What's harder - puppy or baby?

[CommunistLegoBloc]

Cast your votes...

Baby, definitely.

Baby

I've had two of each and puppy gets my vote.

My husband shared the baby duties with me. Not so the puppy ones.

The baby never ate the sofa, had a long list of relatives happy to hold it and both were the loves of my life.

The puppy is often referred to as a total arsehole and I quite often tell him I'm sending him back to the breeder *(not really)

Surely this isn't a serious question?!!

I’d say puppy

I'd say puppy

A baby you can take places with you and as a small baby only poos in one place

Now puppy Vs toddler - that's a hard one

I’ve had both, and I remember saying to anyone that listened that Dd was far easier than my spaniel puppy was!

But Dd was an incredibly chilled kid, who I could breastfeed and she’d sleep. I’m sure if she had been colicky, had reflux or CMPA etc it’s would have been a very different story.

Baby no question

Puppy. You get maternity leave and lots of social understanding with a baby- you can’t take a puppy into a shop and if it weed on the floor in the John Lewis cafe like 3yo DD did I think you’d get a lot fewer supportive smiles as you cleared it up!

My babies have both been pretty solid sleepers though- I think of you had a baby that didn’t leg you sleep then defo baby.

Puppy! Going out seems to require much more planning and thought than when we had babies. We had many more people offering to babysit than dogsit.

Hmmm...

See, newborn babies are pretty easy really, they’re harder because you had to get them out and they’re still on milk and so there’s all that to deal with.

But if you were talking someone else’s just weaned baby vs puppy... then it’s puppy - they don’t have nappies, they don’t stay where you put them and they bite lots, there’s no easy way of getting them to nap and no bedtime.

But obviously longterm, puppies aren’t like that for as long as babies are babies.

So...

Baby. They’re bloody relentless…and you can’t just leave them asleep on the floor when you go to bed.

Baby.

You can rehome a puppy. (only joking)

@Gertie75

Baby. Puppies take a couple of days to housetrain, you can leave them for a couple of hours while you go to the shop, you don't have to carry them around when they're awake, they easily entertain themselves while you do housework.

Out of interest, have you had a puppy? In my experience none of those things are generally true, except the third one.

Definitely the puppy for me. It was like having 3 toddlers, then when you are cleaning up one mess they are quickly making another somewhere else (it was the chewing things up I found hard, my babies never chewed 3 PlayStation games or destroyed a couple of books)

Puppy

I've had 3 babies and refuse to get a dog because of the commitment involved. It'd be like having a very furry toddler but for 10-15 years. No thanks!

Baby! A hundred times.

I've had both. Baby is 100% harder and my babies weren't especially tricky.

10000000% puppy! I guess it depends on the puppy and the baby but our puppy was much much harder work than either of our children

Are you being serious?

Puppy, or maybe it's just my puppy!!

I’m honestly astonished at the number of people who think a puppy is harder than a baby. It’s makes me jealous actually, as I had such a shit time with traumatic birth, NICU, cmpa /reflux, horrendous breast feeding journey and no sleep. I foster working line GSDs before they start police dog training so have quite a lot of dog experience. Fuck my life people must have had easy babies, and I do feel bitter about what I had to go through.

My DS is 18 months so I haven't forgotten what it's like

Newborn baby vs newborn puppy. Hands down puppy BUT once they turn into adult dogs they are much easier to manage than toddlers/teenagers.

My DDog is still young but only really demands a walk and food.

As babies stay babies for longer and are needier for longer than puppies then babies are harder for longer

So intensity = puppy
Longevity of hard work = baby

@Gertie75 Puppies take a couple of days to house train???
Are you on crack? 😂
Puppies are the devil! I would have 10 newborns rather than a puppy..... they shit all over your house, scream on a night, chew kitchen floors, piss everywhere, wind the kids up and they smell. Then when they're housetrained they'll shit all over your garden and piss in your flowerbeds, demand walks in the rain and cost you a bomb at the vets!
Eurgh 🤮

I had both at once. Might as well get both traumas over at once