To say no to a dog after what happened?

[LexL]

We recently moved to a home that now has a proper garden and DH said it would be nice to get a dog now the kids are at Uni. But neither of us have had a dog, so we are taking our time exploring the idea.

A friend of mine was going on holiday for a week, so we decided to look after her dog - a lovely Cavapoo. She gave us good instructions, the food and everything. So this lunchtime, we went to the local park for our first walk and DH was so excited about it. All was going well until the dog did a number 2. I was surprised that DH said, he was going to do it. I was already dubious because DH has a weak stomach, but since he wants a dog, I figured he should practice. I gave the bag to DH to deal with it and walked away with the dog - to leave him be. 30 seconds later I turn around - he is holding the bag out at arms length calling my name, he then went completely pale and started vomiting like he was in the exorcist - still holding the bag at arms length.

DH has always had a weak stomach when it comes to all things poo. He changed the DCs nappies only handful of times, because EVERY time he puked immediately after. He once puked because we parked under a tree and the windscreen had so much bird poo on it. He even puked when DCs were just teasing him by talking about poo graphically.

However despite all this, he still wants a dog. He says he will just practice until he doesn't vomit. I have said no. AIBU?

Those of us with dogs can answer that for you.

In our case, she goes to excellent boarding kennels.

Mine loves to roll in fox poo but I can deal with that- it’s when he finds human poo (in the summer it’s popular with the picnickers apparently to poo in bushes) that I can’t cope. I literally cry and heave as I wash away the human poo. In the summer he’s on lead a bit more if we visit the poo park. 🤢

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I had to chase my dog round the park to pull out an impressively long piece of grass from his bum the other day. Honestly, as someone upthread said, poo is definitely not the worst of it so unless you can be exclusive poo picker upper then you might need to rethink 😂

@LexL I take it he never cleans the toilets in your house then???? under no circumstances can you get a dog!! you will spend your life having to walk the dog to clean up after it or go round the garden to pick up the poo!! best time is when it is frosty and poo is frozen

There's always this option.

https://wagwalking.com/training/use-the-toilet

The loo isn’t a red herring.

It’s a brown trout

There is a surprising amount of human poo where I live in London. Apparently due to a certain type of drug that’s quite popular at the moment. Some dogs will find all the poo. I wouldn’t be without mine but dogs are revolting.

I love my dog, but I have to agree. They aren’t for the faint hearted.
Mine had an upset stomach this week and in her panic ran around the house flicking poo everywhere. It was quite the clean up operation.
Ive dealt with a lot of baby poo, sick, goodness knows what. But even a solid dog poo makes me feel a bit queasy some days 🤣

Is the drug Dulcolax?

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If he couldn’t do it for your children, he won’t be able to do it for a dog.

Also as everyone says dogs eat and roll in poo all the time. My dog once ate a whole human adult poo along with toilet roll on a playing field. Unless you want this to be your specific problem, do not do it.

Just wait until there's a dog on your lap who releases their anal glands on you 😂

Also this afternoon my dog scooted his butt across my living room rug leaving a line of brown shit

In the last year I've had to deal with two overnight poosplosions in the crate and had to pull a twig out of her arse, in public, while people watched. I still love her 😂😂

Dogs definitely do more disgusting things than poop. I love my three but they are grots the lot of them. My delightful girl recently found the rotten skin of a dead rabbit, ran around with it like a trophy shaking it and covering herself in strings of mouldy rabbit bits, then swallowed it whole while I desperately tried to catch her and get it off her (you try catching a Borzoi that doesn't want to be caught). She later barfed it up on the kitchen floor while we were eating dinner, where I had to rugby tackle my greyhound to stop him eating it too.

So... Yeah if he pukes at picking up a tiny cavapoo poop in a bag he is not going to be able to cope with how rotten dogs can really be.

Good. That's sorted then.

If he c/wouldn't change his own children's nappies, then he shouldn't have a dog.

He needs therapy!! How does he cope with his own poo??

I’m glad he’s had his eyes opened 😂. Dogs in reality are very different to dogs in theory!

Two things . I would suggest fostering a dog first . Rescues are crying out for fosters
if you feed raw food the poo is much much smaller and drier.

Getting a dog is like getting half a child as far as I'm concerned. It is a huge amount of work and it is not for the faint hearted. Also each dog has a different personality, I'd say it's a bit like picking a stranger off the street and hoping you'll get on with him. Sometimes it can take years to learn to get on with them, sometimes it's instant! I think you should foster a dog for a while first and see how that goes. I hate seeing people get dogs and then regret it and they feel like crap trying to pass on the dog then. My only advice is that getting a puppy is massive work so maybe an older rescue dog might be easier as they should hopefully already be house trained, lead trained etc.

I’ve just been reminded of my old shar pei. Had him all of 3 days when he did himself an injury needing surgery. Coming home with him from the vets and he slipped this stupid lead thing the vets had tied around his neck to avoid the plastic cone they’d put on him. Was loose for an entire night which he’d apparently spent eating cow shit, found him asleep on my doorstep the next morning (actually found it sweet he’d found ‘home’ when I’d only had him a few days). He then threw up cow shit all over my living room. We discovered within a few weeks that his outing had resulted in him catching mites (mange) which took a full year and 4k to treat. And that was our introduction to dog ownership 🙄

This is exactly why I couldn't have a dog, and won't walk other people's. I can just about manage to tip out my cat's litter tray and that's it.

Don't get a dog. Your OH is pretending the issue will disappear. It won't. You'll get stuck.

A happy ever after for you both, Op.

Is it wrong that the OP made me laugh out loud? Picturing the scene 😂

God no - defo not a dog. Maybe he could have one of those toy dogs on a lead that don't pee or poop....