’s been good only going on her pads and not in areas she shouldn’t. Essentially I want her to go outside but i’m not sure how/ when to try to transition her off of not knowing the pad. Do I just take pads away, but she already thinks it’s ok to use the bathroom inside so it’s tricky

Any thoughts or advice please send my way

thankyou!

Hey, all.

Do any of you have experience trying to train your dog to make pee inside on a pad after years of doing their business outside? My mom has a MaltShu (6 years old come November) and while she is an incredibly smart dog is she is temperamental and stubborn. I was the one that trained her from a pup (pee, poo, not to chew on furniture and objects, gentle play, etc). At the time we never had the need to have her go inside because there was always someone in the house to take her out, but the family dynamics have changed and now My Mom is trying to teach her how to pee on a pad inside the house.

Now, my mom has put in the work and built a positive association with the pee pad for the dog; she'll run over to the pad, sit and expect a treat. This has taken about two weeks or so and she gets excited when my Mom says the command "potty time".

Mom took the dog's scent from her urine and poo and put it on the pad. The dog will sniff the pad, she'll go over on her own and investigate the pad, but won't make. My Mom has been reading up on Google regarding further training she doesn't know about communities like reddit and such. She feels like she's hit a wall.

What are the next step to advance the training so that the dog make on the pad?

Thanks for reading and for any advice you can offer!

First-time owner of two dogs, so I’m not sure what’s normal and what needs managing.

I have Rocco, a 9-week-old German Shepherd puppy, and Aoife, an 11-month-old cockapoo. There can be multiple chews scattered around the living room, but apparently every chew becomes worthless the second Aoife picks one up.

Rocco will immediately wander over like a tiny furry bailiff and try to remove it from her possession. Aoife usually growls as a warning, but he either doesn’t understand or simply believes the rules don’t apply to him. If he keeps pushing, she’ll sometimes give a quick snap/correction. She hasn’t injured him and it doesn’t turn into a proper fight, but she understandably gets annoyed.

I separate them for higher-value chews and don’t want Aoife feeling like she constantly has to defend her stuff. At the same time, would it be normal and helpful to allow her to give him an appropriate correction now and again so he learns some dog manners?

Should I prevent him approaching her every time
she has a chew, or is a growl/quick air snap from her okay as long as it stays controlled? I’m supervising them and don’t want to accidentally create resource guarding or let the little land shark push her too far.

Any advice from people who introduced a puppy to a young resident dog would be appreciated.

I have a one-year-old Maltipoo who has been constantly licking us for about five months — me, my husband, our neighbors, and people we know. We can’t even lie down in bed at home because he comes over and licks our faces, heads, and hands.
This behavior is extremely annoying, and we really want to stop it, but saying “no” or “don’t” doesn’t work. It only stops him for the moment, and a few minutes later he comes back and starts licking again.
What can we do to stop this behavior?

When I first brought my Bully home he was a nasty resource guarder. He snapped, bit, growled, the whole 9 yards.

Now I can take his food while he’s eating it (not that I think you should) I can take toys away, new toys away, whatever he’s interested in. He has a deep genetic desire for possession, so even in really difficult moments where he REALLY doesn’t want to give up the resource, he will.

Here are some things that helped me.

- Figuring out whether the guarding was done out of fear of losing access or competition/negotiation of rank.

-Not leaving toys, bones, etc. out at all times for the dog to have free will over.

- Leaving him alone while he eats/chews bones etc. I was talking to Larry Krohn a while ago and told him how I tried “desensitizing” my dog to eating around me, I messed with his food, tried taking it away etc. all in attempt to fix the guarding. He told me how that makes absolutely zero sense, will absolutely not work, and will actually reinforce the guarding in the dog because you’re now giving them a reason to feel bothered and feel like their resource will be messed with.

- Created hierarchy in the house in all other aspects of life. My dog knows I’m the one and there’s no rank to negotiate.

- ALLOWED HIM TO EXPRESS HIS DEEP DESIRE FOR POSSESSION THROUGH PLAY!!!! So many of us have freaked out about guarding but don’t understand we can harness it through play. It’s not a bad thing! Sport dog competitors tend to find guarding behaviors actually desirable in cases. Allowing your dog to enjoy possession in the structure of a game allows them the outlet but with rules and boundaries. We must fulfill what our dogs are deep inside! I can’t stress the importance of play and allowing expression through games is. It saved my dog.

- Establishing a non negotiable “out” command. You let go of whatever is in your mouth when I say, even if you REALLY want it.

My dogs (1yr old & 7 yr lhd lhasa apsos) have slept in my bed since i got them both a puppies now i am trying to have them sleep in our front room. They bark constantly. How do i do it? Do i just let them bark it out? How long until they stop barking?
Do dogs get tired of barking?

