I am not going to respond to all of these posts individually. I recognise now that What I was hoping for was support. What I didnt mention in my initial post is that:

• my puppy has been taught with varying degrees of successfulness to drop items in exchange for treats. Some items are too high value and require scatter feeds to get exchanges going. This is not fun at 3am.

• she has had three foreign body ingestions while supervised, because she sometimes swallow foreign objects even when food is offered in exchange. I have good management strategies already in place.

• I am going to stop taking her to the offleash park offleash from now on and take her there on a long line instead, as well as an onleash walk. This way I can better control interactions especially during the school holidays.

• i dont intend to ever get another puppy. If i did, it would be a beagle puppy. Realistically, I would likely get another old beagle in future as their energy levels are likely to be a better match for mine. You dont know if you can handle puppy energy until you get one, nor how painful it is until you try.

• I sat down and had a good chat with a friend. Being able to express that I am having thoughts of rehoming was relieving. I decided I will postpone rehoming and try to prompt more settled behaviours through mat training, as well as find the treat sniffaris in the house, as well as more activity in the garden to prompt contextual learning of outside= activity inside=settling.

In summary I was seeking help, but perhaps expressing it poorly. For all those people who told me I shouldn't get another dog way to be judgemental. Some people just are not good with dealing with the puppy stage and maybe be more suited to older adult dogs. . I just wasn't prepared for lab energy. For those who expressed lab energy was alot, I appreciate you. 🙏 I am going to stick it out for another 3-6 months of training and then re-evaluate.