How long did it take until your puppy knew his name? My puppy is about three months old and he sometimes responds when I call his name but it’s not consistent enough to where he has learned it yet. Are there any specific tricks or things that you guys have done to get your puppy to know his name?

We got our Mini Poodle at 11 weeks old and he took to the crate right away — slept without barking/whining (until we got him up for potty breaks).

He is now 15 weeks, and suddenly he is barking and whining like crazy for an hour straight when we put him to bed in his crate, even though he is next to my daughter’s bed and she goes to bed at the same time. We have not changed the crate location, bedtime, or anything else.

Is this like a sleep regression?? Normal?

Any tips?

So my rescue pup is roughly almost 7 months old but still needs his booster shots before being able to walk on the ground. The only thing is I live on the top floor of my apartment and he’s gotten too heavy (he’s also very wiggly lol) for me to carry him up and down the stairs by myself to take him to the vet. Poor guy is also scared of riding in cars so I’m worried while I’m driving he’s gonna try to get on top of me. Any affordable recommendations on dog backpacks/carriers I can carry him in? He’s a medium sized dog. Thanks!

My four month-old toy poodle has a personal trainer to help me learn the basics of being a puppy owner/obedience. My pup is a bit on the stubborn side, and the trainer is insisting on the e-collar as the “only” realistic solution to properly train him.

I’m feeling pressured…I don’t want my pup to be perfect — I just want him to catch onto basic commands — and I feel like this is such a dramatic step. Would love some opinions from fellow dog owners.

My soon-to-be 4 mo Toy Poodle is such a sweet cuddlebug, but is already proving to be very stubborn with training. Even with a high reward treat, we’ll have a “sit” stare off for at least 30 seconds before he follows the command. Every session seems to be a hit or miss. Any tips on how to improve his motivation?

His trainer recommended getting an e-collar, which is a big NO from me at his age and temperament.

Does anyone have any advice on how to get puppy to poop on the pad? I have a 10 week old puppy that cannot go outside yet until all of his vaccinations are done, so I have to potty train him in the house. He potty’s on the pee pad perfectly fine, however he always tries to hide and poop. Does anyone have any advice on how I can get him to poop on the mat?

And he is probably very on point, i just read an article about play aggression and i recognize a lot of this behaviour in my buddy.

It's difficult as he can get very reactive and exited whenever he sees another dog. People mistake it for actual aggression. I get that a bigger dog showing bevorial issues is scarier than a small dog barking his butt off at everything that moves. But this makes walks and socialisation very difficult and tense.

It's something i take very seriously tho. But it is quite overwhelming at times. Is anyone else struggling with reactive behaviour / behavioral problems with their mate?

I have a maltipoo puppy that we brought home last Saturday. We have been outside with him for hours at a time to use the restroom on our turf but he gets nervous and will hold it until right when we get inside. He hasn’t gone outside once so far. We have tried the crate and back outside but that also hasn’t worked. He has held it up to 5 hours which can’t be good for a 3 pound puppy.

We have a rug inside that he keeps going on and my boyfriend and I are about to throw it away.

I want to know if this is a good or bad idea, but I was thinking of cutting off a corner that he has consistently peed on and putting it outside on the turf to see if he will go on it, and then cut a little bit away each day until he is going on the grass. It’s not supposed to rain this week so weather isn’t a concern.

Do yall think this has a chance of working or will just further set us back in potty training?

Is dawn dish soap my only option?

It's raining here for the next week and I'm trying to potty train my new puppy. She's gone twice inside and I haven't yelled at her and I've just cleaned it up. As others have recommended to do. I take her out after she eats wakes up plays and she doesn't go. I have turf at the front of my house but she won't go because it's raining. I have a cover in my backyard but she'd have to potty on cement and I don't know if that affects anything.

Our 11 wk old puppy broke her leg while playing with her sister. Initially had questions for advice about getting her to eat/drink, but I understand why it wasn’t allowed.

