Anyone else can’t stand their pets right now? 😭
Let me start by saying I’m 36 weeks pregnant and I’m a huge animal lover. My world sort of revolves around my pets in many ways but it wasn’t quite this intense until we got our two dogs this time last year. When we picked our dogs out as puppies (my husband wanted pure bred as opposed to rescuing ☹️), we went to a guy we knew who loved dogs as much as us. He never breeds a female more than twice and the dogs live a really cooshy beautiful life. So that’s how I was comfortable with pure bred. Anyway...when we picked them out they seemed like the most relaxed puppies in their litters. They came right to us when we called for them and just seemed so cuddly. I had no idea we would end up with 10/10 energy dogs. My husband is a Dr so he works a lot, so a majority of the responsibility falls on me. If they don’t get enough exercise they destroy things. I’ve been working with a trainer/dog behavioralist since they were tiny. They are now both 70 lbs and I feel like from the moment I wake up until my husband gets home I just struggle with them. I love them both so much and I clearly will do anything for them, because I have, but there are days when I really regret getting them 😔 maybe this belongs in a different group. But I know pregnancy is magnifying these feelings for me. I have to walk both dogs on the treadmill for an hour twice a day (they love it), and play vigorously outside with them for them to listen to me. If they haven’t exerted themselves then they are just kinetic energy they do not listen to me. When they are exercised they are pretty good but it’s takes so much time every single day to get them to that point. If they get any less exercise I end up having to yell at them at least once a day, which I hate, but I’m just at a loss. We live on a big hill with a shared driveway and every time our neighbors drive up the dogs go crazy. They just bark constantly. We’ve tried bark collars. They work a little bit. We’ve even tried low dose shock (please no judgement, the shock is less than the equivalent of licking a battery), but I do not like using that as a main source of deterrent or discipline. The chocolate lab recently has been showing aggression towards babies/children. Their unpredictable behavior scares him and he reacts with aggression when he’s scared. Perfect time to have a baby who I’m now going to be scared of ever putting down. My husband doesn’t get it. He’s not here. His answer is to just put them in their crates (they do love their crates) but the more they are in them the more hyper they are when they come out which only makes every problem worse. We live in Ohio and it’s been raining non stop so the dogs are just covered in mud constantly. Which means so is my house. But if I bend over to clean up any mess I get one dog nose in my eye and another dog nose up my butt. Oh speaking of they also go outside and eat actual shit every time I let them out. I’ve given up on scooping because we have 6 acres and it’s impossible for me to find every pile when they sniff it out in 2.5 seconds and are eating it before I can even run over there to scoop. This is one of the things we would shock them for but even that doesn’t stop them. They go right back for it the moment you turn your back. So I give them doggy mouth wash when they come in from outside because it’s just so disgusting I don’t know what else to do. When they are inside they wrestle aggressively and I have to constantly keep my stomach covered with a pillow so they don’t leap onto It, which they’ve done. If I leave the room without crating them they destroy things. They’ve eaten holes in our area rug, blankets, ripped apart garbage. I spend my entire days disciplining and exercising them and cleaning up after them. The dogs trainers I’ve talked to tell me I’m doing everything right. But some days I wish we never got them. I’m exhausted mentally and physically by them. I just needed to vent. Feeling very defeated today and it’s only 10:30 am 😔
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