![]() The price tag was a tad hefty for a dog toy - $39.95 - but I wasn’t just buying a toy. And there I found “ Snuggle Puppies Behavioral Aid Toy for Pets,” a stuffed hound with a “new and improved” plastic heart designed to produce a “real feel” heartbeat. I turned to the almighty online purveyor of everything - Amazon. So when a friend mentioned that a toy with a beating heart might calm her down, I didn’t even chuckle at the ridiculousness of the suggestion. ![]() And the more I read, the more certain I became that this was somehow our fault. I scanned online puppy forums, studiously reading even the most cockamamie suggestions. Even earplugs couldn’t muffle the sounds of her discontent. She tried every noise in her puppy arsenal. And then she would howl, and then yowl, and then cry, and then bark. At night she made ear-shattering noises that sounded like human screams. The dog hadn’t taken to being in a kennel the way we hoped she would. I was in puppy heaven.Ī week later we were in puppy hell. As she snuggled into my lap on the long car ride home, I looked over at my husband and sighed. ![]() But this one was a real looker - speckled paws, cockeyed ears, and seal-pup eyes. All puppies make me go weak in the knees. We had our hearts set on a black lab mutt, and I had found the perfect one. ![]() In late March, my husband and I decided to adopt a puppy. ![]()
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