So maybe this question will work? Her breed needs intense early socialization because they can get a bit defensive as adults. I had a plan to do puppy kindergarten in 2 weeks but both trainer and vet say no. I can load her up in a little stroller type thing and take her places, and I have the dremel for her feet which she tolerates. I can brush her, but potty training is limited (she’s kennel bound mostly, though we snuggle). She got a single bath when we first got her, but bath time will be tough, and socializing is very exciting, which is one thing are trying to avoid.

The trainer we were going to work with will probably help us figure things out, but until then, how do I help my sweet girl not become a crazy adult?

How do you cleean poo from grass ? So he doesn’t walk back in it and it stain and be like an icecream mushed through the grass ??

All i can do is get a shovel and cut a section from the grass leaving me a big black hole of dirty now i have hundreds of holes everywhere? Should i just take him for walks on the street instead of letting him go to the toilet at home because its completely ruined the yard

I recently adopted a puppy I was fostering. He is a good boy, but his pottying habits are less than stellar. I don’t know anything about his life prior to being at the shelter.

On the weekends when I am home I will take him out every 1.5-2h. He poops and pees every time. He will still have pee accidents in the house between this. Today he peed on my bed. He will have accidents at night.

I work FT, so his normal potty schedule during the week is this:

5:30 AM - wake up, potty

6:30 AM - potty again before I go to work

11 AM - I come home on my lunch to let him go potty/take him on a longer walk

4/4:30 PM - I come home from work and he potties again, then every ~2 hours thereafter until bedtime

9/9:30 PM - last potty of the night

Still, there are frequent accidents. I realized his water intake might be excessive between his water bowl, the cat’s water fountain, and the bowl in his crate, so I am planning to ration that a bit (the water fountain has been moved where he can’t reach it).

I crated him from 3:30 PM until 6 PM today to see a movie (without water in his crate) and he still soiled the crate. He was walked and pottied before.

Is this normal behavior? It feels excessive. I raised two puppies with an ex and while that was almost a decade ago, I don’t remember it being this terrible and exhausting. I am considering diapers, but that is very much a last resort. Any advice is very much appreciated. I adore him, but this is destroying my apartment.

My 3mo old puppy just went to the groomers today for a wash and nail trimming. She has been absolutely exhausted all day after it! Is it normal? I know she was stressed but even the groomers joked that she’ll be “sleeping for the next two days!”

My 5 month old beagle puppy resource guards certain items he picks up- typically my grandkids toys- he was rehomed to me when he was about 3 months old and I started experiencing his sharp bite! I’ve had two other beagles from puppyhood that have passed but I never had this issue before. from my understanding he came from a litter of 7 puppies. I’ve been trying to teach him trade and trying to give him high value treats. Although improving he still periodically gets into this mode with random items-he starts growling and will snap at anyone trying to get the item- any tips on whether there will be improvement as he gets older? Also to note he is not neutered yet. But will be at 6months- not sure if this could be a factor

She will not stop barking. If she’s out in the house, she’s barking. If she’s in her crate, she’s barking. If we’re in the room, she’s barking. If we’re out of the room and she can see us, she’s barking. If she can’t see us, she’s barking. If she’s taken out, fed, has water, has her toys, has been given treats, she is barking.

Driving us insane, I have no idea what to do. She is teething pretty bad and losing her teeth.

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Starting to find and struggle with our 10 week old lab ,

Puppy sleeps fine in crate at night but struggles with forced naps during the day and wants us near by or he carry's on

We have been practicing leaving , making not fuss in pen 10 mins before and we leave and come back at all types of durations trying to find his threshold any advice is he need because he is so young still

We don't run back to him or make a fuss when does carry on and we reward calm behaviour

I have a 5.5 mo old collie pup. A month or so back, I was on the verge of tears every day out of frustration. So I observed her for a week and jotted down times she does stuff. Now I understand that biting means she's overly tired and needs zoomies. And she WON'T go to sleep if she needs to poo, but doesn't always know she needs to poo so I have to go out with her and walk her to the poo corner.

