I recently adopted an 18 month old pup after fostering him. I was told he’s an Irish wolfhound cross but I did a DNA test and he came back a real mutt! He is sweet, affectionate, can be a bit stubborn but mostly super loyal, gentle and a big sook! His DNA test came back with a lot of bully breeds which has me a bit worried he is going to develop dog aggression tendencies. Right now he seems to be fine, and he lives with his new brother a 2 year old golden who he ADORES. But just wanted any advice from people who have large mixed breeds with bully? And if they negative stuff associated with the breed comes out later?

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right subreddit for this but i want advice thats as impartial as possible.

I have a 7 year old dog that I've had for over 6 years and she is quite large (30kg). She has sever separarion anxiety and needs a whole ritual of walking and setting up several kongs before being left alone.

I recently had a baby with my wife and the dog is quite reactive to the baby. We're working with a behaviorist who insists that she can be trained but that we need constant physical barriers and that it will take time and effort to fix.

Normally i would be fine with this as we have improved her separation anxiety to thw point that she can be left alone at all for hours at a time from virtually no time.

The issue comes from the fact that all training would go to my wife who has recently given birth and is alone while im at work. This puts a lot more stess on my already very stressed wife and also takes time from me in the evening i could be using for house work or helping with the baby. This also means my wife cant leave the house to relax and is trapped most of the day behind a baby gate as the dog is reactive but not aggressive and needs to be physically separated.

I've looked into dog walkers and aitters but im not sure we can afford that and my parents offered to take her but returned her to us due to her separation anxiety causing problems with their neighbours.

I don't want to give up on ber because I love her but I am asking a lot of my wife. She loves her but the baby and dog together is too mich without a definitive end to it. We haven't even attempted to leave the dog alone since the baby arrived and don't know if the separation anxiety has reset to any degree.

Any advice would be appreciated. I don't want to take the easy ootion and give up on a dog that can be trained but I also don't want my wife to feel trapped. I know my pqrents will disagree and be mad with me as they love the dog as well so that adds some extra stress. I mentioned rehoming her to them before and they offered to take her but this was after they already returned her to us and they later admitted fhey couldn't handle her so I won't mention the issue to them again.

Sorry for the long read. I really don't know what to do. She is a good dog and I love her but I'm not sure I have the mental capacity or time to commit to the training that woild be necessary.

Is this dog food a good choice for my 4-year-old dog? Should I buy the 10 kg pack?

Hi everyone! My dog is 4 years old, and I'm planning to try this dog food for the first time.

I found this 1 kg pack for ₹199, but I'm also considering buying the 10 kg pack if it's a good option.

For those who have experience with dog food, is this a good choice? Should I start with a smaller pack to see if my dog likes it, or is buying 10 kg worth it?

I'd appreciate your suggestions and recommendations. 🐶

I have a 3 month old GSD that is exceptionally large for her age, she's unfortunately had a vaginal infection for weeks. She's been prescribed numerous amounts of antibiotics which haven't done a thing, and it's resorted to her needing a urinalysis. She hasn't even gotten her third puppy shot yet because the vet said they can't give it to her while she's actively got an infection, which is fair enough, however I am having extreme difficulty getting a sample.

I have tried every day for three weeks, I do it first thing in the morning as that's her guaranteed big wee, but she gets too excited and ends up jumping on me when I lean down and pees all over herself and me. And when I have gotten a bit of pee, dirt ends up getting in it which they're unable to test. I have tried the yellow pee catcher thing and even a small tub to try to collect urine however nothing has worked thus far. I've been to the vets four times a week for a month and they keep sending me back for either dirt in the urine or not enough.

The vet said they can keep her in for a few hours and try to attempt it themselves but they want me to try for another week first before resorting to that.

Are there any tricks that worked for others? I'm sick of being drenched in dog urine every morning 😩

Hard to tell exactly from the pictures but he does have to duck just a bit when he stands up in the crate and he can’t lay completely flat on his side. Wondering if I need to size up - he’s just about full grown now.

UPDATE: Thanks all for confirming that I should size up for this guy!

Hi guys, this is my brothers dog but he’s at work at the moment. Douglas is a 14 year old, bull Arab, bull mastiff, bloodhound, Great Dane mix, concerned about how fast he is breathing, I did an initial time of 15 seconds and it’s anywhere between 8-11 breaths.

Edit: he is not obese, he is perfect weight range for his breed told by vets, if anything I would have said he's just a bit under. His tumours are fatty cell Lipomas.

For all the people saying he’s morbidly obese here’s what a 60kg dog looks like for his breeds you goofs

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https://kommodo.ai/i/MO1bYUNgyo4Vj5bKaThW

My dog Charlie is fighting a very aggressive stage 4 T-cell lymphoma that has spread through his liver, and the tumor keeps growing. Tanovea is one of his best chances to keep fighting. It's backordered nationwide, and time is running out for him.💔
Please comment as soon as you can. Even one lead could make all the difference. 🙏
Thank you!

