My soul dog passed away almost 2 months ago. He was a senior puppy (13) that I had for almost 12 years. Admittedly, I worked on training him, but was not very consistent and because of a few issues, he was mostly contained to being indoors or our yard. He was ….easy? Fast forward to today
11 month old APBT/American Bulldog, adopted a month and a half ago.
We wake up and immediately start training (proper walk training , teach her commands, tricks, we play fetch which also involves commands) I go to work for 4 hours and come home for lunch and train (same as above) …I go back to work and come back 5 hours later and she goes outside to the yard with me while I workout and once I’m done, off to the park, so she can run around (also structured, we work on recall, proper walking, commands) I allow her spurts of running around but always under control. We get home, I make dinner, eat and then it’s her turn……I switched to hand feeding, so again, tricks, commands…blah blah blah….working for her food. When she’s not doing these things I have her working on a Kong or hiding treats and then before I know it…,it’s bedtime and I feel like the entire day with her has been spent working. I want laziness. I want couch potato, I want snuggles for more than 5 minutes, I want……dog? Am I doing too much? Or something wrong?
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