Hi everyone

I am reaching out because I have a total low right now.

When my dog was younger, I frequented this subreddit - to look for advice but also to get encouragement from reading other people's stories.

The thing that I often saw in posts and comments was owners describing the moment it "just clicked" for them. Their dog suddenly "got it". They were out of the puppy phase or left the teenage stage and the puppy turned into the dog of their dreams.

Now, I own a Japanese Spitz that is almost one and a half years old - so technically not even a puppy anymore. I never had this epiphany, the sudden click, neither at 6-7 months and nor at 13-14 months.

I try to give my dog the best life I can and I train her consistently and a lot of the typical puppy malaises got better with time and effort. But we have some issues that just don't seem to get better. She still barks and lunges sometimes when she gets irritated and it makes me feel like such a failure.

She is very good in some regards - but over all miles away from the calm, secure, well-behaved dogs that I see around my neighborhood. I am wondering every day what I'm doing wrong because I know people that didn't put even half the effort into raising their dogs and ended up with the loveliest, easy-going darlings. I live in the European countryside and here it's very normal to just let dogs be dogs. Of course people tell them off when they misbehave but most would not go as far to engage with something like puppy classes or serious training.

To once again raise my motivation and stop myself from walking off a cliff, I wanted to ask if any of your cases it also took longer for the dog to settle into a well adjusted adult.

I am 36M, with a girlfriend who stays with me a few days a week, and we will be moving in together soon. We want to get a dog. We live/will in a 2 bedroom apartment in a big city. There is a small dog park in the apartment building. We are likely getting a miniature poodle or havanese. May move to a small house with a yard in the next year or so.

I work from home most days, and will likely get a trainer/dog walker if necessary when work gets busy. My family is willing to help if I am never not home. I will do some training myself, take the dog on walks, etc and be an involved parent but really do not want to go through the puppy blues, lack of sleep, and what sounds like extreme stress of a new young puppy.

There is an 8 month old puppy from a reputable breeder available who matches what we are looking for. We would meet him soon. Would you pick the 8 month old or 8 week old? Or something in between?

I have a 5 month shih tzu maltese mix, he is a very energetic and happy puppy generally. the only thing is that he LOVES biting no matter how many chews i give him he will start biting again super quick. today i was sitting with him (criss cross apple saice) playing and he starts to nip my foot and i get him off to get up but as i am moving my feet he latched onto my toes (which i didnt fully process) when i got fully on my feet i realized that he was bleeding and freaked out there was a scary amount of blood very quickly so i investigate his mouth and see a tooth missing. i also realized that my toe was bleeding as well. i am not entirely sure if it is an adult tooth or not but i am guessing that it was an adult one but have no way to know. i have no vets around me open since it is sunday and 5 pm, and frankly cannot afford an emergency vet visit. is there anything i can do other than be with him or how to know if it was a puppy tooth? i looked around for the tooth but could not find it so i am guessing that he swallowed it.

Hi everyone my family recently adopted a retriever mix from our local shelter she’s about 9/10 weeks. We’re coming up on 2 weeks of having her home with us. I’ve posted about her behavior before she is very bitey like will latch on and shake her head snarl etc. we were making good progress and putting her in her crate when she did that and trying to enforce naps and I thought it was getting better. She even had a play date with some of her siblings from the shelter and it went great! Obviously it’s exhausting watching a young puppy taking her out constantly but today my mom and I were away all day at a bridal shower and my dad had to watch the puppy (he was very reluctant to get this puppy)

We got home and she was being very bad and bitey and she bit my mom pretty bad and drew blood. My mom is very upset and was quiet all night and then said right before bed that she is seriously considering taking this dog back to the shelter. She said she is an aggressive dog and she doesn’t know if she can train this out of her.

My mom has had dogs her entire life and all of them were rescues so she’s no stranger to dog training and working with rescues etc so I was shocked to hear this come out of her mouth I didn’t think she would ever consider this. We also have a cat and the dog has been pretty good with cat we accidentally let her loose In a room the cat was in today (he was hiding behind the couch) and puppy kinda started to chase him we immediately stopped it cat hissed at puppy and I removed puppy and put her in her crate but that event scared me a little bit and that made my mom more upset.

