My Puppy came home yesterday - She's great, why am I so anxious?
First post here so I'm hoping I've tagged this correctly.
Basically our 9 week old puppy (she is a staffador) came home yesterday afternoon, she's done super well settling in even though she was nervous at first. We've had a few toilet accidents but purely because her aim is awful, she does go to the puppy pads, but misses them by the edge (not an issue, she'll get there )
I have two cats already and again they've both done super well adjusting, we have her in a playpen so they have free roam of the flat and come and go as they please (if she free roams we have a house lead so she stays with us and cannot lunge for the cats)
But I cannot get this pit of anxiety out of my stomach. I keep finding myself looking at her every 5 minutes to see if she is breathing?! And I'm so scared I'm going to do wrong by her somehow.
Some of the things I've used to try and help myself, are getting her booked in for puppy training with a local group from the 25th, separating the cats and her at night so I can crate train her (yes I failed crate training the first night, but this morning we've worked on having treats and naps in our crate and she's doing it of her own free will!) and I'm sleeping on the floor next to her until she can get through the night.
But I'm still so worried I'm doing everything wrong! I should mention I am diagnosed with a MH condition that does effect the intensity of my emotions, which probably isn't helping, but still I just don't want to mess this up.
Has anyone else felt this literally the day after getting a puppy?!
Sorry for the long post :/