jenguyen

I have the Dyson Animal. There's also the Animal extra version which just means an extra head or so. For a handheld it's convenient and can also be converted to a smaller head attachment to use in the car/sofa etc. They are reduced for the V6 model at Big W etc and on eBay sometimes you can get a further 20% and click and collect from Myers/TGG/Harvey Norman.

My 4 month puppy has been on TOTW since I weened him off his breeder's diet (unknown dry kibble + My Dog canned food). I tried the high prairie first and had no issues, then I tried the wild salmon and I did notice changes in his stools in the beginning but he's finished the bag now with no further issues. I only feed him dry kibble for his breakfast and his subsequent meals later in the day are raw. I'm going to also try Meals for Mutts next. Costco brand "kirkland domain's nature" is from the same company "Diamond" that produce TOTW and is more cost-effective.

Hi, my partner and I have a 10 week old Cocker spaniel. He is incredibly intelligent, driven by food/treats as I've been able to teach him sit, down, paw, roll over (sort of), up and hi-5 since getting him at approximately 8 weeks old. The issue now is his potty training. He just doesn't seem to understand it at all. We have a designated potty mat with the synthetic grass on our balcony as we live on the 3rd floor apartment. We started off with the crate and play pen surrounding it and not letting him roam the living room/bedrooms and he took to his crate very quickly. He would pee in the play pen area and on the balcony (not the potty mat). Whenever he did pee/poo on the mat (rarely) we do praise/treat him. Then we decided ok we'll let him roam the living area because my friends started commenting on how cruel it is to leave him in the play pen area (even though he has plenty of room - our reasoning was letting him get accustomed to his crate + play pen as his bedroom/eating area so he would learn not to pee/poo in there then transition him to the living area). Now he just pees everywhere and there are no signs (sniffing/circling etc). We take him out to the potty mat frequently (every hour) but he doesn't want to do his business and either hops off and plays elsewhere and then he would pee suddenly somewhere else whether inside or on the balcony if he's still there. It's so fast I can't even catch him in the act. I've even tried the pee/poo drops that are apparently suppose to attract them to that area to pee/poo. Also if I do catch him in the act, I move him to the potty mat but he stops completely and it's unpredictable on when he will finally finish his business. I got desperate and assumed maybe it's a texture issue (even though he has successfully peed/pooped only a few times on the mat) so I would bring him to the Ground floor which has a grassy area where all the other residents take their dogs (he isn't fully vaccinated yet because he's <12 weeks old) and he does successfully pee/poo there but we can't always bring him down everytime and really want him to learn to use the potty mat on the balcony, especially when it rains. Now he's also gotten to the point where he's peeing in his crate (he once pooped in his crate but that was our fault because he wouldn't poo the whole day and I had to leave for work), he knows it's not right because then he starts screaming his head off so I know he understands he doesn't want his waste in the area he is sleeping in. I've stopped placing bedding in there because he just pees on it, until he stops peeing in his crate I'll reintroduce it. It's just so hard to train him when he shows no signs of about to pee/poo. Would it be cruel to go back to just restricting him to his crate/play pen area until he grasps the concept of potty? I know I'm probably expecting too much because I've only had him for 2 weeks but I don't want to prolong this type of behaviour as I know it'll be harder to fix later than now.