u/GlassRevolutionary85

My husband and I got an Irish setter puppy for field work. I have cardio issues but we don’t have the money for a trained service dog and I’m not thaaaat bad - I can manage. After looking back, I noticed my girl will circle me as my heart rate starts to get high so I started paying attention/tracking and she does. Before I feel it, she is circling me and my tachycardia is on the rise. She never does it when I’m not tachy. I’ve never worked with her to do this, she’s never had training for it. She just “knows” to do this like she knows to drink water. I tried to get her to stop this circling, in fact, because it was annoying to not feel well and have her walking circles around me and tangle me in the leash. Right before everything started to go black and I almost passed out, she also flopped hard to the ground, got up and did it again while making eye contact. I heard her little body hit the ground, she didn’t gently lay down. She made sure we had eye contact and flopped. Then everything started fading out. I always thought dogs needed to be taught how to detect everything and it wasn’t something as natural as breathing.

My girl is 5.5 months old. She’s taken to training well, extremely smart, overall perfect. We got her as a hunting buddy for my husband and I think she’ll do amazing with that. All on her own, though, she started to circle me or flop on the ground. It was always when I didn’t feel well and it would stress me out. I don’t want to get caught in a leash or convince her to stand up when I don’t feel well. I started paying attention and right before I became tachy, she would circle me. If my heart rate got too high, she would flop on the ground. It went from being an annoying behavior while I’m starting to feel off to “oh, she knows something, I need to pay attention.” It took looking back at everything to realize she was trying to signal me something is wrong. This last time when she would circle me, I’d be sitting around 140bpm. When she flopped (and stood up to flop again immediately) I already knew I had a slightly high heart rate of 180 at rest - funny enough everything did start to go black that time again. I always said it would be cool if she could do cardio alert but never really thought much of it since she’s supposed to be a hunting pup and not a traditional breed for this. Her nose is absolutely amazing. She’s never been trained to do this or prompted. She is just super aware and I’m super proud of her.

I have a 3.5 month old Irish setter puppy. We decided since I could take the dog to work and the dog would very rarely be home alone, it’s the perfect time to get a puppy. She’s with us almost 24/7. Yayyy. Until I realized she doesn’t know how to be alone. Most of the time when I try to put her in the yard (6’ privacy fences with no way out), she just cries until someone goes out with her. She loves outside and sometimes refuses to come in with us, but usually cries the initial getting sent out. We never leave her outside alone long. This morning, for example, my 5 year old was asleep still, husband at work and I needed to shower. She would cry in the crate so I put her outside for the whole 12 minute shower. She cried the entire time under the window. As soon as I was done, she came back in when I could watch her. She still chews everything so being left along in the house isn’t ideal nor I don’t want to wake up the house with her crying in the crate. We don’t leave her alone for long periods of time. She has water, a house with bed, all the toys she could ever want, plus sticks, bunnies to chase (caught her first one yesterday), whole 9 yards.

We have tried seeing if she will stop if we ignore her, tried standing in the doorway so she knows she’s not alone, new/different toys. Sometimes if she’s playing we can sneak away, sometimes she wants to come with us. I don’t want to encourage her to keep crying by going out and dealing with her but I also sometimes would like her to be outside where she can run around and not just sit in a cage where she cries and wakes up the house.

She is crate trained at night. We tell her to go sleepies and she knows to go sit in her crate and no longer cries at night. If she wakes up in the middle of the night for a potty break, she is totally fine going back in the crate. She even naps in it during the day sometimes since we keep it open whenever she’s not locked in it. Even if we leave her in it and leave the house, she settles down. It’s just when she knows we’re home she cries and has major FOMO.

I'm going to pick up a puppy who will be 8 weeks old the day I get her. Online the policy says 8 weeks is the minimum but the pets must have rabies vaccines. I called to question this as she is too young. One person told me she cannot fly, another person told me there is no age restriction for the pet, they're not allowed to ask age, it's up to the supervisor at the airport, and totally ignored the question. Has anyone flown with a puppy too young for the rabies vaccine? She has a certificate of health from the vet and UTD on all age appropriate shots, she's just too young for rabies at this point.

Does anyone have any recommendations on who to call for dishwasher repairs? I have a 5-6 year old Whirlpool dishwasher (no longer under warranty). It fills with water but the pod doesn't disolve and our dishes are left dirty. We cleaned all the traps, the sprayer and everything we can think of. I'm going crazy without having a dishwasher, though. TIA!