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Puppy Blues
Surviving Puppy Regret, Anxiety, and Crying in the First Weeks, Sharing the Workload With Your Partner, and Deciding Calmly Whether to Keep, Return, or Rehome Your PuppyBy Imad Muratspahic
Length3h 43m
About this audiobook
Everyone said a puppy would bring joy. Nobody mentioned crying in the shower on day six, dreading the sound of the puppy waking up, losing your appetite, fighting with your partner over whose turn it is, or lying awake searching how to give a puppy back to the breeder. If you are wondering whether this is normal, whether it gets better, and whether you are a terrible person for wishing you could undo it, you are far from alone, and you are not a terrible person.
Puppy Blues is the book for the human on the other end of the leash. It is a calm, practical, judgment-free guide for new puppy owners who are anxious, exhausted, full of regret, or quietly wondering whether to keep, return, or rehome their puppy, whether you are a first-time owner, one half of a couple where one person does everything, a rescue adopter, or a parent who bought a puppy for an adult child and ended up doing the work.
Puppy training books teach house-training, crates, and nipping. This book teaches none of that. It is about you: your dread and low mood, your sleep, the workload split at home, the fights nobody warned you about, and a fair, clear-headed way to decide whether to keep your puppy or find it a better-matched home, without deciding in a middle-of-the-night panic and without shame either way.
Inside, you'll learn:
What puppy blues actually are, why they hit even people who researched for years, and what usually helps them ease
The Two-Week Hold and a two-minute Daily Log that stop panic decisions without trapping you
How to get sleep, food, and one real hour off each day while caring for a young puppy
The signs that it is more than the blues, what intrusive thoughts do and do not mean, and exactly where to get help
How to tell puppy blues from real puppy regret, and normal puppy chaos from a genuine mismatch
A Shift Chart, Night Split, and Handoff Rule for the partner who "can't manage without you," plus scripts for resentment and reluctant partners
When owners often start liking their puppy, and how to make room for it to happen
A seven-question Keep-or-Rehome Worksheet, and, if that is your answer, how to rehome responsibly, grieve, and handle other people's opinions
Whether you end up keeping your puppy or giving it a better-matched home, you can make that choice with a clear head and a clear conscience. Start with the next two weeks. You do not have to decide anything tonight.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Other
Length3 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Important Notice
2Nobody Posts This Part
3Chapter 1: Is It Normal to Feel This Way?
4Chapter 2: Don't Decide Tonight: The Two-Week Hold
5Chapter 3: Survival Mode for Humans: Sleep, Food, and a Door That Closes
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6Chapter 4: When It's More Than the Blues
7Chapter 5: Puppy Blues or Puppy Regret?
8Chapter 6: When Your Partner Can't Manage Without You
9Chapter 7: You Wanted This Dog: Resentment and Reluctant Partners
10Chapter 8: Lighten the Load: Help, Money, and What You Can Skip
11Chapter 9: When Will I Start Liking My Puppy?
12Chapter 10: Keep or Rehome: Deciding With a Clear Head
13Chapter 11: Rehoming Responsibly: Breeder, Rescue, or a New Home
14Chapter 12: After the Goodbye: Guilt, Grief, and Other People's Opinions
15Chapter 13: If You Keep Your Puppy: Recommitting on Purpose
16Whichever Way This Goes
17Quick Reference: Checklists, Scripts, and Straight Answers
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