My cousin has this husky mix dog he's neutered but he's constantly trying to hump people, what can she do to fix this issue? Cuz I'm not sure either I've never dealt with a dog that wants to hump people, and he's pretty reluctant to stop he sees someone and he starts and no matter what you do he just keeps going back,

I have about 10 minutes of spare time before I go to school, and would love to work on new tricks with my dog to build our relationship.

I’ve been trying to teach her to how to press a button to go outside (only working on pressing the button for right now) but I’m having a hard time with it. I play with her before and after too. She has paw relatively good. If I have the button in my hands she does amazing with it. The second I put it on the ground she either doesn’t understand what I want her to do (paw at the button) or just lays down instead. Partly my fault because we’ve conditioned her with pointing a finger down for laying down, and I accidentally do it while trying to direct her to the button. What should I do to get her to focus on the button while pawing it, as right now she either looks at the treat until I wait for eye contact, but the WILL NOT look at the button to press it. She kind of just paws anywhere and hopes to hit it. Any tips?

Anyways, back to the original point, is there any specific training I can do with that little time? I’d prefer to only spend a few days in one still, and would be interested in more of the fun tricks. I’m also not at all against just practicing basic obedience, but it’d be nice to teach her some tricks.

What should I teach her, and how?

TIA

Just caught our 14 week aussie humping our older dog for the first time. What do we do? Our older dog didn't do this. Is it a behavior we train out of him like everything else? Does it stop after neutering?

I have a 1.5 year old cocker spaniel who is incredibly over friendly. His is a very whiny boy that will go into a whiny bark when he over stresses about not getting to play with dogs. I’m assuming his ex owner let him play with as many dogs as he wanted before I rehomed him.

I’ve been teaching him dog neutrality in my somewhat city neighborhood using the engage and disengage game from the small dog park nearby. There’s a street in between us and the dog park, so I can’t get much closer.

I thought he was doing well, so I decided to sign us up for a pack walk. That was instantly a regret.

No matter how far we were, he was a whiny barking mess, would stress poop, not take treats, and I couldn’t stop and go home because I wasn’t leading the walk. I wanted to go home so bad. I realize that it was TOO hard for him.

My idea is to take him to another dog park once a week that doesn’t have a barrier and literally just sit somewhere near it and let him bark it out until he calms or work better on distance at the same park. Is that good? What should be my next steps? If you have any other tips, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

shes 41 pounds and it's getting pretty hard to go on walks with her. all the training advices ive seen never work, she keeps just pulling worse. there are never any distractions or anything that would want her to lunge, so does anybody have any advice or do i just "wait it out"?

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I have a 6-7 year old (humane society didn’t know his actual age) Keeshond Akita mix (possibly one more breed in there) that I got back in 08/24.

I’m assuming he has some sort of anxiety but pills haven’t been helping him. He’s really hyper and can’t stand still when someone is walking around the house. I take him on runs and walks and play with him in the backyard and he still seems to have a crazy amount of energy. It’s hard to walk him because he likes to pull nonstop.

He also gets overly excited when it comes to feeding time. He also chows down like he’s being starved.

Overall he’s a good lil dog but just hoping I can get some advice on how to manage some of his behavior. I also have been considering a dog training boarding school…

I have a miniature jack russel cross terrior ( idek if I correctly named his breed ) he’s very timid and we’ve had him seven years now , since then he’s been an outside dog Recently our other dog , a springer spaniel which we’ve had for 4 years has been fighting him , as mentioned he’s a very timid dog and not to mention their size difference has been getting him thrown around , when I say they’re fighting I mean he ends up getting blood in his Mouth and very injured , if it wasn’t for use stepping in each time , he would be dead , we have decided we are going to bring him into the house now but he keeps peeing everywhere as he’s been an outside dog for 7 years , any advice on how to make him stop peeing ? Also we have a cat inside which they will run at each other and fight if they get the chance to so I also need help with that , if anyone read this big yap session I much appreciate if anyone can help me and give me advice 🙌

As the title stated, I started work from home almost a year ago. My husband and I have both had office jobs the entirety of our dog’s life until this point. Since I’ve been at home a lot more, I’ve noticed that my dog seems more needy and codependent. This has been coupled with an increase in accidents in the home when I’m away during the day, like he’s upset that I am gone.

It started if we were both gone more than 4 hours (which isn’t often), but now he’ll do it sometimes when I’m away less than an hour. Before, when we both had office jobs, one of us always came to check on him at our lunch hour, so he’d have to wait ~5 hours at a time. However, he’s gone 8 hrs before and had no issue. He is a little older, but the pee isn’t like little dribbles indicative of a bladder that can’t hold it in. They’re solid puddles of intentional pee.

Things we’ve tried: -I’ve taken him to the vet and they couldn’t identify anything wrong with him medically. -We keep him washed regularly -Continual deep floor cleans to rid the smell. For better or worse he only does this on hardwood floors, but I’m imagining it’s harder to get the smell out from between the boards. -Treat rewards for going outside. He now knows he gets a treat when he goes outside, but he doesn’t seem to realize he’s “losing” a treat when he goes inside.

