Puppy vs 11 month old (trained)

[Anonymous]

Frankly, between the teens headed off to college imminently and your own hesitation/ hatred toward getting a dog, I don't think you should pull that trigger. Your whole situation seems like a hot mess of dysfunction for a faultless animal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“ If I knew the dog would be good and chill I'm not opposed to walking it and caring for it. When I'm an empty nester maybe I would like it? I don't want to deal with a lot of stress but I see some friends with dogs and wish I took the plunge.”

An 11 month old golden retriever is by no stretch of the imagination going to be “good and chill.”

LOL this is so, so true. I currently have an 11 month old Golden Retriever who people always comment is "chill" and I can tell you, she isn't really. Or at least, to even approach chill she requires a TON of exercise and still needs to be watched most of the time when at home. Goldens are puppies til about 2 years old and 11 months is solidly in the "teen" years where often all of your training can go to sh+t and they enter a defiant stage. Mine is pretty great compared to peers but I am highly skeptical of this "trained, chill" dog.

So meaning if I'm spending 4K it would make more sense to get a 3-4 year old!? What breeder did you use?

I would never in in a million years give a breeder recommendation to someone with your attitude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ If I knew the dog would be good and chill I'm not opposed to walking it and caring for it. When I'm an empty nester maybe I would like it? I don't want to deal with a lot of stress but I see some friends with dogs and wish I took the plunge.”

An 11 month old golden retriever is by no stretch of the imagination going to be “good and chill.”

LOL this is so, so true. I currently have an 11 month old Golden Retriever who people always comment is "chill" and I can tell you, she isn't really. Or at least, to even approach chill she requires a TON of exercise and still needs to be watched most of the time when at home. Goldens are puppies til about 2 years old and 11 months is solidly in the "teen" years where often all of your training can go to sh+t and they enter a defiant stage. Mine is pretty great compared to peers but I am highly skeptical of this "trained, chill" dog.

So meaning if I'm spending 4K it would make more sense to get a 3-4 year old!? What breeder did you use?

I would never in in a million years give a breeder recommendation to someone with your attitude.

I have plenty anyways. But what attitude? Learning all I can as a new dog owner? Whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are probably getting a Golden Retriever puppy. The kids are dying for a puppy and have never had one. It seems daunting and also cute.. my kids are 14 and 16. There is an option to get an older puppy mostly trained and good temperament but fairly pricy and about 1k more than a puppy. Also not local so we would have to fly to meet it and see and cancel a puppy deposit. The puppy breeder isn't my favorite but ok... that's another story. The trained puppy is almost grown so looks like an adult.. beautiful but not puppy like. She said she is stoic.. a few things still need correcting..but sounded minor.

My daughter has been begging for a puppy. I know we are the adults so who cares but I will be so upset if got this older one and my kids didn't bond or were constantly sad they never had a pup to raise. I almost would prefer an adult like a 3-4 year old instead of 11 months. I also like we could mould a puppy but we have never had a dog.

Curious your thoughts on either.. I realize trained is amazing but it's a flight, expensive and then a little bit of letdown..

buy a puppy, you can hire a dog trainer with the 1000$ you would have spent on the older dog, you can buy puppies that are calmer than others,you don't need to have experience to own a dog. you really don't. also it's better to purchase from a breeder, rather than a rescue. you have older kids, and you can make them help out. but if you do decide to buy the older dog, you can hire someone to fly the dog out to you, that's what I did with my bernedoodle. and you just pick the dog up at the airport.

[Anonymous]

Op,

Come back and tell us which pup you chose. How is it going?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op,

Come back and tell us which pup you chose. How is it going?

Thanks!

We didn't get any yet. Prefer an older trained dog but puppies so cute lol. Need to figure out soon that's for sure!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op,

Come back and tell us which pup you chose. How is it going?

Thanks!

We didn't get any yet. Prefer an older trained dog but puppies so cute lol. Need to figure out soon that's for sure!

I got a 2 year old rescue and 13 years later a puppy. The puppy while cute has been more work for sure but we have been training since he was 4 months old ( now almost 13 months) and we are finally seeing some progress. Good luck but don't rush it.