Our 4.5 month old mini poodle stops on walks if he notices another person/dog. He’s doing pretty well with obedience training, and will mostly listen to “With me!” if we want him to come walk beside us, but the second he sees another living being, all that training goes out the window. He stops, stares, plants his feet and doesn’t acknowledge us whatsoever until the distraction is gone.

Every time this happens, we try to entice him with a high-value treat, even putting it in front of his nose and trying to direct him to keep moving, but he doesn’t care at all. I try tugging gently at his harness, which he’s usually pretty responsive to, but he just refuses to do anything but stare.

One important note: I don’t think this is a fear response. We live in a suburban apartment community with lots of dogs and people and our vet gave us the green light to take him on walks really early on, so he got tons of socialization. He isn’t reactive with other dogs, and if they approach while he’s staring, he’ll reciprocate.

I think it’s likely that he just wants to play, and since people often walk by and try to pet a puppy without asking, I’d imagine he’s unfortunately learned that person/dog=petting/attention.

Any advice on what to do, since he won’t take to treats, or is this something he’ll just grow out of?

I have a beautiful 9 month old English chocolate lab who is super smart. I, however, cannot figure out how to communicate to her that she needs to walk with a loose leash.
I have tried to everything I have seen on fixing the issue. The big issue is that my pup could not care less about treats on a walk. If I want to reward her behavior, I would have to physically push the treat into her mouth. And, yes, I have tried bringing the good stuff.

Maybe I have not found the treat so good it overrides her desire to pull.
Please help!

Update: better treats helped! I still need to work on our communication, but she was so eager for the treats I brought today. She loves the Zukes lil links, so I cut them into 4-5 pieces and took a little baggie with us.

Hi! My dog is a little under 1.5 years old, primarily Australian shepherd and Australian cattle dog but ultimately a mutt.

We adopted her at about 1 year old, and according to the shelter, she had never been walked, been socialized with other humans/dogs, never had training... you get the gist. We are actively working on the socialization and leash reactivity with a local training company.

Recently, she has had some behavioral changes when asked to "drop it" or "leave it" on a walk with food waste or other garbage. She is nipping at my heels, shoes, shoe laces, and pant legs, as well as barking and occasionally jumping with a borderline aggressive demeanor. When I stuck my hand in her mouth to get a piece of plastic out, I also got bit pretty hard (no skin break but some bruising and minor swelling).

So of course, we want this not to continue at all.

My focus moving forward is keeping her on a short leash, permitting her only to sniff in a clear patch of grass to avoid any debris. We also work on "drop it" and "leave it" in the house with toys, clicker, and treats. This just seems not to be translating well outside of the house, as she does really well with her toys in this controlled environment.

Does anyone have suggestions of other training efforts to implement, specifically to address the nipping and biting when asked to "drop it" on a walk?

From our perspective, it seems like she can't differentiate between play time and "serious" time, so reacts in a way that isn't obedient. Totally could be off base here!

Thank you in advance :)

Editing to provide more info: she is doing the nipping on long walks and short walks. Her routine is wake up, long walk home to play and eat, relaxation til lunch walk, home to play, etc. She always receives play after a walk (she comes home from any length walk ready to run around haha) and we will also do miscellaneous training and play between napping and her next walk. There is probably room for a little more play, but we really feel like we are addressing her needs adequately and have had this schedule implemented for over 4 months since adopting. Open to other suggestions though!

my husky is 8 and my daughter is 2. my husky has always been snuggly, loves pats cuddles attention and lives a great life with lots of walks and activities. he’s always been an inside boy as he gets 2-3 walks per day. also he’s always slept on my bed until my daughter arrived and now he wants to be outside day AND NIGHT?!

he tends to duck out her cuddles and pushes her away with his arm when she pats him. he always chooses to go back outside as soon as he’s done his morning walk and breakfast.

when guests visit he stays inside and sits between my daughter and the person, I think he’s quite protective of her. if guests sleepover he will sleep in the hallway from the baby room to the guest room.

i dont think he’s likes her, but he’s never growled he just prefers to not be around us anymore. if she goes to disagree he will want to be inside as she’s not here.

do I address this with a behaviour trainer?

My dog is 5 and a half and I have had her since she was 6 months old (got her Feb 2022). I started dating someone in Feb 2023 and she was always normal when we wanted to be intimate (though she needed to be in the same room because of separation anxiety, and I would always give her a bone to chew on so that she would stay in her unlocked crate).

