Dog Owners Anxious About Pet Health

“I’m looking for bed recommendations to put in my dogs crate. She’s a rough chewer and recently started destroying her bed, like having way too much fun in her crate ripping apart her bed. For those who are going to say “just don’t put a bed in there” I have reason not to follow this route. I adopted her in January and her bed has been in her crate since then. She has not touched it until the past couple of weeks. She is on full rest per vet’s orders, so I think the combo of not feeling herself a”

“In the middle of the night about 4 weeks ago, my dog (a 4-year-old Italian Greyhound) started crying hysterically, biting at his stomach, and trying to hide. We immediately brought him to the emergency vet, since something was obviously wrong. They examined him, did blood work, and took X-rays, but nothing out of the ordinary came back. He was struggling to poop when we were walking him around the building and they saw fecal material on the X-rays, so the conclusion was he was a little constipat”

“My springer spaniel (Seamus) aged 3 has been sleeping in the kitchen in his crate since we took him home as a 10 week old puppy. But recently has become very anxious at night time to the point of scratching at the door and accidents at night even after going out before bed. We have tried everything we can to make him more comfortable as he is our world and we hate seeing him so upset. He has a covered comfortable crate (door open), a good bed, a second bed under the table where we thought might”

“Hello vets, I’ve got a 7 year old pitbull mix. He recently got a new plastic travel crate that he was in yesterday. This morning he was acting nauseous, pacing, drooling etc. I gave him some hydrogen peroxide and he managed to throw up a bunch of leaves, his breakfast and a bit of plastic from the crate. Probably about the size of a dime. He’s defiantly acting less worrisome but hes still drolling more than normal and cant get comfy. Is this normal after giving hydrogen peroxide? I gave him some”

“For background: I adopted my dog 3 years ago. When I adopted her, they told she was between 3 or 4 years old. When I reassigned her microchip to my name/address, it indicated to me that she was actually 5 years old. So I’m current day, she is between probably 6-8years old now. She is a pittie boxer mix I leave her alone at home while I’m at work for about 8hours a day. I take her on a morning walk before work, a walk after I get home from work (which is her longer walk) and another right before”

“I am house/dog-sitting for a family who will be gone for almost two weeks. Their dog is three-years-old and a big sweetheart. She is crate-trained, but every time I try to put her in the crate, she avoids it like the plague. I've been luring her into it with treats, but when I move away, she starts whining and barking. I took her out to go potty, but she kept doing it afterward. Looking it up, I think she might be having separation anxiety. I've never petsat a dog who is crate-trained be”

“hi everyone. having some trouble with our golden, we have an older spaniel who was never crate trained so we didn’t think we’d need to for our new guy. seems we were wrong and its probably too late. every morning he barks for a good 20 minutes in front of our door, we take him out to potty and then he goes right back at it . only when everyone is awake and playing with him he is happy. he sleeps well and goes to bed a little early so it might just be that he’s bored ? but its really nerve wrecki”

“I’m looking for experiences from anyone who has dealt with an adult dog suddenly developing frequent indoor urination despite retraining and a normal basic medical workup. Due to personal circumstances my parents are unable to keep their rescue so she is living with me now. She was very reliable at my parents’ home and would only use her designated pee pads. She understood where she was supposed to go at their apartment. She was previously too anxious and hypervigilant (she came from a shelter f”

“We adopted our LGD/Husky mix from the city shelter in February. He is 6 or 7 years old and was very sick. From everything we've gathered from the info the shelter had (he was surrendered by his owners family after the owner died) and some discoveries the vet made (his teeth were very telling) he's probably spent most of his life outside on a metal chain. Despite this, he has a great personality and our local obedience club has really done a lot to help us address his leash reactivity and”

“When we woke up in the morning, he never used to cry. We would wake up at 9 the latest (my husband often takes him on late 1/2 am walks because of his schedule). Now by 8:15/8:30 he’s crying/whining pretty bad everyday. Do we think it’s him needing to go to the bathroom?? Or that he just wants to be out of the crate? He doesn’t really cry/whine any other time. For some added context anytime he does this I give it about 5 minutes then take him out to the bathroom. Just wondering why the crying/wh”