He’s a small dog, nine years old, is in great physical health, and has never had an issue having full run of the house. Now, for the first time, I’m wondering if the space or lack of my presence is stressing him out and perhaps he needs a cozier environment? I feel bad because I know he loves to wander the house in search of sun spots throughout the day. I’d hate to deprive him of that but I don’t know what else to do.

Hi, I have a 3 year old border collie/heeler mix that we rescued from the shelter 1.5 years ago. Since we got her she’s had a submissive pee issue, so if someone visits or if we attempt to discipline her she pees. Now I under the nature of why she’s peeing, but poor thing just empties the tank every time. If she’s doing something she’s not suppose to, and we even look at her it’s a garden hose.

I’m almost certain she was probably abused in her past home, but is this normal? I read it goes away with time, but I’m not too sure any more. Any tips?

Sincerely, The carpet

She’s around 6-7 months Doberman mix. We introduced her to her crate when she was around 2 months old and at first it was going great. She was quiet and we didn’t have any issues. I’d also like to add that she’s usually in her crate whenever I’m out or at night. When she’s out we work on training or just playing around. Now around a few months ago she started demand barking, I’ve honestly tried everything. I’ve taught her the “quiet” command which she ignores🙄 I’ve tried ignoring it, ive tried covering her crate and I’ve tried to just leave the room. Nothing works. I also can’t let her bark 24/7 since I have neighbors who I’m afraid are gonna call the cops at some point. If someone has any tips on what I can do it would be great because I’m honestly losing my mind right now

Edit: I’ve tried leaving her outside while I went outside for 15-20 minutes to see how she does. Apparently the minute left she went by herself to her crate and waited until I came back. I’m thinking about training her to be outside and leaving the crate only for night time

For anyone who has a dog similar to mine: one of my dogs gets pretty excited when he realizes we’re pulling into a park. So as soon as I free him from the car he already has a lot of built up energy from the excitement.

When I take him to the park my general plan is always to go on a leashed walk and then let him sniff/run around/fetch if there’s an empty soccer or baseball field.

Do you guys find it’s better to start with the freedom to smell and run or to start off with a structured walk, as in training and testing their heel and walk and stop for their attention?

I'd love some advice/recommendations....

4yo female husky (43%) mix...70 lbs & she's not fat (vet thinks she's perfect), but is solid muscle from one of the other breeds in her (25%).

She wants to meet people but doesn't want them touching her until she's comfortable... when I stop to chat with people I let them know this so they don't pet she until she's ready. However, when we are walking as people will pass she sort of lunges in an effort to sniff them from behind so they won't pet her. Now while I completely understand what's going on, I want to stop it as it can make people uncomfortable... which is understandable. She generally gets a bit of a pass because peoples best guess is that she's a lab even though they can tell that's not right.

I've had her trainer work on it when she's there for boarding....but it's a large farm & she knows the staff so it's more difficult to train on because it's generally happens to people she doesn't know.

I often move her to the far side when passing people, but she sometimes moves too fast & gets a sniff in. Any thoughts/advice on ways to improve this?

Some other things if like to improve are....

• barking at people wearing hats/hoodies/sunglasses
• protective barking (more than once) at people after dusk....I'm good with a single bark...

I’ve been looking at e collars and was thinking of either a mini educator or a dogtra arc 800 , I think I prefer the dogtra because of the more discrete looking collar, one of the places over here says not suitable for dogs with slender necks. My dog is a 16 Kg spaniel just wondering if any one has one on a small dog.

Hello Guys - I love our 6 month pup to pieces, and I know that he loves me too. He does however follow my wife around exclusively, and it's starting to wear me down. He and I have a good routine down - I come home from work and say hello and play for a bit, then take him on his walk and hang around in the backyard smelling stuff and training. Then we play some more before dinner, then he'll let us know when he's ready for bed. He's amazingly smart, and has been an absolute joy to train..mostly

The part that sucks for me, is the simple fact that since I have to be at work and away from home for 10 hours a day - he naturally gravitates toward my wife, and seems to prefer her.

It guts me, and I occasionally struggle not to let the sadness settle into my mind and taint my interactions with the magnificent lad.

Advise me please, I'm at a loss.

Hi there!

Hopefully this isn't redundant but I can't seem to find promising solutions to my particular problem. Especially in some threads where people start getting unrealistic and judgey about what I'm able or want to do.

To start off, we are planning to have a conversation with the neighbors about their stinky yard. We are on good terms with them and really like them as neighbors. However, they don't pick up after their seven dogs and it's at the point now where the air is absolutely retched.

Their dogs tend to poop up against ours and another neighbor's fence line (chain link). We plan to ask if we can spray the area in their yard from our backyard. So we can at least do something about the piles of poop closest to us without going into their yard. And to at least feel like we are able to do something about an issue that is literally dominating our daily conversations.

