You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your

host Debbie Salento. Hello and today we're going to talk about the things

that nobody tells you when getting a puppy. Because you can read all the books out there.

You can read all the websites,

you can listen to all the podcasts,

you can follow all the professionals,

and there are still things that come as a shock.

So I have things I'm going to specifically talk about which I think are important

for you to know. And then I have a whole list of just silly fun ones that there's really nothing to do just be prepared for.

Okay so let's start with the important stuff.

Number one you are not going to be able to go back to your old life.

You can't get a puppy and then go back to your old schedule.

You're going to have to blend your old schedule with your new puppy and it's an 80-20 split.

80% is your new puppy, 20% is your old schedule. There's going to be a pre-puppie life and a post-puppie life.

It's when we try to go back to our old schedules that we get frustrated and we get in trouble. Number two, puppies sleep a lot and then all of the sudden they don't. So you have an eight week old 12 week old even 16 week old puppy

they are going to sleep a lot they're going to have bursts of energy and then take a nap

bursts of energy and take a nice long nap.

All the sudden, one day around five months, they're going to wake up and decide naps are done and

I'm just going to have this energy all day long.

So it's just in time for us to get into our rhythm and for us to get spoiled and be like, oh, this isn't so bad.

Everybody talked about all the exercise my dog was going to need.

But this isn't too bad. I play with them for a while, he takes a nap, and you're going to get comfortable,

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