Would you do something that required you to be away from your dog for a while?

Question

My sister has been telling me I should join the Coast Guard. I decided to look it up, and saw that to go through basic training it's about 8 weeks. That's 8 weeks being away from my dog! Would you ever consider doing something that required you to not see your dog for 2 months?

Answer 1

No I couldn't, not for that long. My husband and I go to The Florida Keys for 2 weeks every year and after a week, we are missing our babies so much. BUT sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to. Just make sure that you leave your baby with someone that will shower them will extra love everyday. They will truly miss you too!

Answer 2

no, my dogs are young and one is very needy, and plus i'm the only one who would walk them. well and i'd miss them too much! no way to take the dog with you?

Answer 3

I have had to go away from my dogs for a long time

I was sent to residential (a long term rehab for a lot of different issues) I spent 11 and a half months total in residential (I left the first two)

and it was really hard. but if its something you need to do...then do it. leave her with someone that you would trust with your life

and think of it this way....

your dog will be SO happy when you get back that she wont let you out of her sight. and she would be very grateful

Answer 4

I could do 2 weeks tops...without going crazy!

Edit: Oh...my bad...I thought I was supposed to be giving my own personal opinion. Next time I'll make sure to post the opinion of the jackass fairy!

Answer 5

you do what you have to do.  i was hospitalized for two months while my pup was just getting settled in at eight months.  nobody in the family would take her.  my parents had her stay in the garage while they would let her out a couple of times a day.

when i got home, she doesn't like me out of her sight.  she's now twenty one months and still doesn't like me to get out of her sight for longer than a minute.

i now have a support group of different people that will take her if needed.

Answer 6

I guess if I was driven enough to do so, I would.  However, there's nothing I want to do enough that would make it worth it to part with my boys for that long.

If it's something that will help you move forward in life and you want to do it, go for it.  She'll be OK :)

Answer 7

If it betters your future, do it!  If your future is better, than your dog's is too.  You sometimes have to make sacrifices to get ahead.  Two months will go by really quickly, and then you can be together again.  Of course you will miss your dog like crazy, but you also can't let your dog hold you back at all, in a situation like this.

It definitely won't be easy, but I say do it, if you really want it!  And good luck!

Answer 8

Wow... I went on vacation in NH like 2 months ago for 10 days,and our neighbors were watching the dogs, I started to miss them of the 5th day. Boy! I couldn't do 2 months! I would only do it if I really NEEDED to!

Answer 9

Well that's obviously something that's important to you or she wouldn't be talking to you about it, right?? So I think if it's that important to you, then you should go for it.  It's not like the dog's going to forget about you.  It'd be harder for you than the dog.  But at the same time, you'd be so busy with everything you were learning and all the training that you wouldn't have all that much time to be missing her... at least not as much as you'd think.  Of course you'd be missing her but really not nearly as much as you'd think and I'm sure the time would pass much more quickly than you think it would.  If it really is important to you, I'd go for it.  Good luck to you!!

Answer 10

Yes. If it was something to better myself and my life, I would do it. My dog won't forget me in 8 weeks or so and will be well taken care of while i'm gone. I love my pups but I have to look out for #1 also, as selfish as that may sound.

Answer 11

Yes, I would, but only if it had to do with my children or other animals.

I was considering heading over to Afghanistan for a few reasons, but my husband and my sister (sister is a soldier in Afghanistan) said "NO WAY!"  I had a few thousand dollars worth of medical supplies for the  stray/abandoned/injured animals that the soldiers had been taking in... but there was no one there to treat them.  I planned to take a month and do what I could do over there, but when they said no, I just sent the supplies over with a huge list of directions instead.

But yes, if it were other animals in need that would have me spend time away from my own, then yes I would.

That's great of you to consider joining the Coast Guard!

Answer 12

No, i couldn't! =D I was away for about 5 days on vacation and already missed my dogs on the third night!  

Answer 13

               It's very hard becuase if you love your pet so much and u want to do something in life and start a career or something it may require you to leave your dog. But in this case since you won't see your dog for 2 months then it's up to you becuase if your really want to become a Coast Guard then go for it. If not then stay with your dog that if u want to become something else it may sometimes require to go out of state. Or choosse another thing that will help you spend time with your dog but remember there is always when you got to make a change.

Answer 14

This should be a question about what is best for your future?If you go in the Coast Guard which very well might open a whole new world of learning and job advancements for you that could set you up for life.Your dog as wonderful as it might be should be placed in a stable safe home,maybe with a breed agreement that when you are stable and on land you can have a pup.If you go into the Coast Guard you more than likely will at some point be shipping out.So this might be a case of "If you love it enough,let it go" and of course I mean to a good home.Your youth and opportunity's pass faster than you think,you can find a wonderful home for your great dog.Maybe your sister could keep her for you?Tilks Mom

Answer 15

I would do it.

Soon I'm going to college, and I will have to leave my pom with my parents, but he gets perfectly along with them! :)

Answer 16

I don't think I'd manage two days, never mind 2 months.

I don't think they'd cope very well either.

They start sulking when I leave them to go get the shopping!

Answer 17

If it was something that was very, very, very important to me. Once a year, I visit some family for about two weeks out of state. I'm practically dying because I don't have my dogs with me. I don't think I could survive eight weeks unless it was a major family emergency.

Answer 18

Yes I would for sure.  I would have one of my trusted family members look after my dog while I was away.

Answer 19

You gotta see the AWESOME movie:   THE GUARDIAN!!!   (with Kevin Kostner).......it's a movie you will never ever forget!!!  It's all about Coast Guards.  It will touch your heart!!

No..........I would never leave my baby unless God chose for me to leave, unexpectedly.  :o(

Answer 20

Yes, I would. My life doesn't revolve around my dog. I love him, but I think he could survive with friends and family for eight weeks.

It just makes coming home even more special.  :]

Answer 21

I was away for the weekend, and I went insane thinking about Judge. Previously I went to California for a week and a half, by the end I was walking around moaning "Judge.... Judge..."

I'd go crazy.

Answer 22

The only way I can leave my pets and stay sane is if I leave them with my parents.  I would never expect my parents to take on the responsibility of my dogs for an entire 8 weeks.  

So...I guess the answer is no.

Answer 23

NO! the only time i've been seperated from my dogs is when my dad was murdered and i had to go to NH for 2 weeks.

Answer 24

probably not. i dont know what im going to do when i go to college. thankfully i have a mother who is a dog lover and doesnt mind having the dogs even though we are going to be gone. even when i go to college i will still probably come home every weekend (going hopefully to somewhere pretty close to home). i could never be away from my pets for that long. it would just never happen.

EDIT: Chuckles you think you have it bad? last summer we went up to the cabin for the 3 days. left Sunday morning and drove about an hour and the whole time im sitting there thinking "i wish Sammy was here, he makes things a whole lot more fun" by the end of the 3 days i was so d**n bored with out him that fishing wasnt even fun, neither was sitting in the hot tub, or swimming in the lake. of course this was all during the weekend of the floods last August here in the midwest. so i was freaking out that it was flooding at my house and it just wasnt fun at all.