AKC recommends that a puppy is not left alone for more than 2 hours at a time. How the frick is a normal working adult supposed to have a dog, then?
AKC recommends that a puppy is not left alone for more than 2 hours at a time.
AKC recommends that a puppy is not left alone for more than 2 hours at a time. How the frick is a normal working adult supposed to have a dog, then?
>single man owning a dog
Stop doing this. Consider an aquarium, snake, or plant instead.
I get puppy leave from work aka unemployment. It's gr8
>when they're no longer a puppy you can start getting them used to being completely alone for the majority of the day
if that's the way you approach having a dog you shouldn't be allowed to have one.
>Puttin you in solitary for 4 hours bro
>this is just a relationship building exercise
>i left a burger in that 3’x7’ box you’ll be in so its ok you’ll learn to like it (its laced with fentanyl lol)
Dog people attempting human relationships
Get a cat.
This, a well socialized cat allows you to cuddle and pet it without ever being high maintenance. Indoor cats are the best.
Absolute shit advice. If a person doesn't have time for a dog, he's not going to put in the effort to socialize a cat and give it enough stimulation not to be a shit pet, and will ultimately declare it an "outdoor" cat.
You can have a cat entertained with some money investment, cat boardwalks so it can look from up high, cat toys and some window place for the cat, otherwise they sleep 18 hrs a day. But I do agree is surprising how many people are too moronic to properly socialize a kitten so it behaves correctly.
>AMA recommends that a baby is not left alone for more than 2 hours at a time. How the frick is a normal working adult supposed to have kids, then?
Frick you, OP. You don't deserve a puppy.
here's what you do:
Ignore the AKC
that's all. People been raising dogs for millions of years without the AKC telling them how to do it.
“Millions” of years ago they would take the dog with them everywhere and not worry about upsetting their manager
Pet ownership, specifically dog ownership, is a hobby for retired homeowners.
The fact that you are posting here means you are neither and probably never will be either.
>hobby for retired homeowners.
>retired
Lmao. Any regular family should be able to manage, especially if the Mrs is part time, but decent jobs with humane levels of PTO work too.
Owning a home or at least having a single family living situation is very helpful though.
I took a year off
>acquire puppy
>take 2 weeks off work or more to acclimitise dog to a routine, and slowly get the dog used to being left alone
>start with one hour and you can work your way up to maybe four so long as you don't have a particularly neurotic individual/breed
>when you return to work, ensure you get a dogsitter for a few hours, or a dog walker, or take them to a trusted relative or a doggy daycare
>when they're no longer a puppy you can start getting them used to being completely alone for the majority of the day
Is it difficult and expensive? Yes, but it IS possible, you just need to have a plan in place.
>plan on doing this and getting a puppy in a years time
>get arrested
>family celebrates freedom with a fricking puppy but no supplies.
>had to work the next day
she's turning out more fricked up but still manageable for now.
The ability to keep animals as pets who provide virtually no utility is a symbol of decadence and wealth reserved for the wealthy who can afford to hire professional caretakers for the pets.
This isn't you, so you shouldn't own pets.
Lol no wonder so many dogs turn out fricked up. People think they can spend 1-2 hours with the animal a day then go off to their wage cage for the rest of the day.
Typical dog owners think its perfectly fine to adopt a G shep, Leave it locked in a crate most of the day except for a short half mile walk around the neighborhood and then can't figure out why their dog is so hyper and keeps barking.
Crates should be banned. Locking an animal in the bare minimum amount of space required for them to shuffle around until they face another direction without even access to water is animal cruelty unless done under duress or for transportation AKA temporarily and with frequent breaks.
Crate “training” is just abusing your dog repeatedly until they stop resisting. If people were doing that to cats they’d be called animal abusers. Full stop.
>Crate “training” is just abusing your dog repeatedly until they stop resisting
That's literally all trainings ever, INCLUDING humans.
>training tool is used in a completely improper way
>ABUSE! ABUSE! ABUSE! EVERY EXAMPLE OF THIS TRAINING TOOL BEING USED IN LITERALLY ANY WAY IS ABOOOOOOS!!!!!!!!
i bet you morons would be like those people in the equestrian space who try to say that anyone who uses any bit is torturing their horse, and shows a picture of a shank bit specifically
>ITS A “TRAINING TOOL”
It is factually impossible to use confinement in the bare minimum space as ANYTHING BUT ABUSE.
You abuse dogs. You would call hitting them a training tool if people were more ignorant. Fricking doggays are worthless
Notice, cat people NEVER do this shit. No wonder your shitmutts bite so many people. Abuse makes animals violent. Always dogs popular with “hard” trainers. Maybe it is the owner after all.
>Put your dog, an animal who burrows naturally, in a crate AT NIGHT ONLY for an absolute maximum of 8 hours while they're a puppy
>Have water in the crate, check on them regularly (while they're a puppy)
>This should no longer be necessary as they grow, though they may choose to go in the crate anyway as it's a safe space for them
Anyone who does anything other than this is abusing their animal, yeah. But this is the proper way to use a crate, and this is not abuse. You're just a pussy and would call a dog whose nails are slightly too long neglected.
Go and work in an animal shelter and refuse ownership to people who have a garden one sqft too small. You'd fit in great there.
My dog actually liked her crate. We seldom locked her in it, tho. It was basically just an indoor dog house. Either I or the missus would simply say "Deeoji! Crate!" and she'd just go to her crate and lay down. If she needed to be locked in for some reason, it was never for longer than an hour or so. She had a tendency to get underfoot from time to time, especially with the excitement of holidays so for her safety and ours, she'd go into the crate while I got the turkey out of the oven or something.
>more proof most dog owners are not fit to own animals period let alone a dog
What else is there to say at this point? People who can’t handle the task shouldn’t be allowed to take it on
>more proof most pet owners are not fit to own animals period let alone a dog
FTFY
Aside from a pet rock, literally every pet type is filled with mostly people who have no idea of the responsibility or proper care of the animal. Most people can't even keep a fricking pothos plant alive long term.
Fuc-
Get two dogs.
Get an adult dog/older puppy.
This, go adopt a dog from a shelter and make his life better.
Have a wife first or get an adult dog, genetic dead end
dog owners are more likely to be married. Ignore the reddit dog hater making his reddit graphs. “He” has toxoplasmosis of the brain.
Dog = normality, success, growing family
Cat = bitter incel, delusional, permanent virginity
I'm divorced and can't afford another wife.
May i recommend getting 2 cats and developing odd pseudo-intellectual philosophical views that read like a stream of insults directed at everyone who is having a better time than you? That seems to be a popular option these days
Cat website, tourist. Your gaslighting will never ever work.
>Wauf had a cat meme once, that means you need to love, worship, and respect cats and their owners
newbie we literally mocked cats for looking and acting like morons. the whole point of caturday was that cats are entertaining morons. Typical redditor attitudes towards cats are actually fundamentally opposed to caturday. Redditors unironically believe cats own them, rather than understanding that's a joke about how cats are totally unaware of their situation.
why are you redditors incapable of comprehending a complex thought like this?
>i am on Wauf now
>i must hate dogs and love cats because they had... le caturday! that means this is a website for reddit cat people like me
I know on reddit, that cat person means dog hater, but that's not how we operate here.
Here on Wauf, cats are funny, and we have a history of thinking THOSE cat people are fricking losers.
Basically Wauf is the left side of this graph and reddit is the right side of this graph. Think about this long and hard.
It has always been lowest common denominator goyslop anyway
the don't get puppies
Exactly. Normal, working adults don't have dogs.
But I'm a normal working adult and I want a dog.
Choose two.