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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do some of you have time to do this? I’m not being snarky, but how does anyone who works deal with a puppy? I don’t think most people have all day to be playing games with the dog, putting them in and out of the crate, etc. [/quote]

When people complain that the shelter/rescue/breeder won't just give you a puppy, and there's a waitlist, and there are eleventy hoops to jump through... this is why. People think a puppy is going to know commands, never mess inside, and be a dog in a week, and it takes YEARS.

Some breeds don't settle until they're 3. And until they're at least 6 months, you really ought to expect a lot of this, plus messes weekly when you goof and don't monitor closely enough. If you get a well-raised puppy (I lucked into a bottle-fed runt from a rescue once), and you put in the work early, they're usually more manageable by around 3 months. But you really ought to expect to crate them, and work intensively with them for about 6.[/quote]

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