Mothers chihuahua ate half of my babies grape

[Anonymous23458d]

Just as the title states.. I took my boys 1 and 3 years old to my mothers. She never makes the effort to visit us i see her every other week. She lives with my two other older siblings and my dad. Last year they've bought another chihuahua that is just crazy. They don't train it it bites my children and now my baby is crawling it bites his face and is vicious, it steals food and items and growls when I try and get them. They don't do anything to help just idolise this dog. They have about a 2 metre crate for it, which I have to put it in when it gets vicious with my children.
I went because my eldest loves my older sister who lives there and loves seeing her. I was feeding my one year old downstairs whilst the dog was upstairs. I didn't realise the dog ran down and at the same time my baby threw one half of a grape then another one and the dog ran and ate them up. My sister and mum started screaming and rang the vet who said they must rush her down. All the while so hostile and angry at me when I said I didn't realise and im sorry. I know dogs cant eat grapes but I have a baby and toddler and thought the dog was upstairs. It's hard to manage in basically a glass house with so many ornaments and crap everywhere. It's the opposite of baby proof which I don't expect it to be but she doesn't even help me one bit when I come round. My mum only has interest in her new dog not her grandchildren. She has now sent me the receipt for £105 she's had to pay to make the dog be sick at the vets. I am not paying it and for one don't have that money. AiBu?

The baby is unreasonable? 😄😄😄

The poor baby

I think you’d been very clear about this. The clue was in the thread title! Plus in your OP you did clearly say half a grape.

I would likewise disregard people who have said YABU for taking grapes with you or having grapes around the dog. You didn’t. The dog was upstairs when you were feeding your 1 year old child and you were both downstairs. The fact the dog subsequently ran downstairs due to not being supervised properly is not your fault.

Frankly the suggestion that you’re to blame because you had grapes with you is ludicrous. Let’s just say the dog ate something posted through the letterbox, which sounds like a possibility given the dog is untrained and allowed to roam free regardless. The thing the dog has now eaten causes it to be ill. Who is at fault in that scenario? Is it the postman/courier delivering what the dog had eaten or if it was something ordered online the fault of whoever ordered what the dog had eaten? No. It’d be the owner for not training the dog properly/keeping it under control or in its crate if it can’t be watched. Likewise it’s the owner’s fault on this occasion too for the same reasons.

That poor dog!

Some people shouldn't be allowed animals

Don't go round there. Don't pay the bill.

They can come to you if they're interested

Don’t pay the bill, tell your mum to think of it as the fuel money saved in never visiting you and you going to them. Then don’t go again, it’s a matter of when not if one of your DCs are scared for life by the dog

Crikey, what did we do before the internet was there to tell us about all these things that could poison dogs.
Our pet dog ate a Christmas fruit cake when I was a kid, apart from having the 💩 for 24 hours was fine. It wouldn’t even occur to me to worry about half a grape.

My God, vets must be raking it in "saving lives" of dogs that have ingested half a grapes.

Why are you constantly making these comments? Your sneering and sniping are pathetic

I've seen this @returnofjude account comment in similar sarcastic and derisive ways on different posts. They're clearly a sad individual with nothing better to do when people are trying to get advice or ask questions.

Your mum has dogs that bite your kids and YOU GO AND TAKE THEM BACK?

mate, you’re a headline waiting to happen. Don’t be daft, you want to see your sister, meet her outside the house.

Why on Earth do you risk taking your children into the house? It doesn’t matter whose fault it is if the dog is badly trained, if it hurts one of your children it will be your fault for putting them into that situation. If you’re a responsible parent you need to keep your children away from danger, that means you don’t take them into a house where there is a dog known to bite. Children are unpredictable, don’t risk having them around an unpredictable untrained dog, as you’ e found out today you can’t always know where the dog is in the houses and if the situation was different it could have bitten your child again.

Hi mum, sorry I won’t be paying the £105. Babies drop food sometimes and it isn’t not my duty to keep the dog away from the child when we visit. Not that I can afford it either. I think it’s best we stay away from the dog as it’s not really compatible with children, you are always very welcome to ours if you want to spend time with your granddaughter.

So your mother's darling dog bites your child's face and is downright vicious every time you visit.

There is no way I would be taking my children there again.

And no, I would not be paying the vet's bill either.

Just in case it needs to be said I was joking 😂

No i know x - your comment really did make me laugh out loud though 😄😄

Our dog ate grapes by accident & A) nothing happened & B) we also called a vet who advised we see a chemist as there's a product you can safely give dogs to make them throw up which we couldn't get cause no chemist would actually sell it to us

So moral of the story is that it's not guaranteed to be bad & if it is it's possible there are other health issues at play then just half a grape sl don't beat yourself up about it

This.
I voted YABU because I can't believe you seem to be putting more thought into this sodding grape than the fact this nasty little dog has bitten your children.

It needs a VCO on it immediately.

Never take them there again.

Why would your clearly negative assumption on my character here - make me a male?! Nice bit of casual sexism
there! You’re wrong- unsurprisingly- I am also not a Chihuahua- if that’s your next guess.

Think you’ll find I wasn’t the one initially suggesting they were dickheads. Does sound like they shouldn’t be bred though!

To put it bluntly, most men who post on mumsnet are twats.

The end.

Ah that amazing humour of yours, keep it up young man.

I don’t assume you’re a man because of your pathetic ‘everyone agrees with me’ responses, or that you try to use humour to deflect from your lack of confidence or your use of sock accounts, I can just tell by your tone.

Unfortunately you are tone deaf

Is this a proclamation you are male- as I
not?

Huh? Your family sounds an immature dramatic laden “toxic codependency” farce.

Your mum and sister were screaming…. I imagine the neighbours were fairly used to that.

And you visit your mother once a fortnight despite her dog biting your children

Then you get in an arse when we are WTF!!

So you start backtracking.

you asked a poster a question
I speculated an answer

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The dog does bite yes. It nips all the time. It has since they got it and has drew blood on myself before and all the family that live there. It has nipped my baby on the face recently

I think the dog is vicious

Seriously? Once a fortnight you visit? And you think the dog is “vicious”.