I know this is a sensitive subject to many, so please be kind.
We had 2 dogs, male and female who we absolutely adore!! They get on great, they’re used to our routine and we have little no issues with them!
We somehow missed her season, she must not of shown, and nor did we catch any odd behaviours or a tie between them!
You know how it works and 8 weeks later we have a beautiful healthy litter of pups!
it was a wonderful, tiring, beautiful, stressful,expensive 9 weeks before they left for their new homes. My partner so desperately wanted to keep one, so with much persuasion we did.
however….said partner works 60+ hours a week so it was ultimately left down to me to raise, train, walk etc.
She is now 6 months old and I’ve been thinking for the past month or so that it was the wrong decision and just too much with also having mum and dad and our own children…I’ll put my hands up and admit having 3 is probably one dog too much for me….pup is an absolute terror.
No amount of training, walking, playing, puppy classes, crate time, time out etc seems to be doing anything. She ignores her name. She ignores commands that she has previously learnt and done excellent with.
She hangs off mum/dad when biting them to the point they’re screaming out in pain and she refuses to let go. She knows toileting, but now all of a sudden it’s wherever whenever she pleases (access to garden every hour or so alone) She has destroyed the kitchen cupboards, tables, chairs and what not. (Yes she has a million toys of all different types, teething toys, soft toys, harder toys, interactive toys, you name it we’ve probably got it)
I just feel I’m at my limit with it now and maybe she would be better suited to a single dog household where she won’t get the distractions of mum and dad?
this will of course upset my partner but ultimately I am the one losing my mind on a daily trying to control her and cleaning up the destruction she leaves. It is a taking a toll mentally, the dread of what will happen today, or popping out to come home to destruction and toileting all over.
AIBU to want to rehome her?