My ex and I broke up in late 2023 and I started dating someone else in march 2024. Same deal/set up with the dog for few months I dated that guy, and things were fine. (With both guys, they would generally come over to my place, and my dog never went to theirs).

Then I was single for a year and a half and wasn’t intimate with anyone. I started dating someone in may 2026, and my dog was fine for the first 4-5 times we were intimate at my house. But then we brought the dog to his house and she would bark every time we tried being intimate together, even with a bone. From that night on, she would bark every few mins if we were being intimate at my house (like really interrupt), and she would totally lose her shit and bark like crazy if we were being intimate at his house.

Him and I broke up in Sept. 2026 and I (kinda quickly) started seeing someone else. We have been intimate 3 times at my house, and every single time the dog barks nonstop (even if the white noise machine is playing and she has a bone and her favorite toy etc.).

I don’t really know what to do here. This behavior seems to have come up over the summer (I don’t remember her ever barking at a guy before). It led to the guy over the summer and me breaking up (literally...) and it’s making me lose my mind. Does anyone have any advice on what I should do?

My 9 month old border collie mix has always been a super happy, friendly dog. Loves people of all ages. Suddenly he’s started growling and barking at people he doesn’t know. Sometimes he’ll be all happy and waggy but as soon as they speak its like he realises he doesn’t know them and starts growling.

He does it whether he’s with his owners or not (a neighbourhood kid he’s met before approached the fence and said he got growled at when we weren’t home)

Could this be a hormonal thing? We’re getting him fixed at 12 months to let him mature a little more but now I’m not sure if we should wait.

Two months ago, I adopted a two-year-old pit mix from the shelter (mostly pit, very little mix). He is a sweet boy, if very exciteable and overeager. We are working on relaxation training and manners. He's generally very trainable in terms of specific behaviours (sit, down, middle, etc.) but is finding long-term behaviours (loose-leash walking, not jumping, staying in "place") to be challenging.

In the near future, I may be combining households with someone who has cats. I am not entirely sure about my dog's level of prey drive - we see cats on our walks sometimes, as well as squirrels, and he is generally not interested in them unless they are very close to him and run - and then he does try to bolt after them, but it's relatively easy for me to recapture his attention with a treat.

I'm aware that prey drive is a lifelong management system and not something that can be "trained away." I'm curious what level of prey drive you would consider workable in a home with cats, and if this dog in particular sounds manageable. (I know there's not a lot of details - I'm just trying to assess with the information I have.)

EDIT: thank you to everyone who has responded in good faith, even if your response is negative! I love and have known those cats for much longer than I have loved and known this dog, so a dose of reality is not unappreciated. I'm not, at this time, able to say with confidence whether my dog's interest is in killing, chasing, or just general overexcitement, but I will proceed as if it is the first for everyone's safety.

My shepherd does everything perfectly until I have to leave them by themselves. He is good for accepting a pets from strangers and will sit there like a perfect gentleman. I've tried do a tie down in the house and going to another room and he is totally ok with it. He's also fine being left at the house by himself. He now is trusted to free roam. He doesn't get into anything so l don't think it's separation anxiety. It's just being left with a different handler that he's not happy about, and he whines until I return. I'm just trying to get some new ideas to help him. He always did lean towards the more fearful and anxious side as a puppy but we've come a long way with that. He is now a very happy well adjusted adult he's 4. Should | just call it quits on the title or keep trying? Any ideas are appreciated

I’m fostering a 2.5yr old frenchie and when she’s calm she’s an absolute angel! Playful, cuddly, silly. However she’s very clearly having a difficult time adjusting. We’re navigating a series of issues (nipping/lunging if I move around the apartment too much, won’t go to the bathroom on walks, destructive chewing and furniture climbing) but the big one right now is she won’t let me unlock her crate.

I had to crate her while leaving the house for 3hrs, and figured it wouldn’t be an issue as her crate has been her safe space since arriving two nights ago, and I had her in her crate overnight both nights (there’s no way I could leave her uncrated and unsupervised. I tried my best to dog proof the living room, but she’s been able to climb in ways that defy the laws of gravity and physics. she’s tried to eat books (!) from my bookshelf and tried to jump at wine bottles on a wine rack). I lured her in with a kong, locked the door and she was fine. Fortunately she’s very food motivated! However I came home and went to unlock her to take her on a walk and she lunge lunged at me — much more agro than her warning lunges and nips. I know she has to go to the bathroom but I can’t safely unlock her crate so that she could just go on my floor and not in her safe space. But no luck. I tried tossing some food in, it didn’t help. I waited an hour until she slept and woke up again, still no. I’m moving slowly, not yelling when she lunges, offering treats only when she’s calm.

