For context I have 5 animals, I have 3 cats and now 2 dogs, my fiance works 5-6 days a week and I work 3-4 days a week. My fiance and I just got our wonderful chocolate lab 2 weeks ago and she is so smart and listens better than my pitty mix who is a year and half old LOL. The only problem I feel like I’m having is just the loss of time and how much more energy it takes to handle a puppy, I did a ton of research before choosing a breed and a ton of research on how to train and handle a puppy but I severely underestimated how much time of my day it would take and truly how much energy she would have, I feel like there’s just never enough time in the day, I was so used to having my pitty who is very lazy, sweet and calm and would probably run away if I tried to make her go on a walk every day to now having a puppy that requires such constant attention unless she is in her crate napping, I’m feeling sad over the loss of free time and also all of the freaking biting… 😭 I know the teething stage is hard but it is so relentless and I know it’s only going to get worse (she is just about to be 10 weeks), I’m also missing a lot of the time I used to be able to spend with my other animals, when the puppy is out I can’t give them nearly as much attention as they or I am used to which makes me feel SO guilty. Idk if this is really puppy blues because I don’t necessarily regret getting her but I just needed to vent to a group that might understand the life change struggles and see if anyone had some advice or could even just relate because I am feeling so guilty all around for all of my animals.
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