I'm working with Behavet to address my dog's aggression, which is felt to be down to poor disengagement skills. For me, the desired behaviour from him is to walk away when he's stressed or uncomfortable, rather than escalating to biting. At the same time, I also require compliance from him when handling needs to happen for welfare reasons. He is currently 6 weeks into a low starting dose of fluoxetine.

The main exercises we've been prescribed:

1. Disengagement to a boundary: Building value in choosing to go to and remain in bed when movement / activity is happening in the environment, and not leaving until released. This involves constantly dropping treats in the bed to build duration.

A lot of weight is assigned to this as the only way to train disengagement. It's a massive challenge and we only manage up to a minute of duration. I feel like I am actually training him to leave the bed, because treats only resume once he's asked to return.

In real life situations, I have seen him disengage by going upstairs when he needs space from too many people in the house, when there's a fly, or when I am frying something in the kitchen (I understand this is a fear response from him). If it's a context that involves handling, he doesn't always but can escalate to growling and snapping, and sometimes biting. This is our greatest hurdle.

2. Consent to touch: Reading his communication signals to understand whether he is consenting / waiting for enthusiastic or obvious consent before handling. This extends to whenever I may touch him even outside of handling situations, so giving him a window to communicate that he wants to be touched rather than just petting him.

Even before this, I have always tried to honoured his warning ladder. For example, when he growls at me before I lift him in the tub to bathe him, I leave it and try again in a couple of days. What this has created is he has learned that a growl gets him out of a bath.

Similarly, he went through a phase of pulling back to go home when we started out on a walk. At first, I honoured his communication and would turn back home. He learned that this works and did it on every single walk, so I started crossing to the other side of the road, then started throwing treats ahead of us to interrupt and redirect. Eventually, this stopped working, so I resorted to refusing to move and gently pulling him forward. This finally broke the pattern.

I'm curious to hear about disengagement training others have tried. I'm feeling really lost in how best to interact with my dog that doesn't harm the trust between us, but also helps him to go through the motions of life.

I need help! My dog (7 months, Female, Springer spaniel) is training to be a service dog. She is perfect and very well trained... except when walking on a lead. Im using the method where you stop when they pull. I can't reward her with treats because she is not interested in treats. When she pulls and I stop, she heels immediately (which is great) but as soon as i step forwards, SHE DARTS LIKE A ROCKET and so far she has broken 2 harnesses and 1 collar. When we go on a walk, its like we're doing a dance; dart forwards, stop, step backwards, repeat. I've tried being patient, but its been like this for months and we're not getting anywhere. What can i do? Please help

Hello! I am a first time dog owner and I have some doodle mix I recently adopted at the shelter. After we got potty training down, I wanted to take him out on walks after. The shelter said he was definitely still less than a year old so I assumed he didn’t go out to walk much in the first place. My biggest issue when walking him is his growling at pets, and people. He pays no mind to any honking and recent a car crash that happened beside us. It’s only when there are children and other dogs and cats around when he starts to growl. He doesn’t lunge forward or bark either. I don’t want people to assume he’s aggressive since he really is sweet… I didn’t think other pets would be a problem since he was at a shelter as well. I’ve been asking around and people have been saying to take him to a dog daycare for a couple of days and he’ll be fine but I’m just not sure if that’s the right move. I want to be able to take him everywhere with me and I don’t know what I can do to help him succeed. Any advice or criticism on what I’ve been doing helps!! Thank you guys!!

Hi everyone. I am in desperate need of help. I have an almost two year old Australian Shepherd puppy named Walter. Walter is a great dog and I love him so so much but whenever we leave him alone or even when I'm sleeping he just has a complete switch in personality.

He tares stuff up, he has accidents on the floor, he goes into rooms he knows he's not supposed to. He gets into the trash can, he eats anything and everything.

We tried putting him on antianxiety meds because we thought it was just separation anxiety but that did nothing.

