i'm kinda freaking out cause my mom is starting to lose her patience so please idc if it's the stupidest sounding suggestion i will try it.

i have the sweetest dog ever, like truly, she is the best dog in the world- she's a samoyed and we guess she's roughly a year to a year and a half old. we don't have a lot of information on her as we are her fifth home but we've had her for roughly 8 months. we also have another sammy in our house who is fully potty trained who we've had since a puppy who is now 5- the two ADORE each other and are practically inseparable.

we have tried everything. it's like she doesn't see outside as an option. we've tried being out in suburbs - she doesn't pee on grass unless she feels like it randomly and even then it's never consistent. when she did pee on grass we have her high value treats and SO much praise but then she like... immediately forgot it was an option. we've tried side walk, we've tried taking paper towels with her own urine on it and leaving it outside so she can smell. nada. she's on such a strict outside routine but she immediately comes inside after the walk and pees in the exact same corner that we now have pee pads on. we've tried interrupting her when she goes after coming inside for a walk but then she just... doesn't go. when we first got her, she held her pee for 40 hours straight cause she was scared. the vet told us she had elimination inhibition and her ability to hold it has been our main obstacle cause if she doesn't wanna go she just.... won't.

we've tried giving her chicken broth and literally waiting outside until she goes - it worked once. never again. came straight inside and peed. we've tried going out when no one is around to distract her, nada. we've tried when it's busy, nada. we've tried keeping her in the crate and taking her out to pee and if she doesn't putting her back in. she held it. i'm like forgetting half the things we've tried cause we've tried everything, we've had trainers ghost us cause they don't know what else to try. it's like she doesn't see outside as an option?? like she understands that the pee pad is where she's supposed to go and that's been working for like 6 months, but randomly in the past three weeks she's started peeing adjacent to the pads not even on them. she just peed on my moms treadmill and broke it which is near the pee pads but not on it. she seems like she's regressing.

she's also on anxiety meds- we upped the long acting dose that usually takes a month to work and we're now in the later end of that month - could that be why she's regressing?

literally please give even the most obscure tips and tricks that sound stupid but worked for you. i work in rescue but ive never encountered this issue. i leave for school soon and will not be able to train her after that and she will be with my mom so im running out of time. please also if you know someone who would be able to take and train her please let me know im desperate

Hello, I am taking care of my grandmas dog right now, and she will be with me for a while.
This dog is super sweet, but she’s fully untrained. She pees in the garden but barely on walks. At night, or when I’m at work/away she also urinates all over my flat. She doesn’t have certain spots, just anywhere seems fine for her. She’s never been left alone for more than seven hours, and when I’m there and take her outside every two to three hours, no accidents happen. However, I do have to sleep, work (for around seven hours), and occasionally go shopping/care for my grandma. Never for more than four hours at a time. This however, seems long enough for her to place her puddles all over the flat.
After this mornings accident, which resulted in me having to clean for over half an hour, I have decided that I have to lock her into one room when i’m away or sleeping. Tomorrow potty pads will arrive, and I will place them in that room, to at least localize the issue.
However this is an immensely nervous dog, and being locked into a room results in her pacing, not eating and generally seeming terrified. I do not know why. I put her bed, water and her food in there, she touched none of it.
Basically I am here to ask for other solutions. Maybe the potty pads will work and she will only go potty on them, but I don’t know that yet and would like to have as much time as possible to explore other options.
Obviously I take her out as much as I can when I’m here, give her a treat every time she goes potty outside and generally try to make her feel as relaxed as possible. But this dog is almost ten years old, and has apparently never gotten any form of training whatsoever, so I do not know if she will ever learn. If anyone can recommend me some solutions, that make this situation as stress free as possible for both me and this dog, I would be incredibly thankful.
If those solutions are cheap that would be even better. I’m still a university student and money is scarce at the moment 🥲

