By chuchundra - 08/03/2014 20:06 - United States

Today, I got back from a two-week vacation. During my vacation, I had a friend from work watch my puppy. My puppy now likes him more than me, and won't stop whining sadly since he left. FML
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julian0605 9

I thinks its normal my dog loves other people when their at my house but when they leave he loves me again. Dogs use us

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BigWain 6

A lot of pups have bonding periods. Could have bonded with your friend. Give it some time to build trust and bond with you.

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Thorzix 23

I'm sorry dude but you're a bit of an idiot for buying a puppy when you had a vacation panned, or going on a vacation after buying a puppy. It's the part of their life where they bond with their masters the most. FYL because your dog is going to miss your pal all the time, but YDI.

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smokecloud_ 37

Technically speaking a dog is a puppy for 2-3 years. I find it a little unreasonable to expect someone to not vacation in that amount of time if they're capable of it. We don't know the age of OP's pup, so we really can't make these assumptions, now can we?

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Pyapi 20

Agreed! Dogs require lots and lots of love. Once my family got a new puppy, we did not take a family vacation for around a year or two. We did travel, of course, but someone from the family always stayed behind so that the puppy bonded with someone from the family. Our situation was different, though. We had another dog to accompany the pup and were a lot more people to care and love them. It sounds like OP lives alone and that's an especially hard situation to raise a puppy in :/

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Sniper_Chick4110 20

#47 It's selfish. Why get a dog if you don't intend to spend time with it? Large dogs live 15 years max little dogs aprox 20. I don't think it's terribly unreasonable, considering the human lifespan is much longer, to put two years aside to properly bond with your pup. By the first 6 months your pup is roughly a 13 yr old hormonal child. Rounding the two year mark they are like a rebelious young adult. After that they settle down a bit and the aging slows.

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buttcramp 21

75, you're missing the point. If you're going to bring a dog home, wait at least a few weeks to leave the house for an extended period of time. Dogs require bonding, schedules, boundaries, etc. It's much more than just feeding it and letting it into the yard occasionally to relieve itself. If you bring a dog home and soon after go on vacation, you haven't yet established yourself as the primary caregiver or owner of that dog.

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LalaDee561 8

He probably had a lot of fun during those two weeks and misses his new friend. Give your puppy lots of love and attention and play with your puppy as much as possible. He'll come around again, don't take it to heart. At least you know he was well taken care of. I can just imagine how irritating constant whining could be after a while. It's kind of cute though how much your puppy bonded with your friend.

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xOhItsMarleyy 9

dude i moderated this

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edvin_fml 10

I've seen a few romcoms to figure out how this will turn out :)

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worldclassrager 39

Is your friends name Patrick? Does he have a cookie in his pocket?

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xXxJaGsTeRxXx 11

Even your puppy knows he shouldn't be friendzoned.

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FemskyD 26

Not very clever to make someone else watch him that Young..

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JBrownie123 24

Maybe because it's a puppy? You shouldn't leave puppies, let alone go on holiday for 2 weeks and leave it. It's basically a baby, and it'd just assume that your friend is it's new owner/parent.

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