Quote Originally Posted by Vela
Gotta agree with Val on this one. If you didn't have time for a puppy, maybe it wasn't the best idea to get one. You HAVE to spend the time to train it and insure its safety, even if you think you don't have time to do it. She doesn't know any better. Puppies bite, dig, jump on you, jump on kids, potty in the house on occasion, get into all sorts of trouble and eat kids toys ALL the time. They may nip small children, knock them down. If you don't have 5 minutes to watch her outside, then how are you going to have time to train the pup to stop all of those other things? I'm not bashing you at all, but everyone knows how much work a puppy is. If you take on the responsibility of a puppy, then you have to MAKE the time to do it, whether you have the time or not. Saying you can't do this or can't do that won't help, you have to try to find things you CAN do to change the problem. There were some great suggestions (mostly), and hopefully some of those can help.

I hope you are able to work things out with the pup.
I'm with these ladies - but I am sure you will work things out