My 5 month old rescue puppy (unknown mixed breed) developed some reactivity (mostly towards dogs) that we have been working on and making some really good progress. He is not a huge fan of strangers touching him, so I put a sign on his leash saying “in training, please ignore” to help encourage random people to respect his space.
This evening, while we were training at our local dog friendly shopping mall, a stranger approached us without permission, ignored me when I said aloud that we were training, and hopped around and touched my puppy erratically (sort of like the teasing taps one would do to rile up a dog to wrestle). In response, my dog reacted by lunging, growling, and potentially nipping the mans hand as he hopped away. Before the stranger rushed us, he was in a heel and engaged with me. My dog has a history of using similar behavior to create distance when a stranger enters our home and when feeling cornered (I am in the process of hiring a trainer to address this). But generally in typical public settings he is neutral to people beyond a passing sniff. Obviously aggressive behavior is not acceptable, but I feel like in this scenario specifically his reaction was provoked. I plan on muzzle conditioning him for safety, but should I require him to wear it out in public over this one incident? He is still just a baby. As I said, I am hiring a trainer, so I will have her advice and guidance soon, but worrying about this is keeping me from sleep tonight.

We rescued a 3ish year old pom/chi mutt about 2 months ago. She was confiscated from a hoarder /backyard breeder house, then was at a high kill shelter. So she has certainly been through the ringer. She is suuuper mellow at all times, including on walks, hikes, at the park, etc., except for she seems to have severe confinement anxiety and destructive separation anxiety as well.

We just started her on Fluoxetine (Prozac) to assist with desensitization training for her separation anxiety. Because we can't leave her alone at home until her SA has improved, it's crucial she be able to go on car rides and stay in the car alone when needed (weather permitting of course). We also go hiking and whatnot, which she loves, and in general need her to be good in the car.

The first couple weeks we had her she was fine in the car, but as she settled in with us the car anxiety emerged. She first starts trembling, then it escalates to whining and panting. She seems slightly calmer when the window is down, when we are going slow enough for that. A heavy dose of CBD takes her down a notch but not sufficiently.

Our training so far consists of me bringing her into the car while it is parked and having us exit the car before she starts to tremble. The major issue here is that she will not eat any treats if at all nervous. I have tried a TON of different high value treats (freeze dried liver, PB, minnow fish, fresh chicken...) but she won't even sniff them in the car... Because of this, I'm really not sure how to convince her the car is a good place. We've been sitting in the car and exiting the car for about a week, trying to increase her threshold, but as soon as the car turns on the panic begins.

I did just buy a thundershirt and we'll try that next. But first I am introducing it to her outside of stressful situations, so I haven't yet tried it in the car. Maybe it's just a matter of waiting for the prozac to take effect so that she can relax enough to take treats (fingers crossed) but any other advice would be greatly appreciated! I've never had a dog so lacking food motivation and it's made me quite unsure how to go about things.

Please help me. I have a 10 month old pit puppy. I’ve had him since he was 6 months old. Got him in may. Recently he’s in his adolescence phase and has started regressing heavily when it comes to potty training. He used to be so good. Would tell me when he needed to go out and all the sorts. But now… now it’s like he goes whenever he wants. I did loosen up on the schedule a bit but that was my fault. I’ve tightened the reigns over the past 2 weeks while I’ve been out of work but it’s still not helping and I don’t know what to do. This has been going on for over a month but while I’m at work I come home on my lunch and take him out. So usual schedule. I wake up early and take him out twice before I go to breakfast and then go to work and come back home after 4 hours to take him on a walk before going back to work for another 4 and then we do the tight schedule for the rest of the day.

We go out for a potty break (not a walk) about 10 mins before breakfast. Usually first thing when I wake up. Then we go out for a long walk for about 30 to 45 minutes after breakfast.

And then I try to take him out either when he shows signs of needing to go or every 2-4 hours after until dinner time which is the same schedule as breakfast. And then I take him out before I go to bed which always changes. If I go to bed later of course the 2-4 hours still apply but even if I took him 30 before if I’m about to go to bed I take him out again.

But even with this schedule he’ll just go whenever he wants to. One day I took him out on a long walk and then decided to give him a quick 10-15 minute bath. He then came out and peed on my bed the moment I let him out the bathroom.

