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[quote=Anonymous]Specifically, my parents. They have two horribly behaved dogs. Large dogs that jumps, bark loudly if the wind blows (never mind if the mailman comes, or a squirrel is outside or....you get the idea), climb up on furniture, will steal food from counter tops and tables, and one "nips" with alarming regularity. Since they refuse to travel without these wretched beasts, in an effort to actually see my parents, and so they can see their grandson, we have come to an uneasy truce where my parents stay in a hotel but during the day I will allow the dogs to be crated in the kitchen. That way, we can actually go do things. But DH is allergic to dogs, so even keeping them in the kitchen and doing a massive deep clean does not ensure we can fully prevent a reaction. Sometimes it works better than others.

Right now, my DH is recovering from a very serious eye injury. We won't know the extent of the damage and if it will result in needing a cornea transplant until it has fully healed in 3 to 5 months. The cornea specialist has been very clear that DH must avoid anything that can irritation and inflammation of his eye.

I told my parents this today, ahead of a Presidents' Day long weekend trip they want to take to come visit, and that that means they dogs cannot come to the house, at all. They immediately accused me of hating their dogs (true....very true), keeping them from their grandchild, and deliberately trying to make their lives more difficult. I said they're actually welcome to make the trip but have to make other arrangements for their dogs, be that boarding, finding a dogsitter, getting an AirBnB that they can leave the dogs at, whatever. But the dogs cannot come here. Didn't matter, they're reacting emotionally and all about them and their (stupid) dogs.

I can't change them. I'm hurt that their dogs are more important to them than their grandson, but I'm not really surprised that when push came to shove that's what they picked. I'm hurt that DH and I have bent over backwards to accommodate the dogs on their visits, and the one time we ask them to accommodate us, they flip out and throw a tantrum, but, again, not really surprised. I just need to vent about it and get it off my chest.[/quote]

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