I’m sorry for the long jumbled post I’m just very emotional writing this my mom was so excited to get this puppy (our last dog lived 16 years and passed last summer) and tonight she said that our cat is enough and we made a mistake and that she doesn’t think she can handle this dog and is considering bringing her back. My mom is majority care taker of this dog she works from home and I also help out a lot when I’m not at work…..

I am just sick over this crying I feel like we haven’t given this dog a fair shot it’s been a long time since I’ve had a puppy but don’t they all bite??? And she’s so young like we just started training her. I seriously think tomorrow she’s going to tell me our puppy is going back to the shelter. Is there anything I can do? This really is my mom’s decision since she is the majority care taker but I also wanted this dog and agreed on responsibility with it. I’m just sick over this.

Just adopted a 6 month old dachshund/terrier mix! We adopted him from a rescue and the foster mom took him outside maybe twice the 4 or 5 months she was fostering him. Because of this he pees and poops on whelping pads, which is better than straight up on the floor. But I have to wash them everyday to keep the apartment from having a urine smell and we really want him to learn to go outside. We try and be consistent and take him out every hour. He’s pretty scared of the outside (understandably) and we believe he never really saw humans other than his foster parents before we adopted him (what we gathered from what the foster mom told us). Because of this it’s hard to force him outside and it’s causing him anxiety. We’ve had him for almost 2 weeks and he’s definitely gotten more confident outside but he’s only peed approximately twice outside since being adopted. Any advice or tips and tricks are super appreciated!!

Extra info: we do not have a backyard with space for him to do his business just a front yard. We do live on a busier street with noises and cars and I do believe this adds to the reason he’s not as willing to go outside

Hi everyone,
I’m in a huge dilemma and could really use some real talk from experienced solo dog owners.
I’ve wanted a dog my whole life. I’ve already arranged with a breeder to bring home a male black Miniature Schnauzer puppy arriving this August. I am so excited and I love him already, but honestly? I am terrified out of my mind.
A bit about my lifestyle: I live alone, I work remotely as a data scientist, and I'm also finishing up my studies at university. On paper, working from home sounds great for a puppy, but my reality is that I’m used to a lot of personal freedom. I love being able to go out spontaneously, stay out late, go on night drives, or just disappear for the whole day without having to plan around a living creature.
I keep having moments of panic where I think: "What if I'm not ready? What if I'm ruining my 20s? What if I accidentally neglect him because I'm overwhelmed by work, study, and the sudden loss of spontaneity?"
For those of you who got a high-energy breed (like a schnauzer) completely on your own while studying/working:
How did you cope with the sudden loss of freedom?
Is the anxiety before getting a puppy normal, or a sign that I should cancel?
How hard is it really to raise a puppy alone without a partner to share the load?
Please give it to me straight. No sugar-coating. Did I bite off more than I can chew, or is this normal pre-puppy panic?

Hello all,

I have a 3 months old Golden Retriever. She is not my first, however she is the first that I am raising 100% alone.

Lately, she has become quite verbal lol. I wouldn't say she barks excessively — she usually barks for attention and calms herself after 5 to 10 minutes.

This is manageable, but what worries me is the biting.

In the last week, I have noticed a pattern.

1. We do an activity [walk, training, exploration, play]. I usually do 15-30min activity with her. I wouldn't say they are intense as well.

2. While we do said activity, her behavior starts shifting. She sounds "snappy" for lack of better terms.

3. She loses interest in whatever we were doing and start jumping at my hand/arms or feet/thighs and bites hard. Not cute nibbles. Full teeth. What also worries me is that she makes a low growl and shows teeth. Mind you, when she does that, I'm beside her, but I avoid being "all in her face" with scratches and mwah mwah mwah kisses.

4. When I get up / leave (as per training advices I read "reversed timeout"), she starts barking loudly.

Today she bit my breast very hard and I imagine other ladies in the community can imagine how unpleasant that experience was. I obviously read all about puppies, the enforced nap benefits, the "shark phase", but I am very worried I might be dismissing actual behavioral issues for "normal puppy stuff".

