I have post on here before recently about my puppy troubles and found all the advice so helpful. However, I'm just about at the end of my tether. I have a 4 month old puppy and two young children (primary school age) and am finding it impossible to juggle giving everyone the attention they need. I am starting to wonder if we need to rehome our puppy but don't know if I just need to hang in there for a couple of months and things might improve once she's out of the puppy stage. At the moment I don't trust pup at all around the kids (she's big already and still jumps at them and nips at times). The kids can't play with their toys downstairs at all as they will be taken into the garden and chewed and so are spending most of their time watching tv rather than playing. I have to take pup with me if I go to the loo or go to the kitchen because I can't trust her and I'm actually really missing spending time with my kids. We do have the dining room gated off but the kids don't play in there unless they're with me and if I'm in a different room from pup she just stands at the gate/door barking until I come back out. It's just so relentless and I want to be able to spend time with my kids. I am really after advice - if you have kids and a dog, how on earth do you manage? Can your kids play in the same room as your dog or do you have to keep everything separate? What do you do if you need the loo or to go to another room (everything I've read says never leave dogs and kids unsupervised)? I naively thought a dog would be a nice addition to our family but she just seems to be keeping us apart. We do puppy training, she can follow basic commands but she is still very all consuming, unpredictable and hard work.
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