Puppies and Babies

I am currently puppy sitting for a friend and the dog is so incredibly cute. I have now decided that in some respects a puppy is more of a handful than a baby. Babies, do not, most of the time, pee on the floor when they are excited. They do not generally bite you in the face, the ear, hang from your pants leg, steal your socks, chew on your shoes, fly at you from across a room, try to trip you when you are walking or bark loudly at you because they think everything is a game.

Babies on the other hand cry, cannot ever be left alone, cost more money, and can make you get up several times in a night and in the morning. Puppies can at least be left alone for smaller periods of time. Although if you have a baby you can pretty much take them anywhere, and a puppy you cannot.

In the end they both require much more responsibility and thought before travel, or just plain having one or the other, or both. I am pretty sure that at this point I could not handle both. Both are cute and I like each in their own way. I am glad I am puppy sitting because it is definitely a learning experience. I just cannot imagine having cats, a baby, and a puppy so I won't be doing that anytime soon, I think maybe I'll have the baby before the puppy or just plain get a dog from the shelter who is around a year old and already trained. I am still not sure that I am ready to give up any form of freedom full time for either a baby or a puppy.