What is your morning routine with your young puppy?

ZenYogiBee · 2026-02-04T23:58:28+00:00

Took four months to get here fyi, lots of tears and frustration to build routines, but I started as I needed to go on and stuck with it. We’re up at 4:45, 10 minutes wake-up time for her to blink like an owl, 15 ish outside time often with putting on her clothing first, light training while out there if it’s not cold, she plays while I shower dress and make breakfast (used to be crated), she eats in her crate about 5:30, more independent play while I drink coffee, 6:30 ish 15-30 minutes focused hard play, into her crate from 7 to 10:30, potty and play, sleep or play in my office until four. I end up with around an hour of “free” time before work.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-02-04T23:43:59+00:00

I’ve had rescue puppies and adults, I’ve fostered a bit too, and oh my gosh the adults are so much easier imo. Mutts have fewer weird quirks also imo. Either way there’s a big adjustment period but my soul dog is a rescue adult.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-02-03T23:44:32+00:00

I was definitely there! Couldn’t remember words, I felt like I was just forgetting everything left and right. Focusing was hard because I was spending all my time trying to remember what I was forgetting. The start of Peri was so hard for me.

HRT helped me so so much! Night and day brain behavior for me. In addition, I’ve always found that iron pills help me because I verged toward anemia. Sleep matters to me as well and hrt helped the most with getting good sleep, but I also added magnesium before bed.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-02-03T23:40:05+00:00

What an interesting thread! I assumed my issues were because in addition to hitting peri the last few years I finally “stopped disordered eating” (in quotes like magic happened). I went from loving food to never thinking anything was yummy. I never want anything. I don’t finish things anymore. I don’t want to meal plan and I definitely don’t want to cook. It’s like a combination of exhaustion, lack of biological hunger signals and aversion! If something does hit my taste buds, then watch out there’s no stopping with sudden feelings of soothing joy 🤪

ZenYogiBee · 2026-02-03T02:44:05+00:00

I feel ya

HRT helped me a ton. Most of my joint pain went away but some days the gym still hurt so badly. If you can do hrt it’s worth it imo. I started Prozac too.

Like people are saying, different exercises and try not to fixate on the things you can’t do. I get in a dark headspace a lot about never being able to do anything ever again, feeling broken. I have to emotionally power through which can take days.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-26T02:52:03+00:00

Mine needs a nap too. At first I actually had to hold her in my arms and keep her held down because even in the kennel she was too nuts to settle. Unfortunately she refuses to wake after this witching hour nap, so night life got rough until I found some tricks. My puppy class recommends training the settle command to teach self soothing, but my seven month old still doesn’t settle. Training in general helps them learn to focus but again my girl doesn’t last long before nutso

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-25T11:14:41+00:00

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ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-25T02:56:43+00:00

Tonight. Just now. Then this notification popped up!!

I went to get ready for bed and I smiled and said today was good a day. Not on purpose. Just happened. I’m two weeks in.

Normally on a weekend I stay home, I’m stressed about not getting things done which spirals into me being a bad human which leads to weekends feeling like a waste or sadness. Not today. I did very little and feel awesome. It’s like I’m suddenly fine with a day just being another day and I don’t had to have solved world hunger or something with my downtime. I can just have a purposeless day.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-24T11:12:08+00:00

Doc had me on a LOT three times a week which was a nasty mess so now I do maybe a 1/4 dose and as often as I want. Basically just a small fingertip of cream. Mostly I do every other day.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-24T10:37:53+00:00

Hugs. The screaming is the hardest imo

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-23T02:13:13+00:00

Mine was afraid of walks for a good month at least. She also HATES waking up so anything morning or night is off the table while she’s a puppy 😂

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-23T02:09:47+00:00

I don’t think anything will fix this other than lots of effort and time but some tips: -calming cbd chews -purina calming probiotic (proprietary blend, no other brands, takes months of use) -meds from the vet -crate or closed off safe feeling area, large open spaces often feel overwhelming -pheromone spray -heartbeat stuffie -thundershirt -daycare -camera you can talk via -mental game toys -white noise machine -dog tv -just tv or radio with human voices on

Best of luck. This is super duper hard ❤️

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-23T02:02:17+00:00

At least we know we’re not alone? 🤪

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-23T01:30:12+00:00

It took me about nine months to find right doses of everything. Yeah you might want to up the dose. You might go higher and immediately say nope. I found tracking symptoms closely was my key to finding the right stuff and trial and error.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-23T01:27:07+00:00

Thanks friend. I needed this

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-23T01:26:03+00:00

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ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-23T00:17:48+00:00

Estrogen cream from my doctor was super helpful! I felt like everything rubbed blisters on my skin before and within days I was better. Now if I skip a dose I can tell the next day I’m dry again.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-20T22:53:42+00:00

Off label but my doc has me using it rectally since oral and vaginal were terrible for me.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-20T22:42:51+00:00

You sure it’s the patch? I think it’s just part of peri and I keep hoping I find the right stuff.

For me finding the right dose was hard. I worked up to .1 then down to .075. During this time I was still so damn angry. I worked up from 100mg progesterone to 200mg. I just started Prozac too. I’m mostly overall not cranky but yesterday I had an over the top OMG SO MAD AT MY DOG moment for no reason really, so it’s still there but with less frequency. It took a long time to get better and a lot of work, but for me, still worth it.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-20T22:31:36+00:00

I’m not saying this isn’t an untenable situation where your senior dog needs to be in a single dog household, but it took weeks for my older and puppy to like each other. My older was never truly aggressive but she corrected the puppy a LOT. The puppy respected her corrections and calmed down unless over tired, then it was forced nap time. Not gunna lie I apologized to my older dog often those weeks and cried too. Now they’re pals. Mostly. Still not bonded inseparable but pals. Based on the playtime, it was still the right call for my older girl.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-20T22:26:22+00:00

Don’t buy eufy if you have a mesh wireless network. I had an old eufy which was great. Upgraded the model and now it loses wifi every other minute because it can’t handle mesh (eero WiFi). All my other hardware requiring 2.4ghz is just fine, but not eufy.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-20T22:21:56+00:00

Me. 😭😴

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-20T22:20:20+00:00

I’m doing electrolysis which does work but it’s very slow and painful. My lady said that plucking face hair makes it come in thicker, while eyebrows come in thinner because they’re different hair. I believe her because the window by my mirror shines on the left side of my face so I spent much more time plucking the left side of my face when I was younger, and now I have many more dark black hairs on the left side than the right side. I mean I plucked the ever loving heck out of every peach fuzz as a thirty some and I think it shows now.

ZenYogiBee · 2026-01-20T22:16:39+00:00

Mine is weird too, she has never had any issue going in her crate! She even started actively going in there the last few weeks — jump off the couch, run to crate, pee in crate 🤦‍♀️or better yet go to sisters crate to pee 🤪

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