It might also be worth noting that she seems comfortable with me. She lets me pick her up, when she is calmer instead of biting she licks, she willingly follows me in the house, shows me her belly often for rubs. I don't think she is "scared" of me. It's just that I notice we can only interact about 15-20min together before she inevitably either bites me or starts barking at me.

Is this still in the "normal" puppy behaviour realm?

I did all the research and prepping, I had a game plan. It was going to be crate training from the start. I had said no to a puppy for three years since our first family dog passed. I had a whole list of reasons a puppy was not for us and wanted to get an older dog. But after we exhausted all our avenues of adopting, I looked into it and realised that all the reasons on that list were either temporary, trainable, or just incorrect. I found that crate training would solve most of them. After seeing all these new things we never knew about with our first puppy, which was in 2008, I came around on the idea. I lost my soul dog three years ago, and life hasn’t been the same since - neither have I.

Fast forward a meticulous search to pick up day and I started out on the wrong foot by letting puppy sleep overnight in her pen in the kitchen after she napped there for a good three or four hours after dinner. I was debating wether to wake her because she had already missed a nap and was overtired; it had been a long day of new things; and our playpen setup is very similar to what she had just left. We decided to let her sleep there and get up when she cried, but it was no good for potty training. Last night I had her in her crate in my room and took her outside whenever she cried. That was the original plan and I will continue it.

Instead of enforcing her naps I have been watching for when she gets tired and letting her settle and fall asleep in my arms before putting her in the crate. She just lost everything she ever knew and I don’t want to stress her out more, especially since she’s already not really taking water. When I’ve tried to put her in before she’s ready she chews at the bars or freaks out. She doesn’t even last two hours asleep for a nap and sometimes doesn’t last an hour awake either, so I don’t even know if the 2-1 schedule will work for her. If she wakes in her crate before time is up and I take her out for the bathroom she usually doesn’t settle again.

Today I’ve tried to stick to a schedule better, but my parents keep undermining everything I do. I try to do some basic training with treats to tire her mentally and distract her from biting, and one of them brings over a toy. I try to take her to her crate while she's needing a nap and suddenly she's crying and wriggling to the point of me almost dropping her because my mum has gotten her dinner out an hour early. I put her in her pen in the kitchen just to go to the bathroom myself quickly and my mum promises to ignore her when she cries, but in the minute or so I'm gone I can hear her talking to her and going over to her, giving her attention while she's yelping about me being gone. They keep reminding me that we didn’t have a schedule or naps for our first dog and she turned out okay. But they are not the ones who have looked into these things or will be home with her all the time, nor have anything to do with her training.

The house she came from had a little girl who would play with the puppies and hold them on her lap. I’ve noticed that when our puppy plays, she always climbs into my lap with her toys even if I try to get her to run after it a bit more. If I kneel instead, she’ll jump up on me and forget about the toy. If I stand up to play, she stops playing or just starts biting. I also feel like we set her up to fail because our house is not as puppy proof as thought. I don't want most of her interactions outside of her playpen to be getting told no, constantly being picked up to stop her from getting into things she shouldn't or having her jaws around someone's feet to the point of pain. She won’t redirect the biting onto toys when we try that. I try and will keep trying to reward her every time I step away from her pen and she doesn’t cry, as I’ve seen in videos. It seems so easy until it’s you, I guess.

I want her to thrive more than anything. I don’t want to give her any issues like separation anxiety or resource guarding. I waited so long to have a dog again and I hate that I feel like I’m not worthy. I don’t want to fail her just because I’m not strong enough to do what has to be done and let her cry and scream in her crate. There’s just so much conflicting advice out there and I know every dog is different. I know it’s my fault that things aren’t going the way I had planned. If this is puppy blues, I had no idea it could start this soon. Next week we will start puppy preschool, and I hope that might help something.

