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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Best advice: expect to regret your decision to get a puppy.  For the first few weeks/months it's like bringing a new toddler into your house: suddenly everything you do is controlled by the dog.  You may be getting up to let it out 3x a night.  You'll have to watch it constantly to make sure it's not chewing things it's not supposed to.  You'll be eaten alive by small puppy teeth.  But hopefully, you soon come out the other side and have a still cute but much easier puppy.  I just didn't realize how overwhelming it would be and was ready to give up.  But I'm so glad we didn't.[/quote]

Haha! So true! We just got to the other end of the tunnel. We brought home an 8 week old puppy and it absolutely controlled our life. We thought it'll help us deal with the pandemic better but it actually put on extra stress on us. To give you just one example - during one visit to the vet the puppy had an explosive diarrhea on the back seat of my car! Another one - she swallowed a whole rib bone by accident! Fortunately, she was fine, but she kept us extremely nervous for 24 hours. At 14 weeks she was finally able to sleep through the night and had no more than one accidental pee inside the house every day.  She still needs lots of training, but it's getting better.   [/quote]

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