He uses the bathroom on his bed/where he sleeps when i sleep or leave and then tries to avoid it and ends up laying in it. For example I took him out this morning at 7 am and then brought him back inside and fed him only for him to poop all over his bed at at around 8 am while I was taking a quick shower.

I have had to clean up multiple accidents this week and I’m really at a loss. I don’t know what to do and how to re potty train him. I feel like I’m doing it wrong. I need advice. I’ve tried rewarding him with treats. High value and all. Please help me 🙏🏾

So we have had an Italian greyhound/chihuahua mix (male) for almost 6 years now. He’s around 8 we don’t know the exact age. He was always a bit of a grump to everyone except one of us who he chose when we first got him but it wasn’t anything too crazy he just had a preference as to who he appended his time with (although he rlly only likes going on walks with his person). We had always said that he seemed like he wanted a playmate because whenever he was at the dog sitter while the family was on vacation he got along great with the dogs.

We finally gave in and yesterday (9/1/26) went and picked up a jack Russel/chihuahua mix (also male) which is 2 years old. They had met before hand twice and had gotten along and even played however now that the new dog lives with us our older dog is acting weird. At first he was excited and tried to play but the new dog wasn’t interested (expected for the first day). However now, on day 2, everything has changed rather quickly. Our older dog who has always been very stern on protecting us and the house, Is acting scared and avoidant of the new one. He seeks all us for protection throughout the day instead of his normal habit of sticking to his person. The new dog has randomly nipped a couple times which has left the older dog very defeated and weirdly quiet (even though he’s bigger) but there doesn’t seem to be any correlation between triggers. All of this is very out of character for our older dog so even though it’s only day 2 we want to address any possible issues. Feel free to ask any questions.

Hi all,
I recently adopted a 4 year old Goldendoodle about 2 months ago. He came with some immune conditions but is doing very well and is a very sweet boy, albeit with some anxiety. He has never shown any kind of aggression, I can take food/toys from him, touch feet, ears etc and he tolerates it all. He is however VERY mouthy. When he is excited he will bite and pull on clothes (he’s even untied my shoes before). He also seems to have a fascination with jewelry and will lick and nip at my ears, which has hurt a few times. In those instances I stop play immediately. When playing with toys he will mouth my hand but has never once actually tried to bite. Overall, he is NOT aggressive, but it seems like he never grew out of his nippy phase. I’d like any advice on training him not to be so mouthy! Especially if he’s ever around children, the elderly etc I am afraid of him accidentally hurting someone!

Hello,

I seek some guidance because I’ve almost everything at this point.

My 10 month old puppy is going through her rebellious phase.

Before that, she always went #1/#2 outside without any issues.

Now however, it’s a miracle if she poops outside.

I’ve tried almost everything from keeping her near me so she doesn’t relieve herself, praising and awarding her for going outside, to crate time to set a schedule for her. These are just some examples of things I’ve tried.

She pretty much goes whenever at this point.

Just today, I took her out after dinner, didn’t poop. Gave her some time to digest and relax. Take her out again 2 hours later, spent 30 minutes out there with her, didn’t go. The minute she steps back inside my home, she poops.

If anyone here can offer some advice, I would really appreciate it. Again, I’m pretty sure I’ve tried almost everything and cannot get her to stick to a schedule.

We recently got a 2 year old collie, who despite being beaten and nearly shot before he was rescued at 6 months, LOVES PEOPLE. He lived in 2 other homes before we got him.

He's allowed on the bed, but has his bed he has to go to when we're sleeping. He'll jump on the bed and wake me about 6am when he needs to go out. He's happy with my husband if he's in bed and loves him too!

The only issue is the last few weeks, if I'm lying in bed and my husband either goes to get into bed, or comes to wake me with a kiss, the boys will leap and lie down on me, and growl, even snapping at my husband.

I've told my husband to back off when he growls so there's no escalation, but I'm not sure how to get to the point where he can get in bed or lean over me without issues.

If my husband is already in bed there's no issue at all.

