ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
[Pet Stuff - OOPS THIS TURNED INTO MH] I LOVE my puppy but one aspect I don't love about Dog Dad life is how everyone has opinions, everyone tunes out what you say you're doing/plan to do but are prioritizing X or Y first, or just generally act like you're not aware of every single character flaw that needs training out of him
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
like ah yes i was unaware that he likes to nip at feet and pants when you're going down the stairs, golly jee i had no idea
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
just things Like That
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
all the time, every day,
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
love my partners but want to strangle my partners the eternal struggle
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
[laughs nervously] i have so many mod things i need to do but i have no bandwidth
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
players look away i'm not showing weakness i'm just depressed
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
don't peek behind the curtain
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
i'm 7 anxious chihuahuas in a trench coat
HolidayPhone☎️
You're doing fine, the little gremlin's in BITE EVERYTHING phase
HolidayPhone☎️
i know this is probably an opinion you probably didn't want but trust, he's just learning how to his little mouth works for stuff aside from eating and yelling. All puppies go through this phase and anyone who says theirs didn't is lying.
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
see now that's an opinion i want, because it's being patient and understanding!!
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
everyone is usually just like "hey he's doing this thing, you need to train him out of it" and I'm like "yeah I'm working on it"
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
and for some reason it's always some form of "Well he needs to learn"
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
LIKE
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
YEAH
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
PAL, FIANCE, HUSBAND OF MINE, I KNOW,
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
"you need to train him not to talk back" okay well, i need to train him period, but like, yeah, YEP, I DO,
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
i am unfortunately at the teetering edge of my mental health where i'm hovering close to the S word and i hate being there but at least i've gotten good at recognizing the signs before it really gets there
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
but a byproduct of being there is that every little piece of criticism or anything that isn't a gentle ass rub just has me fly into this FUCK OKAY GOD WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME I'M LITERALLY TRYING SO HARD
HolidayPhone☎️
training a puppy isn't just a one thing and he learns, that only works when dealing with skunks and I'm not sure some dogs learn the lesson.
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
or like, sometimes just existing and I'm like FUCK OKAY GOD I'M SORRY
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
sorry i didn't mean to turn this into a mental health whinge but i edited the top plurk
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
why am i sorry it's plurk
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
see
HolidayPhone☎️
Nah! you need the vent!
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
i hate being in this state of everything is so much, but everything is so much
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
my favorite part about life is really how every time i go on medication, once the medication starts working life is like hey you upped your milligrams recently so we're gonna up your milligrams of suffering to balance it out
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
nerfs your happiness and buffs every complication
HolidayPhone☎️
I'm so sorry this is so overwhelming
HolidayPhone☎️
but you're doing the best you can
HolidayPhone☎️
little puppies are not Chat GPT (thank goodness) you can't just give them a command and expect the outcome immediately
Cʜᴇᴇsᴇs Mᴇᴇᴄᴇs
training is a lifelong thing
HolidayPhone☎️
YES.
HolidayPhone☎️
but it's genuinely some of the most rewarding things you can do. That moment when the puppy gives you his paw for the first time? When he does sit? It'll be burned in your brain
HolidayPhone☎️
and head's up, you'll probably cry from joy
gremlin wife
We had our dog for all 13 years of her life and she turned into an amazing dog but she almost didn't survive her puppy hood
gremlin wife
triggered my anxiety all day every day
gremlin wife
it's HARD having a puppy
ᴏᴡᴏᴡᴏᴡ
ALSO THINGS I FORGOT ABOUT WHEN I GOT LADY: the puppy blues are ABSOLUTELY a thing but it's so fuckin worth it all
gremlin wife
even when you're doing everything right and you have a good puppy who wants to please you it's still super goddamn hard
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
I don't have the menty strength to acknowledge most of this right now BUT i really really appreciate it everyone
ʜᴏʀᴀᴄᴇ sᴄʜɪᴛᴛ
it means a lot you guys taking the time to prep me up
gremlin wife
