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Originally Posted by NalaLuv  Hello,
I need some advice...I'm feeling really bad for leaving my 11 week old pup locked up while I'm away at work. For the most part I leave for work at 8 and am home by 6, but sometimes I have to run errands after work that might keep me from getting home until 8. I feel like a horrible mommy...I have a roommate, but he's allergic to her (we found out after I brought her home) so he has a hard time catering to her while I'm out. We had her in an ex-pen for a couple of days but the little tike would jump out of it...so now we have her in a cage all day...I'm contemplating selling her but I'm attached...anyone out there go through this sort of postpartum depression with their furry ones????  |
Leaving your puppy in a crate for, at times, 12hrs is just too long.
Can you delay your errands for the weekends? When you have a puppy
there are things that have to go on the back burner, so to speak.
How will you ever get this little one trained if she is in the crate for 12 hrs
at a time? I worked from 9 to 5. I went home for six weeks to let Buddy out
of his crate and that's 14mi traveling accross a major bridge too. It was
stressful but it had to be done if I wanted this furbaby. I also gave up anything going on after work. Straight home to get him outside for walking.
I stayed home at night also not leaving him again. It's not fair to your little
one to be left alone crated daily for up to 12 hrs. Your right in thinking about
re-homing her. Maybe down the road when your life is more settled would be
a better time unless you can dedicate more time for this little one. Yes they
do get accumstomed to being alone in time but at 8wks this is too early and much to long to be left alone in a crate.
Good luck,