I'm pasting my schedule below. I merely wanted to suggest it to folks who feel like they don't understand their dog. If you spend some time watching them, a lot of times they'll tell you how they operate. Good luck!

ROUGH SCHEDULE

• 6:30-7:30 AM: Awake/potty
• 7-7:30 AM: Eat
• 7:30-8 AM: walk
• 8-8:30 AM: Poop/outside zoomies
• 8:30-10 AM: Nap
• 10 AM: wake up/potty
• 10-11:30 AM: play/puzzle toy
• 11:30-12:30 PM: nap
• 12:30 PM: potty/lunch
• 12:30-2 PM: walk/play
• 2-3 PM: nap
• 3-5 PM: potty/play/puzzle game
• 5-6 PM: nap
• 6 PM: potty/dinner
• 6:30-8:30 PM: play
• 8-9:30 PM: sleep or quiet play
• 9:30 PM: potty/upstairs bed

my partner and i adopted a 2 and a half month old puppy about two weeks ago. we currently have a 4 year old dachshund who is my soul dog. at first, puppy was timid and sweet, but as time went on and she got comfortable, her energy and personality came out more and more, and she has become very difficult in certain moments.

my biggest issue is that she will NOT leave our doxie alone. when she wants to play with him, she just barks in his face incessantly, jumps on him, runs at him and tackles him, etc, with no control and no boundaries. SOMETIMES he agrees to play and we LOVE those moments. but most of the time it seems like he wants to be left alone and she can't move her attention away from him. i understand that she needs to learn these things, but sometimes it straight up feels like bullying. my doxie has set boundaries with her at certain moments, but when she's trying to initiate play, a lot of the time he just stands there, and sometimes she pushes him too far and he gets mad, but i think she takes his anger as wanting to play more, so she doesn't stop. we try and redirect her with toys, puzzles, and play, but sometimes she is so hyperfocused on our doxie, it just takes him moving or making a sound near her and her attention snaps back to him and she's tackling him again. the poor boy just wants to nap, or explore outside, and she wont leave him alone.

earlier today she was out of control and i was trying to get work done. i had both dogs in the bedroom and decided to release them into living room so we could sit out there. they both RAN out of the room before i had gathered my things, and i heard a loud crash. when i came out, she was attacking him trying to play, and i could see how mad my doxie was (i should mention, she had been doing this in the bedroom for about an hour prior as well). i have been on edge and annoyed with her today already, and seeing this just made me snap. i came over and separated them yelled in her face and made a loud noise by slamming my water bottle on the ground to startle her out of the behavior. she immediately stopped and got quiet. then she came up onto the couch with me and sat by me and nuzzled me, but i could tell she was anxious. she looked out the window for a bit and then settled and went to sleep. i did give her some treats and praise for quietly sitting with me. but now i feel awful. i don't want to damage our bond by yelling at her. does anyone have any advice on how to deal with this behavior? thank you in advance. <3

So I have a 7 month GSD/boxer and his potty training has been so-so. I want to give him grace because we’ve only been at my new apartment for a little over a month now, and I know it takes some getting used to.

My biggest problem is that he’s peeing every 20ish minutes, even if he hasn’t drank much water. A few days ago he had a really bad day. He peed 3 times all in the span of 13 minutes in the house, I took him out after I cleaned up his 3rd accident and he managed to pee a 4th time. My thing is, he knows how to go to the door and I KNOW he can hold it. He woke me up at 7 this morning, I took him out, and I wanted to go back to sleep, I left him in the living room by himself because I knew he wouldn’t go back to sleep and he has proven he won’t destroy anything. I slept for about 3 more hours, come to the living room and he didn’t pee once. And it’s not like he was sleeping, I was woken up a few times to him slamming his bone around. I’ve gone to the store, leaving him out and have come back to no accidents.

