AIBU to not want to dog-sit

[Henceforth7]

Hi all,

I feel really awful and like a selfish person, but I’ve been asked to babysit my father’s partner’s two dogs at short notice, who are lovely affectionate things, however they are also poorly trained. They have often babysitted my dog, which I’m hugely grateful for, however my dog is well-behaved, doesn’t bark, isn’t reactive and isn’t possessive over humans/toys/food, etc. Their two dogs, on the other hand, bark throughout the night; one of them has major separation anxiety, and the other can be aggressive and possessive. There’s also two of them looking after 3 dogs and only one of me. I feel really awful for saying that I’d rather not babysit them, but I have a remote job interview tomorrow and want to be well-slept and to not have the dogs barking in the background whilst I’m on the call. I’m also due to be in the office all day on Tuesday and they’ll have to be left in a crate for 9 hours whilst I’m at work. I appreciate that I sound selfish but I have anxiety and the barking dogs just sends it through the roof. AIBU?

I'd make looking after their dogs conditional on them getting their dogs trained so the crates are not needed during the day and they aren't destructive.

In the meantime, get a dog-sitter for your dog so you don't have to call on them to look after it while you're away or find a decent kennels.

Last thing, the past tense of sit is actually sat, similarly babysit becomes babysat. Babysitted isn't a word.

Hope you get your situation sorted.

Cop yourself on @LookItsMeAgain 🙄

So tell them this will be the last time unless the behaviour is improved upon and dogs trained properly

You really should not have been asking them to dog sit for you if you were not prepared to dog sit for them.

I’d go as far as saying that crating a dog for 9 hours in a single stretch during the day when nobody is around is absolutely unacceptable and cruel. My own two dogs are crate trained and really happy to go in theirs of their own free will but never in a million years would I lock them in for an entire day and not be around to let them out to the toilet etc. Totally irresponsible. YANBU. I’d refuse on those grounds alone, never mind the rest. I mean, would he like to be put in a coat cupboard without a toilet from 9am to 6pm while awake??

the fact everyone seemed ok at suggesting this makes me think those dogs already endure this and no doubt it features in the cause of some of their behavioural issues

Tbh reading it has really upset me today