‘She's so perfect. I don't deserve her. But ultimately, I should have never let my biases get the best of me.‘: First time puppy pawrent conquers her expectations about dogs being “disgusting creatures” and opens her heart to puppy love

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Nov 2, 2025 2:00 PM EST

It is truly shocking to see the way that our pawdorable puppers are treated in different households. In some, the pupper is king (or queen), complete with a throne, loyal subjects, and more treats and toys than one darling doggo could demolish in a lifetime. And then in other homes, doggos are treated like dirty animals, left to do their business on the furniture and leaving their home and family smelling something awful. And much to the misfortune of our protagonist in this story, her upbringing resembled the latter.

But there was something in her heart that did not let her believe that was the only way for a doggo to live their life, that a doggo is worth so much more than a life of filth, and she was right. Though that was only something she came to realize when she bravely adopted a darling doggo for herself and fell in love with the four paws who left an everlasting print on her soul.

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    Growing up, I was taught that animals were disposable. We had a few pets, but would easily give them up when we got frustrated with them. All my friends
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    had dogs, but their clothes, car, and house smelled so bad. The dogs would pp all over their furniture and floors.
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    I thought that's just how dogs are. I thought...what disgusting creatures.
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  • Well, ok, this is just unreal. In what world is it so that several people let their dogs defecate in the house. Of course, you would develop incredibly negative assumptions about them if that is all that you knew of them. Goodness, what kind of strange, twisted community did this person grow up in?

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    It was early 2018 when I went through an extremely rough time. I lost all my closest friends. I was alone. I needed someone.
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    I received my yearly bonus and had got an itch that maybe I could afford a new friend. I thought maybe if I invested the time and effort, it wouldn't be everything I've experience before.
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    I wanted to save a dog but instead of visiting my humane society, I turned to Craigslist. I found this beautiful golden
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    puppy after several weeks of searching. She was curly and perfect. I was nervous.
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    I didn't research her breed. I just knew she looked like the dog I wanted. I picked her up and on the ride home, was nearly regretting my decision because
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    she wouldn't stop whining for her momma. I took her straight to my mom's house wrapped in a blanket. She p everywhere. But
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    there was no turning back. I promised myself she would be mine for the next 15 years. Day after day I dealt with her potty training. She would
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  • Now that is the attitude that is needed when adopting a darling doggo into your life. They will be with you for years and decades to come, whatever problems you have with them need to be fixed. You adopt a dog in sickness and in health, in good behavior and in bad.

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    get SO excited to see me that she would p everywhere. She never whined at night though, except exactly at 7am. She was my little alarm clock. She chewed
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    my socks and would growl when I would take them away. But as I traded her the socks for treats, she would start to bring me socks in my lap.
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    I enrolled her in a training program for obedience. I started taking her on walks to the dog park everyday. Overtime, she stopped pg everytime she saw me. She never
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    chewed on anything anymore. If I told her to leave something, she would drop it and walk away. If I bought her a bed, she would sleep in it.
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    She taught me patience. She taught me love. She taught me how not to get angry, but instead be understanding. She's no longer in the crate. She can
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    freely roam for hours by herself and never chews anything but her toys. She paws at the back door when she needs to go out.
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    She lays her head on my lap when she knows I'm sad. She'll go to sleep in my bed next to me when she knows I'm tired. She gets jealous when I brush the cat instead of her. She just has the cutest personality..
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    She's so perfect. I don't deserve her. But ultimately, I should have never let my biases get the best of me. I let
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    other people teach me how dogs are just dogs and aren't deserving of love and care. She saved me and became my little best friend that loves me unconditionally.
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