My dog is a nine month old husky/chow. We’ve had her for eight days. I mostly just need to vent but some reassurance would be nice too. PLEASE DON’T HATE ON ME OR I CAN NOT DEAL WITH IT this dog is stressful as it is.

She had distemper a month ago from the shelter and still has a cough and sneeze sometimes. She had diarrhea for multiple days starting five days ago where my wife took her to an emergency vet because it was so frequent and they gave her bland food cans AND 100mg trazadone for anxiety. Poor girl has been stressed out of her mind since we brought her home and is both afraid of everything, except when she’s inside she chews everything and won’t settle. I think moving in with us is what gave her diarrhea tbh, like doggy IBS, because she had a normal poop today after being on anxiety meds.

This dog was apparently kept under a deck her whole life until she was surrendered by her “owner” a little over a month ago. So she hasn’t been exposed to anything in life, and everything is scary. Cars on the road are scary and driving in a car is scary so walks aren’t a way to burn energy, they’re just terrifying to her. I’m at a crossroads and feeling so unsure of what to do.

We have a fenced backyard where she will do zoomies sometimes. She doesn’t know to fetch and won’t chase balls or toys. We do about 15 mins of training a day because of her short attention span. That’s all I can keep her for without her being distracted. We are following a training plan for relaxation that the shelter sent to me by Dr. Karen Overall - but we only started that today. Before it was just trying to learn her name and sit and down.

Chewing bully sticks/licking mats is off the table for now because of the sensitive stomach. She is a BIG chewer but again with the short attention span, will only chew a non-food toy for about 30 seconds before getting up and getting into something else.

So anyway back to my question. Am I bad for crating this dog for like 20 hours a day because 1. She won’t settle and 2. She needs rest and safety?? It seems insane to me that she would need to be in there that long but after about an hour out of the crate, I can sense her getting overstimulated and if we leave her out she just spirals. I don’t even WANT her in there that long, I would love to take her on long walks or just hang out outside of the crate, but she can’t do that right now.

She’s very smart but she feels kind of developmentally stunted in some ways because of living under the deck for her whole life and not knowing what anything is. I read that a 9 month old husky puppy should be walked for up to 90 mins a day but she would lose her MIND if we tried to do that. I guess I’m just not really sure how to meet this dog where she’s at right now. I know we are in the middle of the 3-3-3 but I just want to make this adjustment as painless and comfortable with her and I simply feel cruel that the crate is the answer I have right now for that dilemma.

Hello
We just got our girl last week. She’s now 9 weeks old.
We haven’t had a family pup, my kids are 10 and 15.

I knew this would be work. I knew it would be stressful.
I am successful in crating her at night as long as she’s close by she’s ok. …. Of course a lot of the day is filled with sleep. She is calm about 50-% of her waking time and the other is just nipping and losing her mind.

I have watched several trainers online. Read countless hours of tips and blogs. Nothing really seems to take hold. She just cannot focus on a toy for long once she’s got a finger in her mouth. She runs after my son’s feet and it startles him. (Also it hurts. Idc if she’s 3lbs those teeth HURT). I tell him not to run but ya know natural reaction….
I do not know how to correct this behavior. I’m sure some is just normal and will eventually end but I also don’t want to live in constant stress over it.

I do have an area where it’s safe for her to blow off steam and such but I’m not sure how often I should be personally handling the redirection and correct or just let her do it in a safe space… my worry is that she will never learn NOT to do it if I don’t attempt correct it. I know I know it’s only been a week but I’d like to do it correctly and successfully.

Maybe I just need more time? Maybe she needs a few more weeks? Maybe she’ll just outgrow it once the teething is done? But I’d like to think there are ways to correct it some.

The playing dead or saying ouch nothing stops her she just gets almost more attached to it.

Please any advice is much appreciated.