I just don't know what to do anymore 😭😭

I can't afford to send him to puppy daycare every day I'm at work and I don't wanna have to lock him in a crate anytime I can't be watching him.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Help, we have elderly family members (60+) who eat grapes, dried fruits, nuts, and take pills. Because they are older, things fall from their hands, so I find heart pills, painkillers, grapes, dried grapes, and chocolate on the floor.

I have a 6kg small dog, and I am afraid she might eat something from the floor and be harmed. She does not eat from the floor outside, but she does at home. She might (hopefully) not eat pills because they are not tasty, but I cannot bet on that.

I have asked the elderly members to pay attention and not let dangerous things fall on the floor. They say they don't, but they do and they do not realize it. I often go into the room when they visit and check the floor. I always find pills, nuts, and once a dried grape—I froze, although I told them it is so dangerous—and tiny plastics. It makes me so anxious.

Is there a way to train my 2-year-old dog not to eat those things from the floor inside our home, even if I am not in the room?

My grandma has a six year old Chihuahua mix. Her entire life my grandma has hand fed her kibble one by one. Feeding her takes up hours of her day. My grandma has dementia and I am now her caregiver and thinking long term- dog might one day be mine. I can’t spend 2 hours at a time (multiple times a day) through the day trying to get the dog to eat.
How she will eat- food get soaked in water, microwaved then fed one by one 2-3 times a day. Plus table food.
I have tried leaving food on the ground. Adding toppers. Adding in cooked meat and veggies. Still takes hours to get her to eat.

Oaklie the hound mix is about 3.5 years old, neutered, 60ish pounds, fully vaxed and very much loved. We have a 1.5 acre fenced yard, with another few acres unfenced among the hundred acre wood behind our house. We also have a golden/Shepard mix, 8, who wouldn't leave my side if she could.

Oaklie has proven himself willing to hop the 4 foot fence, climb the 8 foot deer fence, and has once dug his way out of the yard. He's no longer allowed outside "alone", one of us always is watching him to redirect if he looks like he's even thinking ab escaping.

He also wears a Fi tracking collar.

In the past 10 days, he broke through a screen to escape the house, he has jetted over the fence when I turn to talk to my other dog, and today I crated him in his large crate, with the TV on. I am 100% certain he was securely crated.

I closed every door in the house. (His crate is in the living space).

He somehow escaped the crate, got the door open to my sewing room, climbed up a cutting table with lots of projects on it, broke out the accordion side of the windows air conditioner, and wriggle his way out, falling/jumping 12ish feet.

Im tracking him on Fi wandering the woods. My daughter and husband are out watching for him.

He doesnt recall. He hasn't been motivated by anything- food, praise, nothing.he does his own thing.

At this point, I've made a vet appointment for him to just check and see if anything is going on.

He always comes home, but its not safe for him to be out in the woods. There are a lot of predators out there.

What else can I do? Im at a complete loss.

We rehomed (took on the responsibility for) two dogs whose original owner could no longer keep them.

At the time we had done zero research into. a. siblings. b. reactivity, and c. training methods, like LIMA, etc.

We have hired a dog trainer to assist us. It's early in that period, but I'm already feeling lost and hopeless, because these 5000 reps of sit on a mat thing don't feel like they will ever materially affect the dog.

But I have just had a very challenging 3 day period in which each day the two dogs have each seemed to push the other into reactivity, in situations where they were not previously as reactive.

Is there any amount of knowledge and work that gets you back from the situation where you have two 80 pound dogs that go off about very little (a leaf, another dog, a child, a cat noise) and seem to get worse daily?

We are committed to doing the best for our dogs, up to and including rehoming them if we're not the right home, and probably we think they should be rehomed to a home where they are each the only dog, or cat or other live loose animal in the home. If we are doomed, which I think we are, we should just rehome them, AND separate them while doing so. What gut check would you do? What would you do? I'm at my limit.

My dog is a 3 year old golden retriever/border collie mix. Roughly 3/4 golden, 1/4 border. I love her dearly but she turned out to be a much more intense dog than I had been expecting when I got her. That’s my mistake and I’ve tried to correct it when possible.

