To want to live in a fur free home?

[Yulia989]

Background: Three years ago me and my partner got together. He has a dog. THere was no question of the dog leaving despite my allergy, but I didn't mind as I could deal with it with antihistamine, as long as the dog was kept downstairs and off the furniture. A year ago we had our son and moved to a different house. Recently the amount of fur shed by the dog is ridiculous. We've got a dyson pet hoover, but even hoovering every day, within hours the floor is covered in fur again. The fur gets everywhere - on the furniture, the kitchen counters, the beds - just from being moved around. With our son crawling this is causing me real upset, as every time I pick him up he's covered in fur, and I'm ashamed to say that sometimes it makes me not want to pick him up because of my allergies and the hygiene issue. I'm afraid to bring it up with my partner because last time it turned into a big row over the dog leaving my car covered in fur and me "acting like the dog is a burden". I just want to live in a clean, fur-free home, and have my son play on the floor and come up without fur all over him. AIBU?

Haven't read the full thread but the thing I found helped this issue the most is bathing the dog much more often than most people consider normal. I had a JRT X Collie and I was much more allergic to him than my other two. I have no idea why. He's gone now (PTS _ Heart failure at 17.5. I had him from 4 weeks old - long story) but I used to bath him every week. He loved it. His coat looked fabulous. If I bathed him less often it caused me real sensitivity issues. Saturday morning was Beano Bath Time (he used to sit in the kitchen sink) this meant he shed practically no hair as it was jetted out of him, he was clean and lovely and I did not sneeze.

Ooops did'nt realise it was a Zombie

I found that a robot vacuum (Roomba) makes a great difference in the quantity of dog hair in my house! I run it every night. I also makes me tidy up more as you can't run it unless the floor is relatively clear. :)

Islandcanary- you can be reported for keeping a dog inside one room - what you're saying is vile and you've got no idea.

Furminator is a good start. I don't think you are being unreasonable because as the dogs owner your partner should have been grooming her in the first place. It would have helped with the fur issue and probably not made it a problem for his allergic partner. He needs to remember the allergic part whether or not the dog was there first.

I don't think getting rid of the dog is an option but at the moment it sounds like OP considers this HIS dog and not OUR dog.
I get the issues with grooming the dog yourself because you are allergic. But try and bond with the poor old girl. She is getting on a bit already and will shed more due to that. Maybe take her to the groomers once a month and get her pampered. She should enjoy that and it will help with the shedding along side the furminator. Make the dog "our dog" and vow to not have another unless you pay big money for a crossbreed that doesn't shed any fur.
I get if you don't really like the dog but I bet she's begging for your attention. Don't forget, she has to put up with your OH too and he's not been brushing her which imo is kinda dreadful. She needs that. She also needs to go to the vet if she becomes incontinent. There's plenty to do in that situation. Our dog had to be kept in the kitchen as her back legs were going and walking too far would have made it worse. Dad would do everything for her and one day she couldn't get up. It was a sad day all round. But my point is the vet will know what to do if incontinence occurs. Don't just get her pts unless necessary. I doubt the vet would allow it without good reason.