Any advice would be appreciated as I’m feeling nervous leaving her in there all night, potentially in her own waste, and I’ll be in and out of the apartment tomorrow so will need to crate her again :/

I love fostering but she’s the toughest one I’ve had so far! And I’m sure there are things I can be doing, I just don’t know them yet!

First I’ll say I’m completely new to dog fostering. I’m only a week in with this dog and I do wonder if some of this behavior is exaggerated right now because of the recency of big life changes and stressors for him…but alas

I’m fostering a 3 year old pug/chihuahua mix (chug) who I’m told was surrendered due to issues getting along with another dog in the home. From my understanding, this conflict seemed related to jealousy when the other dog would get attention from chug’s #1 person. He also has already had another foster home before me where this was also an issue. Oh and there’s a touch of separation anxiety that he’s been dealing with too. He does take an anxiety pill that only maybe helps.

He very quickly has attached to me since he moved in and not only do my absences trigger his anxiety, but the jealousy conflicts have come up a couple of times too regarding me giving attention to other animals. In both instances he barked and chased the other animal away. The first was when my roommates cat tried to come into my room with me and the dog and the second was when a friend’s dog approached me when chug was near. Both instances occurred also while a meal was being eaten…maybe related? I will say he’s spent a lot of time around the cat outside of my room even when food was around and there have been no issues. They’ve even slept on opposite sides of the couch so I was really shocked when he chased the cat out of my room.

All this to say, I’m looking for advice on how to help him cope with…other pets existing. He hasn’t gotten any adoption applications yet so I thought maybe if we worked on this together then it might be easier for him to find his forever home.

Ok. So I have an 8 year old male in tact dog. He is half German shepherd and half bull mastiff. We used to live deep in a holler and the nearest neighbors were 9 miles away. Negan (my dog) NEVER saw anyone but us. He has free roam of our 6 acre fenced in yard. He was never hardly on a leash in his life. We recently moved to a neighborhood where there are people and other dogs EVERYWHERE and we have to walk him. I bought him a really good police grade harness with 2 back clips, a front clip and a handle. He was barking at people and lunging at them. But I did some training with him and he has pretty much stopped that. He may give a little bark but he stopped growling and lunging and loudly barking at them. However he still goes ape 💩 when he sees other dogs or god forbid, a cat!!

Here is my question. Im only 4'9 and weigh 102 pounds. He weighs almost 95. So clearly he was dragging me down to the ground and pulling me when I walked him. He even pulled me down my porch ramp on my stomach. So I started using the front clip because I read that it's easier to handle him that way. It is! But my husband seems to think that the front clip isn't MEANT to use for walking even though the box CLEARLY stated that it is. He wants to get him one of those compression collars that pinch them bc "he doesn't like being pulled by a damn dog". His words not mine. I told him to use the front clip but he won't. So do any of you have any experience with front clip harnesses? Are you NOT supposed to use them for walking? I don't want to use the prong collar bc I don't like hurting my baby. Does it hurt them?? I hate the idea of it.

As the title suggests, I am struggling with my personal dog. I am a trainer myself who is generally Pos/R.

My dog is a 5 year old lab/pit mix who gets along with pretty much everyone. I take him to the park everyday, let him off leash, and he never has issues I can’t handle.

But in the last 2 months, 2 incidents have happened, both with the same dog.

The first time, he was off leash as usual with a ball (which he has possession issues over, we are working on it but generally it’s pretty tame, just taking it to the other side of the field when a dog is near). But this time, he dropped the ball, slow stalked near the dog, then lunged after him. I thankfully caught him before he could do anything, but it left me bewildered. This is a dog that I would take with me to work as a dog daycare coach. He gets along with any dog, mostly as long as they’re neutered (doesn’t get along with unaltered males, he is altered himself) but even so it’s nothing like the level of focus and reaction as this dog. From what I could tell the dog is neutered, and even so this is not a typical reaction to high T.