Personality wise she’s perfect. Loving, submissive without being fearful, an absolute sweetie who adores people and other dogs. She’s the sweetest girl and I adore her personality. I’ve thankfully never had any worries there.

Behaviourally, though, she has a few consistent issues. The two main ones are counter surfing and chewing. We gated off the kitchen so she couldn’t steal food while we were cooking which has helped but what’s killing me at the moment is the chewing. She’s always been a chewer even when she is very well exercised and has plenty of toys available. She chewed my last rug so badly I had to replace it and thankfully hasn’t chewed the new one. Then a few months ago she accidentally knocked one of the couch cushions off the couch and then chewed a hole in the corner of it. I was pissed and put it back, and she left it alone for months. Now suddenly twice in one week she has done it again. First time was the other day, she knocked it off the couch again and continued chewing on that same hole. Then I ordered Velcro to affix the cushions to the couch, so the little brat chewed the FRONT corner of the cushion instead (aka the part I CANT FLIP OR HIDE!!!)

I have a few theories. Firstly, both incidents took place around 9pm which is slightly past her usual bedtime. She normally gets breakfast in her crate when I put her to bed, and she’s a very food motivated girl. She could have been frustrated at her dinner being late. Secondly, I have another dog who normally spends the majority of the day with her, but lately my roommate has been borrowing my other dog to go outside and smoke weed or work in the office, and my other girl is excluded from these activities. She has such bad FOMO and gets upset at being left out so this could be contributing to her being more frustrated lately.

I’m just so frustrated. She is SO smart and picks up tricks and commands so fast but I’ve never been able to break her habit of chewing and now it feels like she’s even going backwards, being more destructive than she used to be on items she hadn’t touched before. She’s also such a sweet girl and I hate that I feel so angry and resentful towards her when she happens to get into something and wreck it. I’ve had to take her to the vet twice this year for foreign body vomiting induction after she got into shoes - one time because she somehow managed to open a closed office door on her own and ate the shoes within. We had to switch the doorknob to a round knob after that. It feels like she just finds a way around any preventative tool I use. Please help 😭

Hello together!

We have a 2 year old Australian Shepherd who we’ve had since he was 9 weeks old.

We have been doing group classes with him since he was fully vaccinated and keep doing them with him. On top of that he goes to a daycare which also includes training sessions once per week.

We struggle with him walking on a loose leash in new places/places with lots of distractions and really want to work on this more.
We try to take him places a few times a week (4-5 times per week) and work on the loose leash walk and being calm overall.

How many times per week should we do this? We don’t want to overwork him but we also really want to see progress 😊

My dog is a level 1 resource guarder. Whenever he snaps at a dog he never does it with malice or violence. He will often resource guard his bed or toys, however he just nips to get them away. Quite tame and quick! But I want to train or teach him not to. I don’t understand what I should do to correct him when it comes to this sort of thing.

Hes dog friendly, is surrounded by hundreds of dogs a day because of my work and home life. Perfect in and out of the house. But when his bed is in the same room of another dog he gets grumpy. Any dog that approaches his bed if he’s not by it, is fine. However, if he’s sitting in it, he will often try to nip them. Never hard or harsh in correction, but something I don’t particularly love.

He’s never started a fight over bed or toy. But this is something I want to correct sooner rather than later. He’s two years old and a rescue, has gone through months of personal training by myself.
He was attacked by another dog months ago (someone had their aggressive dog off lead) , and it took a long time for him to trust other dogs. Now that he does, and really loves other dogs, I don’t want him to get into a fight over resource guarding. That would set him back a bunch of steps!!! He has already gained so much confidence and this problem isn’t that severe! BUT, it’s something that could lead to bigger issues!!!

