Mother-in-law - am I over-reacting???

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We had my in-laws to stay last week to help with half term / childcare. They brought their dog. This morning their dog has diarrhoea all over the ground floor of my house. Down the stairs, all over the hallway, living room - they seem to have taken him everywhere including the garden which has artificial grass. In-laws do a half-arsed job at cleaning and my husband spends an hour scrubbing more while they sit and have breakfast. When they see he is cleaning they say 'why are you cleaning we cleaned' and then ignored the entire situation. I got upset and said please do not downplay this, it's a big deal. No mention, no apology, no acknowledgement my house stinks and they might have ruined the carpet (still trying to get the stains out). They then leave as planned. Honest opinions? I am a clean-freak and hate mess, and I keep the house very clean by default. I'm struggling they completely dis-acknowledged my feelings!

At the very least they ought to pay for a thorough professional carpet clean!

I’m not sure. It was an accident and they came to help you out. I’d probably try and forget about it.

Disgusting behaviour, don't ever have them over again, filthy people.

Oh my goodness how disgusting why was the dog in the whole house I'd be livid !

What about FIL?

I'd be furious too if it had gone all over the house. But I'm sure it wasn't deliberate.

To be honest, if they'd spent a week with you to help out I'd let them off this time.

Hire a rug doctor and then give them a call to check they got home OK and ask if dog is better.

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Eugh gross. But it's not worth generating worse bad feeling. I'd not contact them until you feel like you're over it. I don't blame you for being frustrated.

Gross to have to clean up, yes- but let’s be honest, there’s a limit to how much can actually come out of one dog so it sounds like you’re being just a tad overdramatic…

If it was a child how would you be reacting? Honestly, it’s no different- actually less likely to catch something from a dog than from another human.

Get some enzymatic cleaner, and thank them for helping out. It’s not that big a deal, accidents happen 🤷‍♀️

Tell you what , they can take the cost of the cleaner out of the money they have saved on the week's worth of childcare.

I've witnessed a surprising volume and spread coming out of one dog, so I understand your dilemma.

So gross.

But your comment that you are a neat freak does make me wonder if their cleaning was in fact adequate.

Either way, not worth falling out over, it happens, just ban the dog.

If it had happened because of poor training, then I could understand banning the dog- but this is an accident due to illness, so that’d be a big overreaction when PILs are only there to look after the children (who also get diarrhoea and shit on everything, let’s be fair, so can’t guarantee perfect never-shat-on carpets anyway)

That really is shit.

Fully agree though the exaggeration of the extent of the mess, the extra hour spent already cleaning a cleaned carpet and the “neat freak” makes me suspect actually it was cleaned up fine originally.

It sounds absolutely vile. But is the fact that it was your in laws somehow relevant?

God, how disgusting. No one’s fault, or course, but they should be appalled. I can only imagine the smell.

You should be glad they left as normal though; the dog was clearly not in a good way and was best out of the house asap.