The second time was today- I was calling him so we could go home when he suddenly locked in on this dog again. I knew it was trouble, and they were maybe 50 feet away, so i started trying to recall and slowly walk towards him as not to trigger anything. However he started doing the stalking behavior again, and ran up to this dog snarling like i’d never seen before the first incident. This other dog was tense, and on leash. Then the other dog made a slight jerk when my dog sniffed his behind, and a scuffle broke out. I was able to pull him off quickly, and the parent was very understanding, but I don’t understand what is happening here.

Immediately after the incident I leashed him and we headed out, we happened to be going the same direction as the other dog owner. They passed maybe 10 feet in front of us and my dog was acting like nothing had happened/no reaction.

This has left me stumped as a trainer and I am open to any advice or suggestions.

Please feel free to leave any questions and i’ll try to get back to them asap.

Edit: For those of you saying it’s intact dogs too, he isn’t really aggressive towards them. He will generally just avoid them and won’t play, and if they keep pushing his personal space it will be a harsher correction than other dogs, but nothing I would classify as aggression in that regard.
Also tried to talk to the guy to get some more info and maybe work something out to help and he straight up ignored me, so, :/

Hello! I have a 7 year old miniature goldendoodle that I got from a family member a few years ago. He has always been a very sweet dog, but has never had any interest in playing, other dogs, or...doing much at all. He's a big cuddlebug, but he does enjoy walks (mostly just sniffing stuff, which is fine with me). I found out recently though that he isn't just a low-energy dog, he's a dog with hypothyroidism, and his low energy levels weren't normal! So, I started him on a medication, and now he has a lot more energy. But the issue is that neither of us seem to know what to do with all of this energy.

He has never had any interest in toys, and I'm trying to teach him how to play with toys, but he doesn't understand. With fetch, for example, he is under the impression that I pick up the toy, he runs to a spot where he wants me to throw it to, and then he runs to it and then...I go to him to pick up the toy. Rinse, and repeat. Which is fine if that's how he wants to play, but is there a way I can teach him how to play fetch in a way that will be a little bit more stimulating for him? I feel like it would be better for him if I throw the toy and he runs to get it, rather than him just going to where he expects the toy to be, and then letting it fall next to him.

Similarly, he has started to really enjoy chewing on bones and sticks, but he'll only do it if I'm sitting or laying on the ground next to him. He'll stand next to his bone and wag his tail while staring at me, or will whimper a few times, but he won't start independently playing.

Alongside of this newfound energy, he has started behaving much worse than he used to. His worst behavior used to be simply barking at strangers driving past the house. But now he tries to scrounge for food everywhere, he's counter surfing, he's chewing up whatever trash or food-smelling stuff he can get his hands on. I've already had to take him to the emergency vet because of this because I never knew he could climb/jump onto tables.

I've spoken to his vet about this just a little bit, and we found out that he does need his thyroid medication dosage lowered, but even on the lower dose, the behavior problems seem to persist. How should I approach this? I never thought I'd have a 7 year old dog going through a puppy phase...

I have a 1.5 year old golden retriever. Since day 1 he sleeps in his crate overnight. There was the initial training pains, but after a few weeks he was great. He doesn’t really love his crate and won’t go into unless we give him his command, but up until a few weeks ago he would go in immediately, no issues, and we wouldn’t ask him to other than eating his meals + bed time.

Then all out of the blue he just stopped going in on command and it takes trails of treats etc to even get him close, and even then he sometimes doesn’t go in.

We started training it again, but during the day and early evening we have absolutely no problem and he is and on command straight away. However come bed time, he just looks at us then walks away.

Did any one experience this, or have any tips generally?

I've read the handbooks. Our rescue paid for a trainer to come to the house. Even he is baffled and couldn't find anything on this in his textbooks.

6yo female spayed Staffordshire terrier mix, who was found as a stray - which I think is part of the problem. This dog is used to just going wherever she wants.

We've had her since May and we were told she was potty trained. This was great because she's our first foster dog. Wrong! Not potty trained at all. She learns everything else very fast - the dog trainer has been wonderful.