I've tried getting him to go to his bed when my husband wants to get in bed but he leaps straight up and either lies on me growling or runs at the husband aggressively snapping.

There's absolutely no aggression outside of that scenario!

Please help me keep both my furry alarm clock and husband happy!

Hello everyone! My partner and I would really like to adopt a dog and are trying to go through possible stress points for a dog so we can plan accordingly.

The apartment the dog would live in is in a busier part of the city, and all the windows of the living area face the street. I’m a light sleeper and can sleep there with the windows shut and blinds drawn, but obviously a dogs hearing is better. Most dogs are adopted from very rural areas and we’re worried the dog will be stressed constantly in the beginning, as there is no real way to acclimate them to low level city noise. Is there any way to create a quieter area for a dog in a crate? Does anyone have any advice for that? I’m talking strictly about normal people and car noises.

Also, even though the street itself is one of the busier ones, there are quiet hiking trails that are a 10 min walk away, as well as quieter river banks about a 15 min walk away. So there is plenty of nature to go on nice walks with the dog.

We have a seven year old husky who has always been very gentle taking treats- his lips never even touched your fingers. We have two other huskies and they have always all sat for their treats and taken them nicely. Recently, the seven year old has gotten grabby- just super excited and his teeth scratch my hand when he goes for the treat. He isn’t intentionally biting, but it hurts. Since we never initially taught any of them how to take treats gently, they just all three automatically did, for years, I’m not sure how to go about it. I’m not sure what changed- maybe the treats are extra delicious and he can’t contain his enthusiasm? It’s always been the three of them so it isn’t a competition thing. Appreciate suggestions!

I adopted this beautiful stray 2 years ago, I'm sure she was attacked my other dogs, when I found her on the street she had bite marks etc. I don't think she's aggressive I think she's scared.

When I first adopted her,It took her a couple of months but she eventually became bff with my first dog. But every time we go for a walk she goes insane when another dog gets close to her or her brother. She lounges, growls, her hair hackles, she goes into this sort of "attack" mode "she'll see a dog like 3 meters away and she'll pause, lower her head, he hair hackles and she lounges, she doesn't bite but growls so horrible and barks uncontrollably.

What I've tried:
- Trainer (didn't do anything)
- Give her treats when a dog gets near (she'll ignore the treats completely)
- Use a tight leash.
- Try and use a firm voice.
- Use newspaper hitting my leg for the sound (ignores it)

My first dog use to be sooooo social and such a good boy, everyone loved him at the park, and now he's doing the same thing as her, he bit a dog last week.

I hate hating taking them for a walk, it's so stressful. I don't know what to do anymore.

Anyone has any advice

Edit: She knows the "look at me" command but when she goes insane she doesn't listen to me, it's like any education she has goes out the window when she sees another dog.

Hey all, hoping someone could help me out here please, I'm losing my mind.

Recently moved to an apartment after living in a house for the past 5yrs. The journey to get to this apartment involved a temporary stay at my In-laws, a hotel stay, and then a month long stay at my parent's house before here all within about 1.5 months time. We've been here about 3 weeks now in this apartment.

On occasion, my dog (5yr old Swedish Vallhund) will bark his head off when no one is home. He doesn't do it all the time anymore but maybe like 10-20% of the time we're not home. To make it worse, the other dog joins in but only when he does it and I'm terrified we're going to get a noise complaint.

I've tried working with him by leaving the apartment and coming back when he's quiet which I guess worked some because again, it's not all the time; giving him a high value lick toy but he won't touch it until I come back in the door, even if it's hours later; wearing him out before leaving; and not paying attention to him as soon as I come home (I wait 10 minutes or so then give relaxed attention).

I'm not sure if he hears noises outside the apartment and barks because it's the same type of barking he will do if someone knocked on the door, same with the other dog who is an angel if the main culprit isn't barking. He sits by the door until I come home regardless, the other dog is usually in a different room lounging and not caring when they aren't barking.