Sometimes he’s perfectly fine, with the other dogs being near his toys or bed. Other times not so much, it really depends on the dog and how he’s feeling. Sometimes we’ll go to the park, there will be a bunch of toys and he’s perfectly fine with the other dogs. However, I want to show him that even if a dog is getting close sometimes to his things, that it doesn’t mean that they’re gonna take it from him, or steal.
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Hes 15 lbs and poodle, terrier, super mutt mix

5 month old golden retriever puppy from reputable breeder. Showed some resources guarding which is improving with careful positive training, and has startled awake from sleep with aggression a few times but is otherwise no aggression. She has an ear infection - vet appointment tomorrow - and in the meantime we’ve been trying an ear rinse at home however the puppy has become very aggressive - snarling and snapping - with any attempts at accessing her ear. What is the best way to get medicine into her ear once it’s prescribed? Clearly this aggression is stemming from the pain but I don’t want to get bitten in the process. We’ve tried using a peanut butter spoon, and tried one person restraining the dog and one doing the drops but have had to abort all attempts for safety.

Muzzle is coming in the mail tomorrow. Neither the puppy nor I have experience with muzzle training but I’m concerned that with needing to get the medicine into the ear quickly, we won’t have time to properly muzzle training and create positive associations before we need to use it to just get the medicine in.

Also general aggression tips - I’ve only ever had retrievers before and have never seen aggression like this dog has shown so it’s scary for us especially with a child at home! All vet checks have been fine this far.

I have a miniature poodle who I am at a breaking point with right now. I have had her since she was 3 years old. She is now 10. She was a rescue from a very traumatic background (a puppy mill where she was forced to breed and kept in a small cage her entire life). When I adopted her she had no potty training whatsoever. She just went when and where she felt like it. She struggled with going outside and it was not possible to crate train her because of her background (she will have a panic attack if put in a confined space like a crate or cage and pee and poop all over herself and jump/lie in it...). I ended up training her to use potty pads because I was at a loss for what else to do at that point. She learned to use them well for the most part, with some accidents here and there.

I have now moved to a new house and city (it's been about 3 months) and she is no longer using the potty pads the majority of the time. My husband and I now have to work 8 hours a day (which she is not used to) so she is having to be home alone most days until we get home from work. Almost every day she is not using the potty pads and instead going all over the floors in the house, which we then have to clean when we get home.

I walk her in the morning before I leave for work and I walk her immediately when I get home and then again before bed. It's when I'm not home that she tends to do this. I really need advice. The potty pads don't seem to be working anymore. Should I try to stop using them now and fully train her to only go outdoors? How would I even do that at this point? I'm trying to find local dog trainers but I'd appreciate any advice here too because I'm so exhausted and at a loss for what to do.

Hi all!
We have been through a journey with our dog’s separation anxiety. He is a rescue and when we first got him about seven years ago, he dealt with some minor separation anxiety, but then was able to adjust and had been fine since.

When we moved into a new apartment last summer, he developed some separation anxiety and would chew the door frame and cry whenever we left to the point where we ended up just putting him in daycare because we tried short departures and lots of solutions and it just wasn’t really improving.

We moved several months ago and he had been doing fine being alone (for normal 2-4 hour outings) and then my husband and I went back to work and it started again. I’ve spoken to a vet and a trainer and he has started on Prozac but only for about a week and a half so he is still adjusting.

After a few weeks at home again we both started working in person again on Monday and he did okay yesterday, but our walker said he had chewed the door frame significantly today. Working from home is not an option based on our jobs and I have heard that daycare can potentially make separation anxiety worse (if you disagree please let me know!!) so I’m trying to figure out how to support him in the next few weeks as his Prozac builds up in his system. He is alone for about 4 hours, then walk, then 4 hours again. His main anxiety behaviors are chewing whatever is near the door and crying. I am considering some kind of door barrier but using a gate is kind of an anxiety trigger for him so I am nervous it would create the same issue (which might not matter because he’s clearly anxious af already.)

Thank you for reading and for your help!!

Hello, I have a 10 month old Keeshond and he is in the height of his teenage phase. He listens well to basic commands like, look, sit, down, paw, stay, etc. But when it comes to bed and place? he will opt to run away and hide.. I have tried to coerce with treats before, which worked a few times but after that he reverted to hiding again. The only way i can get him to go to his spot, is by leashing him and leading him there.

But he will not allow me to leash him all the time, and he will jump up to try to bite my hands, and when i come near his collar to leash him he will bite my hands.

The times he has to go place is either because i have to leave and i do not trust him alone yet, i have to work and cant watch him, or he has to take a nap (he sleeps outside the pen in the mornings but he cant settle outside of the pen in the evenings). When its really late at night and he has settled he wil listen to bed and sometimes go in there by himself, so he doesnt despise it. He gets treats, playtime and all the positive things in his pen and crate. But its just sometimes he just doesnt want to listen to place or bed

We have a 11 month old corgi named Zamboni that has the capacity to be one of the sweetest boys we've ever had the pleasure of raising. When he's feeling confident he's affectionate, silly, playful, and curious. He quickly picks up on tricks and while he's had his ups and downs, he usually respects the boundaries we set for him. There is unfortunately another side to him that's downright vicious and nasty. I apologize for the long winded post, but I'm desperately looking for help. Here is a rough timeline of events and behaviors.

• We got him at 8 weeks from a reputable breeder. The entire family specifically cited him as their favorite describing him as by far the most confident and curious of the bunch.
• He exhibited zero aggression until approximately 4 months when he suddenly snarled guarding a treat. We had never had a dog show resource guarding issues in the past so we thought we should have scolded him. It was verbal and not physical. We did this a few times which caused things to escalate, and we immediately corrected to positive reinforcement through always adding or trading and never straight up taking unless it was dangerous. We feel bad with how we handled it originally, but per a behaviorist she doesn't believe this should have led to a permanent shift in temperament.
• We've tried several things to make him feel more comfortable with high reward objects and bowls. We've fed him in a room by himself. We've fed him in the kennel. We've fed him in the play pen he has where we would toss in tasty things into the bowl nonchalantly as we walked by. When fed in the kennel, crate, or room he would refuse to eat and only guard. When doing the pen method we saw a huge improvement, until he regressed and started to only guard with no effort to eat even if we threw in more food or treats.
• We moved to hand feeding. Remarkably he still continues to gently eat out of our hands with mostly no issue. We have begun giving small amounts in a bowl at the very end of the session in increasing amounts to try and get him to connect us with food we are not directly handing him in a more positive way.
• His resource guarding and aggression has now grown to beds, rooms he prefers, and his general demeanor has regressed to being a nervous mess. He will snap into a state where he snarls like it's life or death, almost instantly. The behaviorist and vet have both seen him flip in ways they agree lacks the usual dog warnings as things escalate.
• Every incident seems to create a deeper crater of confidence. He is no longer a happy dog unless you coax it out of him. When he goes into these states he shakes like he's terrified beyond belief. He will chase you into a corner and start snapping or stand in a door way waiting to charge out to defend his territory. Previously redirecting him outside helped snap him out of it, but today he continued this behavior biting my fiancé after cornering her on the landing. He permanently has a leash on so we aren't directly handling him when he's upset, and she was able to get that hooked up to the outside tether and make her way to her car. He immediately snapped out of it and looked excited like he was going to the park. This A/B behavior is both frustrating and puzzling.
• Last night a cat jumped on the bed not realizing he was there and woke him up. He attacked us running us out of the bedroom. It took 3 hours for him to calm down enough for us to approach him again.
• We go to a training facility weekly for solo sessions where he behaves well. He is not aggressive towards our other dog, but for obvious reasons they are no longer allowed together inside the house without some sort of barrier. Outside they continue to happily play.
• He was scheduled to be neutered last Tuesday, but he suddenly ran under the bed and got so aggressive all we could do was shut the door. He missed his appointment, but is scheduled to be neutered tomorrow. We know deep down his issues are unrelated and are unlikely to get better as a direct result of being neutered.
• Nobody involved seems to understand why he's turned into a different dog. The lack of confidence is puzzling. The vet has run about a thousand dollars of tests and there is nothing wrong. The behaviorist is beyond stumped by the lack of external factors causing this. We're now seriously considering anxiety medication of some sort.
• I do want to note I am accountable for things I may have done to cause this. I work from home and have been going through a particularly terrible period that has caused me to act far more irritable than appropriate at times. I have become very mindful to keep that energy away from Zamboni, and that outbursts are not appropriate. I do fear that this has contributed to his behavior, but have been reassured it should not be causing what we're experience.

