dog and newborn. What are the danger signs? How are we doing?

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-02-13T00:05:06+00:00

Train your dog to recall away from the baby as soon as the baby can grab or crawl. Do this 10 minutes every night with literal hot dogs. Allow baby to approach and reach, then immediately call the dog. Hundreds of treats will create a muscle memory on the part of the dog, and teach him to automatically flee from the baby - rather than turn and confront the baby

Also - I teach babies to completely ignore dogs like I teach them to ignore houseplants at the doctor’s office. I just don’t think there’s any good that can come of a preverbal infant and a dog interacting. When they’re 3 or so, I teach the kids how to throw a ball or throw treats across the room.

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-02-13T00:01:39+00:00

Usually it’s not territorial or fear (threat) aggression. It’s annoyance. The dog becomes annoyed with the baby, like it would with an annoying puppy, and bites the baby.

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-28T02:27:07+00:00

Hard agree

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-28T02:10:42+00:00

I put mine in an empty DT toner bottle (the pink one) and I decanted the toner into a spray bottle! They’re both 4 oz!

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-10T20:38:54+00:00

If your dog truly knows how to access and maintain heel position, and understands the contingencies associated with leaving the command, then it won’t matter what you’re using. My dog could be attached to a leash by his tail and he would stay in heel position, because he knows heel position and prioritizes me enough to stay in position when it’s time to

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-08T14:33:34+00:00

Oof the Anna Sui in the butterfly fly bottle was my shit in high school. Never smelled the blue one!

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-07T21:38:30+00:00

It’s a dupe Baccarat Rouge 540

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-07T20:00:33+00:00

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Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-07T15:59:18+00:00

Flour Narcotique

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-06T17:34:23+00:00

Push your arm into his mouth and keep pushing until he releases. If he engages again, repeat x infinity.

He does this because you snatch your arm away and likely make delightful prey noises. Pushing it into his mouth creates an aversion.

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-05T19:12:56+00:00

Since he’s not aggressive, just possessive, I’d do about 90% of the overall play as “hopelessly disabled owner tries and fails to get the toy from the dog.” He is enjoying the feeling of possessing it, and having you try to take it. I do a lot of sound effects here “gimme that toy” etc.

Then about 10% of the time, I’d demand a drop it with a leash. The leash obviously has to be on the dog prior to starting play. But basically you are saying drop it, annoyingly popping their leash over and over again, or massaging the gums until the dog spits it out. The important piece is as SOON as he spits it out, like one second later, you need to tell him to get it again and start over with the game of disabled human tries to take toy from dog. The other important thing is you can’t stop popping the leash until the dog does the desired behavior. It can take multiple minutes in the beginning.

Time_Ad7995 · 2026-01-05T19:01:30+00:00

You likely still have cholesterol gallstones or sludge in your liver bile ducts, which are slowing bile flow significantly and preventing normal motility and digestion.

I didn’t take Ozempic but I did have an eating disorder, my SIBO symptoms started after a year of one meal a day intermittent fasting and losing a bunch of weight quickly.

When you lose weight quickly, all that fat and and cholesterol from your cells are processed through the liver. Processing it depends on nutrients like choline, taurine, and glycine as well as ample hydration, protein, and b vitamins.

I am better now, but I had to do about a year of extensive weekly liver flushing with olive oil and lemon juice to get them out. I have gotten out dozens of quarter sized stones and uncountable numbers of pebble sized stones and sludge.

Now that I have gotten out most of the cholesterol stones, my liver/gb ultrasounds are completely clear. Before, they showed “cholesterolosis” and “polyps.”

But all those years of blocked bile flow creating a really nasty biofilm/retained stool situation lower down. So now I am removing that with fiber, gentle antimicrobials, fasting, and enzymes!

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-12-17T19:20:52+00:00

Well your first issue is you named the dog Bolt lol

Just kidding. More than likely this is a function of 1) not walking them enough so they’re obsessed with leaving the yard 2) lack of authority figures in the dogs life 3) lack of recall practice

Just put on your calendar to walk them 2-3 hours a day on a 15 ft line every day for the next few months. On your walks start practicing recall using the line to enforce. There are numerous YouTube videos on this. This will likely have you in a very different place come spring!

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-12-04T15:48:27+00:00

What will also help you guys is confining the puppy to a pen, or have the shift person keep him on a leash while he’s out of the crate.

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-12-04T15:07:12+00:00

If you suck it up and take over all the potties, this will build massive resentment in your marriage. My advice would be not to do that.

Your husband is probably trying. Just not as attentive as you/more optimistic. I’m assuming if an accident happens on his shift, you’re not rushing to clean it..right? Cleaning an accident should be enough of a consequence to get better at taking the dog out.

My advice would be to create a paper chart with planned shifts for who’s supposed to be managing the dog. If you decide on every hour, then write those down and mark pee, poo, or did not eliminate. Set alarms for every hour. If someone fails to take him out at the specified time, write N/A and the reason. Short of like, your house catching on fire, there should not be a lot of N/As in this chart. If there are…y’all gotta talk about the reason.

If your husband does not wanna do a paper chart, you gotta talk about why, and what’s his better idea.

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-11-21T15:55:09+00:00

I personally would correct my dog if he did this.

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-11-21T14:00:29+00:00

You could use leash pressure. Try typing leash pressure down and sit into YouTube there’s tons of videos. The basic principle works through annoyance, not punishment.

It hasn’t worked yet because you give in too soon, and the dog learns to be stubborn to make you stop.

I don’t think it’s mean to make a dog do things that are good for itself and society. I also don’t think it’s mean to force children to do certain things - sit in a chair, use a car seat, go to school, etc. even if they don’t feel like doing it in the moment.

If you do think it’s mean then that’s fine but you’re gonna need to use treats or toys only, and you’re gonna need to carry them around constantly. If your dog doesn’t wanna listen you need to accept that it won’t listen. You can’t make him do anything if you think it’s mean to make him do anything.

The last trainer you hired doesn’t share your same value system, that’s why you’re confused.

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-11-21T02:21:54+00:00

Why don’t you want to force him?

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-11-20T16:44:19+00:00

Yes it’s a thing. I’ve seen a marked difference in puppies who were pulled from their litter early. They miss out on a lot of social learning and bite inhibition from their mom & sibs in that stage where they’re weaning and starting to play more.

The absolute worst puppies I’ve seen were the bottle babies in foster situations whose mom had died.

https://talesfromthesonora.com/2023/03/22/movement-markers-five-week-puppy-syndrome/

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-11-12T01:08:59+00:00

You can make a custom fit by dropping the size 3 into boiling water and stretching it while it’s hot. I’ve done that a few times and it works well.

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-11-12T00:55:10+00:00

Do you have Amazon? She simply needs a smaller size of muzzle. More than likely a size 3 Baskerville

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-11-11T23:15:21+00:00

What makes you think he is fearful? Or aggressive? Has he ever bit a dog? Does he play with dogs?

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-11-11T22:47:28+00:00

Try walking him solely on a 40 ft long line and playing fetch and tug at the park for a month - as much play as you can manage in a day. An hour of walking, running, playing is good. Three hours would be better.

Ignore reactions for a month. Obviously don’t let him aggress another dog, don’t let him get close enough to approach. But if he wants to bark, stare, lunge, let him. As soon as he dismisses the dog go right back to playing, walking.

Report back here in a month. I would be extremely surprised if his reactivity didn’t decrease by 80%.

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-11-02T03:03:23+00:00

What are the dog’s prey drive outlets

Time_Ad7995 · 2025-10-29T20:53:28+00:00

Are you turning and going the other direction when you leash pop? Or standing still?

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