I knew this would be hard, I knew I couldn’t have expectations, I KNOW puppies can’t help it and they’re quite literally like babies and everything is normal developmentally but I feel like I’m going crazy.
I grew up with dogs, and have had 3 dogs of my own that I’ve rescued as an adult (youngest was 1.5 year). They were all rescues and one wasn’t trained at all, but we got through it. I know being that old of course my dog was at a different stage developmentally.
Let me tell you though, nothing, and I mean nothing could have prepared me for this puppy. I read 2 books, read multiple blogs, it’s almost laughable that I thought I’d be prepared.
My pup has zero chill, definitely does not nap thaw 18-20 hours I’ve read. If she’s awake, absolute land shark, I play with her, I do training to give mental stimulation, make sure she goes for walks. Giving her tons of toys and chews and bones.
It’s constant getting into things, taking her outside multiple times just to have her shit in the house right when I bring her back in after 25 min. I give treats after she goes out, I give her treats for training, I’m doing just about anything you can google.
Yes she’s just being a puppy, I know that, but I’m struggling so hard. I’m starting to wonder how I thought I could ever handle this 😭. I’m usually not a dramatic person but I feel like my head is going to blow off I’m so stressed out. Even cried last night because I feel like I literally don’t have a minute to breathe. Even with my husbands being completely hands on as well, we also have another dog, 2 cats and a kid to take care of. We specifically waited to get a puppy until our child was older, until we had a house with enough room for another animal. We did it all as “right” as we could.
Again, I know this is normal so please don’t comment just to make me feel worse and say it’s not the puppies fault. I KNOW THAT!!!!!!
This is just hard, and I feel like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel after reading some of these posts saying their puppies still act this way at 13 plus weeks. Like what ?! 😭
I’m going to do it, keep doing my best, but I feel like I might cry myself to sleep in the process lol.
If anyone is truly going through it like I am with their puppy, please share. Anyone who went through this and it got better, please share. I’m just so tired.
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