this boy always has to steal something of mine lol! it’s a nightmare as someone who loves having plushies.

Moose usually does a little drive by by Bear when he has a bully stick, which Bear normally ignores except I guess he decided to take him up on his offer today lol

My baby girl Eevee is 14 weeks now and her favorite thing to do is dig up the flower beds and bury her toys. Anyone else have a working-line English cocker? I’d love to see em’ in the comments :D

She was a rescue and I was never really told what kind of dog she was, she is 11 years old

🎃My little October baby 🎃 a little late she had her birthday on Friday.

I have a part working cocker and she is officially 1.5 years old. The past 6 months have been truly awful. I have never dedicated so much time and money to training a dog to have virtually no return on my investment. This is my last ditch effort before turning to medication to try and help my dog. I have had 2 other dogs, another cocker spaniel included. I have posted previously but nothing.is.working. I am truly exhausted by this dog and am routinely in tears. I find myself getting mad more frequently so I doubt my energy is good that I’m giving my dog either.

I live in an apartment and the biggest things I am struggling with are demand barking, separation anxiety (in and out of crate), and overexcitement and reactivity at guests/on walks. Working with a trainer I have been told to ignore the barking. I try to do this as much as possible but I am seriously disturbing everyone on my floor. The way my dog barks is horrendously loud. You can hear it 20 apartments down the hallway. I have gotten a white noise machine to drown out the noise for my dog and stuff the doors with pillows and blankets to try and block the noise. I will note - I recently moved 2 months ago and these behaviours got exponentially worse upon moving.

My dog gets a lot of mental stimulation and physical activity. We probably walk around 1.5-2 hrs per day which includes training on the walk (gun dog style training, tons of sniffing, stay/touch/down/come,middle,leave it etc). Every meal is fed through a puzzle. We also do place training which she is decently good at, however, she never seems to relax on place. It’s like a performance where she is “working” on the place. I have her on a leash at all times in the apartment to stop her from problem behaviours.

I am constantly on guard on walks and scanning for other dogs. If there is enough distance (eg across the street) I can get her to tune into me and ignore + reward but anything closer and especially another dog in the apartment is horrible. She is not aggressive it’s like she is over excited and physically cannot calm down or listen to me. I don’t think she has ever successfully, even once, not reacted to a dog within the apartment building. She also barks at apartment noises and while white noise has helped I try to do training where she hears the noise and I reward before she reacts. It works while we are “training” but if it’s unexpected she just goes off.

At my previous apartment my dog was good out of the crate while I was at work and made no noise. Now we have moved and I cannot be out of the apartment for 2 seconds without her frantically barking. I’ve been trying to exit and come in multiple times a day quickly but I often NEED to go to work so I have to put her in the crate or she will bark insanely loud at the door and the entire floor can hear her. But she also sleeps in the crate at night (no problems there) and so I feel like this is too much crate time for a 1.5 year old dog despite the exercise she gets.

Maybe this is a vent but if anyone has a suggested routine to help me, I’m all ears. I love my dog but I am just so tired and at this point I am fully convinced this will never improve.

Meet our new boy, Harvey! He is our first ACS. He will be 14 weeks tomorrow. He has discovered his shark-like puppy teeth and had his first pup cup last weekend! Our life is an adventure with him.🤎

This is Xena. I've seen the mam and dad. Both obviously cockers.

She doesn't look like any of them.

She is beautiful though

They're soooo pretty

This is my little willow! She is just over 8 weeks old. She seems relatively little and have tried to weigh her on the kitchen scales (albeit not massively successful) and the highest weight reading it gave was just under 1200g. Does this seem relatively little? I have just spoken with the vets to book her appointment for her second vaccines and told them her weight and they didn’t seem concerned and just said oh she’s a dot!

She is very content, happy, plays well and eats well. No issues with stool or being sick or anything, has been wormed.

In other news she has a few of these little blister type bumps on her, they don’t seem to be causing pain or anything and they aren’t multiplying however just wondered if anyone knew what they could be?

Thank you in advance

i can never not get cuteness aggression from them! cutest siblings 💕

she was so scared that her legs were shaking, but she still tried to hunt a crow that landed nearby lol

I’m aware we are on week one HOWEVER our puppy is 12 weeks and was the last of the litter for several weeks. The breeder didn’t vaccinate so now we are stuck inside with him for 7 more weeks! Biggest issues? He will not use pads however which was we try, he will hold it for as long as possible and then the second you blink he has gone on the carpet. We’ve stood in the hall for hours in the middle of the night with pads and he will just sit on them.
Our biggest issue, the screaming. He was a very quiet pup in the breeders house (with three adult girls) now we are trying to crate train, day and night he is screaming and nothing other than stroking him through the bars will soothe him. We both work from home and even being at my desk in the same room where he can see me doesn’t make a difference.