Comments on: I Hate Puppies!

By: Pup Fan

Pup Fan — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:40:29 +0000

Yay for older pets! I prefer being an aunt to puppies. It’s kind of how I feel about babies too – play with them for a bit and then give them back to their parents for all the exhausting stuff. 😉

By: Lynda

Lynda — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:40:07 +0000

You described BJ perfectly when he came home with me. I didn’t really care about the age of a dog I was adopting, I only wanted one that was smallish. I found out he was 7 months, and by that time, he had adopted me. I also thought he was better trained and I hadn’t had a dog since I was a teenager. (A very longer time ago.) Needless to say, I was blotting up pee. buying two new pairs of shoes because he chewed one from each pair, etc. Then he would look at me with his puppy dog eyes and I would laugh and hold him.

Next time around, I will look at older dogs. Hopefully, that won’t be for a long time. I want BJ around for a few more years. He’s almost 13.

By: Basil

Basil — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:07:45 +0000

Don’t forget that puppies also have the aww factor so get away with everything – you should meet my brother Walt, he just has to look at a human and they go all goey, they don’t coo over me like that *Sad eyes*

By: Jackie Bouchard

Jackie Bouchard — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:07:47 +0000

I always say, the reason they make puppies that cute is so you don’t kill them. They can definitely be exhausting to live with! They are tiny little terrorists.

By: Erin & David

Erin & David — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:42:21 +0000

Eh. I don’t think so, after seven puppies I still want more! 🙂 Lots of work definitely but have yet to “hate” one. 😀

By: Chichimum

Chichimum — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:29:56 +0000

Omg! So true. We had 2 puppies at one time, not expected. Adopted Lily from a rescue. And then a neighbour brought home a puppy for her daughter. After a week of puppy crying at night, lovely neighbour stated she’d sell her to the first person who wanted her, so she could make her money back. Silly us, thought 2 puppies would keep each other company! Plus we worried about who was going to buy the poor puppy, so we paid our neighbor to take “the puppy off her hands “. Although I wouldn’t change anything and we love both dogs! We did lose our carpet to frantic chewing sessions…pine dining room table and chairs still bear the chew dents, as does our wall….and let’s not talk about the endless Saturdays spent shampooing the rug! Having adopted both older and puppies….our next one will be an older dog:-).

By: Loy Cerf

Loy Cerf — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:50:26 +0000

Ah puppies!!! Been there, done that…Now, like you, I’m aged beyond my years! LOL Loved your post!

By: houndstooth

houndstooth — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:33:52 +0000

Ha ha ha! As a person who has adopted adult dogs, senior dogs and recently brought home a puppy, I can vouch that older dogs are a lot less work. Lilac taught me a lot about the value of older dogs (although she’d lived on the farm and was the hardest Greyhound to potty train that we ever had), and also a lot about the value of old age and wisdom in general. Kuster has taught me a lot, too, but there is something exceptionally sweet about a senior dog. Lilac had never been a pet before she came to us at almost eight years old. She made up for that lost time and then some! 🙂

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:05:48 +0000

We haven’t attempted a puppy yet…although Toby was our youngest adoption, and at 11 months he still behaved very much like an untrained puppy. Of course Meadow came with her share of issues, but biting and peeing were not among them…and Leah entered our home very much like your Shadow. Not perfect, but trustworthy in the house from day one. 🙂

By: shanendoah@life by pets

shanendoah@life by pets — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:17:40 +0000

We got Junebug at 6 months old and never again. Puppies are cute and adorable and OMG the puppy breath, but then you have to live with one. Moree and Smokey both came to us around 9 months old- a little better, but not great.
Larry at 3, though- darn near perfect.
And foster Howie, at 12, easiest integration into the household ever.