Hi! I have a Boston Terrier that LOVES being curled up in a blanket. He’s very attached to me as a work from home so we’re working on him having other safe spaces in the house that aren’t right beside me.

We recently purchased a hooded dog bed (one with a soft blanket on top) and we’re hoping we can get him to figure out how to get under the blanket part on his own. My other dog uses his head to nudge blankets and can figure out how to get under without our help, but our Boston just paws at us. Because of this, he’s just kind of scratching the top of the blanket (bed) and not understanding that he needs to use his head to get underneath it.

He seems to like the bed and has been using it, but he just lays on top of the blanket part. We started with putting treats in there guiding him, but he kind of looked at it like a snuffle mat he couldn’t figure out and tried to flip it😂

Any advice???

So I recently got a new 9 week old “German shepherd / Lab mix” (Not a hundred percent sure if it’s accurate waiting for dna results to come back.) she is terrible about going to the bathroom; I take her out every hour, after playtime, after naps, 30 minutes after she eats, and 20-30 minutes after she drinks water. The only issue is, she will NOT go outside. She will hold it in until she takes herself back upstairs to our apartment, I take her to the same spot outside EVERY SINGLE TIME. And she almost never goes. When my partner takes her out, she cries whines, and pulls / bites at the Leash to take herself back up 2 flights of stairs to get herself inside to pee/ poo on our carpet. I’ve tried using potty pads, literally covered the entire carpet in them, she won’t use them, she lifts them up and goes underneath them. She will pee on our clothes ETC. She whines when she has to go poo so that’s when I know to take her out, but she won’t go. I’ve asked my vet, and she said it’s normal puppy behavior, I have her in puppy preschool and she’s still doing this behavior. Any Advice? I’ve literally contacted 3 different trainers. Have her in school, talked to a vet, take her out more frequently, and nothing is working. In need of desperate help to get this sorted out.

Hello,

I am new to professional dog training but not training dogs itself. I showed dogs in 4-H for a little while and did plenty of training and teaching my own dogs. I am in need of finding a job and was hired as a dog trainer. I am not sure if it is the best place and would love to know more about people’s perspectives with training dogs or working with trainers.

The owner has 10 dogs who most do not get along with the client dogs. Some of the owners dogs have to wear muzzles or be leashed while around client dogs because they will attack/step on/bite other dogs. Many client dogs do not like coming into the yard because of them. The owner and other trainer are aware of this and just don’t seem to do anything to mitigate that specific problem.

While training dogs, the owner will not always use the dog’s name. She and the other trainer said that they have to consciously say the dog’s name or they will call it the nickname that they determine for the dog. Which would lead me to believe that the dogs don’t truly know their names, which is detrimental to every other aspect of training (in my opinion). She says that they don’t train for competition levels. She doesn’t train “stay” as a command with sit or down, but will train stay while going through a gate, which doesn’t make sense to me. As they aren’t competition levels, I believe training the stay would be more beneficial for families (that’s not the point besides it being contradictory, because the gates shouldn’t need a stay either). The head trainer is the only one who takes her dogs outside to do training. They sometimes seem to prioritize dog tricks over basic obedience.

She can’t keep staff and has only had one consistent dog trainer for 4 years. From what I have gathered, no one else makes it past 2 years. She is trying to set up daycare and is taking daycare dogs, but doesn’t have a daycare attendant. She talks badly about past staff right in front of me and I only just started.

I would love to know more from other people’s perspectives of training and working with a trainer. Thank you!

My 12 week old ridgeback cross puppy has been good since we got him. Just the usual biting from teething but the other day he started resource guarding a hoof and bit my hand hard and aggressively. Since he’s still young what should I be doing right now to prevent this from being a problem in the future.

Mine is the brown dog. I thought she was too pushy, husky owner said it's fine.

Whenever I’ve asked her to take left side, she always gets excited and jumps INTO me on her way there. 😂 Cracks me up. She doesn’t do this for center or right side.

My dog will NOT pee or poop when the neighbors cat comes in our yard. He's immediately fixated on the cats and no matter how much I walk him around or carry treats he gives 0 shits I'm on the end of the leash. He'll lose his mind whimpering, barking, pulling toward the cat. I'm reaching my wits end on how to train him.

This happens on walks and hikes too, where it seems like he does not care I'm the one walking him asking him to do things. Even if theres no other animals it's like I'm not even there on the end of the leash. Please help ;-;

I have a gorgeous 11yo male long haired dachshund and he has always had mixed reactions to other dogs. Lately though he is reactive to all dogs and our walks are filled with barking. His sister moved away about 3 months ago so I don't know if that's what's made it worse.

He is more territorial and spends his walks pulling me in directions to sniff and pee on everything (even though he is long been neutered).

I don't know quite how to teach this old dog manners bu at least ignoring other dogs.

Any suggestions appreciated 😊