We had our dear old dog put to sleep this afternoon. It was not a sudden event and we had made the decision to let him go peacefully before his life got any worse - he could not manage any walks and was pooing on the sofa and, in the last week or so whining and panting at increasingly frequent intervals. The vet said that any further medication would have maybe bought him a few more active months, but nothing more.
I held him as he went and am very sad to say goodbye to him. He was dh's and mine first pet and was our 'baby' before we had the children. I loved him dearly.
However, what I really want to do now, the one thing I feel would make me feel better, is to get another dog. I feel there is something missing without one here and I don't like it at all. We live in an area where pretty much everyone has at least one dog and, frankly, it is a waste of the fields and parks not to have one!
Dh says he will think about it in a year or two 
. I really don't want to wait that long. He is sahd so inevitably does most of the work. However, I do the last walk of the day, and any walks not covered by family days out at the weekend. The walks are not the main issue though, even though dh will say they are. Dh has MS, though is not severely affected at the moment and I do not think it his main reason for not wanting a dog now. He had no pets before we met and he is shocked by how much he loves them! We had another dog put down a couple of years ago (we got him old from a rescue centre and always knew we just giving him a nice home for the few years he had left) and that was the only time I have seen dh cry. I think he just doesn't want to get close to another dog now he knows how deeply you can love them.
AIBU to intend to convince him he is wrong and to pressure him to get another dog sooner rather than later?