I just don't want their dog here

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Pil are coming to visit this weekend. They stay in a hotel as our house is too small to accommodate them.

Mil has this ancient dog that is blind and well, imo, ready to be put down. She wants to bring it with them. It will have to stay with us whilst they are in the hotel.

I don't want the dog here, especially not a disabled one that will probably poo and wee every where. We don't have a garden as it's currently a building site.

If I wanted a dog, I'd get one. I don't so I won't. I've got 3 dcs and that's really enough for me. Plus all the cooking and hospitality for pil this weekend - which of course I don't mind but I think bringing the dog is an imposition.

Aibu?

Meh....It's only words on a screen.

Keep it up lachesis.

Because why shouldn't I? It's an open forum. One person suggested putting it in the car. Another suggested trapping it in a kitchen. I suggested getting rid of it if it's forced on oneself.

Kladdkaka I was the somebody and I have accepted your correction to say that what I say only applies to pets. What the police do if met by the answer that there is someone in the house with a potentially fatal allergy to dog hair I don't know!

Hi, Andrew :o.

So you'd approve of taking the dog to the vet behind the owners back and having it killed Andrew? or taking it out somewhere and dumping it. - what an amazing coincidence that two people with similarly murderous views have met on this thread.

How far do your 'culling any creature that doesn't quite come up to scratch', policy go I wonder?

TidyDancer - I learnt to work the door of the cage myself. Who's a clever boy, then?

I see it as doing a kindness. The dog is past it, the MIL won't put it out of its misery. So take this opportunity to do what she's unable to do.

No, *KurriKurri, I would not. It's not OP's dog. But killing a dog, killing any non-human being, is not murder.

Still waiting to hear about swatting flies.

Malcontent, see my post at 17.32, which was in response to your question as to whether I love my dogs as much as my kids.

That post of 17.32 has the word YES upon it - just like that, in big bold upper-case letters.

However as you don't appear to be satisfied with my first answer I'll give you it again.

YES YES YES YES YES

Can I stop now? It's boring me and it's sure as feck boring others who accepted how I feel way nearly 20 minutes ago.

I believe you, DBF, I entirely believe you. You are telling the truth. That is what is so worrying.

Sorry. It's just very hard to get one's head around. I can get you saying 'I really love my dogs and I'll be sorry when they die' or whatever, or 'they're an important part of our family'. But..... as much as your kids? That's really really hard to figure.

Ignore,Ignore,Ignore ....

He's on a wind up.

And if i'm wrong,it would surely be a criminal offence for a vet to put down a dog that does not belong to the person requesting the dog to be put down.

Klad, oh right got it now!

Although i do think that dog owners should not expect to take their dog to somebody elses home without askinging first and be willing to accept the answer no, was a good point that someone made (with the exception of police dogs of course!)

Well, ignoring the bizarre bun fight, YANBU OP. Just say no. They sound like cheeky bastards.

That's why I said to take it off to the vet whilst the MIL is away, since she insists on dumping a dog on the OP who doesn't want it there and appears to be expected to clean up after it whilst its owner has lie-ins and long breakfasts at a hotel.

Yanbu OP. Not in the slightest

I don't love my dogs more than my kids, but I do love them more than the rest of my family.

And Malcontent, let's get this right... a dog is less than a person IN YOUR OPINION.

Not in mine, nor in that of many other people.

Express your opinion, fine, but please don't make it sound like your view is unanimously held or is an absolute because it isn't.

In my view yours is shitty.

I don't swat flies - I let them out the window since you are so curious.

I don't kill anything if I can possibly avoid doing so. So while I understand there are circumstances where certain creatures may be a great danger to people and it may be necessary to kill for public health reasons, I would never do it gratuitously if there was an alternative.

I don't think this elderly dog is a danger to the public, no one is going to die of he accidently wees on the carpet.

In my view, yours is frankly unhinged.

And yes, OP, YANBU AT ALL!

(And yes, it would be illegal to take a dog to a vet and kill it without the owner's knowledge and permission).