train you if youre paranoid about changing your babys diapers take a leaf out of pet parents books once youve pottytrained your dog it gets a lot easier they say when my rottweiler scooby was a pup he would sometimes poop in the hall i would find cleaning up extremely gross we pottytrained her but now i dont find dog poo so gross anymore later when i changed my sons nappy for the first time it came to me almost automatically i think my experience with scooby certainly helped in this case shares k pranay a bengalurubased entrepreneur having pets also help couples team up and manage their workload better says punebased yashodara shinde 32 my husband and i worked as a team while taking care of our labrador lubu he would take her for a walk in the morning and evenings while i would feed her we would also take turns to take her to the vet this synergy between us came in handy when our daughter anvee was born we still share all the taskspets are proof why you must save up for the babypets can be an expensive affair their trips to the vet dont come cheap neither does grooming but it teaches you to manage your finances keeping another living being in mind hyderabadbased ahladini alapati 33 spends a fortune on grooming her two shih tzu coco and lily i like to pamper my dogs so i take them to the spa and groom them regularly they too are members of the family so whatever your budget you have to take them into account in fact whenever i travel i get excited when i see a dog store and end up shopping for them says ahladini who plans to have a baby soon and believes her pooches have prepped her enough pups prep you for responsibilities of parenthoodif your universe revolves around you and your plans wait till you get a dog he will teach you responsibility i have the habit of sleeping in but when you have a dog you dont have a choice i now wake up at 6 am no matter what to take ollie for a walk says mysurubased architect sushmitha kontham parent of a maltipoo adding pups teach you to be responsible for another life you need to be prepared to make sacrifices and it gives you a motherly instinct which will help me be prepared when ive got babies of my own