Right so a few months ago my mum bought a puppy, we had a vote for the dog and it was three for the dog and one against I was the against. I don’t hate dogs I’ve just always preferred cats and never ever wanted to own a dog I could tolerate other people’s dogs. So she buys this dog, I have to look after it for two weeks cleaning up after it, getting it to go outside to do it’s buisness etc etc all whilst trying to revise, my mum couldn’t care less she went to work and just expected me to look after him all day every day - grrrr - even after she promised I wouldn’t have to do anything. Before we got the puppy we already had three cats, they caused no problems fitted in well with our family and lived all throughout the house and went outside (didn’t have a litter tray in the house) and were happy. Now since we’ve got the dogs they’ve been confined to my bedroom upstairs (my mum lives downstairs) and get let out of the bathroom window when someone is in there. They never go downstairs and seem much more depressed since the dog arrived. In addition to this one of our cats can’t jump very well so can’t go outside onto the small roof outside the bathroom window so spends her entire life in my room. Although the cats know how to use the cat litter tray they often (at least twice a day) poo or wee on the floor anywhere upstairs - so much we’ve had to remove the carpet all upstairs and we just have floorboards, having a bath you just get a stench of cat pee from the floor and the litter tray. And no matter how much I clean up I feel like I’m living in constant dirt. The dog on the other hand has full run of downstairs and my mum dotes on him like mad he gets human food from the dinner table she screams at us when we’re annoyed that the dog won’t leave us alone to eat or just watch tv - so overall my mum stays downstairs with the dog and the rest of us (my two siblings and I) only come downstairs occasionally. This animal has literally torn apart our family and my mum couldn’t care less, I try to talk to her about it but she just gets defensive and makes me feel like a horrible person. The dog barks and whines constantly and is overall badly trained. He’s destroyed so much stuff but my mum just thinks it’s cute even though we can’t afford to replace things. In the previous summers the cats would want a fuss in the sun on the patio and it just upsets me so much that that’s never going to happen as they don’t go in the garden or anything. They don’t sit down in the lounge in the evening they just live in my bedroom constantly - my room stinks because of this. The dog and the cats have met and he just try’s to bite them and my mum just lets him and says he ‘needs to learn’ and that the cats will ‘get used to it’ even though it gets them so stressed. Basically I know this is really long and probably doesn’t make much sense but I’m at my wits end and don’t know what to do, I can’t move out I can’t leave and everyday is like torture having to deal with this dog he literally ruins everyone’s lives and my mum is so naive that she doesn’t even see it - we all have constant arguments over the dog and never admits doing anything wrong. He ruins every situation like today my sister and I were playing netball and he just jumps up at her to try to get the ball and my mum doesn’t even get mad at him and so we just stop playing and go back inside to do nothing :( Getting rid of the dog isn’t an option my mum would never do that. If anyone has experienced this or has any ideas of how to try to just get over it or anything I could say to my mum to get her to understand. Just felt like I needed to rant, do you think I’m overreacting or being unreasonable?
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