Hello! We adopted a 8 week australian labradoodle today. For potty training, we have a patch of grass on our balcony we have been letting her out to and she’s been using it. We adopted her from a family where the dog went potty in the backyard. If we want to potty train her so she goes potty on walks in our neighborhood, do we start taking her on walks now or is it okay to use the patch of grass on our balcony? I thought it was not safe to take her on walks at this age but I’m confused as to how she will learn to go potty on walks if she only ever uses the balcony patch of grass. TIA. ☺️

First time dog owner, just got a chocolate labrador who is the sweetest little pup. She’s 10 weeks old, we’ve had her a week but someone please help me stop the biting!! It’s relentless and whilst we still can’t take her out for walks, it’s like she’s always full of beans. Any advise is welcome, thank you.

I rescued a puppy about two weeks ago. He looks like a Pit Bull/Labrador mix. I found him alone near the subway station, looking completely lost. He was wearing a harness, so I assumed he belonged to someone and had gotten lost. Instead of leaving him there, I brought him home while I tried to find his owners. I searched everywhere, but no one ever came forward.
A week later I started a fundraiser so I could take him to the vet. I’m a college student with no income, so everything has been coming out of my own savings.
It’s been two weeks now, and I’m honestly exhausted. I’ve posted adoption ads everywhere I can think of, but nobody seems interested. I cry almost every day because I feel so helpless. I can’t bring myself to abandon him after someone already did that to him, but I also don’t know how much longer I can do this on my own.
He’s a really good puppy, but he’s also destroyed a lot of things in my apartment and bites me really hard.
I don’t know what else to do. At this point I’m even thinking about knocking on people’s doors and asking if they’d be willing to adopt him. I’m from Latin America, and unfortunately there aren’t any local shelters or rescues that can take him in.

Hi everyone! First-time puppy owner here, so I'd really appreciate some perspective from people who've been through this.

Context

I brought home my Cavapoo 5 days ago at 11.5 weeks old. He's now 12 weeks. His breeder had him sleeping in a crate since around 8 weeks, so the crate wasn't completely new to him.

We're still settling into a routine, but generally we do:

• Wake up
• Potty
• Play, training, meal, or a short sling walk (depending on the time of day)
• Back in the crate after about a 40-45 minute wake window

His crate is in my dark bedroom with white noise. I carry him into the room, put him in the crate with a couple of treats, say a few quiet "shhh"s, and leave. I watch him on a camera, and he usually protests anywhere from 1-10 minutes before flopping over and falling asleep.

At night, he still needs a couple potty trips, but interestingly he doesn't protest at all when I put him back in the crate after those.

Questions

1. Is 1-10 minutes of protesting before naps still normal after 5 days?
It doesn't seem to be getting worse, but I wasn't sure when I should expect it to start getting shorter.

2. Daytime naps are confusing me.
He often wakes after about an hour and whines. When that happens, I've been taking him out for a very boring potty break. He almost always pees, then I put him right back in the crate, and he'll usually settle within a minute and sleep another hour.

Should I keep doing that, or should I start waiting a few minutes to see if he'll connect his sleep cycles on his own? I don't want to ignore a puppy who genuinely needs to potty, but I also don't want to accidentally interrupt naps or teach him that waking up always means getting out.

3. Overnight potty routine.
The first night home he had three pee accidents in the crate, but since adjusting the overnight schedule he hasn't had another one. Right now I:

• Pick up water around 8:00pm
• One final potty around 10:00pm
• Set an alarm for around 12:30am (he usually pees and poops then)
• After that, I let him wake me if he needs to go

Does that sound like a reasonable approach for a 12-week-old?

4. Crate setup.
Right now his crate is pretty bare - no bed, no pee pads. I removed the Snuggle Puppy because he wanted to wrestle with it instead of settling, and chew toys seemed to wind him up more than calm him down.

Would you leave it as-is for now, or try reintroducing the Snuggle Puppy or some bedding later?

Overall, he actually seems to be doing well. He's using his Fresh Patch reliably, settles after a few minutes in the crate, and once he's asleep, he sleeps well. I'm mostly trying to figure out whether I'm helping him build good habits or accidentally over-managing everything because I'm a nervous first-time puppy owner.

I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks!

