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Advice request from people with small dogs

I've been looking at adopting a dog for a while, and for the longest time I was dead set on a Coonhound/Foxhound and considered any dog under 30 lbs to essentially be a cat for effeminate men and a purse accessory for women. But honestly the more research I did the more I realized that all my hang ups of getting a dog are related to big dogs and the breed I really wanted (baying, being able to grab potentially dangerous things on the counter/in my cabinets, food costs, dog walkers, bad recall training etc).

While I was thinking about this I came across and realized how misguided I was. That little guy is freaking cute as heck. I don't want one that small, but it warmed me up to the idea.

Anyway, look at this cute dog and tell me what disadvantages you've come across having a smaller dog compared to like a 40-60 lb dog. She's a 1 y/o Min Pin mix and 20 lbs but she's so cute 🥰. https://i.rdrama.net/images/16932413040315268.webp

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>baying

>grabbing shit off the counter

>bad recall training

These would all be 100% your fault

>needing a dog walker

>I'll just get a yappy kick-me shit so I dont have to train it because I can just pick it up.

If you can't properly train and handle a dog you absolutely shouldn't have one.

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Have you ever owned a coonhound? Ours was “recall trained” and never had an incident for the first five+ years of owning it until one day he caught the fresh scent of a buck while we were sitting on the beach and took off to god knows where for the next 8 hours. He also never bayed/barked until he picked up the habit in the later years of his life and then would not stop until the day he died. It's just genetics. The counter surfing thing is an issue because I use a lot of garlic my cooking and looking away for one second could be enough time for the dog to have to get his stomach pumped, not that I just leave out random poisonous shit on my counter all day.

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Ive still got 1 husky, I'm familiar with loud butt dogs that don't want to shut the frick up and love to run off non fricking stop.

Sounds like you pay other people to train your dogs and don't know how to actually train or handle them yourself.

You are the exact kind of person that has no business getting a dog.

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Had a Huskey growing up, nothing like a coonhound.

>Sounds like you pay other people to train your dogs and don't know how to actually train or handle them yourself

God you sound like such a cute twink redditor. If I was going to do that I would just get a purebred from one of the 1,000 puppy mills in my state and send it away for a year like all my friend's parents did with their bird dogs, not volunteering at the SPCA with shitbulls and emaciated hounds for 6+ months.

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Then why the frick is your dog noisy and running off? Why can't you retrain them, which is something that should have never ended in the first place, and address their behavior issues? You were literally describing how you can't train and control your shit.

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Dude I'm not going to write you a fricking thesis on the psychology of rescue hunting hounds, this was a cute posts about the pros of small dogs.

If you really want a full explanation/backstory then send me 1,500 DC, we need to buy a pin award for the fantasy football league and I gave all mine away.

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