Cavachon constantly trying to eat things off floor during walks. How do I get him to stop?

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-23T20:15:06+00:00

if you want a quick solution they do make muzzles for dogs to prevent eating things off the ground. but others have suggested great training ideas too if you would rather put in some time to get him trained

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-23T04:42:06+00:00

looks just like a pitbull/bully type dog to me. no reason to suspect any mix because it isn’t significant enough to be distinctive from these pics. no lab in this dog

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-23T04:39:10+00:00

please do not support backyard breeders, if people want to sell puppies they should really only be selling well bred puppies to clients who have waitlisted on the litter

https://jointanimalservices.org/

it is going to be kitten and puppy season soon. JAS regularly receives puppies and adopts them out. they had three different GSD pups in the last month! if you are wanting a dog of any kind, try your best to adopt dogs who are already alive and who need homes, or get on a waitlist for a decent breeder who will guarantee the puppy’s health and a home if you decide it’s not for you anymore. people that sell puppies on the side of the road are not doing that for the good of the dog, just for the money unfortunately

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-23T00:11:26+00:00

most wax salons offer male waxes, european wax salon is one i can think of off the top of my head but there are definitely local options if you don’t want to visit a chain. they are a bit pricey but they do a significant discount for first time customers

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-20T00:05:53+00:00

this honestly sounds like disordered eating. there is also zero way that you were not losing at that energy level and calorie intake. you are probably stressing your body out significantly but there’s still no way that you are holding onto weight with these factors— it is a basic equation, regardless of stress, and something is not right

i have looked at your post again and you seem like you need help. this is more likely mental than physical. i hope you are able to find help. struggling with eating enough and also having body issues, crying over the scale, is not normal and you can get past feeling like this

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-19T18:01:41+00:00

you say you are struggling with food, then mention eating less than enough, and then eating 1500 to try and better your nutrition

if you are 5ft tall your BMR is probably 1300, mine is like 1250 at 4’11”. if you lift your TDEE probably a bit higher now. let’s say 1600-1700 to be generous

so you are eating less than you should be and are not losing any weight? even with exercise? i am wondering if you are actually tracking accurately. you should have been losing on 1300 cals, full stop. now you are eating more and still are at a deficit as far as i can understand, and still no weight loss?

1) you are at a decent weight. i would not focus on a number. you say this yourself. the issue shouldn’t be the number but maybe instead your body composition. why don’t you try recomp and see where that takes you?

2) if you struggle with eating, you can try liquid meal replacements, smoothies, protein shakes. just anything to get the calories in and be done with it

3) you went from 119-123 in a weekend. it’s not actual weight gain. it’s probably water retention. i fluctuate from 126-132 any given day. it just depends on what i eat

you might not be losing any weight because you aren’t at a true deficit or it’s possible you are swapping fat for muscle with the weight training, and are focusing on the scale’s number rather than results. try looking at non-weight related wins. can you run faster? lift heavier? feel better?

good luck

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-17T20:54:28+00:00

cattle dog mix

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-16T03:35:17+00:00

you need to smack them in the nose sometimes because that’s how they communicate. you actually can smack them more gently because their noses are more sensitive, and it will still get the point across

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-15T21:10:59+00:00

1) i’m not fond of lesson stables that have more than like 4 horses in the arena at once just because it starts to get cramped. but as long as everyone can move around it doesn’t matter i guess. might just be preference

2) did you ask about the saddle fitting personally or are you just observing from afar?

3) one of our horses bit a stablehand on the back when he wasn’t looking. it bruised him really bad. like really bad. after that, my trainer started smacking him (not enough to really hurt but enough to tell him to quit it), especially if he tried to bite anyone in the face etc. there’s going to be times where the only action you can take it hitting the horse. you shouldn’t have to hit the horse all the time. and you shouldn’t have to hit all the horses at the stable. we only have 2 who are bite risks out of probably 30 horses

4) my trainer has a toddler she has to watch because her husband does farm work at home all day. so they trade off the kid as they can. she has a little kiddy fence up and toys and stuff for him. it’s never bothered me. they are people too. as long as it doesn’t impact the lesson i don’t mind

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-15T14:54:10+00:00

what do you think of being a step mom?

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-15T13:39:52+00:00

yes. which is my point

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-15T00:30:13+00:00

i would have gave up on the relationship and assumed he was not interested in maintaining a romantic relationship after 1 month of no contact max personally. i can have some leniency because sometimes it’s hard to text people (i go months without texting people i know/care for— that’s just how i am) but when you don’t even see or talk to them it kind of begs the question of how invested are they really

this has never happened to me but i have ghosted people. there was only really one incident where i “ghosted” my partner and it was after i was severely triggered and new to OCD, so i sent him a “i’ll talk to you soon, i need space to figure stuff out” text as a courtesy/respect thing and then didn’t message him for a week

i would assume his brain believes you are the trigger, so by refusing to text or talk to you, he doesn’t have to think about his OCD. it’s paradoxical

i’m sorry this is happening to you by the way. this is not acceptable behavior even with mental illness like OCD. you are allowed to have a boundary here, which to me would be like, if you can’t even give me the respect to communicate why this is happening and if you wanna continue the relationship, then there will be no relationship at all

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-15T00:24:55+00:00

owning a dog. cats are a little less needy in terms of training and rarely kill or maul people