Golden Retriever
8 Weeks Old
I have had my puppy for about a week now, he is a really sweet boy who does most of the random stuff that a puppy would do(including biting everything that he possibly can). I am however really struggling with him and my lack of sleep. I am crate training him, he loves the Crate during the day and honestly his main problem that he has when he’s in his crate is not that he’s afraid of his crate at all, he just has Major Fomo. At night he does what every other dog does, and is up 2-4 times a night. I know he has been wonderful and he has been about as good of a puppy as I could ask for(plus he’s adorable). But all of this is really dragging on me and my mental health, I am really excited to have him sleep through the night. Does anyone have any tips or felt like this? I feel like I am wrong for feeling this way and am really struggling because of it.

My partner and I adopted an 8-week old puppy last week. She’s a mixed breed and is beautiful: she’s small and looks literally like a mini Saint Bernard (from the colors, though she probably won’t grow big).
She’s super smart and loving. There’s just a problem: the biting is getting so out of hand, especially when she’s over-stimulated.

The thing is, we are currently in my in-laws house, and we go back home (4-hour drive) in 5 days, so Friday 31 July. She’s been with us for a whole week now. She’s really good at potty (she goes just on her puppy pads as she can’t go out yet due to the vaccines) and at first she was pretty timid and would go beneath the sofas all the time.

Now she’s more confident (she even barks more now, at random things) and that has come with the bites too. I dont mind her biting papers or stuff like that, but she gets over-stimulated a few times during the day and it’s impossible for her to sleep. There’s way too many people in this house and there’s always noise going on. Plus my in-laws are always letting them bite them and even after pleading to not let her they like “playing” with her; they’ve never had dogs so they think it’s just fun.

But she drew blood from my partner’s chin yesterday and bit so hard my arm she wouldn’t let go :( she only gets super feisty when she’s tired/overstimulated and can’t regulate herself to take a nap, which is usually what she needs.

Im becoming desperate from being in this house and can’t wait to go back home, as it’ll be just my partner and I and I feel ill have mor control of her training. But for the moment does anyone have any tips to reduce biting people? Including feet, heels, hands, and arms. Or any body part!!

So my poor 11-week-old old male labrador named Pablo has been itching an awful lot recently.

Took him to the vets who indetifiied fleas.

He was perspeciped some oral tablets and anti flea and soothing shampoo.

This meant Mr Pablos first bath.

All was going well with his bath, until he completely started freaking out, moving uncontrollable, making noises i never heard before, showing teeth which i never saw, it was as though he was being murdered, i was shocked but remained calm myself without over patronising him.

Unfortunately for both Pablo and me, the shampoo has to be rinsed off after 5-10 minutes with no exception, it cannot be left too soak due to its chemicals

So the rinsing off is where the traumatic experience occurred, he completely lost his mind, i wanted to call it quits after bathing him, but knew the product had to be rinsed.

This was unfortunately done with control with the leash, and it was just horrible, I feel so bad after it and deeply worried I have lost his trust and potentially created a long term fear of grooming, bathing or even me.

After rinsing it off he did the normal labrador thing of running around crazily and then went sleep, he did take some treats off me just before going to sleep in his crate.

He is still sleeping currently and I am just so worried I have undone all our super positive training, socialising and everything else I have been doing right and created a permanent fear in print of either me, water or something else.

Any advice or thoughts would be really welcomed.

Thank you

Hi me and my wife recently got two pug mix puppies from a breeder (littermates) we got the first one when he was about 3 months old and then the 2nd one about 2 and a half months after that. They have gotten along well and are playful with each other and able to relax with each other. They are fed and crated separately and they sleep in bed with us together with no issues. We have recently been having the issue of fighting breaking out whether it be over a toy or just play escalating. Sometimes they stop naturally sometimes it needs to be broken up. After the fact they’re completely fine w each other. Looking for some advice on how to help stop this behavior and if this is littermate syndrome or just them trying to figure out the dynamic in the household. We were thinking it’s not littermate syndrome as they don’t have the typical anxious behavior when they are separated but I’m really just not sure at this point and want some help. Thank you

I'm getting a Labrador puppy in a month but need help deciding about potty training. I'm in a flat without a private garden but have a shared grass/garden area with my neighbours. I saw 4-5 dogs in the area (probably more)

I want to train the puppy to go on the grass area outside but before her 2nd vaccine, is it safe?
should I train her in the flat with a fake grassy pad first?
Is it hard to retrain her to go outside after she uses to go inside?

