Hello.
Please no hate, I already feel awful and know it's all our own doing.
We have a two year old chocolate lab . Had her since 8 weeks old. She's lovely and affectionate and we love her dearly, but we never quite managed to train her as well as we should have done - and tbh, though we did give it a lot of thought, I think we underestimated the impact of a dog.
Long story short, we now have a 5 month old boy. We can't let him crawl on the kitchen/diner floor as the dog makes it so unhygienic. She is still destroying objects we leave within her reach, despite giving her walks and toys . She occasionally still wees in the house. She still pulls on the lead, making walking her with the pram really hard.
She is costing a small fortune in doggy day care as we don't want to leave her on her own for more than a couple of hours, it's not fair - but we will soon have nursery fees to contend with....
We are really torn about this but considering giving her up for adoption.
Has anyone done this? Did you regret it? I love the idea of my boy growing up with a dog, but just don't have the time, energy or money to be the good dog owner I want to be.... don't know what to do 😢
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Lizzie982 · 25/01/2020 20:10
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Bodear ·
25/01/2020 22:07
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