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I definitely hear ya and I agree! I will love her to death while she's here, just seems rough and unnatural. Not SUPPOSED to outlive the ones we love.

I know this might sound weird but sometimes when I look in my little puppies eyes I get sad. I realize that I'm holding her in my hands and she's just a little pup. When she looks at me "extra-special" you know with those puppy dog eyes and she starts to try to lick my face, I think "I'm going...

Seems like this doesn't need to be stickied....I see quite the lack of follow through on this one. As a new user I was enticed to see the wonders of something like this only to be let down when I get to the end of the thread and....nothin' I vote for removal of stickyness.

Thanks, I can't believe how much fun I'm having with this. Granted she wears me out with her needing to get up in the middle of the night, but I love her and I've got some help from my significant other so it's not KILLING me, but it's rough. So far she gets up about 2-3 times/night, pretty...

I don't have a lot of knowledge and it's not really my place to say, but every dog I've had that was crate trained was just fine with me leaving for 8 hours/day. I would take the next 5 days putting them in the room alone for an hour, then seeing them again, then 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours...

I have some pictures of my little sweetheart Lucy. She has seen so much in the last week since I got her and she's doing very, very well. Everyone who sees her think she's just the most adorable little thing (aren't all puppies?). She's learned very well how to sit and she's learning "down"...

I do have a quick question. Being that I do work during the day I'm afraid that Lucy needs to be quite the independant dog in the future. So here's my dilemma, I've been putting her in the crate and she's been loving it, but more and more she seems to be starting to resist it. I think it's...

Today was a good day for her and I. She did have an accident in her crate while I was at work in the morning and again in the afternoon. I know she can't help it, I really just feel sorry that I can't come home more frequently for her. I'm hoping it won't be long before she can control her...

Wow, thanks for all of your responses. I can tell that this is going to be a REALLY great experience this time. I've known to "obsess" about my interests both through forums and loads of research and for some reason when I was 20 years old and had my first pup, I just didn't do that! I...

So I'm not new to pets, but I am new to doing it right! I was raised with dogs in my family when I was younger and I was taught INCORRECTLY how to raise dogs/puppies. I feel like this is the confession part of my story just to get it out of the way and to give some background. This is MY...