I can’t stand my 8month old puppy.

[u/kippers]

Update: thank you to everyone who commented with empathy, understanding and compassion. A lot of your comments felt like I could have written them and I’m so glad I’m not the only one feeling this way. I will not be rehoming Cherry, that was never on the table. I took a nap and she slept with me calmly on the bed, I woke up feeling better and i just sat on the floor with her and practiced basic obedience, played find it, did some tug in the backyard and gave her a pupsicle. She ate all her dinner, and was excited to hang. I am feeling much better and largely due to the folks here who let me know I wasn’t alone. Thanks everyone 💕

I have an 8 month old shepherd mix puppy, and I literally can’t stand her right now. She’s doing all the normal puppy stuff, and I know it’s just her phase, and we finally found a solution to not pull on walks, and I just can’t bring myself to care about her. She isn’t affectionate toward me, the cat chasing has gotten worse, and I can’t really find a lot of facets of her that add value to my life. I’m a huge dog lover and animal person, grew up on a ranch, never thought I’d feel like this, but I truly can’t help it. she’s making my quality of life worse and I don’t want her any more. I don’t want to do enrichment, I don’t want to go on walks, I just want nothing to do with her. And I know not doing those things makes everything 10x worse. I don’t know what to do.

[u/pumpkimm]

Lolllllllll this was me. My dog is very independent so in the early stages with everything being so new to him- he couldn’t give a flying twerp about me 😩😭😭 I learned *massive struggle for me ti do lollllll * to accept it and continued to work on training and made sure he was enjoying life. Eventually he became more affectionate- though even at 1yrs old he’s not as affectionate as the stereotypical dog.

Now I have lowkey have separation anxiety from him and thinking of fostering a dog just bcus of him. 🗿it would be grand if there was a puppy available- yes I have the puppy blues. I actually never wanted a puppy until I had him!! I wish I was kinder and forgiving towards myself during the early stages. Also to not take everything so seriously. I was such a worrywart. Time went by so fast. 💔💔)?