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She now has been snapped at biting her three times because our daughter wants to be where the dog is.

Keep them separate. The dog is also 11 and there is a very strong possibility that she is in pain or discomfort from arthritis or DJD.

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I am now scheming of ways to get rid of her without my husband knowing I got rid of her. She's never tried to run away, and don't know if I could get away with she ran away

What are you planning? Dropping off the dog at a shelter where she will live the last of her days alone and feeling abandoned while telling your husband that the dog you dislike just disappeared?

Are you willing to hold her and sooth her as the vet euthanises her so that the girl who was treated like a Queen for the first 9 years of her life as least leaves this world remembering what it was to be loved and cherished?

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The dog can not live in my home and keep them safe at the same time.

Several people have offered to help in rehoming the dog.

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I am looking for any ideas of how to convince my husband that the kids should be his first priorty too.

How can we do that? <Shrug> That comment more then anything screams that family counseling may be appropriate.

You want help rehoming, we can do that.

You want help training, we can help.

You want help learning how to manage kids and a dog, we can do that.


If we seem harsh put on your big girl panties and try and see it from our point of view for just for a minute. Many of us have invested emotionally, financially, and even spiritually at times helping the dogs that are thrown out like yesterday's trash. It gets old real quick.

Looking at them in shelters, knowing you can't take them all and looking in their eyes and seeing the confusion and despair there gets old real quick.

Sometimes, all you can do is hold them and tell them that you are sorry and that it's not their fault when the vet releases them.

So yeah, that's where a lot of us are coming from.

Edited by Aaron Myracle (02/22/2011 11:12 AM)
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She now has been snapped at biting her three times because our daughter wants to be where the dog is.

Keep them separate. The dog is also 11 and there is a very strong possibility that she is in pain or discomfort from arthritis or DJD. ....


You want help rehoming, we can do that.

You want help training, we can help.

You want help learning how to manage kids and a dog, we can do that.


If we seem harsh put on your big girl panties and try and see it from our point of view for just for a minute. Many of us have invested emotionally, financially, and even spiritually at times helping the dogs that are thrown out like yesterday's trash. It gets old real quick.

Looking at them in shelters, knowing you can't take them all and looking in their eyes and seeing the confusion and despair there gets old real quick.

Sometimes, all you can do is hold them and tell them that you are sorry and that it's not their fault when the vet releases them.

So yeah, that's where a lot of us are coming from.

I just re-read this whole thread. It can be re-hashed and argued forever and do zero good.

The OP has posted on a dog board. We are experienced dog people. Betty has pretty much wrapped it up about what we can do to help (and what we cannot do).