Puppy blues or have I made an enormous mistake

[CharlieBoff]

Please be gentle with your replies here cos I feel bad enough as it is.

Got a puppy just over two months ago and I am regretting it every day. It’s just too much. I am constantly exhausted and bad tempered from trying to remind the kids and DH to put their shit away so the dog doesn’t eat it, and they never do then complain that the dog has eaten the Wii controller/magazine/trousers. The dog is constantly in the face of our youngest growling and jumping up, it only goes for a walk for ten minutes then pulls to come home where it then tears around the house for hours. It won’t eat its food then eats its own shit, and I’ve tried everything to get the dog to toilet outside but no joy. I’ve tried Will Atherton, that American one that I can’t remember the name of, and easy peasy puppy squeaky and all the online courses I can think of, and I still want to just hide and cry.

I have in person puppy training coming up next week (9week course), but I honestly don’t know how much of a difference it’ll make. What do I do? Do I stick this out as it’s unfair to the kids who love this dog, yet spend no time with them because they’re constantly being growled at, or bite the bullet and look at rehoming? Is this going to get better?

Lovely intelligent response there. Personally I don't get told what to do being that I'm an adult.

Maybe you should take your own advice

Maybe you should just stop now. You’ve made your point and are just being goady and nasty. I’m sure you have better things to do with your time than try to make someone feel worse than they already are. There is really no need to keep sniping back. It’s making you come across as if you have a little evil streak in you.

They’re still going 🙄

Said by the person who just "had" to comment.
There's absolutely nothing nasty about my comment. The same cannot be said about others shamefully.
And please don't tell me what I should & should not do, you have no right & actually, what I do is nothing to do with you either is it.

Ach just stop will you 😂

Blimey! 'My truth' 🤣

Wait, who are you to tell me what I can & cannot say? This is an open forum & the last time I checked we live in a free country don't we?
I mean stop with the telling people what they should & shouldn't do, we're not in the 1950's & we have voices.

It's good to hear this. There is a puppy survival thread where some of us go to compare notes/have a moan about our pups so if you have any specific worries or questions you can head over there for a friendly chat.

I had puppy blues for a few weeks; hadn't expected to, but it is a thing and most of us go through it - even after several pups it can still happen. As nearly everyone on this thread has said, it does get easier as you get into a routine and bond with your dog. I hope today will be another good day for you and your girl.

@Nextdoor55 you’ve made sure your voice, your opinion and your truth is plastered all over the thread 😂. Time to stop now, it really is. But sure you keep it up and have the day you totally deserve feeling so righteous and correct spouting out your truth no matter if you might cause hurt or upset to anyone. What an absolute delight, have a fab day 😊

Oh have a day off love

What exactly is the point you’re trying to make? Are you trying to help me with my problem? I’ve responded to you by pointing out that I don’t refer to my dog as “it” in real life, and explained why I did on the thread. Why are you keeping on? What are you hoping to achieve?

And yeah, I do get quite childish when people don’t accept an (perfectly valid and explained) answer and still bang on as if they’ve been personally insulted 🤷‍♀️

Now please, for the last time, can you stop commenting?

Why don't you stop commenting? Just pointing out that you don't have any right to tell anyone else what they can & cannot comment on. If you don't like critics you are on the wrong forum.
Your reasoning seems disengenuous & frankly I'm unconvinced by what you've said but whatever you tell yourself...

It’s her thread !!! 😂

You are the gift that keeps giving 😂

FYI someone on a parenting thread called their toddler a brat earlier - you might want to head over there and offer your “truth” 😂

Because it’s my fucking thread 😂 And I’m not telling you to do a damn thing. I’m asking you to stop commenting because it’s unhelpful, and you didn’t even respond to my initial query, just spouted off your “truth”.

And again, WHAT IS YOUR POINT?!

I call mine a barky little shit bag. In front of my fellow trainers. She just looks at me and wags her tail.

Best stone me. Maybe wait until she wakes up and gets off my legs though.

How do you live with yourself?! Your poor dog is a sentient creature who can be only referred to in the highest terms!

I’m quite tempted to keep referring to my bitey little shitbag as “it” just for the lols

My dog went in to the river earlier, got absolutely filthy muddy, and it's only one week post groom.

I called him a little shit, in front of lots of other dog owners.

It is fine 🤣

I can’t even repeat the threats I threw at my dog today. Completion of house sale and bloody stressful but hey, he doesn’t know he has a big garden yet.
But when my husband was coming home, to make up for the lack off the dog food (husband was bringing)I was cooking sausages for Spence and he had chicken, cooked specifically without the sauce for him, from the celebration meal.
Yes he can be a growly, little shit. But we don’t know what happened to him for three years.

Im so glad that things are looking up for you and your pup.
Btw ‘my dog thinks you are a knob’ 😂
ROTFLMAO
Reminded me of a post when I told a guy who gave us an unsolicited comment and the reply ‘only his friends get to call him Spence’
Best wishes