The different ages of a dog

From the moment you get your puppy home to around 6 months is the babystage. The dog cant control it's bladder, it's still fairly difficult to keep it's own body temperature and needs to sleep next to someone to feel safe. A nervous puppy will do more accidents during the night than one that sleeps safely. The puppy will need to go outdoors to do it's buisness about every hour, sometimes more, sometimes less. It will chew on things cause the teeth are itching. Dealing with a puppy and training such as housebreaking etc will be brought up in a different post. If I don't keep to one topic I will just become complicated and lose my tracks.

6 months to 2 years is the teenager stage. This age is where the males discover females, they might start to ride pillows and females go into heat. They now have bladder control and the muscles are itching and they are little pains in the butts. They might get destructive, they forgot everything you taught them, they stop listening, they run away, they are a puppy in an adult body and might not know how strong they are. Surviving a teenager will also be brought up later. The teenager stage is where most people give up and rehome their dog which is a big shame. because once the teenager stage is over, the fun begins!

2-3 years is where the dog kinda lands from being a teenager and grows into being more of an adult. This is where you can come back to the training you did with the puppy. You can start to trust the dog again and you can breathe after what feels like a long winter. You start to have fun again and you feel more and more love for the dog.

3-6 years, you now have maybe 1 or 2 issues to work with, other than that the dog is the most perfect you couldve ever gotten and you question why you thought of giving up when it was such a pain and you are happy you didnt! If you like competition this is usually where you make a lot of progress and manage to get yourself out there and advance.

7-9 years, the dog is probably slowing down some days but is still strong and have much puppy left. You barely have any issues left, and those you do you now love as a personality quirk in the dog.

10 years, you sit and wonder what happened to that little puppy. Ten years, are you really that old?

11+ You value every single day together as a gift from the skies. You look at the grey face and you never thought you could love a dog this much.

You don't know what it's like to really love a dog for 15 years until you do. After all, having a dog is like having a child with a very short lifespan. Savor every moment you have with your dog, cause you never know when the time is up!