Updated: She is 100% potty trained and was never abused. Her last owners loved her very much but also put some really bad habits out there like being on furniture, eating people food etc. I’ve tried to get her trained and he Denys that there’s even a problem with her. I’ve explained to him that obedience training isn’t a bad thing. Some dogs just need a little reinforcement. She’s now starting to do this thing we’re she refuses to come if you call her. I can literally see she’s getting worse and he’s doing nothing to help her but is downing me and I’m the one TRYING to help her. I’m literally drowning at this point. Now he doesn’t want her crated at all, he wants her to be able to roam the house, and he refuses doggy daycare or obedience classes. It’s ridiculous. But she (the dog) also knows he’s a weak owner and she plays on that. Like I said most of the time if she does ANYthing bad it’s on HIS watch. It’s when I’m either not home or in my room. When she’s only with me I don’t have these problems. But the second she’s alone with him, she does whatever she wants to.

So we got a dog 3 months ago that we basically took in for a couple that couldn’t keep her. She’s an adult dog. Ever since we got her it’s been nothing but problems, her shitting on the floor, eating food off our table, being disobedient, chewing up our kids toys, jumping on furniture etc. To the point that she will literally come right in front of you and shit on the floor and then run and hide because she knows what she did was bad. One day I chased her for a LEGIT 10 mins through the house because she shit in our sons room and I was trying to get her to punish her and she just ran through the whole house to escape getting scorned. After talking to a few people I went out and got a crate that I now basically use to try and reinforce good behavior but also keep things on lock down because she can’t be trusted alone. So basically the routine is that at 1 am she’s put in the crate to sleep, let out about 10-11 am. Shes out all day unless we 1. Leave the house or 2. There’s no one to watch her. I want someone downstairs with her at all times because of all the trouble she’s been causing. My husband agreed to this plan. So we have been on this plan for about a month now. My husband agreed to this plan that I came up with. Just in the last week she has •ripped up a shitty diaper she got from the trash all through the family room. •shit in the basement • chewed a whole through our trash • and was upstairs (restricted area because she likes to shit in our bedrooms) when no one was watching her. The kicker is that this ALL happened on my husband watch when I was out of the house.

So we are sitting in the basement and she ran upstairs. I told him to go get her and keep her down here with us because she can’t be trusted alone. He gets mad telling me that “we need to give her a chance to prove she can be trusted and it’s so unfair she has to be in the crate so much”. I’m like “okay when she stops doing bad shit we can’t start using the crate less but JUST this week I can name four things off the top of my head that’s she’s done. He’s like “Well this is MY dog and no dog of mine is about to spend their life in a crate”. Mind you I’ve been ducking begging for him to do obedience classes with her and his response is always “she doesn’t need it”. I asked if we can start doing dogs daycare a few hours a week, his response “no dog of mine is getting ditched at a daycare, you’re home there’s no reason she should be going to a daycare for a few hours a week”. I personally think that interaction with other dogs and freedom at a daycare could help her and give me a break. Hes given ZERO solutions but is complaining that my solution is cruel or something. I’m just at my wits end and all of this is making me resent our dog. I don’t personally like the dog but I’m trying everting to get her under control and he is just ruining any progress she could have.