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[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just skip the raptor phase and make a good deed, adopt an adult dog.

[–] Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternatively, embrace chaos and adopt in the raptor phase.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We wanted to adopt an adult dog but fell in love with a Raptor. She's good now but man, never again.

[–] Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have a raptor. We call him Garchomp. He doesn't chew, but does chomp.

I hope he settles down at the magic 2 year mark!

Ours wasn't a biter or a chewed. Just too smart for her own good, and if she didn't have enough smart things to do she would find dumb things. Defeated all of the childproof door locks, cabinet locks, baby gates.

[–] MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then you don't have to toilet train them.

[–] Papanca@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Unless you rescue a dog that has been solely toilet trained on a puppy mat. It's a lot of work to fix it, as i now know

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With parrots the second stage lasts 40+ years

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Well, they ARE dinosaurs.

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

0-4 months should just be poop everywhere all the time

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I only have scars from the puppy stage, oddly enough. When their teeth are little daggers and they haven't learned humans don't do love nips.

[–] odelik 3 points 1 year ago

Why didn't anybody tell me humans don't do love nips? This whole time I've been raising dogs wrong.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This also applies to min-pins except that instead of 24 months it's 5 years.

[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago