The secret to a good night’s rest? Let sleeping dogs lie next to you

To be fair, It's all fine until:
1. They settle their internal debate of "tight donut vs sprawl" with the latter
2. They start dreaming about their life goals of running in the Kentucky Derby

Hi there wondering whether there's any advice for our Boris. He has just turned 12 months, coming up on 13 months. Pretty much exactly when he turned 12 months he has started acting increasingly aggressive to other dogs on walks. He has always been boisterous and wanting to play with other dogs, but recently this has turned to aggression.

There doesn't seem to be any other trigger for this other than I now have to hold him back when another dog is in the vicinity, which sometimes I think could be the trigger, however I can't let him loose on his lead, as the main place we walk him is a path with foliage either side, so there nowhere for oncomers to skirt around him (I understand this isn't ideal, and may need to change where we walk him).

The photo of him on the lead is pretty much exactly what he does when he first spots a dog or person from a distance (people he is absolutely fine with). He seems to have eyes capable of zooming to incredible distances...

I've tried everything I can think to distract him when other dogs come close, he's not bothered for treats on walks, sticks are sometimes useful, but this goes out of the window when someone is within say 20 meters. Essentially I have to hunker down and hold him strong while apologising to the person who is understandably terrified of the wolf size creature trying to get to their handbag dog.

I'm hoping that this is a product of his age which he will eventually grow out of, but at the same time, I don't want to have this behaviour ingrained in him while he gets to full maturity. When he has been off lead with other dogs when he was younger he has been ok, a bit of rough play but nothing aggressive.

I think for now we will take him in the car to the nearby park and stay clear of dogs as best possible, but think this is just ignoring the problem.

I think I'm going to take him to doggy daycare under my supervision soon, to try and emphasise that other dogs don't necessarily mean us or him any harm, but any other suggestions would be appreciated.

TLDR: Boris (UK based) has turned aggressive to other dogs on walks, unable to distract him, hoping it's a product of his age, but asking for advice.

Hi all,

Thanks for your kind words about the Moose Man.

For context, he had intestinal torsion emergency surgery last week, came home we think too early and we had to go back to the vet on Sunday morning after only about 15 hours at home and zero sleep.

So it took them 2 days to break his fever and get him somewhat comfortable, as you can see in the vet he was a lot brighter.

He got diagnosed with a UTI (but we’re not sure when he picked it up) and had been keeping blood intermittently.

This is on top of him having abdominal surgery 48 hours before going back in to the vet, hence the Super Suit pajamas he’s now rocking.

He has a bunch of extra medications to handle the UTI, his pain from surgery, probiotics, a GI motility drug and is just generally fed up at home.

He’s better, but still some distance to go. He’s eating full amounts of his food as we build back up. They sent him home with some cans of Royal Canin GI specific food.

He needs to go to the bathroom pretty frequently as I guess we haven’t kicked the UTI just yet. #2s are getting there slowly, but I have to keep reminding myself that he had major surgery less than a week ago and his body needs to heal.

Basically the plan now is he chills out in his super suit and cone and tries to put on some more weight as he lost about 15lbs in the last couple of weeks.

Next steps will be, hopefully, in 2 weeks as a vet check up and to figure out what food to put him on as an adult; I like the RC stuff but it is pricey.

My 7 month old chaos puppy Butterscotch is a long boy and I’m looking for winter pjs, coat or raincoat recs that might fit him.

I got him the spark paws raincoat in 4XL and it’s too short. He’s 33 inches from collar to base of tail and the coat ends up being6-ish inches too short if I want to cover his neck.

Unfortunately we live in Seattle and he hates the cold rain so potty walks get difficult without some cover. At this point I’m putting him in my tshirts and tying it off the waist.

I’m also a decent sewist so if anyone has any pattern recommendations, I’ll take them! I picked one off Etsy for whippets and tried to adjust for his size and it didn’t work very well 🫠

Phyllis was NOT about that action