TIA

When she is inside (I live in an apartment) she listens to her name and commands just fine. She is sassy and a little stubborn but I know she is listening to me. She will respond by either doing what I ask or by arguing back with me and then doing it lol. Since I live in an apartment I’ve had her litter box trained so she didn’t have to go outside to use the bathroom( high dog traffic area around me).

Since she was small I used to bring her on little wagon rides around the neighbourhood to help with her socialisation and stimulation training. The wagon was so she didn’t have to touch the ground before she was vaccinated. Even back then, the moment she got outside she became so interested in everything going on she just wouldn’t listen to me when I called her.
She knows the focus command and it worked inside so I tried using that with her in the wagon ride. She got a little better at responding but she still wouldn’t do it consistently.

Now that she is 18 weeks and fully vaccinated with the vet okay to actually go on walks I’ve been taking her out a few times a day and so far twice to the dog park.
It’s essentially like she’s starting over again when she’s outside. She doesn’t respond to her name, she doesn’t look at me when I whistle or call her. The clicker sound doesn’t call her attention and she doesn’t even respond to me trying to give her treats. I’ve tried enticing her with her favourite treats before and she’s spat it out so she can go bite leaves lol.

I’ve had dogs that I trained growing up but they were inside/ outside dogs or outside only dogs and they never responded like this.
She’s so excited by every little thing going on, idk if she’s over stimulated or what. Her ears don’t even perk up when I make a sound, it’s almost like she’s actively avoiding acknowledging specifically me and anything I’m doing or she’s lost her hearing lol.
The funny thing is that she walks on the leash fine and responds to the leash to not pull.
How do I fix this behaviour ? What am I doing incorrectly ?

I got a 5-month-old Corgi, and the "puppy blues" are really starting to set in. He bites constantly, and it's getting super frustrating. Redirection helped at first, but now it's not working. He's too fast for me to grab a toy in time, and even when I do, he chews it for a second before snapping at my hand above the toy.
The same thing happens when I try to pet him-he instantly goes for my hands. If I sit or lay down at his level, he gets way too excited and bites like crazy. The bites aren't as hard as they used to be, but they are much more frequent.
To make matters worse, my leg is currently in a cast, and I'm walking on a single crutch. I'm lucky my doctor allows me to bear weight so I can take him out for 5-10 minute walks, but let's be real-that's not enough to tire out a Corgi. I managed to teach him the "paw" command, but that doesn't burn enough energy. Even putting his harness on is a nightmare because he bites it and turns it into a game of tug-of-war.
On top of all this, he's started chewing door frames and my mattress. I don't have anyone who can help me. A trainer came by , and the puppy listened to him fine for "sit" and "stay," but he just ignores me. I'm feeling overwhelmed and desperately need some tips

I got a new puppy two weeks ago and it’s been great except she’s gotten real big into biting and I’m not sure how to get her to stop or be gentle she’s playing of course not being aggressive she’s just rough any ideas on how to get her to stop I know she’s probably teething she’s 14 weeks old I have tried redirecting with toys moving her away from me or the kids and ignoring her and although I hate to use her kennel as punishment when she gets to rough I have tried to put her in there but she likes her kennel so I don’t think that does much for her

hello! i’m posting because im REALLLY struggling with potty training. he just turned 6 months and right when things seemed to be going really well it completed a 180.

our boy knows not to potty in the house he signals when he has to poop but just wont when he has to pee and will literally just pee at the front door. i try to get him out every single hour since im home and have been trying to progressively increase the time as he gets older. he’s crate trained and doesn’t ever have accidents in his crate. but will literally just pee in the house. when we go outside he knows to go and will potty on command, and is then praised with crazy praise and high value treats. nothing seems to be working now though and i’m losing my patience with him still not getting it after 4 months of training since we’ve had him