I never knew owning a dog would be such a job. Last November I bought my first dog. He's a red doberman and his name is Rosso (Ro-So). It means "red" in Italian. Anyway, this was my first self owning pet. I bought it with my girlfriend at the time, who is now my fiance. Getting to the point here I never knew how much work it took to own a little ol dog. There's so much more to it than one would think. And the cost is unreal! So the first problem you have is house training. To be honest, he wasn't even that bad with this. I used the bell method. For those of you that don't know you hang bells on the door you use to go outside, and every time you go out you ring them. They begin to understand that ringing the bells mean that they go out. Now if you have a pup that loves being outside, he may figure out that ringing the bells get him outside for anything. What was bad about this was the carpet that will need to be replaced before I can ever sell my place. Now with most new pups they go through the chewing stage. There is nothing my dog won't try and chew. I mean he went at everything from rocks and sticks outside to walls and furniture inside. He ate parts of my surround sound speaker, the legs on my sofa and chair, and even the wood molding on the floor in the kitchen. No telling how much those little teeth cost me. Now you wouldn't think that a puppy would eat that much but man was I wrong. This dude would eat like he was dying at every meal. I think he would go through a 40 lb bag in a couple weeks. It was crazy. I'm saying all this because I just got him back from my parents. Short back story..I have surgery in Jan and couldn't move for a few weeks. To be cautious, we thought it was best for him to live in the country a while because I couldn't give him the attention a puppy needs and we didn't want him jumping on me and hurting me. He was 50-60 lbs then. Well after the surgery I had a leadership class to attend and it ended up being extremely long days so that pushed his stay a bit longer. We just went home to visit the folks last month and decided it was time for my pup to come back home. Well now he's 9 months, 85 lbs and loves to play. He's a big baby though and whines when you leave the room. Hopefully we can break that habit real soon. So now that I have him back I know again how much work it is to have a dog. No more sleeping in. No more nights away. No more clean house. Plus add in all the things you have to do like constantly watch him so he doesn't he a hole in the drywall or molding. Yes, he ate a hole in the drywall and ate molding off the wall at my parents. So now that he's back I keep asking myself...are kids this bad? I know your life changes when you have kids but kids grow up fairly quick and begin to take care of themselves. My pup will NEVER do that. So I'll have to wait and see but right now...for my sanity...I hope, I wish, I pray that my kids aren't going to be this bad!
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