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I keep going back and forth.

Sometimes I feel like it's easy with proper boundaries in place and a good routine/schedule, and I would be willing to do it again, especially if I have an adult dog to play with the puppy sometimes and do fun stuff with outside of puppy time.

Then the blues come back and I regret not adopting an adult dog, since everything I wanted a dog for (camping, going outside and doing stuff) is at minimum a few weeks away, and "indoor" behavior that I came to enjoy from the adult dogs that I lived with (cuddling, chilling, napping) is at best a year away. Before you get into the situation, a few weeks seems like no time at all, but with a puppy a few weeks is a genuine eternity of Groundhog Days of training, playing fetch&tug, biting, praying for the patience just to make it through the day, hoping my cats don't feel neglected or replaced, and wishing I had more than 2 hours to myself at a time

It's like a 75/25 split of regret/enjoyment. Whenever there's a peek through the clouds and she can just settle in the kitchen with me while I cook, or she sleeps through the night, or she sits nicely in the car with me while we're observing stuff, I feel like I can do it and would be happy to do it again. But right now its 1pm and I'm trying to stay as still as humanly possible so she doesn't wake up and I don't have to play puppy pincushion for the next hour, and I regret even doing it this first time, let alone considering taking it on again.

I have an almost 7 month old Maltipoo. I like to feed him a combo of wet and kibble for his meals. Does anyone have a handy reference for me to figure out how much of each he should be getting for each meal/daily? I really don’t know if I’m feeding him too much or too little. And right now I’m not following any guidelines. I have bought a scale to help with portioning.

We adopted our puppy, Lazlo, at around 12 weeks. He's a bospin and possibly part angel. The first nights of crate training were rough, but he caught on fast. Now he sleeps in the kennel without issue every night. It's been similar with all the training we've thrown at him. He's 20 weeks now and has almost every command down pat (with the exception of roll over, which he struggles with simply because he doesn't like to do it). He has no destructive behavior asides from a pension for socks and fall leaves. Walks are a breeze, his current battle is not getting excited at every possible friend who walks by. He doesn't bark or show agression towards other dogs, despite not having much experience with them. Since getting him we've had maybe five house accidents, otherwise he's always gone potty outside and does well at asking to go.

I used to be a dog groomer, and am well experienced with dogs and puppies. I knew when we adopted him that we would be doing obedience training right away. I just wasn't expecting him to take so well to it. We do about thirty minutes of training each day in multiple short sessions. Usually in the morning before I go to work, more when I come home for lunch, then again before dinner.

I'm in awe of how well he's doing, but it makes me wonder how the teenage phase is going to go. Is my sweet baby boy going to turn heel? I'm cherishing how wonderful and well behaved he is now, just wanting to get an idea of what others have experienced.

I have a habit of acquiring rubber ducks when I see an opportunity (such as, if there’s a claw machine full of rubber ducks I’m going to get a rubber duck every time), but my dog (a 2 year old Pembroke Welsh Corgi) loves when she comes across one that I may have left laying around.

She doesn’t tear them apart (or any toy for that matter), just loves to chew on them but I worry that the paint on the rubber ducks could make her sick.

Does anyone have any toy recommendations that would be similar material and size, that would be more animal safe?

On the right hind leg there seems to be a circular.. thing stuck to my dog’s toe bean (which I’m pretty sure is the cardal pad).

I got a good look at it today and I’m not sure if it’s a nail…??? It’s super circular and (Edit) I uploaded an image to imgur! https://imgur.com/a/80BY5AI