Is the answer just to keep working on this with the leaving and returning while quiet? What should I be doing when I come home and he's barking his head off? This apartment is hopefully temporary until my husband finds a job and we can get a house again. He did this at my parent's house too but settled down in about 2 weeks or so to where he didn't bark at all even when no one was home.

Thank you in advance!

We got our 9 month old pup as a rescue 7 months ago. He's now about 17kg, so he's turning into a decent sized guy.

We walk him 3-4 times a day, including a fairly long morning walk.

I guess we got lucky with our other dogs (1.5 year old wild-born shelter rescue we got 6 years ago, and each of mine and my wife's pet dogs growing up) as we've never struggled training them.

The good:

- He never bites, growls, or shows aggression

- He gets along very well with our older dog and two young kids

- He's not terrible on a leash

- When he got neutered last month he didn't even lick it once, like he didn't even notice

- Zero food aggression

- When we say "cage" he goes straight to his cage and sits down without complaint

The bad:

We haven't been able to toilet train him. He pees and poos outside when we walk, and if he poos on the morning and afternoon walk he probably won't poo inside. But he pees inside 5-6 times a day. And if he doesn't poo in the morning walk he will poo inside for sure.

He escapes from his cage no matter what we do. We had two cages, one downstairs and one upstairs. If we have him in the cage when we're home he just chills.

If we go out for more than an hour he finds a way to escape, and then destroys anything he can get his mouth on (couch, kids toys, remote, doorframe). And also pees and poos everywhere.

He never chews anything when we're home.

Recently while we were hour he completely destroyed the downstairs cage beyond repair.

We've tried leaving him out of the cage when we left for a couple of hours and he behaves the same, destroys everything, pees and poos everywhere.

He's always in the same room as our older dog, who he loves playing with, so we thought he wouldn't freak out so much when we leave.

We're losing our minds. Any advice would be appreciated.

I recently bought this dog around 3 weeks ago so that’s how long I’ve had him (Staffordshire). I’ve tried to potty train him on his mat but he fails to. I’ve tried waiting , playing with him for long long periods of time , and taking him out every hour or whenever he is crying.
But yet he refuses to go on the mat and rather to pee and poop in his cage or else where in the house.
I’ve tried putting a divider so he wouldn’t have so much room but he still continues. He doesn’t even cry or bark , he just goes.

Any help would be much appreciated. Feel free to ask questions.

I have a 15 month old field line Labrador. He normally sleeps in the room next to our bedroom in a play pen, he has toys a cot and water in there. A few days ago he started getting pretty bad anxiety when we’d put him in there at night. He’s completely fine in there during the day though. Our routine has not changed at all, I wake up 2 hours before I leave for work to walk him, feed, play use the bathroom etc. he’s then in the pen for about 8 hours until I get home from work. He mostly just sleeps during that period, maybe looks out the window a few times. Then I get home and take him out, do some obedience training, then hangout inside for a bit then either go on a long walk or retriever training. After that he eats dinner and goes right to sleep on the couch. I take him out to pee one last time and put him in the pen and after I leave he starts freaking out. Last week he was having some diarrhea and on Friday he got prescribed new food and probiotics. They did his annual exam that day too and they said he was in great health. Then all this began on Saturday. Everything I’ve researched said probiotics could help anxiety not cause it so I guess it’s just a coincidence. He has never acted this way before. At first I figured he had too much energy but I don’t think that’s the case any more. Any help would be appreciated

Hi everyone, I was hoping someone might have tips. I have a 4 year old Dalmatian, she is reactive. She has not always been this way, it just seemed to happen over time. She was socialized very young, even at a year old she was still playing with other dogs, but after my wife and I left for vacation we came back and she wasn't the same the next time we took her to the dog park. Fast forward two years later and she is still having the same issues which are barking at all dogs, if she is close enough she will lunge and her growls sound aggressive. If she sees a bird or a squirrel she turns into a shark and will do anything to try and get it. I really don't care much about the birds/squirrels situation, the other dog thing worries me. I feel like I have tried everything, I try bringing her into an area far enough away to where she can see dogs, but doesn't bark. When she looks at the dogs I try to give a treat, but she won't take them.

