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Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Joined: Jun 2017
Posts: 2
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Puppy blues.
I am hoping to find some shared experience and advice.
I recently added a Sproodle, English Springer Spaniel cross Miniature Poodle to my household, he is currently seventeen weeks old. He does all of the things you would expect a puppy to do but is by no means a complete terror.
I am finding it extremely difficult to adjust and I can't understand why. I want so badly to love him, to appreciate him but I just feel trapped.
I have wanted a dog for years, I prepared and researched for months before I got him but now I can't help feeling as though I am not meant to have a dog.
When I got my rescue cat it was a blissful time and full of love even though she is a bit of a terror.
This feels completely different, as though my house has gone from a place that gives me peace to a place that leaves me feeling tearful.
I know none of it is his fault, it is me. I feel completely overwhelmed by everything at the moment and I think he can sense it. I didn't expect to feel so down, I didn't prepare for that.
Everyone keeps telling me that it will change, it will get better.. Will it? Is it normal to feel this way? To feel so disconnected from a new puppy?
I don't want to be that person that gives up when it is difficult. I don't want that, I just want to feel that this is a time of happiness, for me, for him and my cat. I don't know how to get there or what do to for the best.
I would appreciate any thoughts.
Thank you.