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Saying no sleeping in the bed and it all goes out the window and now your head gets sat on 🤣
How mischievous they can be and how funny their personalities are!
Not able to go to the toilet in peace 🙄🤣
BUT BEWARE
1/ They will leave their meals and eat poop, cat poop , bird poop , their own poop YUCK
2/ They Will roll in anything that smells disgusting.
3/ They will fart , not caring if there are visitors.
6/ On the plus sides, they love you unconditionally, no matter what mood your in, what you look like, they make you laugh , give you a reason to get up in the morning, they watch you continuously, always there for you. They wind their way in to your heart, you might say never again after the devastating loss of your fur baby, I have that many paw prints stamped on my heart , but their is always room for one more.
2. They bite and nip everything, including you.
3. They don't know what bedtime or night is - 24 hour care!
The above being said, once your let them into your life - you can't let them go.
- Always make sure they have fresh clean drinking water
- Plenty of puppy pads & dont clean it away after one use (it helps them to do it in the right place again)
- An old unwashed item of clothing left with them helps them with seperation anxiety
- Have eyes in the back of your head, they are into everything and anything!
- Plenty of tlc as they have been taken away from their mother to live with a human stranger!
- Make sure kids etc don’t over feed with treats
- Pet insurance is a good idea
- research the breed (its suprising how much you learn about each breed)
- Lastly enjoy every minute of them, to them you are their world ❤️
That they're very loving
He's becoming my daughters best friend
That it's cheering me up when I need it having had a close bereavement this year.
Here's Yoshi...
We all had a hugh discussion about the impact a puppy would have on us all especially Ozzie. But I wanted to get a puppy to distract ourselves from the inevitable. And to lift our spirits as we have all hit rock bottom.
Getting Denis is the best decision we have made for some time. The 11 year old bitch Molly has taken her time to get to now him but is now playing really nicely with him. Ozzie has gone about his usual routine but also has taken to him.
Obviously I've had dogs so knew what to expect. But remebering back to when we first got Ozzie I didn't realise how the puppies teeth fall out like our baby teeth do and was totally panicked by this happening until I googled it!
You just have to remind yourself to persevere with training and really to enjoy them at this stage as they don't remain small for long.
Absolutely love dogs.
2) no matter how much you puppy proof your house, they WILL find something to destroy or a place to hide.
3) They can instantly bond to one person and it is an amazing love but as soon as that person leaves they may cry and search.
4) Leaving them alone can be even harder for you than the pup when you never want to go anywhere without them.
5) They will steal your heart. You may think you can strictly train them and get the perfect dog but the truth is, every dog is perfect.