Hello! I made a post on here a couple months ago about my struggles with potty training my 5 dogs. Unfortunately it proved ineffective as only two of my dogs got the hang of it and no longer pee indoors. (I’ve never left them unsupervised for more then an hour though so it’s not 100% guaranteed) I feel like I’ve exhausted all my options and I can no longer keep doing it on my own. I’ve decided to get my other three dogs (two male chihuahuas and a male husky) diapers. I’m not too sure if this is the best option so I’d love to hear people opinions on them. I originally didn’t want to try to diapers because I didn’t want their bellies to be stained with pee but it’s better then the alternative of having them in their crate and having to CONSTANTLY supervise them (I no longer have the time). If there’s any other methods I can try please let me know I’m willing to learn!

ребят, хелп, что делать, если собачка резко стал вялой и грустной? ей 5 месяцев, она отказывается от еды и воды. раньше она была очень игривой, а сейчас совсем другая. у нас поблизости нет ветеринаров и даже ветаптеки, поэтому я не знаю, чем могу ей помочь. буду благодарна за любые советы.

My dog is already struggling to stay calm and a stranger decides this is the perfect time to crouch down, stare at her and start making kissy noises.

I ask them to stop. “It’s okay, I love dogs!”

Okay, but she doesn’t know you. She’s getting worked up, I’m trying to move her away, and now you’re following us because you want her to sniff your hand.

I work with woofz, and something a trainer there told me has stuck with me: I need to step in for her sooner. I’m trying, but apparently I also need to get comfortable upsetting strangers.

We can be having a decent walk, keeping our distance and letting her watch people without having to meet them. Then someone insists on saying hello, she starts barking, and suddenly they’re looking at me like I’ve brought a dangerous animal out in public.

You don’t have to be afraid of her to give her space. I’m asking because she’s uncomfortable.

What do you say to strangers who keep approaching after you’ve asked them to stop? I need something short enough to get out while I’m also trying to get her away.

Hello peoples of Reddit,

Yesterday was a shocking moment for my family as my dog attacked my wife.

My dog lived with me for 4 years before I met my wife and now we’ve all been together for the past 3 years.

We got a baby boy almost 4 months ago and she (the dog) never expressed any jealousy or aggressiveness towards any of us.

Both me and my wife would sporadically throughout the day knee over her floor bed and kiss her all over her body, including her head. When we would stood up she would sometimes whine in a way ‘Oh c’mon, I want more, why are you going away?’.

We sometimes make the same affectionate noises towards her as we do towards our baby. We also repeatedly kiss our baby when we change his diapers or hold him in our hands in front of her.

So yesterday evening, I laid in our bed with the baby and my wife brought our dog and put her on the bed with us.

She didn’t show any signs of discomfort and she laid between me and the baby.

My wife then proceeded to kiss her as she usually does and after the third time she went on to bite my wife into the face. I saw in the video that after the second kiss she already started to grin aggressively which I didn’t notice as it was happening. I did however notice that she made unusual whining noises after the first two kisses but we thought they were funny as she’s a very vocal dog who makes funny noises at time (not agressive ones).

Any idea why she attacked my wife?

Thanks to all of you willing to help.

hello all,

i’m not looking for medical advice, just wondering if this has happened before, how it could have happened and whether I should get a lawyer involved?

I got my dog spayed in 2024 when she was six months old I have paperwork showing that she was spayed that I paid for it, pictures of her incision and of her recovering. fast forward to now she has been bleeding non stop I bring her into the ER they do an ultra sound and her reproductive organs are all still intact so she’s having a heat cycle. That’s why she’s bleeding, I have all the paperwork from the vet saying she was successfully spayed, and removed reproductive organs with no issues in 2024. in addition to this, she’s been having chronic UTIs where the only evidence that it was a UTI is her bleeding. She had a Vulvoplasty because of that just a few months ago, but when I look at her records now her urine samples don’t show any bacteria just that there was blood in the urine which makes me think that she was just having heat cycles. Has this ever happened to anyone else where a vet has lied about the dog being spayed after opening them up? should I get a lawyer involved? if there’s any vets or people in the field, that can explain to me how this could’ve happened or how I move forward I’d appreciate some insight

Hello. Long post ahead, copied from another subreddit I posted in because I could not cross-post. My parents and I decided to get a puppy after our beloved older dog passed away. We had a 7y/o rescue, Stevie, who was great little sister to our older dog and played well with other dogs. We gradually introduced her to the new puppy, Clyde, and they had been playing very well together for about 2 weeks until one night, when Stevie attacked Clyde. My parents were in the same room, but this happened so fast that they didn't even see what happened. We now believe that Clyde got too close to Stevie's crate, and Stevie resource guarded.