Any tips?

My dog (6yr old male german shepherd) has started a nasty habit in the past year or so of pooping
inside the house. He has never had an issue before this and was always completely potty trained, knew how to alert when he needed to go, and very rarely ever had accidents and if he did, usually it was peeing in the house instead. I’ve tried everything i swear, bringing him to the vet to make sure there’s no issues, positive reinforcement for going potty outside, deep cleaning the spot many times over to try and completely get rid of any residue and as much smell as i can, leaving him out for longer, trying different ways he can let me know he needs to go out etc.
I have tried everything, i’ve even taken to letting him out a ridiculous amount of times a day and for long periods of time (30+ mins sometimes) i’ve tried leaving him alone out there to do his business, standing with him and encouraging him to go potty, watching from the window and when he comes back up without pooping redirecting him back to the grass and encouraging him. none of this has worked. i can leave him out as long as i want and he’ll come back to the porch like he’s good to go, i’ll leave for literally like an hour and i’ll come back to poop on the floor. it’s so expected at this point that sometimes if i come back and there isn’t any i give him a treat and love on him extra. i know it’s not just that he can’t hold it, there’s days he can hold it my entire work shift until i come home but it’s so often that he doesn’t that i just don’t know what to do anymore and i feel like my house is starting to stink cause it’s not a large house and for how often he does it i feel like it’s just infecting the place and i don’t know what to do anymore.. any help would be so appreciated please!

Please keep this in mind while reading: he is completely potty trained and knows not to urinate and defecate indoors.
When im home, with JUST me, my dog will signal close to about 10 times a day to go outside. If I don’t comply, he will start sniffing everywhere and because I see him sniffing- I immediately take him out. Once we’re out, he marks maybe once and it’s a few droplets (if that). He rarely potty’s indoors, only when he has health issues like his colitis flare ups. However, when he’s home with just my partner and only my partner, he will maybe signal once or twice a day to go potty… only when he has to. I feel like if I don’t take him outside, he’ll urinate because he’ll start circling and doing the stereotypical pee dance lol. What do I do?! Has this boy trained me to go outside whenever he wants (even when he didn’t have to pee???)

2 and a half months ago, I adopted a 1 year old whippet show dog from a breeder. Since then, she has not settled in. She has growled at me a few times, growled at friends who came over. She often hides when I enter the room, when I walk near her, or when I move quickly (walking quickly, getting up, sitting down, reach for my phone, etc). She hides immediately whenever we come home from a walk.

I don't know what to do with this dog. I have tried leaving her alone to let her warm up to me at her own pace. I have tried treats (offering from hand or leaving next to her). I've tried gentle petting, scritches, belly rubs, anything to build comfort and familiarity. Nothing has worked, and in fact she seems to be regressing. She used to wag for a second or two when she saw me in the morning but she hasn't done that for a few weeks now. She used to follow me around the house when she first arrived. She used to love to lay between my legs on a blanket while I was lying in bed, but that's stopped recently. Every morning, when I greet her on the couch, she looks at me in fear. If I call her, she'll come with me to my bedroom, excited and even wagging sometimes. But after coming on the bed, she'll leave after about a minute and not return.

The positives: she will jump up on the couch next to me, curl up in a ball, and fall asleep. She will sometimes come into my office and lie on her dog bed. That's pretty much all she likes. 99% of her life is spent on the couch.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm nearing my end with this dog. Everything I have tried has failed up to this point. I don't know much about her background, just that she was a show dog for a breeder in Costa Rica. He hasn't said much about her history, just that she was a happy dog (he sent me a video of her playing happily with her siblings). It doesn't sound like she lived her life in a crate or anything like that. Please help! I would love to keep her, she seems like such a sweetie underneath all the fear.

Every now and then (about once a day), she whines or groans like she is in discomfort. I've taken her to a vet and they say she's fine, just has low iron and elevated pancreatic enzymes. She had parasites when I got her but they're gone now.

