Thinking of re-homing my dog

[user1497460242]

It's with tread in my eyes I write this. I have a very excitable 2 year old jackapoo and I've just had a new baby. I have two little girls who are 6 and 7 and a new baby boy who's 5 weeks old,
My other half works 50 hours a week and I have my hands full looking after 3 kids. The dog just gets pushed aside.
When I got my dog I have no intentions of having more children and I worked part time so it was just me and him at home while the kids were at school , I'd take him running with me and we'd spend our nights curled up on the sofa in front of the telly. But since I got pregnant the walks got less and now the baby is here he takes up all my time. I know my little pooch isn't happy , he craves attention and I just don't have the time or energy he deserves.
He's never been a chewy dog and is normally really well behaved but recently he is playing up all the time . I got back from taking the girls to school the other day and he'd got in the bin and shredded a dirty nappy. I'm at my whits end, can't see a light at the end of the tunnel unless I re home him somewhere he gets the attention he needs

[barewithmeplease]

Hi!
Two options I guess. You give it more time and stop stressing so much about the attention. Or re-home.

Speaking from experience, things settle. Dogs adapt to new babies, less attention. At two years old, he is still a baby so has growing and adapting space. This applies to being re-homed too.

I've always had dogs, throughout my pregnancies, throughout my children's life. Sometimes it has been tough and my dogs haven't been so much my priority but priorities change, things change.

It's wonderful seeing a bond grown between dog and child too. I also remember my lab going through my ds nappies! I mean they smell great! All that milky poo! They even collaborated when it came to him being potty trained. My DS would poo, my lab would eat it if I wasn't quick enough.

The fact that you are aware now of attention shifts is good, it means you care a lot.

Regarding re-homed, it goes without saying I guess, just check the new home out first before handing anything over. If your gut says no, don't do it.

[MiddleClassProblem]

Any chance you can afford a dog walker?