This 100%! I got a puppy a little over a month ago. She’s a Maltipoo and luckily I WFH but my work has slacked more than I expected and I was exhausted for the first few weeks because I was waking up so often at night for her to pee and then her not wanting to go back in her crate! I didn’t expect any of that. On top of that, I haven’t been going anywhere until recently because she has a lot of separation anxiety and energy! Every time she was waking up I was playing with her and then irritated because she’d pee on the carpet and then irritable because I was tired already and it just didn’t seem to stop. I’m used to it now and I love it but it’s not easy. She’s 3 months now and I know her puppy personality more. She loves to train, so I’m doing that more to get her energy low and then I play fetch a little and then she likes to play on her own and chew on her chew toys. She gets tired after an hour of being up and then I’m gets cranky and bitey but if she goes in her crate and whines then she’s usually asleep within a few minutes. At first I’d feel bad to hear her whine and let her out and she’d just be a cranky growly little monster. She seems to love structure, so now that I realize that and I have her on a routine (& myself) and I’m going to sleep at the same time at night and waking up at the same time every day she seems much happier and easier. It’s not always this smoothly, but I couldn’t imagine having her and working in an office, especially since I work a half an hour away from my job without traffic. It’s been an enormous learning experience.

Oh, might I add having to watch the things she puts in her mouth because she tries to eat everything on the floor and adjusting my chocolate-loving diet out of fear have both been pretty exhausting. Oh and having to accept that my apartment doesn’t smell like flowers & sunshine so much since she’s been peeing on the carpet and I’ve tried a million things to get the smells out.