DP and I have got a new puppy. He's 10 weeks old. We have sorted out working patterns and leave so that the puppy has someone at home all the time at the moment.
Whoever is staying at home that day will go downstairs to deal with the puppy going to the toilet when the person going to work goes down to get breakfast etc.
This morning I woke DP up 5 mins before I went downstairs to iron my clothes for work to give him time to get up.
He didn't come down with me so I took the puppy out. It turns out the puppy doesn't like going out in the rain to go to the toilet so I had to walk round the garden with him until he had a pee. Then he did his 'I need a poo' sound so I took him back out as DP still wasn't downstairs.
DP finally came down and I could iron my clothes but by this point I was running late for work. I was annoyed with DP and said so. DP said I could have just put the puppy in the garden and shut the door and the puppy would have eventually gone.
My point is that if someone doesn't go out with him, we don't know if he has pee'd or poo'd and there is no one to give him praise for it which is important as he is toilet training or to stop him chewing things he shouldn't. Plus, if I hadn't walked round the garden with him, he would have just sat in shelter on the step until I let him in.
AIBU thinking he should have come down and dealt with the puppy as agreed or should I have just put the puppy out and left him to it?
Whenever I'm the one at home, I'm always downstairs to deal with the puppy so I'm not leaving it all to DP.
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Bluebell9 · 31/01/2017 11:56
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