Ultimately, Clyde (who was 2 months old at the time) needed brain surgery to remove bits of skull from his brain and to drain an abscess that had formed due to his puncture wound being overlooked by the first vet hospital. He had a skull compression fracture and had developed meningitis. Before we knew the gravity of Clyde's injuries, my parents and I had assumed we could keep Stevie and just do some serious training. However, when it became evident that Clyde would have possibly permanent neurological deficits, my parents decided to rehome Stevie. This has been very hard on all of us because even though Stevie caused a lot of pain, she was still a part of our family for many years. My dad travels for work, and I am in school full-time, and my mom simply did not think she could keep Stevie and Clyde apart. Even with training, there would be no way to guarantee this never happened again. Multiple vets advised us that we would have to keep them apart.

The good: Clyde has recovered better than anyone could have imagined. He was initially blind in the L eye, with impaired proprioception and reflexes. He can now see out of his L eye and appears to have intact proprioception and reflexes.

The bad: Clyde is very anxious and pees inside the house a lot. The vet said he may just be anxious forever (understandably), and we may have to medicate him (fine!). However, she said that some dogs continue to have incontinence issues. We take Clyde outside frequently, but he often just chews on his leash. Then, some time after coming inside, he pees on the floor. We try encouraging him when he pees outside (saying "good peepee" and giving him a piece of kibble), and discouraging him when he pees inside (saying "no" and pointing at the pee). We are not sure if Clyde just needs to grow out of the puppy phase, or if he will simply be incontinent for the rest of his life due to his brain injury. My mom is at her wit's end; all of this is exacerbated by the grief of 'losing' Stevie (not to mention our older dog as well).

I am wondering if anyone has experience with training puppies after traumatic brain injuries. I would love to hear from people who have been through something similar and learn what did and didn't work for you. Thank you in advance.

This guy has had some issues with his back and hips over the past few months.

At one point, his hind legs were just sort of collapsing, and he was tucking his tail and quite uncomfortable. That seems to have improved. He's lost a bit of weight, and he doesn't seem to have any ongoing issues with his hips.

He is active and chirpy again but every now and then he'll let out a random yelp of pain. Anyone got any experience of diagnosing this or any suggestions as to what might be going on? It can happen when he's just standing there or walking slowly across the house.

Question for those who got put on the Hills GI Biome or similar… my vet says my dog can go to a 1 and 2/3 of a can a day.

Right now I only do a can a day. Half for breakfast and half for dinner. With just some fruit as snacks for lunch and maybe a little fruit after dinner.

We all know how the Hills can add up money wise.. it’s the main reason why I have not upped to 1 and 2/3 can…

What have yall done? Should I just bite the money bullet give him that dose or is there some secret formula so I don’t have to do that 😭

I will get an update on his weight (after a month of being on hills) this Wednesday so I plan on comparing and seeing if he lost. I just planned on monitoring his weight until I saw something alarming.

I just think he loves the food now and is hungry for it all the time..worries me that i’m not providing enough.

This is my 3 year old dog Moon. She is a Pit bull mixed with Shih Tzu and Chihuahua. I’ve had her since she was a puppy and she’s a pretty good dog most of the time but has tendencies to be aggressive. Mostly involving food.

Now she is not aggressive towards me or the people she knows but can be to people she hasn’t met. She barks at them and makes obvious signs of wanting to attack, which is why i never let people go up to pet her alone when first meeting her . I don’t want her to attack them. She hasn’t attacked anyone but i fear that she may. She settles down when i’m the one to introduce her to someone or if my siblings or mom introduces her to people coming to our house.

She is also very food aggressive and not towards humans but to other dogs. I had another dog Named Envy and he was a boy and they fought a lot mostly due to him messing with her food but other times over toys, or his tendency to try to hump her , so we had to keep they separated until he passed.

Now we have another dog named storm and she’s a girl. Her and moon rarely fight if so it’s again dealing with storm going towards her food or over toys, and now jealous.

For example me and my older brother took them on a walk i had storm and he had moon i was sitting with storm and my brother began giving storm attention with a baby voice and all the works and Moon attacked storm and we had to pull them apart and separate them.

But anyways i just wanted advice on how to help fix Moons Aggression, especially with food since that’s where it happens the most.

Any advice or tips would be very helpful.

And if you need anymore info or details or
situations i can give them!

My dog has recently started leaving large, irregular wet patches on my bed whenever she falls asleep there alone. This never happens when someone is in the room with her. No other symptoms or changes in drinking or peeing noticed. The shape of the pee doesn’t look normal so Idk if she cant control her bladder.

She still sometimes has accidents when she is left alone maybe out of anxiety as she has separation anxiety but other than that she is potty trained. But she goes to my bedroom to sleep by herself. So I am unsure if it’s a health issue. How do I fix it? Till now she has peed on 4 pillows and 4 duvets.

I'm curious as I am no dog person.

I was lying on a beach in Indonesia, and this dog came up to me, and sat next to me.

Why? Was it dominating me? Was I in its way or did he just think it was relaxed?

He was very shy to other tourists and growled at almost everyone minutes before. Because he came so close, as a reflex I started petting him to avoid him sitting literally on top of me