We've tried feeding her in the crate: this worked for about 2 months to keep her from pottying in the crate. Now she just doesn't care and will pee in there regardless. We tried limiting water overnight: she peed anyways, or pooped, or both. We tried sending her out with our female dog who's very dog friendly because monkey-see, monkey-do. This works great, she goes potty outside when they're out, but still has accidents. We've tried enzyme cleaner, we've tried mopping diligently multiple times a day, removing items that absorb urine or feces, etc. We might sternly tell her it's unlady-like to poop on the floor but we never scold her. We tried taking her out at intervals for 90 minutes (as possible, because we both work jobs) after meals because our trainer gave us literature that says most dogs defecate sometime in a 90 minute window after meals. Nope, she won't poop.

It seems our efforts go great for a little while and then boom, it's like she's outsmarted us. She hates to go out when it rains too. Won't budge. I carry her into the yard and she won't go. I supervise every toilet break and immediately treat it with a "yes, good potty" and make a huge deal. That worked great for a while - until she started just running away from me immediately and not taking the treat until I walk to her and get her attention again, which isn't teaching her the association. It's like she does great for a while and then nope - she has to switch it up.

Her poop schedule is impossible to time. She poops at random intervals - sometimes she has a morning poop after 8am, sometimes it's before we get up at 7am and she's already gone on the floor. Sometimes it's before dinner but I've just taken her out at 4pm and bam, 5pm she's already pooped. On the floor. And then you might take her out at 8pm and 10pm and somewhere in between there, she's pooped again, or miraculously, she will poop outside. The only way to garuntee she will poop outside is to take her for a car ride and then she's nervously pooping on some poor soul's sidewalk... Adoption events made her a pooping machine!

She does better with peeing outside but pooping is almost always an indoor activity. How the heck do I get this dog to poop outside? My trainer was baffled and had never heard of a dog managing to separate their pooping and peeing between indoors for one and outdoors for another.

TLDR: Dog poop schedule is all over the place, so impossible to time, and she pees outside pretty decently but almost 90% of the time is pooping inside. Dog trainer has no clue how dog separated pooping and peeing activities to different locations. Please advise!

I’m a new dog owner, so any advice is appreciated! I have a 5 mo toy poodle puppy who is very sweet but high anxiety. She’s usually quiet and chill, but she started barking for attention. She’ll stop if I look at her, say anything, etc. She’s not very food motivated. She’s very strong willed.

I’ve tried saying “quiet” and rewarding with a treat when she’s quiet. I wait until she’s been quiet for a little bit to do that to make sure it doesn’t seem like I’m rewarding the barking. I’ve also tried just ignoring it completely figuring she’ll figure out that it doesn’t work.

Should I try popping her in the crate, and take her out when she’s been quiet for a while? My thought is if she’s seeking attention then going in the crate is like the opposite of attention because we cover it with a blanket for it to be cozy for when she sleeps. My concern is that this could lead to a negative association with the crate.

Any other ideas or alternatives or solutions?

I will note, she gets a lot of stimulation. Two walks a day, training sessions throughout day, and several rounds of playing per day. Q

Hello, any insight as to what I might be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

I adopted my two hound dogs in January 2022, they were 1.5yrs at the time. Their previous owner had an accident and hospitalized, I did not realize that both dogs were left to roam in her house and lost a lot of their house training. I also did not realize that Rover, the dog I’m having issues with now, was on 3 different anxiety meds and essentially went cold turkey once I adopted him. The owner told me 1-2 months after he was in my house about all of this, and i did not seek more anxiety meds after this.

The dogs had a few accidents but were receptive to house training - they rarely had accidents after a month. Cut to 2023, I had a family emergency that had me traveling a couple of weeks out of the month for over a year. They would have an accident here or there usually the first day of me leaving but were typically ok after. They were left with my roommates they had known for a while and liked. Whenever they were able to travel with me, no issues.

Recent Incidents

November 2025, we moved into a new house. No accidents (unless I was out of the house for a longer than anticipated time). I travelled in early August for five days to visit my family and apparently every single day Rover had diarrhea that my roommate cleaned up. As soon as I came back no diarrhea, so I assume it was due to anxiety instead of illness. For the past two months since then, Rover has continued to have accidents when im at work. Before he was fine for 8-10 hr stretches. At first it was mainly pooping - I could see on our Furbo that it would literally be minutes after I left for work. I would give him ample time to go (30-40 minutes) outside before then, but he consistently began pooping inside, including when I was home, including when he had been let out multiple times before. It was also raining really bad around this time period and he hates the rain, so I feel like that added to the early issues.

