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Yep, sounds like you have a very bored dog. She may need 1-2 hours of exercise a day and then on top of that mental stimulation. If she's burying food that means she's not hungry.

You can teach him sit stay and keep your foot on the lead so he can't jump up

There really isn't a magic way, it's mental & physical exercise required with active breeds and keeping them safe when you can't supervise them.

Yes a vaccinated dog can still get it however chances are lower. Show dog, the thing here is that no one know how long to wait as some people have waited 2 years as that still is't long enough. Even with bleaching you can't possibly do your whole house and yrd, you'd miss little nooks and crannies.

Chicken necks are only suitable for dogs who chew well, I wouldn't be giving them to you dog if it swallows them whole as it could possibly cause an obstruction.

At 7 months she could possibly be finishing off teething. You need to remember with dogs, puppies in particular not to set them up or faliure and I think this is what is happening with leaving stuff out, she's not a human child that understands they shouldn't touch certain things. If it's laying about, it's fair game to the dog especially a puppy. Aussie Shepherds are highly intelligent dog that require a lot of execise and mental stimulation, are you providing this?

With the lead training, you can just pop a light weight leash on her whilst you're home and let her drag it around for about a week. Generally puppies don't like the tention of the lead so this way they can stand on it themselves and feel the tention. Just remember puppies are puppies and they'll do naughty things. Puppies shouldn't be over excerised anyhow. If you can't have your eyes on her, just crate her Ooops you just gave puppy a time out for doing something good 'give'. That's too confusing for puppy. Rule of thumb with puppies when they have something they're not meant to have is to substitute for something they are allowed.

I tend to dab some iodine on them but if they're just little grazes I let them heal themselves.

It's really unfortunate that went around. They're as harmful as chicken necks and small bones. Greenies are only suitable for dogs who chew well, they're not suitable to gulpers, it states that on the packaging.

Chicken necks are great for puppies & dogs who chew their food, they shouldn't be given to dogs who Gulp or in the pressence of other dogs incase they gulp them so the other dog can't get the food.

Puppies & dogs will usually go for items with our scent on them, even our washed clothing has our scent on them. One thing I learned with Dante is never assume what they're doing, have your eye on them all the time if they're not in a crate. Puppies have very short attention spans so 20 minutes playing with just the one toy is pretty good! Mentally stimulating a puppies mind is a great way to wear them out, so 3 to 5 2 minute training sessions per day would help.

Nothing to worry about. It's canine behaviour, it's not disgusting, it's what 'some' canines do for whatever reason.

Parvo is tricky in regards to how long to leave it. It may be safer to adopt an adult dog who had all their shots for more than a couple of months?

Some puppies are really excitable and you wonder when they'll just settle down LOL Perhaps pop puppy on a lead when you need to control the excitment and have some treats and get puppy to sit & watch when you need to control her or walk/lure her away from what she is being over-excited about.

Dante was an absolute shocker with the biting and he's a big puppy. Some puppies can take repremands really well and learn from more softer approach, some dogs need a much more firmer approach, each dog is an individual. If your dog is doing it in excitment you need to be able to catch the start of he behaviour before the dog gets excited because the dog will find learning very difficult when it has an excited frame of mind. Here's a range of different tecniques people use for mouthing, typically you would start at the more soft techniques and work your way up to the firmer ones, some people won't like all the methods but I'm simply putting out there methods I've heard of: 1) Firm verbal repremand with a growly voice - Ladies have to watch their high pitched voices / walk away (end the game) from the dog if it's not likely to chase you and bite you 2) Tap on the nose 3) Rolling the flews of the dogs mouth around the teeth of the dog so the dog is effectively biting itself. 4) Pushing you hand further back in the dogs mouth toward its' throat whilst pushing down on the tounge at the same time. 5) Squirting the dog with a water pistol 6) Ear, Nose or Lip squeeze until the dog yelps 7) Biting the dog back 8) Scruffing the dog 9) Submitting the dog - putting it on its side and not letting it up for 10-20 seconds (not for adult dogs) 10) Smack on the rump with a hand 11) And for the really bad biters who think its' a game and none of the above methods work, a smack to the rump with a lead (not beating the dog obviously) 12) 2 Minute Time outs away from the pack. When it comes to repremands they have to be of a certain level of being uncomfortable to give the dog a reason not to repeat them. Some dogs also have high pain thresholds. The typical method for biting puppies is when they are very young is to scruff them until they yelp, then give them a pat to let them know its' ok and there are no hard feelings. Some people feel this is cruel, yet if you saw the dogs mother do it you wouldn't think it were cruel an the dogs mother would put the dog in its' place similar to this.

mmmm I'm not the biggest fan of leaving dogs crated during the day, that's what backyards and runs are for. To me crates are for sleeping in and for small periods of time such as 1-2 hours when you pop to the shops etc. Is there a reason why your dog can't be in a backyard or trusted in the house outside of the crate?

It's not a case of growing out of it at this age, it's a case of teaching them it's not acceptable behaviour, there are a number of different ways of doing this. If it's not unpleasant there's no reason for the dog to cease what it's doing. You can give time outs a try, they don't work for all dogs but if you haven't tried it yet give it a go, otherwise you'll probably have to show the dog a reason for not biting.

hehehehehehe nothing to worry about.

Training forum?

Pop her outside for a 2 minute time out each time she does it, see how you go with that, different methods work for different dogs and if you've tried all the gentler methods sometimes you need to up the level of dicipline to get the message across, not beating the dog of course. She's not a puppy pupppy anymore, there's no reason you can't give her a correction for it, but puppies do have a short attention span, so when training at home keep it to under 5 minutes. Sounds like boredom, if this is during the day can you not have her outside? Small rooms are good for wee puppies when you bring them home and for a few months but they're not an ideal place for a dog long term. You played the game with her that she was trying to play, I would just ignore her, you may have to wait it out, then put her on a lead and take her outside to toilet. *shrugs* I wouldn't put money on it, sounds like she has you wrapped around her little paw.

Sounds like your pooch is telling you to bloody hurry up. I'd do the following, it's part of Jan Fennells methods from her book Dog Listener: When you're preparing your dogs food, get a Human biscuit and make it look like it came out of the dogs bowl and eat it slowly, this will probably drive your bossy little brat insane, but it's one way to get them respecting the Food and You aspect.

Think it's best if you head to the vets and take a stool/worm sample in a little bag.

Dogs have personal bubbles like us, some aren't comfortable with people coming into those especially if the dog is more dominant and a person goes for the head. Has puppy done that to anyone else?

Nothing to worry about at all, it's all part of growing Dante only hiccups when he's having a growth spurt.

Everyone will have different opinions, we can really only tell you what we did with our own puppies, what does your breeder reccomend. We had and do still have Dante in a crate in our bedroom. For about 2 months he had a Snuggle Puppy, it's a toy puppy that has a heart beat machine in it and a warming pad to help him settle, some people put hot water bottles in covered by a blanket (not too hot though). We also popped some chew items in there with him. We found it better having him in the bedroom because up until 11 weeks of age he needed overnight toilet stops, he would cry to let us know he needed out because dogs don't like to toilet in crates, it really assisted us with th toilet training process. When we first put him to bed, I would lay next to the crate until he went to sleep, then get into bed, did this forabout 4 days. He'd wake everynow and then and whinge, if it wasn't toileting he'd need I would ignore him, the crate door would only open when he was quiet.