“My dog will be 13 years old by December. Recently he started to have weird episodes of collapsing after being startled by sound or sudden movements. It was very isolated episodes at first so we can’t even capture the moment and send to vet. I described to his vet, he feels it sounds more behavioral than neurological. However, since yesterday, he is having a lot more episodes and we are able to capture those moments. What might have happened to him? It’s behavioral or neurological? What are the p”

“Looking for advice on anxiety/excitement related accidents Black Lab. Female. Age 6yr old. My dog is otherwise completely house trained, but she seems to have accidents when she gets anxious, excited, or overwhelmed. It doesn’t seem like she’s forgotten her house training, it seems more like she gets worked up and then pees. It doesn’t matter if we’re inside or outside. She was also professionally trained when she lived with her previous owner and is a really well behaved dog otherwise. She has”

“Hello everyone, My fiancé and I recently moved to a new home back in July, and our dogs been fine and seemed to be enjoying the new place. We have a gated outdoor area for him to be outside and go to the bathroom. Our dog is 6 years old. We've had no issues up until a couple nights ago, where he wakes up around 12 and then refuses to sleep though out the night. He will pace the bed and whine, keeping us up. We would let him go outside multiple times and even take him on a walk in the middle”

“My 4 year old female Pomeranian has been acting weird since July. She's been generally more despondent, hiding in small crevices of the house, nibbling on sheets and pillows and drinking less. She has also become a pickier eater and has gained some weight. I wouldn't really classify her as lethargic since she's still enthusiastic to go on walks and eat treats, she just acts lazier than usual at home. She has an inguinal hernia that we're keeping monitored, but the vets have said”

“i have a 8yr old male chihuahua, 18lbs. we live in an apartment and recently we’ve gotten roof work done. that scared him a ton so he ended up developing separation anxiety from it (when i’m not home he will tear up boxes or pee on my clothes - when i’m home he’s fine) we have also had guests stay over in the last couple weeks as well. lately i’ve noticed (since the guests stayed over a week and a half ago) that he’s been off his regular routine, he doesn’t chew his bully stick (which he used to”

“Hi. I’m at a loss. My dog, a three year old neutered male GSD, had surgery on Friday and is supposed to be crated for his recovery. He used to kennel very well, but has become more and more irritated about having to go in. Now this morning I could not kennel him at all. He became extremely irritable and even snapped at me, which is unlike him. I’m sure he’s uncomfortable, and I know he struggles with barriers and confinement. I wouldn’t want it either. But he barks incessantly when he’s not kenn”

“My dog has major vet anxiety and reactivity. We do the pre-vet meds, muzzle, etc. She just hates it and is always so fearful. However, she’s seemed to do fine at places I’ve boarded her when I’m out of town (they do play sessions and even bathe her for me before I pick her up). At the boarder, they don’t have to muzzle her. I also recognize that boarding and vet visits are much different experiences, but she also does well with the bath and nail trims they do. My vet offers boarding and grooming”

“TLDR: 8 year old golden suddenly freaking out when in crate or closed off area away from us. No changes in location or where she's kept. My golden retriever is 8, she has suddenly started showing some huge behavior changes about 3 weeks ago and I'm at a loss. We have always crated her, since she was a puppy. It is still necessary because she will ingest whatever. Her crate has been her safe space that she would choose to rest in at times. She ripped off a few bars enough to put her head”

“My 8-year-old Maltese has been having accidents at home for the past few months, at least a couple of times a day. She pees a good amount even though we take her out as usual, and she also keeps wetting the side of her leg while she’s lying down sleeping. We had her spayed last September (they only removed her ovaries via laparoscopy), and this started happening about 3 months ago. We’ve taken her to the vet, and they’ve checked for a urinary infection and diabetes because she’s also been drinki”

