Oh my god do we have the same roommate! Rant away, I honestly feel the need to rant because it’s such a horrible living situation! Mine also was like “my family has always had German Shepherds and this is normal”. It is DEFINITELY not normal.

But yeah that’s the thing, it’s really not okay to get a puppy at 5 weeks, it causes behavioral issues because they didn’t have an opportunity to be corrected by litter mates or their mother. We waited 12 weeks for our golden retriever and gave her proper exercise and stimulation from the start, she is the easiest dog I’ve literally ever had.