My question is, is Odo-ban or simple green even worth using at this point? Especially if dogs are pooping every day on what's already there. They have not picked up after their dogs in over a year so it's in there. Covered by dirt, leaves, pine straw, then pooped on again and again.

Thanks for any advice!

Any recommendations for detailed e-collar training books?

This might be a dumb question, but I’ve been using a prong collar for awhile on my dog with larynx problems (he coughs/makes weird noises if he pull on a flat collar or slip lead) and it works great and doesn’t cause him to struggle to breathe.

I want to get a hidden prong for him but I don’t want to make him cough, will it still be ok for him? I assume that it will be but I want to make sure before I buy because they’re expensive.

Not technically a training question, but hope it's ok regardless. I am looking to solidify a good car setup for our two large dogs (80lbsish at 8 months and 85lbs full grown). In an ideal world we would have space for a Gunner, Impact, or Variocage but our car+dog size makes that impossible.

Currently have my eye on a SleepyPod clickit, but the Sport is rated up to 90lbs and Terrain up to 110lbs. Our vet anticipates our 8 month old dog to be around 110-120. Of course, something is better than nothing, but I'm a bit of an anxious dog mom when it comes to safety.

For those of you with big dogs and small cars, what do you do? Do I just...suck it up and buy an SUV?

Wondering if anyone has had experience with the Hamilton Dog training course? Specifically looking for guidance on reactivity. His YouTube videos are great but I’m sure the course is more comprehensive. Thanks!

Any purchases made will support me and my service dog in training to become a fully legit service dog! Josie loves people and other dogs, she's an amazing plott hound/pitbull mix, Super smart!
Anyway watch this free class by k9 training institute for some great tips for anyone with a dog! Watch here; https://k9ti.org/r/Josiewells/free-workshop/

My Elkhound, Kaija, is just over a year old. She is the sweetest, snuggliest, happiest dog. She is also very bold, and very stubborn, which is a common Elkhound trait. My other dog is an Australian Kelpie mix, so training her was a breeze as she was ready for a command constantly. Kai is not the same, so training her has been difficult. The thing I am having the absolute most difficulty with is containing her excitement about other dogs.

She loves to play, playing with other dogs at the park is her favourite. Off-leash her recall so great, but recently she has started bolting after other dogs who she thinks she knows (usually she does know them but I don't want to be THAT person who has a dog that just chases off after other dogs). I have stopped letting her off-leash for the time being, and our mornings at the park are spent practicing "focus" looking at me on command) and exercises like stay, and generally just working better on our recall. But even on-leash, she has started crying when she sees other dogs because she wants to play.

I have done obedience classes but they are all operating under the assumption that I can use treats to distract her, but to her there is no treat or toy or reward (that I have found) that will ever be as good as another dog. Literally nothing I have tried when it comes to distracting her around other dogs works.

She has no issues with playing with other dogs, she gets along great and displays all the positive markers for healthy play, I just want her to be able to be calm around other dogs and not make me the person with the dog who loses their shit when they see other dogs.

Any advice is helpful, and thank you in advance!

I've been looking into online dog training programs, but I’d really love to find one where a real trainer provides feedback, preferably all virtual. My dog is already pretty well trained, but there are a few behaviors I’d like to fine tune, and I’d love to learn some new techniques that might also help with my own anxiety.

I've done some research, but I'd love to hear from people who have tried one firsthand. Any recommendations (or programs to avoid)?

I'm traveling from New Zealand to Scotland via Dubai. Has anyone travelled with a garmen pro 70 dog collar device? Is it better to take in checked or carry on luggage? Any help appreciated cheers

So I have a 3 year old standard poodle and I got him at 1 year old. He was free on classifieds and had almost zero socialization with humans, lived outside with 5 other dogs. I moved in with my boyfriend 2 months ago. My dog loves him when I am around, will cuddle with him play with him etc. Its weird because he is still fine with him if I am gone but If my boyfriend tries to walk him without me he is terrified. Will pee and run away and won’t go near him. Today he slipped out of the leash and wouldn’t go near him, our neighbors had to help my boyfriend corner him to put the leash on and he nipped at my boyfriend which he had never done. As soon as they were in the house my dog was buddies with him again. Its like he doesn’t recognize my boyfriend outside without me. Its really strange he also would do this with my grandpa when I lived with him. Any help appreciated

We were waiting at a crosswalk FOREVER, probably like 10 minutes, before being able to cross. She held a sit pretty much the entire time except for a few times standing up (to be fair it was cold and wet outside so I don’t blame her!), and constantly checked in with me for a treat. We’ve been practicing engagement for a while. She has come very far with training and I’m very proud of her today.

Reminder to be proud of the little things 🐾❤️

I have an 8 month old bull terrier that I have worked diligently with on daily training. She is super smart and has done very well picking up basics like sit, stay, down, drop it etc. I spend probably 30 minutes per day working on training and reinforcement with her. When do you decide they’ve got the skills down and just go about your life using them without having these intentional training sessions to reinforce?