Just wanted to pick people’s brains. My boyfriend is in love with the idea of getting a puppy when we live together. I am very hesitant to do so. A puppy is a huge amount of work and most of the work will fall on me because I will be the one who will be home most of the time. (Nurses in hospitals usually only work 3 sometimes 4 days a week). Also the last time I got a puppy, very recently when my family got one, and it pretty much entirely fell on me to train and raise it, it sent me spiraling into “post puppy” depression. It was really hard!! And she took CONSTANT supervision, I can’t even imagine just leaving a puppy at home all day on those days we will both be working. But my bf says that’s how their dogs grew up (his mom is single working mom) and they turned out just fine.
The only pro I can think of with getting a puppy versus an adult dog is a puppy is a blank slate and much much easier to train than a fully grown dog that already can have bad habits ingrained. More so if it is a big dog.
What do you guys think? Definitely if we do decide to go puppy someday I think we should foster first to see what it will be like.
This is a difficult one, me and my partner have discussed this. I really want to adopt a dog however my partner is of the opinion that he doesn’t have much experience with dogs so if he took on one via adoption he might struggle to train etc… he wants to get a puppy in the future … however if we do find the right dog to adopt we’ve not completely closed our mind to it we’ll see.
I got a puppy pug two years ago and I’ve never regretted it. It was really hard at first toilet training her and socialising her but I’m so glad I did it.
I don’t work though and So she is has always been used to company so I couldn’t leave her alone longer than 3 hours.
When my sisters bought me a cat for my birthday we got one that was 9 or 10 months old. Still young enough to train, but old enough so we knew his basic nature (mellow, affectionate) and his good habits and his very few bad habits. With a kitten or puppy, how he will grow up to be will depend on how you treat him and raise him. But you may get a puppy that is born with a few bad traits or a bad nature or even dormant health problems. With my cat, I knew what I was getting into when I bought got him.
No no, please dont. Only if I can pick yours as well.
All jokes aside, pets carry responsibilities.
Think of the responsibilities that come with them before ultimately deciding to get one.
They are great for depression, upon many other mental disorders, but only get one if you can care for one and not put it for adoption in the future or destroy its health due to negligence.
Our current pet, Calliope the Studio Cat, has some mental quirks because her previous owner was a cat hoarder and this is a cat that needs to be the only cat in a home. She spent several years living in the daughter’s bedroom with maybe an hour outside of it here or there a couple of times a week, always in terror of the other cats. We’ve had her over a year now and you can finally see her starting to unwind.
Please make sure that your situation is IDEAL for an animal before adopting. You really need to work around their needs, they’re not capable of working around yours and expecting them to is damaging to them.
