She's my brothers dog. My brother is in hospital awaiting some surgery but he's fine...the dog is an unneutered female greyhound....18 months old. I have two DC and a cat!
I have had the dog for ten days now...I keep her in the sitting room and garden whilst my lazy cat lives upstairs as usual. However, my cat has to come down twice a day to eat and say hello...this is his habit.
So I keep the sitting room door shut at all times...to avoid them meeting. This results in two stressed out DC...they're 5 and 9 and can't exit and enter freely....and the dog wants to be nxt to me all day naturally as she is insecure....so when she can't follow me into the kitchen she whines and howls.
She barks all night so someone sleeps downstairs near her.
She has been in heat...and my sofa has had to be covered in towels as she leaks....she wont' go in her basket...and once you leave the room she jumps on the sofa.
My Mum works part time, two hours each morning and has a three bed house...with garden and she is avoiding taking her turn with the dog. SHe claims "I won't be able to get any sleep" and "I wont be strong enough to hold her when she tries to follow me out of the house in the morning"
Well I am sick of the dog now. I have done my best...there's no money for kennels....AIBU to tell mum "You'll HAVE to have her on Thursay as I can't anymore."
She will likely only have her for about 4 days as my brother should be out on Monday anyway!
AIBU?
To expect my Mum to look after the dog?
ICameOnTheJitney · 09/12/2013 13:15
OP not sure how much longer the dog's heat will last, but it might be worthwhile to get her one of those sanitary towel belts - can't blame you for getting fed up with a dog bleeding freely around your house; it sounds grim. A pet supply store ought to carry them 
Sidney thanks but she's stopped bleeding now....which someone on here told me, means she's now ready for doing the deed...making it awkward to excersise her!
LEM I will! I'll be getting the bloody forms myself! 
as well as looking at pet sitters for any future hospital stays...which obviously we'd like to avoid but sometimes these things happen.
You had every right to feel stressed, I would to in those circumstances. Was thinking about you on my dog walk last night and you have been very kind to take the dog in for this length of time.
Hope these next few days go past quickly for you.
I really love animals. When she's sitting next to me at night, she looks so sad. 
She wags in her sleep and I always think she's thinking of my brother.
But...having said that, she loves my DC so much...and is really enjoying being with children. My youngest dotes on her and she waits for them to come in from school. I think they'll miss her a lot when she's gone.
I had to go to hospital myself. I did have a cat at the time, but I also had a 9 year old DD. I asked my mum to come and look after her.
Mum came a few day before I went in. I got told while I was in hospital that she was going home and leaving my DD with friends.
I think the friends were also feeding the cat.
I imagine my mum would have my dog at hers now though, she loves dogs.
I am glad you are keeping the dog.
I'm glad this was resolved. Jitney, I imagine you never intended to take her to a rescue but that it was a threat to your mother who, frankly, I would be furious with as well.
All this talk of it not being her responsibility... would you really have your dd under intolerable strain with a smelly house and a cat under threat rather than helping out 
?
The mumsnet party line about entitlement gets ridiculously extreme sometimes. We have an obligation to help people in need (particularly our own children) because we belong to a socially constructed society in communities and that is also just what nice human beings do. 
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