to want to get rid of my bloody dog?

[mumof4sons]

New carpet was fitted last Friday and I have just walked into the lounge to find a hole in it made by the dog. Previous carpet hadn't been down 2 years and dog had put five holes in it. I am livid.

AIBU to want to get rid of the dog?

If she/he digs and you have a garden or balcony, get your dog a sandbox, bury different toys etc in each every few days and she will likely re-direct her digging to that. She's bored and following breed instinct maybe?

Couple this with behavioural training- remove her from the room whenever she shows signs of scratching/digging reinforced with a voice command. Praise positive behaviour to the skies.

I've just finished a great new penguin book called "in defence of dogs" by John bradshaw, explaining how dogs think and learn, and what they are actually capable of - strengths as well as limitations. I recommend you read it - I bought it because I am despairing of our one year old pedigree cocker who suffers from terrible separation anxiety - as in, hates not being in the same room as people and wakes us up every morning at 4:30am.

If OP had posted to say her 3yr DD had just damaged the new carpet and had done the same to an old carpet 5 times in 2 yrs..... people would probably sympathise and say she'll grow out of it/leave home one day/gggrrrrr isn't it annoying/have you tried this....

On a doggie thread you do get the automatic assumption that OP is a negligent dog owner/unfit dog owner and lots of snotty remarks.

OP I sympathise. I'm a doggie owner and have managed a variety of dogs with challenging behaviour. It's demoralising even thought you love them at times.

Now that you have explained the reason for the new carpet, it's all a bit clearer why you have replaced it. You can get carpets patched? Worth contacting carpet fitter?

get rid of dog , go on , that lovely carpet ! that fuckwit dog !builders sack, few bricks , secure and local river , job done !dont know why you bothered getting a dog in the 1st place? doesn"t it wash its paws before dinner? still wearing a white dj ? (so 70"s) stand up when someone enters the room? drones on why LP"S will always be superior to CD"S /DOWNLOADS? yup, only one solution>divorce the bastard !

Trust me, I have a DD who damages things over and over and I gave the same advice to the OP that I get myself. You have to take responsibility and be the one who changes things otherwise you can't be upset that you get the same results over and over again. People see my "spirited" child and assume I am a negligent/unfit parent and that I am not trying things/sticking to things etc... so I know the feeling.

However it doesn't read as a request for sympathy to me, it reads as someone wanting to get rid of their dog.

It always amazes me that people are surprised when animals ruin their carpets - what do you expect when you have an animal living in your house?

My animals lay brown eggs all over my carpets. Fiends!

My DD drew on the walls WIBU to get rid of her?

Well yes. Lem but the OP's dog has already ruined a carpet, there is obviously something wrong - why be surprised when it does it again.

Dogs don't tend to chew if they are regularly exercised ime -they are too knackered to chew then!

I love MAYBELATER's posts, I'm sure she's gabby's twin sister.

I'd love to have a cream carpet.
But cheer dog likes to pounce on the carpet, cheer kittens are alternating between using the floor as a scratch post and pooing on it, even cheer hens like to sneak in from the garden to poop on it if they can.
I can't even blame the animals completely as dd, Dh and I are all mucky pups too.
My sympathies op, hope the house sale goes okay. I dropped a hot iron on my living room carpet the day before a valuation for part exchange.....I conveniently rearranged the furniture hehe

I'd love to have a rug. Any rug. Or even a door mat to wipe my feet on. Sadly my dog thinks all rugs are puppy training pads and therefore must be peed on. The bugger.

I had a dog that used to try and make my carpet into a cosy bed ,he would scrape and scrape until it was in a circle/pile and lay in the middle of it,bit of a nightmare when you couldnt open the door in a morning as he was behind it in his carpet bed .Enevitably it ended up holey , laminate is the way forward ;0) wouldnt have minded but he had a lovely wicker bed with duvet in it -the swine!!

My current muttley would rather lay on cold tiles than his blankets ,they are holey too from being made/scraped into a circle with floor in the middle :-/