I think I made a serious mistake

Hi all. I don’t even know if I need advice instead of just encouragement and kindness because I am so afraid I’ve made a mistake.

I’ve had my first dog, a 1.5 year old beagle, since he was 9.5 weeks old. He wasn’t a perfect puppy but I think he was relatively easy, especially when it came to crate training, and training in general even since day 1. We’ve spent the last year building a pretty solid bond and I’ve wanted a second beagle pretty much the entire time.

Well I brought home my 8.5 week old new puppy yesterday and…I feel like I’ve made a huge mistake. I thought I could mostly repeat what worked with my first dog, with some minor tweaks, and everything would be fine. But this puppy does not seem like he’ll be easy at all, and mixed with trying to maintain my first dog’s schedule and lifestyle feels like it’s going to be impossible.

This puppy screams. I know it’s only day two and I don’t expect much but the cries and barking and howling and fully panicked screaming in his pen, in the car, in his crate, is ear piercing and soul killing. My first dog of course whined and cried but not like this. I feel like I would remember if it was like this. And trying to wrangle them both by myself with the backdrop of a puppy screaming his head off in panic at anything is really, really hard.

I feel like I made a mistake completely upturning my life and my first dog’s life and the quiet we had. 😭😭