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I successfully managed to stop my dog freaking out during fireworks this year and thought I'd share my experience in case it can help others. I know it's used to manage alert barking, but I don't...

My pup has started a behavior that I find quite puzzling. I'd love thoughts on what he might be trying to accomplish here. I have an (almost) 10 year old shetland sheepdog, Nox. We live in...

It’s starting to get cold and this tip has helped me a lot in winter in the past few years. I like my gloves but have found it’s very difficult to open the poop bags while wearing them. I’ve tried...

Two months ago, I adopted my second rescue dog, a 5 year old border collie. He has been amazing. Extremely smart, extremely trainable, extremely cuddly. He has also gotten along amazingly with my...

As I write this, my pug is where he always is at this time of the evening: under the coffee table, with a squeaky ball in his mouth. If I try to take the ball from him, he’ll take the ball and...

Hi all. I’m in a hell of a predicament. We adopted a one year old Maltese 2 days ago from a rescue and same day he somehow managed to slip through our fence and take off running. Theres a bit more...

I’ve always been curious: if everyone at home is out working or studying, who takes the dog out? Does your dog stay alone, or do you use a dog walker or daycare? And for those with a walker: how...

Hey, my uncle has a dog (border collie) which is showing behavior problems/high reactiveness. Lately the dog has been aggressive to family members and is now wearing a muzzle in the house. I visit...

I’m based in UK and have a Romanian rescue doggy, who’s 3 and we’ve had for 2 years. Never had this kind of interaction before, but I was walking him on the lead and a woman came up with her dog...

I swear I can be blasting music in the garage, to an unsafe volume, and my dog will come and sit next to me with that little face like nothing is happening, she will even sit closer to the...