If he’s not distracted, he will pee like clockwork every 10-20 minutes, sometimes he goes to the door, sometimes he doesn’t. I noticed he will pee the most when I’m making food (he’s not allowed in the kitchen but I have a baby gate so it’s not like I can’t see him) but if I do let him in the kitchen, he won’t pee. It’s as if he knows he doesn’t have my full attention, he turns into a pee machine.

Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue? And if so, any advice? I read some stuff about excessive drinking so I’ve been filling his water bowl with less water so he’s not chugging like crazy, but that doesn’t really seem to the issue.

Hey there!

TLDR: puppy wont pee or poop on puppy pads, only near or on the edges, and prefers carpets.

First time puppy owner here. Full transparency, I am severely underprepared and only know about kitten rearing, not puppies. The puppy arrived in our lives unexpectedly out of a bad situation and we're trying to make it work because we all got attached.

Puppy is a half-dachshund 3mo, fully unvaccinated yet because when he came to us he was so malnourished and sick that the vet recommended to wait. We're gathering the money to have him vaxed now that he's healthy so he can go on walks and give us some peace of mind, but at the moment, our apartment is covered in puppy pads that are basically only used by us to mop up his messes all over the house. Especially on the carpets.

He'll pee near the puppy pads, sometimes even on the edges of the pads, but rarely on the actual pads. Pooping is entirely random. He seems to have preferred spots, but so far it rarely is remotely close to where he pees.

As soon as he got here, I started training tricks and potty. I would give him praise and treats everytime he went on the pad, even if it was so on the edge there was still a mess, and would relocate him when he squatted down but whenever I relocated him he forgot he was about to do business, get distracted and then proceed to pee/poop anywhere else.

We got an enzymatic cleaner so our house doesn't smell like an unkempt kennel, but the constant cleaning is wearing us out. We're both getting pissed off at the puppy, even though we know it's not his fault (and are not taking it out on him, obviously). I was suggested to make it clearer that going potty anywhere but on the pads was not acceptable by going no everytime he'd do it, but if anything it seems he now just won't potty in our presence, which makes it worse because we can't redirect him or praise him for going on the pads.

I don't know what else to do. He goes on the pads maybe once a day, twice if we're lucky, most days not even once. And that's 1/2 times out of the 15 he pees a day. Poop doesn't give me as much of a headache until today, when he decided pooping on the carpet was a bright idea that he hadn't tried before. I had to lock myself in the bathroom for a while to calm down. My partner just handwashed the carpet two days ago because of the pee smell, we sprayed it with the enzymatic cleaner, and yet.

Ive been seeing a lot of products claiming to help on potty training, dog bathrooms, pads with pheromones, repellents, attracters. Do any of these work? Am I doing something wrong? Will walks and outside time make this easier?

Hi, me and my partner brought home our first puppy (11 week old female staffy) 2 weeks ago now and I was just curious what everyone chooses to feed their puppy and why? It seems like everyone has a different opinion.

The breeder was feeding her cooked chicken mince in morning, dry food at lunch and raw beef mince at dinner and supplied us with some so we could continue feeding her that. It came with no instructions so it was difficult to know how much to feed her and the VET said she wasn’t a fan of the cooked chicken mince.

So I gradually switched her to store bought frozen raw puppy food so I can now follow the feeding amounts on the pack. I mix it with kibble and feed it to her 3 times a day. I just look at the daily amount of the kibble and half it and do the same with the raw then put them together and divide into 3 portions.

Also the VET also recommended feeding her 2 times a day but online people recommended feeding her 3 to even 4 times a day, so how often are you feeding your puppy?

Thank you.

I just adopted my 8 week old puppy from a shelter (he was born there). As he’s not fully vaccinated and I live in a city with strays, we can’t go out to potty so our solution is taking him to a well fenced balcony to potty.

So far he absolutely hates it, he looks terrified as a matter of fact. I know he’s ready, twice I actually stopped him mid act and took him outside, but the minute the door closes he starts whining and refuses to potty. The minute I take him in, he will happily pee/poo.

