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Ok, so...thoughts - difficult child's, dogs, and husband's.
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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 153347" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>I totally do not expect difficult child to take full responsibility for this dog. He likes to help feed and care for the 2 we have and play with them when they'll play, and has consistently. Knowing the bulk of the dog care will fall on my shoulders, and knowing difficult child isn't <em>capable </em>of training a dog is why I want an older dog that's still playful and fetches. He desperately wants a dog to sleep with him and love him, and my little dog is a typical little dog who's leery of all beings smaller than 4'6", and the other dog is a working dog, so...this dog's sole expectation in life will be to be difficult child's best buddy.</p><p> </p><p>We are only looking at shelters and pounds, and I emailed or wrote letters to several explaining the situation and that we were looking for a dog with a very specific personality - not a breed, gender, or size. Several have responded with some candidates. Miss Daisy (the dog we have now) was one of them. She's doing very well with housebreaking, but she's still very much a rambunctious puppy, more training than I think I want to take on. And difficult child really would like a dog to play fetch, and Miss Daisy just doesn't have that drive. Oh, she'll do it, and she could be trained to do it, but I think once she's past puppyhood, I dont think its a game she'll enjoy anymore, and that's not a good setup for difficult child or the dog. I do pray she finds a good home, tho, cause she is SO sweet.</p><p>As for husband, I don't know what his problem is. He makes me so mad sometimes. I know he doesn't mean it, and dealing wtih difficult child day in and day out is, well...you all know how it is, but it doesn't help when you make matters worse in a very avoidable situation. How hard is it to open the door? Heck, I was on my way out of the bed to do it when he said he had it. Not sure what he had, but it wasn't this situation under control. LOL</p><p> </p><p>Hopefully next week we're going to try another candidate. Its an austalian shepherd mix named Flicka who is a fetching machine. My concern with he is that she may love fetching so much that she doesn't love anything else. LOL But everyone who has a potential dog has offered us the option to bring them home and try them out, which is wonderful. Except in the case of Miss Daisy, we all love her and no one wants to send her back! difficult child even gets teary eyed, but he knows he wants a dog who will play fetch. Gotta give him credit there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 153347, member: 1848"] I totally do not expect difficult child to take full responsibility for this dog. He likes to help feed and care for the 2 we have and play with them when they'll play, and has consistently. Knowing the bulk of the dog care will fall on my shoulders, and knowing difficult child isn't [I]capable [/I]of training a dog is why I want an older dog that's still playful and fetches. He desperately wants a dog to sleep with him and love him, and my little dog is a typical little dog who's leery of all beings smaller than 4'6", and the other dog is a working dog, so...this dog's sole expectation in life will be to be difficult child's best buddy. We are only looking at shelters and pounds, and I emailed or wrote letters to several explaining the situation and that we were looking for a dog with a very specific personality - not a breed, gender, or size. Several have responded with some candidates. Miss Daisy (the dog we have now) was one of them. She's doing very well with housebreaking, but she's still very much a rambunctious puppy, more training than I think I want to take on. And difficult child really would like a dog to play fetch, and Miss Daisy just doesn't have that drive. Oh, she'll do it, and she could be trained to do it, but I think once she's past puppyhood, I dont think its a game she'll enjoy anymore, and that's not a good setup for difficult child or the dog. I do pray she finds a good home, tho, cause she is SO sweet. As for husband, I don't know what his problem is. He makes me so mad sometimes. I know he doesn't mean it, and dealing wtih difficult child day in and day out is, well...you all know how it is, but it doesn't help when you make matters worse in a very avoidable situation. How hard is it to open the door? Heck, I was on my way out of the bed to do it when he said he had it. Not sure what he had, but it wasn't this situation under control. LOL Hopefully next week we're going to try another candidate. Its an austalian shepherd mix named Flicka who is a fetching machine. My concern with he is that she may love fetching so much that she doesn't love anything else. LOL But everyone who has a potential dog has offered us the option to bring them home and try them out, which is wonderful. Except in the case of Miss Daisy, we all love her and no one wants to send her back! difficult child even gets teary eyed, but he knows he wants a dog who will play fetch. Gotta give him credit there. [/QUOTE]
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