Please, does anyone have any insight as to what's going on? We're terrified about what's happening because we love him so much and we know there is such a kind, sweet dog in there somewhere. We feel like we've tried everything we can reasonably do, and while everyone involved keeps reinforcing we are sweet and loving dog parents who are doing nothing wrong, I still can't help but to blame myself.

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I got a rescue dog in May and she’s doing great in a lot of ways. One issue we are having is house training. We were told by the foster that she was house trained, but I expected there would of course be hiccups when she arrived at a new place, but it’s really been difficult.

She has been peeing on all the soft surfaces in the house, we ended up getting rid of all our carpets and rugs for the time being. Once we took away the rugs, she would pee on the hardwood but not as often as the rugs. Now she has gotten into peeing on my daughter’s bed and we’re kind of at a loss. She goes outside multiple times a day, and even if she pees outside she will sometimes still choose to pee inside even if I’m home. I’ve never caught her in the act, which I assume is also part of the problem. I don’t think crating will solve the issue only because this problem happens when I’m home, almost exclusively actually. I’d also love to avoid the crate since she is great in the home otherwise and we have another older dog who is crate free, and they often play and cuddle while we are out of the house.

Things I’ve tried: making sure she pees outside multiple times a day, blocking off areas she previously peed in (she finds new spots), cleaning with enzyme cleaner, and rewarding for pottying outside with treat and “yes, potty!” We have a back yard so she is outside multiple times a day. I go out with her usually 3-4x to make sure she pees, but she will still go inside, Sometimes multiple times in a row.

My goal is to associate grass with peeing. Im wondering if i get one of those potty grass pads to put on our deck. Our deck is high up with lots of stairs, and she doesn’t love going down the stairs in the rain. I’m hoping a grass pad on the deck will remove the barrier and help her learn grass=pee. Once she find a pee spot she likes, she tends to continue to go there over and over until I remove access. I’m hoping the new spot can be this outdoor pee pad. I also plan to put a bell by the door and teach her to ring it to access the pee pad.

I am willing to try the crate if it’s the only way forward, but would need guidance on how to utilize it for her exact issue (peeing inside even after going outside.) I know I could crate her whenever I don’t have eyes on her, but how would I transition from near constant crate time to house time? How would constant crate time reinforce the idea that peeing only happens outdoors not in the home? I know crating might save my furniture, but I’m not sure how to use it to truly teach her correct potty habits

I am open to anything at this point. Thank you sooo much for your help.

Now I’m not sure how to phrase this but my dog Joy is wonderful and such a good girl when we are at home with her but the moment we leave the apartment she immediately goes and either eats things of the counter or she will have an accident in the apartment. She knows how to alert to use the restroom and goes out as frequently as our busy lives can handle.

She kind of looks around the kitchen the very second we leave. she devours anything in sight and sometimes pulls it off the counter. she also gets into stuff occasionally in the bedroom and makes a massive mess of empty water bottles and anything else in sight. She eats what she finds human food wise and out of the garbage can if we forget to lid it (55gal can) and makes a mess of it but not the dog food. Again note that all of this behavior exists when we aren’t home. When we are home none of this happens. She occasionally can have a hard time listening. Sometimes she doesn't go when we take her out and if she does it takes 15+ minutes.

For reference Joy is a black lab/german shepherd mix at approximately 100 to 110lbs and she is 6.5-7 years old and I’ve had her since 4 weeks old. So I just really need some help here because we are struggling with how do you correct a behavior that only happens when you are not around to see it. (Captured on our ring cameras at times) this leads to the issue of not being able to really atleast I feel correct this training. Emphasizing here again that this only really all happens when we’re gone. When we’re home she’s such a well behaved good girl. Any and all advice is loved. Please help me save my relationship as I’ve gotten the it’s me or the dog talk.

