I feel like trash for even saying it out loud because I am the dog person of the family. I always grew up with a pet dog and it always felt right in a home.I'm probably going to get downvote nuked into oblivion, but I don't want to have this dog in my home anymore.
We got a puppy at the end of February and in reality there is nothing wrong with him. He's just doing what puppies do, reacting to their environment. The problem is how my 6-year-old son interacts with him. My son will NOT listen to me about appropriate play and is constantly chasing him and roaring at him and using high pitched screams and laughs, grabbing him around the head and laying on the dog. The pup is getting bigger now (5-month-old husky) and is now knocking down my son and mouthing him and it's getting too aggressive. I'm constantly correcting them both. I am not bonding in a positive way with the dog and because I am always in discipline mode. I provide most of his care (feeding, bathroom, training) but I don't feel any affection for him and I feel really, really bad about it. I don't feel the dog really cares for me either other than the fact that I feed him. My husband works nights and tries to provide the care when he can, but naturally the pup sleeps at night when my husband is awake.
When my son isn't around him he's really quite manageable and responsive. I'm due to have a baby via C-section at the end of May and I am not going to be able to keep them apart and I am afraid that the dog will not be able to be around my baby either.
Nothing I say to my son seems to work. I'm constantly breaking down in tears over it (including right now as I am typing this out) and he makes no changes. He's removed from the dog to his room all the time but when he's allowed back in the family spaces the behavior starts right up again. Just now the pup needed a bathroom break and he said he could take him into the yard. I explicitly said to not scream at or rough house the dog and to bring him in the basement door to stay with me while I work from home. He gets the dog into the yard, closes the gate as he is supposed to then just immediately starts doing all the things I asked him not to do. He was knocked down almost right away and the pup kept tearing back and forth over him, biting at his hands.
We can't get training for the dog at the moment because of the COVID-19 restrictions. Our vets aren't open for routine care either and the dog doesn't have all his vaccines yet so can't go to other places with dogs like a dog day-care or friend with pets.
Short of rehoming the dog I don't know what to do. Its not good for the puppy, my son or my mental health.
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