I feel like I hate my puppy
I just want to cry and I constantly have a headache.
We have a cattle dog, beagle, lab mix. Got her from a rescue nearly 2 months ago. She’s 18 weeks old.
Her energy, the biting, literally everything I feel like I’m losing my mind. My parents got a toy poodle when I was in high school and she was soooo chill as a puppy. Yeah she did annoying puppy shit but she grew out of it quick and is the calmest dog over a decade later. We knew we wanted to rescue and saw the cutest pup, we had fostered dogs previously so we just thought we can handle whatever came our way but the lack of knowledge on this breed.
We’ve done research since the first few days we’ve had her but it just feels like she never gets her energy out. We live in an apartment and will eventually have a house but unsure when. I don’t feel like I can deal with this for 10+ years. She constantly bites us, she has this terrible growl before she’s trying to lunge at us, she’s biting furniture, etc.
We were planning to get her a sibling to hopefully offset all of this energy where she’ll have someone to play with and found a breeder (weren’t planning to go this route) but they have several generation of a breed that we originally wanted and the woman was telling me that most of the puppies in the litters she sells become therapy or service dogs and how calm and cuddly they are and I so badly want to just do a trade 😭 This is my boyfriend and I’s first dog that we ADOPTED together and I feel like I would’ve never signed up for this if I knew what it would be like. I’d love to think that this is just the puppy stage but of course now that we’ve been doing research AFTER getting her, it seems that they’re always manic.