Hubby wants to go do his hobby as there is a break in the weather

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So it has been raining for says, this morning we have a break in the weather and hubby wants to go off and practice his hobby in the sunshine as the rain will be back around lunchtime. All well and good so far,but we are going away for new year and he has to get a fence sorted so that we can leave the dog here (the plan is for the dog to stay at a neighbors house,but if he doesn't get on over there, she will bring him home and just come and take for walks and feed). Was ibu to tell him he needs to secure the fence before he can go off on his jolly?

Maypole dancing is a good tough.

OP is in Southern Europe, judging from her name. Dogs are treated differently there, I'm afraid.

How much prep do you think there is?

Obviously more than you do. But hey-ho, only the OP really knows the answer to that question.

Pole dancing

Sad that you leave your dog, but surely you can do the fence job though.

maypole dancing

My compliments, OP 🙂

But I am disappointed.

I'd wanted said activity to be restoring and driving classic VW Beatles.

And now you're telling me that hubby's hobby isn't Herbie 😥

Maypole dancing would be a bit sad in the cold, December rain. I can see why he wanted to do it while the sun was out.

He deserves some time off to do his hobby. Fix the fence yourself.

We had maypole dancing on boxing day in my village. Was 11° and sunny...

Any reason you can't sort a fence yourself?

Maybe because her DH has agreed to do it and should prioritise it over the hobby?

The dog is a shelter dog and will not sleep inside the house but we are in a different country and the climate is more temperate than the in,

Is this a country which doesn’t let off fireworks at NY?

My friends in Australia leave their dog outside to have the run of their land while they go away for the night. My friend in Germany will regularly take his dog to their local forest and sometimes she won't come back so he leaves her overnight and then picks her up the next morning, she's always waiting in the same place for him.

Not everyone with a dog lives in a suburban semi in rainy Blighty with a patch of garden, it's NOT cruel to care for your dog differently from the way a load of U.K. MNetters care for theirs.

Well, this is fun.

My husband has a 'hobby'

TBH, leaving the dog at home just for the one night, being supervised by the neighbour, would be fine? Neighbour walks the dog, feeds it, let’s it have a run around in the garden, then back in the house for sleep overnight. Op the returns the next morning, all good. Any longer wouldn’t be fair, but I think as a one off situation, where it has food exercise and a little bit of company would be absolutely fine.

Maypole dancing? Err it's December

I have visions of little house on the prairie tbh.

Oh and I retract my "poor dog" comment seeing as he lives outdoors the set up seems fine.

Howrver what puzzles me is this - if he lives outdoors, why is the fence only now a problem? Seems ideal - he can call in on the neighbours and be home where he is used to

YABU. All you needed to say was “remember we need to do the fence before we leave” and then he, as an adult, he capable of organising his time

This all went fantastically MNetty, very quickly, didn't it?

It is why women aren't taken seriously. We apparently can't deal with the question in hand without launching off onto tangents; we speculate about the bits we haven't been told (but demand that we should be), til we start believing our own fill-in-the-(irrelevant gaps)-narrative, which we then use to attack the OP; and, so lost are we in our own headspace version of events, aided and abetted by The Baying Mob, that we fail to read any updates in our haste to Be Heard.

Maypole dancing. Well played, OP.

"Maypole dancing" is the new "dogging". But with ribbons involved.

You haven't sorted appropriate care for your dog????????? WTAF!
You could have 'tested' the dogs together before the holiday. Are you in the UK?
Sounds pretty fucking lonely for your dog to be just walked and fed.
Let your husband go and do his thing and find some proper care for the dog

@Miljea - amusingly accurate!

I think this thread must win the record for most side tangents/controversies!

OP I know nothing about dog care but FWIW if he's said he'll fix the fence this morning I'd be holding him to that.

As long as he gets the fence fixed before you go it'll be fine.

Are you in the UK?

She has already stated that she isn’t.

Asking permission to go off to do some hobby is laughable. We have a few hobbies between us and say just going to blah, see you later.
Also if the fence needs fixing me and dp would do it together.
When we go away we pay a dogsitter to walk the dogs 2 times a day, feed them, sit with them for an hour in between and let them out for a wee last thing. They send pictures of the dogs every day. It's cheap for the peace of mind it gives us on holiday.

Come on you lot can't you see when your being had