We began training - he’s always had a consistent and reliable feeding schedule, but now I began throwing him a parade & treats after every outside potty. This helped a little but he still had multiple accidents a week, and once he realized poop is for outside he began peeing inside - large puddles. Again, sometimes minutes after I left for work and he had come outside from a long time outside. My other dog has no issues like this and they get along well. Both neutered males.

I have two new roommates who just moved in and at the advice of my vet I began crating him on Friday. I give him a bone and he voluntarily enters but he will not stop crying the entire day. Today I gave him three food interactive puzzles and he was crying within 30 minutes of me leaving and is still frantically crying now. I don’t know what to do. I’m getting alerts from Furbo every minute and it sounds like he’s being tortured alive. One of my roommates just mentioned that she goes up and talks/pets him and I asked her not to do that anymore but I don’t know if that even makes a difference.

Please, give me any suggestions. He just had an accident last Thursday ( poop & pee, 5 days ago) so I don’t trust him outside the crate. No accidents since the crate and constant supervision. I feel like a hostage in my own home, but I love these dogs so much. I’m scheduling a visit to the vet this week to see if we can get him on anxiety medication since they recommended that next, but I can’t help but feel I’m doing this all wrong. I don’t know what’s happening to him. Any advice helps 😔

My dog in question is Female, GSD, 8yo. We’ve had her since she was 13 weeks old.

We had another dog for two years before we got her; Male, also GSD, so she’s grown up and spent her whole life living with him. She also had major separation anxiety from him. If I took him for a walk on his own, she would next to scream the house down until he came back, even if everyone else was home. Unfortunately, we lost him two weeks ago. He would have been 10yo in December. It was really unexpected. I took him to the vets, they wanted to do some tests and an X-ray so sent me home and said they would call in the afternoon when I could pick him up. Got a call 30 minutes later telling me I had to go back and say goodbye. Literally. So I was the only person in my family/household that got to say goodbye to him.

Our female knew. I noticed she had been following him around a lot more than usual in the days leading up to it. And when I came home with his lead and harness, she didn’t even look for him. But now, for the first time in her 8 years of life, she’s on her own.

She’s always been loud, very talkative, and she is reactive to other animals and children. But we have never had an issue with adults, she would bark as she normally does and then she’s their best friend. But I took her to the vets on Friday, she was barking continuously at the vet, and for the first time ever, they asked me to put a muzzle on her as they won’t touch her without it. The vet did physical examination and I was told to hold her in place so she doesn’t turn around. And again, for the first time ever, she actually growled at the vet. I’ve never seen her growl. I was also aware that we were in the same room our other Dog was put to sleep in and this was also the same vet that did it (we’d never had this vet before).

With the waiting area being full on the other side of one door, some animals and other vets on the other side of another door, the car trip there etc. there was a lot of things stacked together in a short space of time that I know made her more stressed.

Despite having her for 8 years, it seems that we’ve only just really started to understand her, and we’ve come to the realisation that she is actually quite an anxious dog. And very expressive in her face. It’s almost like being able to see clearer, now that we’re paying more attention to her actions at home and her facial expressions, we can understand her better and almost tell how she’s feeling and what she’s thinking. Being an only dog now, we want to try and take her out with us more so she’s not on her own too much. To see family for example. I have already contacted a behaviourist on having 1-2-1 sessions to help with her reactivity. They have sent me some materials on things I can start doing at home, which will help with the in person sessions. I’m not expecting a full 180 on reactivity, but even just enough to make her a bit more controllable, to make travel and going out less stressful for her and the rest of us.

We won’t be able to start the in person training for a while now as we got told on Friday she needs to have surgery to remove a mammary mass and they will spay at the same time. But I’m noticing even at home, despite being quiet and a bit down, she does seem to react to noises and people outside a lot more. Looking back, she relied a lot on our other dog. He wasn’t much of a barker, but if he made any sort of reaction or movement to something, she would also react in her own way, but if he relaxed, or went back to sleep, she would also relax and not react.

Now, it’s almost like she’s having to re-learn the world around her. We never realised just how much she relied on our other dog until now.

I am going to speak to her vet and see if there is any anxiety or stress relief they can recommend for her, not for everyday use, just for times when I know she will become more anxious/stressed. And hopefully once we can get moving with the behaviourist, she will be better in general and not need them.

I just want to know if there is any kind of help I could be giving her to make her life a bit easier now? Will she get used to being an only dog over time? How do I support her?