“Hi all, tl;dr: about two weeks ago, we have chemically castrated (suprelorin, 6 months) our dog that we got from a shelter and now observe him getting more and more anxious. Is that a common side effect and is it going to get better? Background: we have adopted a Young dog from a shelter About 6 months ago. Initially, he was very scared of City noises (construction, trucks, loud and busy Environments etc). After a while, with him getting more confident (Maybe due to an increase in testosterone a”

“I would show a picture but I can add one, she’s a Chihuahua and is about 11years old submitted by /u/raysnipe529 [link] [comments]”

“I have a 5 year old spayed female Poodle who, within the last year has started to pee on my bed while she’s sleeping. She was spayed at 3 years old and never had any issues until this year. She’s been checked for a UTI and my vet feels it’s behavioral, but I strongly disagree. My dog is very well housebroken as never has accidents in the house outside of these very infrequent night time bed wetting incidents. It’s happened about 10 times this year, so it’s very infrequent. But my dog will be sle”

“hi all, I have a corgi mix, almost 16mts. I know this is a talk to have with my vet, but just wanted to see what you guys thought and if anyone has had similar experiences. my pup went through a big fear phase which started when he was about 6-7mts old. it was rough but we've come a LONG way since then, but I feel like he has not fully gotten out of it. when we're indoors, he seems fine, although he will frequently bark like crazy when he hears something outside my apt. but when we'r”

“When you google anxiety you just get training tips. I NEED HELP! Bear is a 12 1/2 male dobie mix. Many different vets suspect chushings or IMPA. He beat a bad case of pancreatitis two years ago. He is on hydrolyzed food. Here is the mystery. About a year ago he got into a fertilizer sticks and was super sick. About a week later he was fine. But then the anxiety started. A complete personality change. He has always been a little scooby doo ish. But this was like 4th of July panic all day. So he h”

“I just came upstairs to my dog digging around in my closet. There's nothing weird in there, just clothing, but her paws are wet, she's drooling excessively, and seems to want to throw up. Should I help her throw up? And is there any good way to do so manually? She is an 85lb dog, about 8 years old, no idea of the breed (just big brown and floppy). She is spayed, and up to date on all meds. She was fed about 4 hours ago, and idk what she could've possibly gotten? Maybe a sock??”

“Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice here. I have a ~200ish lb dog who sleeps in a (very large) 54x37x45in crate. He still won’t settle well enough outside of the crate for me to get rid of it and it’s his safe place. Unfortunately, he’s been having some allergy issues with food lately that we are trying to figure out and has had diarrhea in his crate a few times when I haven’t been home, most severely today. While I’ve been cleaning it the best I can with soapy rags, I can’t get it as clean”

“My dog is almost a year old and he's recently started stiffening randomly and going into his crate. He usually does this when we want to take him out to potty or really just when he wants to go to his crate. We're happy he likes his crate and usually he's really loving except for these times. When he does flip his switch its fine we figure he's tired. We always close his crate to give him his room but also because we are still crate training him. Recently though, his behavior has”

“Hi there, and thanks in advance for any advice :) I have a mixed super mutt who's a bit over 10 years old, extremely active, good mix of high energy when we're out and pretty chill at home for the most part. He is super fit and doesn't act like his age, more like a 6/7 year old. He has always drunk a ton of water and peed an eye watering amount, but it's never been an issue. He holds it like a champ and just goes a lot on walks/when he's let out. We moved to New York from Nor”

“I have a 1.5 year old cocker spaniel/cavalier mix, and he came to us at 6 months old fully crate trained. We have never had any trouble crating him at night. His crate is in my fiancé’s home office next to his desk in the room across from ours. It is properly sized to him according to his vet, has a crate pad with a washable dog bed on top, and has a blanket covering the top and 3 sides (with the 4th side panel left half open for airflow). I know he sees his crate as a safe space, because he wil”