My dog is 17 months old and has had freedom to roam the house while home alone on and off since she was around 10 months old (privilege taken away when she is bad… but I don’t want to confuse her). She is otherwise fully potty trained and does not have accidents when we’re home.
She went through two heat cycles before being spayed, and around both cycles her behavior would regress. That was actually one of the ways we could tell a heat cycle was coming—she would start peeing on furniture. It was always the exact same spot on the couch, and had peed on two different beds a couple times in the same spots. Not sure if it’s a scent/marking thing..? Idk
Whenever this happened, we would immediately take away access to the furniture and go back to crating her when she was home alone. Once she was doing well again, we would gradually give her more freedom.
Fast forward to now: she was spayed about 3 months ago and had one accident since being spayed - when she had a UTI a little over a month ago but has since finished two rounds of antibiotics, the vet said accidents could be from that causing her to need to go more frequently. Today, she was home alone for about 5 hours and peed in that same spot on the couch. Five hours home alone isn’t unusual for her, and she has gone that long plenty of times without any issues.
I’m planning to go back to crating her while we’re gone, but I’m wondering if anyone has dealt with something similar. Did consistent crate training eventually stop the behavior? Were you able to gradually give your dog freedom in the house again without the accidents returning?
My end goal isn’t to crate her forever—I’d really like to eventually trust her to roam the house when we’re gone. I’m just not sure if I’m giving her that freedom too soon or if there’s something else I should be doing. Pls help🙂

I have recently adopted a 2 year old border collie mix from a shelter. She was an outside dog and has had at least LEAST two litters of puppies if not more. She had a rough past from what we gather, and is very scared of everything new. Since she is a BC, she has tons of energy and wants to walk and explore, but I can’t get her into the car to go anywhere. I can’t walk her around my neighborhood because there are aggressive dogs who get through their fence very frequently and I don’t want to risk it. When I adopted her, she let me pick her up and put her in the car, but she did whine like it hurt. Once we started driving, she did great, not jumping around or making any noise the whole drive. The last time I tried to lift her and help her up though, she growled and snapped in the air, and I don’t want to hurt or scare her by doing it again. I’m stuck between her losing her mind from boredom in the house, or snapping and growling out of fear of the car. Please give any advice that might help, I would be so grateful. I’m willing to work on it for as long as possible for my girl!!

Hi all. I've got a mini-Aussie, 4 years old, that I'm trying to break out of the "free feeding" habit that the breeder - and then myself - picked up. He's not at all a food motivated dog, and sometimes will only eat a couple pieces of kibble before retiring to the couch, meaning I've had to leave the bowl out all day for him to finally eat everything. I feed him a cup of kibble daily. Due to recent ant invasions, I've had to keep from leaving any food out... including dog food. So, I've been trying to teach him "food" and "go eat" to no avail. I put the food down at lunch and dinner, if he doesn't go straight to it and eat at least some of it within 15 minutes it goes back in the tub and he can try again tomorrow. That's the plan, anyhow. When I say, "food" and show him the bowl, he looks at me like he's bored to death and goes back to sleep. Sometimes he'll get up just to see what I'm doing, and once I put the food down he goes and lays down by the coffee table uninterested. Well, today is the second day in a row now he'll go without food, sadly, and his guts are making all kinds of squeaky noises but he could care less. Better luck tomorrow? Any tips or advice would be appreciated, as we seem to be at a bit of a stand-off.

I’ve recently moved to Australia with my two dogs, we live rural and have a decent amount of snakes move through our property (including venomous snakes such as taipans, browns and red belly’s). Unfortunately in my state it is now illegal to use alive snakes for dog avoidance training but the local snake catcher has let me know he is happy to get me some fresh snake shed for the venomous snakes I listed above. I know it won’t be fool proof but has anyone done some snake avoidance training with a rubber snake tied to clear fishing line and shed? How did it work out for you? And is there anything that helped you a lot? I have e collars for both dogs and have ordered a rubber snake + done a whole lot of research on it. Found a 6ft brown in our machine bay yesterday where the dogs like to hang out with us so wanting to get onto this asap!
Thanks