For background, we found out our springer spaniel dog who we bought from a breeder was pregnant - this was 7 weeks ago. We got her late feb, thought she was getting a bit pudgy and poss a phantom pregnancy but oh no she had 6 buns in the oven. A week after we found out she gave birth!
She’d accidentally fallen pregnant the week before we got her 🤦🏻♀️ and plus she’s only just coming up to a year old… not ideal at all.
Anyway that is a whole other story and possibly thread at some point.
So my question for this thread is should we keep a puppy??
As I say, we did not of course expect to find ourselves in this situation as it was not planned but we have now got attached to them and one boy in particular.
We got our dog at age 8 months because I was keen to get an older dog and having one that was part trained felt like an easy way to get back to dog ownership rather than wade through the puppy stages (our old dog died last year). She’s a delight, she’s well behaved, loves walking for miles and aside from the teenage pregnancy has settled in perfectly.
So are we crazy to consider keeping a puppy or will he just slot in because he was born here?
on the negative I’m thinking double the training, including toilet and crate training from scratch, double the insurance, double the food (prob more because he will be bigger) and holidays and doggy day care will be more expensive. Two dogs in the house feels a lot and they are springers so they get seriously filthy on walks.
But on the positive side I’m thinking he already lives here, we will never get this chance again (we wouldn’t ever breed her again), he will be company for her. And he’s insanely cute. The pro list is not as long as the con list 🤣
Has anyone got any advice please?