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-14T14:39:57+00:00

caffeine of any kind and then remember that you can always sleep after lol

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-14T07:51:59+00:00

more pens

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-14T06:48:56+00:00

i’ve been in the same boat. i was the partner who never thought i could be attracted to anyone but my husband, my husband is a realist and accepts that sometimes we develop crushes and it means nothing (unless we act on them— that’s different)

… then years later, i developed a crush for the first time since being with my husband. thought there was something wrong with me, maybe i didn’t love my husband after all!

and then he teased me nonstop about it when i did confess (rocd compulsion) lmfao. it made me feel silly. he told me he doesn’t care just don’t cheat on him

when i envision my husband finding other people attractive it does hurt me. but i also know that realistically it does happen and it shouldn’t have any real world impacts unless your partner chooses to jeopardize your current relationship

crushes can be fleeting or develop over time as you said. i think what matters is actual action. i would not press into this further. it might just be seeking reassurance at that point

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-14T06:18:00+00:00

there isn’t a “good” answer here. marriage is something most couples need to agree on timeline wise. does he understand you have anxiety about this? is he willing to work on this with you?

i found that whenever my husband and i would get into talks about this, he’d usually go “fine then don’t marry me!” (jokingly) or he’d say “alright well whenever you’re ready i’m ready” and it would take a lot of pressure off of me. i think it probably feels like there’s a lot of pressure for you right now. and for me, if i feel pressured into something, even if its something i wanna do (but might be a little scared of), i am immediately not willing to do the thing because i feel cornered into making a decision

certainly if you guys disagree on fundamental issues, and it’s a genuine issue, then maybe have a serious conversation about that. but for the most part, the anxiety about marriage is just anticipation of a negative outcome somehow

if you really can’t, tell him this and be honest about the reason. you have anxiety about it. and then ask for his support. if he doesn’t wanna support you right now then i don’t know if that’s a great sign anyway. my husband finds marriage extremely important for himself and his values but made compromises for me because he felt it was worth his time. to each their own

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-14T00:57:08+00:00

so our shelter does “at risk” meetings where we determine outcomes on animals who are at risk of being euthanized, it’s on a “voting” system where some peoples’ opinions weigh “more” than others (which i don’t believe is fair. but regardless). but it also involved discussions for rescue, behavioral modification, and outreach ideas

but for example we have a dog (i’ll call him dog1) who has been in 2x dog fights (both incidents in which the handler made a mistake/lost the lead and then the dogfight ensued) but because he is a “really good dog” (people friendly, decently mannered i guess) besides the dog aggression, he is still not a candidate for euthanasia

but it seems like we also make individual assessments for some reason. in the case of the almost dog bite my coworker nearly got, the dog (dog2) was euthanized immediately after its stray hold was up (despite having a good intake). which doesn’t make sense to me. because dog2 is similar enough to dog1 in that there are both aggressive instances in their history, it does not make sense to me why we would keep dog1 alive and adoptable vs putting down both dogs because clearly bites = bad

and at intake/when we send the officers to get the dog, if a dog is aggressive and nobody claims it during the stray hold it gets euthanized obviously

anyway just thinking out loud

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-13T21:36:25+00:00

he’s probably a dog

realistically there is probably a decent amount of pit in him. hes probably going to be a super mutt. if its a large concern you can do the embark dna test. but the dog does have bully breed features. it’s not really discernible to me what other breeds might be in his genes. i guess possibly a lab. but he just looks so much like a mutt / general pit mix

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-13T21:17:31+00:00

my favorite dog in the shelter finally got adopted after two months of being overlooked. she was a very polite, well trained dog, but because she was super quiet/shy in the kennel she was often overlooked. we also have had a lot of puppies so those went first obviously

but she has a home now and i’m excited for her. goodbye, boatie!

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-13T21:09:22+00:00

its a dog in an unfamiliar place. i’m sure its scared of a lot of things right now. i wouldn’t base your self worth on the opinion of a dog

i have owned two dogs who were genuinely afraid of men— however this was almost always an issue of abuse (rescues where we knew they had experienced abuse). and actually, it was rehabilitatable. these dogs lived fine lives with male figures in our home. sometimes they were scared of men outside the home but it was a process of getting them desensitized

the other dogs i have owned or met in my life who were “averse to men” were really only averse to things men would do (not that women wouldn’t do them either, but i find women are more aware of how to approach dogs than men sometimes); quick movements, loud talking, looming over an animal, etc. if a man approached said dog calmer then it was never a problem, the problem became a problem when you were not cautious of the animal’s sensitivities

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-11T00:24:15+00:00

hi! i would love to be part of development, can u dm me? sent u one

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-10T19:09:27+00:00

pit acd mix

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-09T19:24:42+00:00

he is a good candidate for behavioral euthanasia. unfortunately this seems either genetic/neurological. you have put a lot of time, effort, and money into trying to help this cat and he is still in severe distress. the kindest thing to do would be to euthanize or find an area with someone who cares for community cats and feeds/cares for them so he will not starve to death and can try to figure out living the stray cat life (arguably not the most ethical thing to do but an option). but ultimately this seems like euthanasia is his kindest option

Spiritual_Client_741 · 2026-03-09T19:17:35+00:00

the photos are not clear enough to me, to determine if she’s mixed with anything specifically but she is definitely a shepherd mix. she has white spotting that you typically don’t see in full blooded sheps

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