We have a 9 week old lab puppy who is honestly just the loveliest, easiest puppy I've ever known. We are strictly managing her napping to make sure she learns to self soothe and doesn't get overstimulated which brings me to my point…
Why can people not just accept our way of doing things?! We went to visit my in-laws on Christmas Eve and she was finding the atmosphere very over stimulating with the sounds of shrieking children and a lot of people in the same room so I was keeping her close and encouraging her to sleep. My FIL kept making passive aggressive comments that I should just 'let her run around with the dogs, that will tire her out' and refused to see my point that A) 2 very high energy, overexcited large adult dogs are not suitable playmates and B) she was already tired and just doesn't know how to switch off – charging around outside make that 100x worse.
As it happened, I put puppy in her crate and sat next to her for a while and after 30 mins or so she fell asleep, just in time for us to eat dinner.
And in general, because she is cute, people seem to think they have a right to come over and get all up in her face without permission, or if we are visiting family and she is on the floor, a right to scoop her up and force attention on her. I always tell them no and am sure everyone thinks I am just a mean person!
I will always advocate for my dog and am absolutely certain that I am doing the right thing. But why do people have to make that so hard?
TL,DR: why do people seem to think they have a right to ignore puppy owner wishes?
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