“My family and I would really appreciate some help with our dog’s sudden behaviour shift. Our dog is a 8 year old spayed female mini schnauzer with a history of gallbladder enlargement issues that caused liver size and enzyme issues that responded well to daily medication and vitamins leading her not to need surgery as long as the results from her quarterly blood tests stay consistent. My 8 year old mini schnauzer was out on a walk with my mom when all of a sudden she yipped tucked her tail and r”

“Our lab/shepherd cross is getting more anxious in her later years. She was always a little anxious but at almost 8 years of age it has gone to another level. Just about everything scares her. Has this happened to anyone else’s older dog? submitted by /u/PotentialPea2419 [link] [comments]”

“My dog (female border collie 15 and 4 months, spayed) was having occasional nighttime bladder leakage (1-2 times a week). I know seeing her age makes a lot of people kind of say, “well yeah, she’s an incredibly senior dog.” But she is in incredible shape for her age, would recently go 10 hours without peeing (not because we didn’t let her out but because she’s a stubborn old lady who hates the humidity), and is still doing 1.5 mile hikes. She is on heart medication (Vetmedin) and has been for ab”

“I have an 8 year old dog. She’s been waking me up at least once a night to go potty. We have confirmation that it’s likely early kidney disease so I don’t see this changing. I was going to try training her on puppy pads so she can go at night without waiting on me, but that seems to be advised against. She used to crated at night and just made a ruckus until she’d be let out when she had to potty so I’m not sure that’d help much either. Considering there’s nights she gets me up 3 times and it ta”

“My almost 6-year-old, 11-pound dog has had a major nighttime crate regression since we moved. She’s a rescue poodle/chi/pom mix and we’ve had her since she was 8 weeks old. I am exhausted and need a humane, realistic plan. Crate training originally took months, but she eventually became completely comfortable. Before the move, she would voluntarily go into her crate at bedtime and sleep through the night. It was not an issue anymore. Since moving, she may bark or scream in the crate for hours wh”

“Hi vets, I have a 8 1/2 month old (American) lab. We brought her home at 2 months old. the first month in the car she would excessively drool and puke. our vet told us to try gravol which worked wonders for the drooling and puking. after 5-7 1H drives with gravol we then stopped it and she started being excited to go on car rides and stopped drooling and puking. the whining didn't stop and got worse as she got older as she stopped napping so often. She profusely cries and pants in the car an”

“As title, what can I do to make older dog feels better? She does sleep on the bed now that the puppy does not have access to. It’s heartbreaking when she cries submitted by /u/shoij [link] [comments]”

“I have a 14 week old frenchie. Got her at 8 weeks. We have a night crate for her next to the bed which is as big as her bed plus 1 pee pad. At first she was whining to wake me up whenever she had to go. Then suddenly she just started peeing in the crate. I wake up bc of the smell but she gives no indication if needing to go out. Should I just wait it out until she can hold all night or should the behavior be corrected? submitted by /u/leoplacement [link] [comments]”

“Hello! I have an 8 year old dog (cavachon) who has been been very sick since Thursday. She threw up countless times on Thursday and then about 5 times yesterday. We took her to the emergency vet last night. They took blood tests, which showed her liver enzymes were elevated. They also took an ultrasound, which didn’t show anything unusual. They gave her fluids and prescribed an antibiotic. When we got home, she had diarrhea. Overnight, she lost control of her bladder. I don’t know what to do at”

“i have a 10 year old poodle-bichon mix who unfortunately has the worst separation anxiety. i’ve been training him and trying to get him used to being by himself but it just feels like there’s no hope since my family has had him since he was a baby and was practically never left alone. my older sibling had him for awhile before i took him in and he was like a purse dog, he went everywhere with her which is why i think he has the anxiety in the first place. i feel like my only hope at this point i”

“Hey everyone, looking for some advice with our 6-month-old female White Swiss Shepherd. She actually doesn't hate the crate itself, she goes in on command and sleeps in it overnight with the door open completely fine. If one of us sits in the room with her while she’s crated, she settles down almost immediately. The problem happens the second we leave the room or leave the flat. She immediately starts whining, barking, and testing the door. It takes her about 5 to 15 minutes of continuous co”

