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Hi Joyce, and welcome to DogForum :) It sounds like you have a challenge on your hands with Caz, which is 'one of those things' with rescuing. I'm a rescuer too, although my rescue is a GSD for whom we had a lot of history- all of it was dreadful, including her front legs being broken by her...

One of my friends has a saluki x pointer lurcher, and he's truly beautiful and even more elegant looking than most lurchers, and he's a completely different shape to the whippet x staffy lurcher who lives near here. The saluki lurcher is about the same height as a greyhound and the whippet...

Puppy food as an adult will just make her fat, but have you tried Royal Canin adult food? We had a similar situation with Molly which was combined with her getting diarrhoea off every prepared food we could find, and now she's a happy and healthy raw fed dog because it's the only thing that she...

Had you thought of putting a wet mat outside and taking her to pee on that? It's a mat and it already smells of her wee, so she clearly knows what she's meant to do there. I had to stop walking Molly for a few days to make her go for a poo in the garden though- when she arrived she was intent...

Ah, the deep joy of the hypervigilant dog breeds :( When it's windy Molly is always on full alert, even when she's lying at my feet. In fact she's off on one now, as she can hear the wind down the chimney. His age and the fact that it is getting worse and that it's only at night would lead...

I'll give you a really big reason not to base her training around footballs- other footballs! If you base her training around footballs you're doing two things- you're teaching her that herding is OK, which in any situation other than a farm it isn't, and you're also giving a dog that is...

Hi cutiekez I home check for a number of rescues and if I'm checking a home with adult occupants only then my first priority is the dog. Will it be safe, looked after, trained, disciplined, exercised, socialised adequately? However, as soon as there are children in the mix, the dog is not my...

Yep, I'd go with teaching him a 'trade' command- he gives you what he's got and you'll give him a nice treat. If he's clever then you've got the basis for a whole new game :)

The only remedy that I know of that works is time I'm afraid. Working in GSD rescue we regularly have dogs that do really badly in kennels because they're grieving and the right human is not there to tell them that it's OK to eat their food, and the solution to that is time, tasty food and...

One of my friends had a dog loo made up from an old shower tray with a soakaway of pebbles and deep gravelly soil underneath and her beagle was trained to do all of his business in there, which made poop pick up really easy and also meant that rinsing it all down with pet safe disinfectant and...

Yoohoo Raven, and welcome to DogForum :) I bet you've got your work cut out with a cross of 2 very intelligent and thoroughly bossy breeds- well done for putting in all of that hard work. I'm a GSD person but collies are one of the breeds that I just wouldn't have, because they need SOOOOOO...

Hi Michelle When you're sure that she is happy in the crate then start making the changes, but you do need to get her used to each one for at least a couple of weeks between changes, because she needs to start processing things as the 'new normal' and be OK with them. The upside of this is...

Hi hetbat You haven't mentioned how old Benji is, but if you've had him a week and he wasn't held back for any reason that still makes him really very young when it comes to toilet training. If he's still under 12 weeks then it's very unlikely that he will have proper voluntary control of his...

Hi Dugless- I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I'm dreading the day that I have to say goodbye to Molly, as I know that my health is not up to having another dog and my heart and my home will have huge furry spaces with no furry in them. I think that since you were paying for cremation as part...

I'm afraid I'm with everybody else on the toughing it out. I have always found with training cats (believe me, if you're training dogs you have it easy!) that the key is to find a way that the door that they are scratching is not the one to your room is very helpful. My cats have their own...

Hi Jamie When did you get both of the dogs please? Are both neutered or is one or both entire? If they are entire, could either of them be in season or coming into season at the moment? I've seen so many problems recently with an entire bitch picking on other bitches when there's a season...

Hi Sophie I can't help noticing Bear's age and wonder whether that has a part to play in it all too. Has he had many boundary testing phases? It's possible that there's an element of boundary testing in all of his behaviour at the moment, so I'd make adjustments to reduce the fear, combat...

Another thing that you could look at is how and when they drink, as that can be adding to the need to wee, and why they are toileting around the house. Some dogs drink as an anxiety response, so do they have free access to water and do they have free access to large parts of the house? If they...

I know someone who takes a huge GSD x Tibetan Mastiff in to an office every day. She's a financial advisor and he's there to meet and greet the clients. I can't imagine anybody taking a bigger dog into an office, if only because you'd need something rather bigger than a simple office to house...

I would get one, get them through the puppy stages and through all of the basic training, toilet training etc, and then get another if you plan on having more than one dog. This way you'd be sure that your first dog will bond with you and then your first dog will be an example for your second...