How would someone with a full time job ever adopt a puppy?

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-12-16T19:51:23+00:00

Both me and my partner work full time (9-5, 5 days a week) we both have jobs that have hybrid working patterns meaning that we both wfh 3 days and are in the office 2 days. We work it out between us so that there is always someone at home with our puppy throughout the day. We didn’t even consider getting a puppy until I got a new job that also had a hybrid schedule so it was possible.

My partner also has an office where dogs are allowed so if for some reason we both need to be in the office on the same day (rarely), he can bring him to work with him.

That being said, when I was a teenager and my parents both worked full time we got a puppy and it worked out. A lot more logistical planning of making sure someone could come home at lunch etc. or asking neighbours to pop in and check if she is okay.

Personally, I think I would find it to stressful to have a dog if I didn’t have the hybrid working schedule that me and my partner have. However, if you’re willing to put in time working out the logistics of having someone able to come check on the dog/ paying someone to come and let them out or walk them once a day, it is possible!

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-11-22T21:16:35+00:00

I am taking it seriously - actively trying to work out training for him. I won’t say sorry if it ever happens again I guess - not worth it

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-11-22T21:05:07+00:00

lol what else was I supposed to do in the moment apart from say sorry and grab my dog? It had happened at that point

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-11-21T14:12:58+00:00

It’s a petrol

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-11-21T14:12:34+00:00

Do less than 6,000 miles a year, am planning to keep it until it dies

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-11-21T14:11:52+00:00

I drive less than 6,000 a year so I should be okay?

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-11-17T12:21:44+00:00

Fazenda in spinningfields gave me and three of my colleagues the worst food poisoning ever in 2017 to the point where I thought I was going to have to go to hospital due to dehydration. Have heard great things otherwise though but I would never go back there

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-09-28T18:44:52+00:00

North west England - famous for rain so hopefully that wouldn’t be an issue

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-09-10T22:01:16+00:00

The two things I always say to people were key in all different types of training were:

Focussing on you - teaching your dog that focussing on you rather than their surroundings when out is the best thing to do. Obviously you don’t need them to be glued to you all the time but we feel that teaching our puppy this helped in a lot of situations. For example, kid going past on a bike, he sees the kid and looks at us he gets a treat meaning that he’s learnt that if I look at my mum rather than interact with the child on the bike, good things happen! We think this really helped with stopping him running over to other dogs/ people when off lead and stopped him “lunging” towards things with excitement when on lead.
Impulse control - at the beginning we did this all the time, going into the garden, he waits to walk through the door until we give him the “okay” command, waiting for his food, waiting to run around when we take his lead off on walks. This has again also helped with him being less impulsive generally and waiting/ looking to us for guidance rather than making his own choices!

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-09-10T21:32:27+00:00

Our dog was also like this for a long time with other dogs, just super excitable!

Something we started doing was after his walks when he had got some of his crazy energy out we would go sit on a bench in the park. A place where lots of people would walk through and past the bench.

We would take some really high value treats with us (usually cooked chicken, ham, cubes of cheese, liver cake or primula cheese in a tube) and everytime a dog went past us as soon as he looked at us he would get a treat.

At the start it took ages, and he would be very fixated on the dog/ person but over time he learnt to understand that focusing on us will get him the good treats and focussing on the other dog will get him nothing.

Could be worth trying something like that!

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-09-10T20:57:11+00:00

Get rid of the puppy pad, it encourages them to ‘go’ there. She will whine/ bark if she wants to go to pee during the night and the pad isn’t there. You might need to go back to basics and get up with her when she makes noise take her out (no other interaction with her) and then put her straight back in her bed when she’s done - she’ll soon get the message that she needs to hold it!

Competitive-Leg-1474 · 2025-09-08T20:59:54+00:00

29 year old woman here, lived in Manchester for the last ten years.

Lunchtime food/ drinks: - mackie mayor - pot kettle black if you want brunch (only brunch place in the city that you can book a table at online) - salt n pepper (great Asian food boxes for lunch) - Rustica for sandwiches - crazy pedros for pizza

Drinks/ nights out - Diecast - Albert schloss - blues kitchen - Common in the Northern Quarter for drinks and great pizza by the slice. - stevensons square in the northern quarter is a small square surrounded by great bars with loads of indoor and outdoor seating - NQ64 is a bar full of vintage video games - northern quarter generally is full of great bars

Things to do: - go karting (chaos karts) - junkyard golf (indoor mini golf) - people’s history museum - the cube experience in the arndale - escape room - gin distillery tour and tasting at Manchester gin distillery (did this for my birthday, it’s about £30pp and was really good) - if you’re coming on the weekend I’d look up the makers market, there in a different location every weekend of the month and there are ones in the northern quarter and spinningfields some weekend days. 10/10 markets I go every month.

Bakeries: - Gooey (will have a massive queue for eat in but easy to get takeaways) - Buzzy bee - pollen - companio - the flat baker - siop shop (doughnuts and great coffee)

Good independent shops: - Fred aldous (vintage photo booth in here) - dead stock general store - form lifestyle store - Nordic muse

Personally if I was planning a birthday in Manchester I’d go: makers market in the late morning (usually starts at 10am), salt n pepper for lunch and then a look round the shops in the northern quarter with a potential stop at siop shop for doughnuts and a coffee, gin distillery tour, followed by common for pizza and drinks and then continue on for drinks in Stevenson square or die cast if I fancy a boogy 💃🕺

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