“My pup a fluffy French bulldog is 8 months old. He has always since we got him slept in his crate. Generally when he was younger this was successful as he’d sleep through the night till about 6am with no fuss/crying. As other British people will know, the UK heatwave has been really hard. We have a bed for him for inside the crate but it’s quite thick material and was way too hot for him so we’ve had it out most of the summer and he’s just been sleeping on the crate floor which is plastic and we”

“My dog Loui is a 3 year old mixed breed, generally pretty easygoing, never had any resource guarding issues with food, toys, or his bed before. About two weeks ago I noticed he started planting himself right next to the laundry basket in the hallway and giving this stiff, low growl if anyone walks past it, including me. It's not the clothes themselves he cares about, I tested by pulling a few items out while he was in another room and he didn't react to those specific pieces later. It re”

“I have 2 young dogs of my own that are very social, used to fosters, and very active. I am getting an emergency foster an 8m old puppy in that has a broken leg tomorrow. Needs to be on cage rest for at least a few weeks regardless of which surgical route is taken, currently splinted and with owners surrendering. Give me all your tips and tricks for keeping 1 dog in a multidog household restricted, and I sure hope he is crate trained already with minimal separation anxiety to help, but unsure of”

“Hey! We have a spare room that has a bed that our dogs like (its a human bed literally only used by our dogs lol) and their two crates. They are kind of big dogs (75lbs) so the crates are obviously big. The room has a light carpet that was brand new when we bought our house and we want to try and protect it / keep it nice until we decide if we want to replace it. Our dogs are both super shedders and they like to play in mud/rain which obviously leaves a smell that is not always desirable. We wip”

“Hi! We have an 8½-year-old Shorkie, and at this point the biggest issue is that we are not sleeping. It’s like having a newborn in the house except we are in our 40s and exhausted, dealing with broken sleep nightly. He wakes us up repeatedly throughout the night—often 3–4+ times—whining, wanting to wander around the house, wanting to go outside and then back inside, and generally unable to settle. He is also blind, was in one eye now it seems in both eyes, and runs into things while wandering, s”

“I adopted a dog a month ago, and I’ve been having issues crate training. Everytime she’s in it, she cries like crazy, even if her crate is beside my bed. She did great the first night, but since that night, she has not been able to settle. I’m surprised as she’s a den dog, and she likes to squeeze herself under my bed. She’s a 2yr husky mix. Her crate is big enough, she can stand, sit, and move in a circle just fine. She needs to be crate trained as I’m going to college in 9 days and all ESA’s a”

“I’m considering asking my vet about Prozac (fluoxetine) for my 5 year old Chihuahua and would love to hear your experiences. He has always been a very anxious, sensitive dog. He gets overstimulated easily, and even excitement (walks, visitors, new situations) can quickly turn into anxiety. After many vet visits for recurrent bladder infections and a bladder stone (ongoing for almost 2 years), he now associates leaving the house with going to the vet and sometimes doesn’t even want to go for a no”

“Hello all, I am at my wits end with my mature Aussie and could really use any advice you have to offer. She was crate trained as a puppy and once we got through the initial training, she wouldn’t really whine from the crate much at all. She slept in her crate every night in a variety of spaces in different homes and it wasn’t a problem. For the last few years she would sometimes be locked in the crate and sometimes be allowed to sleep outside of it. She is also crated when I leave the house most”

“My papillon, Emmie, had her 4th bladder surgery a few months ago and has started having accidents at night. She’s had multiple vet visits to clear her health wise, this is a result of so much scar tissue on a tiny bladder. She’s never been vocal to go potty, she just sits by the door until we let her out. Since I’m asleep this obviously isn’t working 😂 How can I potty pad train an adult dog for nighttime?! I put them where she had a couple accidents but she just went next to them. I put them by”