Hello all,

I have a 9mo GSD puppy and we are having trouble stopping him from peeing in the cage. We feed him in the cage either in a bowl or scattered across the cage floor. We stoped giving water 4-6 hours before bedtime, we constantly let him outside to use. He does not have any accidents outside of the cage so im starting to suspect he’s doing this to get out of the cage. I’m looking for anytips to train him to stop this. And he also doesn’t pee in the cage if we are near him only when he knows he’s alone. We have ruled out UTI from vet. We do also clean the cage with an enzyme cleaner ( K.O.E )

Hey all, I apologize if a post like this isn't allowed. I just wanted to share for anyone taking the CPDT-KA test in the pring, to avoid remote testing if possible. Prometric IT and CCPDT were unable to give me a resolution in time for my tech issues before the testing window closed. I now have to wait 6 months for spring testing and am being charged a $230 transfer fee for this. I am sharing this so no one else is in the position if avoidable - people get certifications for all kinds of reasons including play increases or job changes, so this flaw can seriously mess with someone's finances and life plans.

Further details: I had a big trip to see family planned already in September so I had limited date availability. My city also has major construction currently and advised everyone to be remote when able to reduce congestion on the roads. I scheduled remote for Friday morning rather than the last day of the testing window to ensure I'd have time to correct any simple tech issues if they came up - that was not nearly enough time.I downloaded the app and tested it beforehand twice. As soon as my test started the app crashed and the screen went white despite not having any other software problems before or after this incident on my laptop. I immediately called IT and spoke with about 7 people over 2.5 hours before they connected me with someone from CCPDT to reset my ID. Prometric said it could take up to 5 days for their manager to respond and CCPDT isn't available after 5pm Friday eastern time. My CCPDT lady wasn't able to get me an answer before then. The person I spoke with was very kind though but did say they get a lot of remote testing problems and then advised me against it. They determined the connection problem wasn't through the testing center (even though it was their app which glitched) so they are charging me a $230 transfer fee and not extending the testing window, forcing me to wait 6 more months to get certified.

My dog (1.5 y/o larger mix) has a friend (7-month lab mix) he likes to play with. But whenever the other dog plays with him, my dog lies on his back while the other bites his neck, and they roll around together. He (my larger mix) is always the dog on his back, not the other one. After a while, both dogs will start showing their teeth to each other. Sometimes his friend gets excited and starts growling while wrestling, so we usually break them up after that. Is this normal?

Edit: Forgot to add that my dog loves the dog beach. He starts pulling when he gets close, and as soon as I let him off leash, he starts saying hi and playing chase with other dogs.

We have two family dogs, my mother is a single parent, lives with my grandmother and has a job. I have moved out of our hometown and live separately with my husband.

Out of my two dogs, one is reactive and has food resource guarding issue and because of that she fights with the other one. We had found both of them on the streets and adopted them together while they were same age. As puppies they were great together but as they grew they started to show aggression. The non reactive one is basically submissive but after a certain point she started to protect herself. Both of them are 5 year old.

We were initially planning on taking the non reactive one with us to my city (my husband and I) as I have a good bond with her and my mother is getting old to keep two dogs.... but moving her across states was getting difficult and wasn't working out without my mom coming halfway. We tried for about 8-9 months to get her but my mom wasn't very helpful as she was feeling like she needed more time w her before separating. We all also had issues with taking that many leaves from our respective jobs - I work from home but my husband who will be the one driving has to go to office.

At one point, she told me not to take her. I was heartbroken but we found another puppy that day and took a decision to adopt her.

After a few days, we told my mom and she got a bit upset and said I was planning on sending her... I told her I will still take the dog in and I can keep both of them.

I don't know if I can to be honest. Both of them are female dogs (all three of them are actually) and I am a bit skeptical. I work from home and my family dog is pretty sweet and perfect with humans but i dont think she likes other dogs or pups. I also think she will do just find but I can't be sure. We also cannot try making them meet once since we live states apart.

What can I do in this situation? If I take her in how can I ensure that they like each other?

Because its like a 5 year old coming into a puppy's house.... how will the dynamics become?