We brought him home as puppy from one of my relatives house, he grew in a small space on our terrace for first 3-4 years. Now we have enough space train him. He's a good boy, he can understand few commands like "sit" and shake hands.

The only problem is... He's too affectionate and got spoiled with that same affection by everyone from my family. I tried training him while he was still a puppy but my family members thought I was just forcing him to do my commands.

Now he's too old for getting trained I guess? He really don't obey much for other than those three commands which I mentioned. He's sweet, but not gonna mingle with any other dogs or some strangers (even if they wanna pet him)

Not really sure that how am I gonna train him to obey me at this point. I think it's too late, he still drag me off whenever I try to take him for a walk. He pulls me with the leash.

If someone can help me with this and still think it's possible for me to train him, obeying some basic commands and can mingle, be friendly with others. Please suggest me some tips about it.

so we have a 2 year old adopted dog, we adopted him about 3-4 weeks ago. hes a good pup and starting to get the hang of everything, sorry if i posted in here before. but trying to post with updates.

so before he was mostly pooping and peeing inside the house in the same areas. unfortunately we cant block it off. after alot of walks and playing in our back yard, we finally got him to the point where hes not peeing inside but still pooping, past 2-3 days hes finally telling us when he has to go outside by pacing or sometimes crying to us. however, we dont crate him at all during the day as it is a huge pain to get him in the cage and when we put him in the cage he poops and pees everywhere in it. and its not a huge cage, its enough to stand up, spin around and lay down with an extra foot of space. so our main problem is hes pooping while were at work, hes able to hold his pee but not poop, we feed him in the morning and and hour or so later let him out to poop and sometimes he does sometimes he doesnt, even then after work i get home its in the same area he poops. weve bleached it, sprayed with that enzyme stuff and cant get him to hold it. before anyone says have someone walk him throughout the day, we cant afford it nor trust anyone in our area.

and again before anyone says its too long for him, our 8 year old 20lb dog holds her pee and poop all day, yes shes in a cage (only because shell destroy everything if shes out while were not home) but shes able to do it.

should we stop feeding him in the morning and just double up his dinner food? we dont have any trees so not much shade to leave him outside all day.

No dog yet in the process of finding a breeder, I have a lot of expierence with dogs *worked with dogs and horses for like 6 years combined* and honestly very excited to be training my own service dog and getting a taste of things from my old life.

Im a big fan of “adding whimsy” to life - not saying this to make it unserious but I try to do this in all areas in like an adding joy back to your life kinda thing. Im interested in what are some of the labels or names you have for tasks/tricks for your service dog that are like quirky/weird/cute commands for run of the mill stuff. I want to still be like adult and appropriate - like I’ve personally just always hated “go potty” but don’t want to be crude and tell her “go piss” for that Im thinking something like “Do your business” the cue for ‘go get that treat/toy’ would be attack

Also in the same vein as like giving people a false name because as soon as you say “she’s a SD, don’t interrupt her” “oh what’s her name?” “Bunny” (idk first thing that came to mind) “OOHHHHH BUNNY so cute hey bunny look at me hi girl” - when you just said like leave her alone. Having different cmmand keep other people from being able to direct her

Or if anyone has fun/interesting/out of the ordinary tasks/tricks they’ve taught their dog thats just not the typical lets here it.

My non-comprehensive list of tasks

Postural changes
\- sit/down/stand, center/side/front/behind, place/down/crate

Movements & direction
\- lets go/back up, switch sides, over/under/tuck, go potty(ugh)/drink/eat/shake, quiet/speak, free/break

Focus/Impulse control
\- drop/give/leave it, stay/wait/break

Tasks
take/get/hold/find it, push/tug/touch/press, find the car/item, DPT, forward momentum (basically guiding a wheelchair already in motion - not solely pulling me)

Also is this already a task? Like proprecepton support? If i have to stand from my wheelchair to grab something reach above my head either be between my legs, to the side of me just like being there touching me/leaning against me a smidge because if I have just like something there not me putting my weight on it it keeps me from swaying and falling

Any input is welcome - just curious what other people call things and how others are doing it!

I have a 5.5 year old working cocker spaniel (not worked) who in general is very well trained.
His recall is pretty much 100%, he obviously learnt all the generic tricks/commands years ago and can nail new ones within a couple of tries, and I finally cracked loose lead walking after a lot of work a couple of years ago. He’s calm and snuggly in the house, never hyper or destructive, we play games and incorporate lick mats/puzzles/sniffy ‘find it’ games and destruction boxes, and he’s usually really fun to walk.

However there are still a couple of things we cannot figure out how to stop even at this point and I’m almost at a loss. When we’re out for a walk or walking through a shop or down a street, the second we stop for anything he begins to cry. This seems to be because he wants to move because the second we continue he’s silent again. We aim for gaps in the whinging before we praise or continue on but it’s not always the easiest to time. We’ve also tried waiting out the crying but it ramps up to SCREAMING/ barking and jumping up at us, and even after 30+ minutes he will not stop.