“My dog is 9 years old and I rescued her over 8 years ago. We crate-trained her from the start, and she has always really loved her crate. It’s her safe spot. However, lately she has been barking in her crate early in the morning and waking me up. I’m really not sure how to get her to stop. She goes into her crate at night happily. But around 6AM she starts barking and whining. When I let her out, she just begs for food/treats. She is on a diet right now which might be causing this, but she’s a l”

“1 year old dog (April 19th 2025), pittie mixed with shih-tzu. Had her since 4 months. When we brought her home, she acclimated to the crate very easily. Whined the first night and that was basically all it took. However, she chewed uo her bed pretty good. We let her be in the crate with no bed for about a month and then reintroduced a new one, also teaching "place" and "jaula" which is just crate in spanish. She took it in very well and didnt chew up her bed for months. We fi”

“My dog normally is very happy and wants to jump on my bed and play fetch as soon as I get home. Two days ago, he seems sad. He doesn’t want to jump on the bed, instead he hides under it. When I tried picking him up he cried a bit. I rolled him on his back and have gently pressed on his belly, chest, legs, but I get no reaction. Today I took him to the dog park and he walked/ran perfectly fine. But he hasn’t been wanting to jump to get in the car and or won’t jump to walk off the sidewalk. He has”

“Hello, my wife and I adopted a 12 week old Australian cattle dog/Pyrenees/poodle mix and she is currently 8 months old. We started crate training from the start and though she didn’t love it, we didn’t have too much trouble once she was in. She would resist going and then pass out after about 3 minutes. We have always associated with it positive things, treats, sleep, toys etc. never as a punishment. We’ve recently been putting her in less and increasing the time we will leave her out when we le”

“I have a 13 yr old black lab/border collie. She was totally normal Friday night, Saturday morning she wouldn’t get out of bed/eat/go outside and she cried when I touched her rear end/ tried to pick her up. By the end of the day Saturday I got her to eat a little bit, on Sunday she was absolutely fine again. Ate breakfast and dinner with no problem, tail wagging happy to go outside. We woke up today (Monday) and she wouldn’t get out of bed or eat again. I finally got her to get out of bed and go”

“I have a rescue whose biggest issue is separation anxiety. I followed the normal strategy of leaving him in the crate for increasingly longer while I was at home, and he went from 15 seconds without barking to behaving no matter how long I leave him (I think the longest time was about 70 minutes). I tried the same thing with me leaving the house, but can’t get him to last any longer mo matter how many times I try this slowly increasing duration strategy. He goes into the crate when I tell him to”

“Does anyone else’s doggo do this!? We didn’t teach her this she just started doing it one day. It’s not every night. But it’s 5/6 nights out of the week! We always wonder what it really means. IS it her way of giving us affection or is it something else lol! She’s a pitty mix rescue. submitted by /u/Leelou528 [link] [comments]”

“I recently got an 8 week old French bulldog a few days ago. She’s incredibly clingy to the point that even if I’m in the same room as her on the sofa she will scream bc I’m not on the floor with her. Anytime I leave the room she stops what she’s doing and screams for me to come back. I’ve tried distracting her with different chews, toys, licky mats and puzzles but she completely loses interest if I’m not right next to her. I’ve been crate training her but she screams like crazy for ages before s”

“My 13 year old morkie is recovering from a storm of issues we didn't think she would make it through. It started with nausea and turning away dog food, with some lethargy. We took her to our normal vet and she said she was jaundiced, in liver failure, and needed to be put to sleep that day. Her liver enzymes were so high they were not able to get a reading. Her liver was enlarged and a mass on her spleen was seen. She was given steroids, fluids, and nausea meds. In shock and sick with grief,”

“Hi! I have a 2 year old yorkie/pom mutt, she has pretty bad separation anxiety and has pretty much all of her life, mainly because she was in training as a service dog for the first year or so of her life and so went pretty much everywhere with me, and i failed to put the proper safeguards in place to prevent her developing separation anxiety. She was crate trained as a puppy, although not amazingly, but as soon as she stopped tearing things up she started sleeping with me and gradually stopped”