I even took a pad and wiped his pee with it and laid it outside to help him mark the spot but no luck. What can I do to help him pee? I will for sure give him treats once he does but at this point it feels like it’s never happening 🫠

Hello all. My title pretty much sums up my problem. We have a 12 week old male Lab puppy. We brought him home around 8 weeks old. Let me preface by saying I know he is still a baby. I know that this takes a while. I just more so am curious if we are doing something wrong when it comes to potty training.

As of right now we are taking him out VERY often. probably every 30 minutes when we are home. After he eats, after he drinks, after he plays, and of course when he wakes up. We take him outside and he pees immediately, we reward him with a training treat and praise him. We even stay outside for 5-10 minutes so he has more than enough time to get everything out. But when we come back in and he is in the house within 15 minutes he’s peeing little amount multiple times. Almost like he is marking his territory. We make sure when he does do this to take him outside immediately and tell him no. After quite a few weeks of this, we are feeling defeated. We know he CAN hold it. He’s been left in his crate for 4 hours when we are not home and sleeps all night without an accident. Any advice?

One of the 4 stray puppies whom I'm feeding since last 2 months is missing since 2 days. What should I do? Their mother also lives with the puppies. She also couldn't find that missing puppy. The missing puppy is very timid. Don't know why. I'm really worried. What should I do?

I've taken my pupper (sheltie boy, 9 months) outside for some training today. We've recently discovered a new "training site", that being a nearby football field. We've been there twice, so he might not associate it with training yet, but I'll be happy for any advice.

I'm kinda overthinking this rn, since I'm thinking, he was outside today already for like an hour and a half in the forest, plus I had our "normal walk treats" (dry beef + beetroot treats) and not something like chicken or cheese + He was on a long line, not a short leash, so we could do the running attention game from kikopup and that i could still have control over him. Also i've heard that once dogs come to a new place for like the 2nd, or 3rd time they tend to sniff more, so idk.

After the attention game I've tried luring and eye contact, rewarding every few seconds. He wasn't exactly bad, but i could tell the ground was *much* more interesting. He kept turning to sniff if he got disinterested.

I think it might've also been that i tried to "run away" from him with the treat, to get his attention, which didn't work. Maybe i should've changed him to a normal short leash after the attention game?

Thanks for reading/replying!

I brought home this super adorable shy timid 5.5 month old yorkie pup 2 days ago. So far I constantly feel like I’m failing the dog

He was potty trained (barely) on pee pad at the breeder and when I give him the fresh patch grass he refuses to go on it. And when I give him pee pads he shreds it constantly. He is still terrified of the crate and he isn’t really food or toy motivated (at least it doesn’t seem like it), so I haven’t been able to get him to go into the crate at all let alone crate train him

At night he barks non stop unless I go back downstairs with him. But I’m not sure if it’s because he’s scared or simply want attention. I thought he might be restless cause he just chills in bed all day but when I open the playpen or carry him out of it he doesn’t really run around at all.

I feel like I need someone to tell me either this is normal or what I need to do better. I feel like I’m ruining the poor pup’s life

We groomed him a couple of days ago and he keeps chewing almost everytime I see him. It almost looks like there’s a scratch there with a little blood coming out. I could be wrong.

They also did something around his pooper to where he sits down randomly and awkwardly. I’m not sure what could be going on.

Sometimes we just let her sleep on the bed not in her crate and she barks at night when on bed and not in crate. So current solution is put her in her crate when she does this. Any advice?

my 4 month old (19weeks) gsd mutt just wont stop pulling on the leash. we've tried so many things, like stopping, turning around, a bigger widht collar, some anti-pull harnesses. nothing works. its getting pretty hard to go on walks with her as shes 41 pounds and im a 95 pound female. our trainer refuses to teach us or help us with it by kind of saying "we'll talk about it later" but she never does. please give us some more advice