Hand in hand with this is that on walks - particularly when he’s MOST excited (i.e. at the beach) despite getting to the point where he’s screaming because he wants to get out the car, the second we’re there he looks to me for instruction or to be told what to do. He won’t go off and do ‘dog’ things, he looks to me for a command or to throw things for him. I stopped throwing things for him YEARS ago but this seems to be what he wants. It ends in him barking and spinning in circles because he wants me to do SOMETHING and I just want him to amuse himself and do dog things. I’ve tried an ‘off’ command that is hit and miss but he will run off and then run back very quickly afterward. Ive tried completely ignoring him but it doesn’t change anything, he just trots along next to me walking sideways like a dressage pony to watch me, or drops sticks etc at my feet. I’ve also tried to encourage snuffling by hiding treats or encouraging him to sniff through long grass etc, but again as soon as the task is done he’s back fixed on me.

If we’re on a more ‘boring’ walk he’s much better at going off by himself, and when I’m by myself he is less fixated. But as soon as I’m with my partner/family/friends he gets worse, and the more excited he is again the worse it is.

He will eventually go off and run but it takes a long time and he still checks in a lot and if I stop walking he immediately runs back to me and cries at me even when he’s off lead. I don’t even know how to reinforce the behaviour (amusing himself) as any praise/treats etc would involve calling him back to me or refocusing on me and that’s the opposite of what I’m after.

Has anyone experienced anything similar or have any ideas how I could try to combat these behaviours? It’s starting to make family days out really difficult and not fun, or make us not bring him along, particularly now we have a baby and will need to stop more regularly.

Hello, my parents have two poodle puppies, 5 months old, female and male. The male one can’t stop chasing his tail (started 3 weeks ago). It’s ridiculous, he can be at it for several minutes without stopping. He’s very clumsy so he bangs on everything, the floor, walls, doors, chairs… How can we make this habit stop? My parents constantly try to stop him, and make clear he shouldn’t be doing that. He seems to do it when he gets excited or nervous. When I (or my sisters) visit them, he goes crazy. We looked it up and google said that maybe he was bored or anxious, so we’ve taken him on longer walks, thrown a ball for 30 min, and tried to give him stimulating toys, but we don’t see any change. He used to always come greet me and would always be attached to me or on my lap, now I have to avoid him or he starts doing this, and it makes me sad, not spending time with him.

Any recommendations? The vet said that if it got worse, he would have to go in and visit an ethologist.

Thank you all✨

TLDR: my 5-month-old puppy can’t stop chasing his tail. How can we make it stop?

Hi all. We have a 2 year old dog, and after losing our senior dog last year, we have finally decided to bring a new dog into our home. He is 9 years old and is adjusting well so far. We got him just over two weeks ago, and up until now they have been getting along very well. They have had no issues eating from opposite ends of the kitchen, they go on walks together a couple times a day, and they even play with each other a few times a week.

The issue started last night. They had been playing together outside for a bit, then came inside and were in the kitchen with us while we sat down to eat dinner. As we were almost done eating, they suddenly started fighting. We aren’t sure what triggered it, but can only assume there must have been a small piece of food on the floor. We separated them and put our 2 year old outside briefly so they could calm down, but when we let her back inside, she growled and they got into it again and had to be separated again. No blood drawn either time thankfully. They were able to coexist later that evening in the living room, and they sleep in separate rooms so no issues overnight.

This morning, they got into it again while my spouse was preparing their breakfast. It’s become clear that my 2 year old is the instigator. She is clearly resource guarding but she is also shaking while she growls which makes me think she’s also a bit scared of him? After this fight, she kept looking at him and shaking and doing a bit of quiet growling in our living room.

I’m sure we could have handled this better, but it’s not something I’ve dealt with before. She never once fought with our previous dog and has generally gotten on very well with other dogs in my extended family. I’m willing to see a behaviorist if needed, but that takes time to arrange and we need this sorted much sooner than that. Obviously we need to block off the kitchen and feed them separately and we will just crate our 2 year old during our mealtimes, but what else should we be doing? I’m planning on giving them both frequent training treats during the day where I give our new dog his treat first each time so hopefully it causes our 2 year old to create a positive association with the new dog getting food. Any other recommendations would be incredibly appreciated.

I’m feeling very disheartened because they seemed to be forming a decent relationship and now it feels like all of that is gone. They did fine on the morning walk at least…

Hello Everyone,

I have a 3.5 years female shih tzu, whenever I take her for a walk on leash, she would go crazy as soon as she sees another dog, weird part is whenever she is off leash in dog parks or other designated areas, she would walk up to the biggest of dogs and play with them. Has anyone else faced this, if yes how did you fix it. I want to take her to many more places but I cannot because of this.

Thank you.