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[quote=Anonymous]Just popping on with a note of support, OP. We didn't re-home a dog who was stressed out by young kids. To keep everyone safe with the dog in our home, we live in a kind of dog jail. When kids are home the dog is gated away where she is safe from them and they are safe from her. For about a year, she would just cry and cry because she wanted to be with the family. She eventually gave up and accepted the separation, but I know she doesn't like it. We just had to wait until the kids grew out of the toddler/preschool years. Then she went fully deaf, which helped a lot since crying really freaked her out. But we still have to have the gates and she still spends way more time isolated from us than what I see in other families.

So, it's gotten better as the dogs and kids have aged, but it's nothing close to the kind of loving dog-family that others have with less easily stressed pets. And now the dog is too old (14) and too sick (multiple health problems) to even consider re-homing. So, this is the best it's going to be for her, which makes me sad. In hindsight, she would have had a much better life if we had re-homed her to a more suitable situation when she was still comparatively young.

All of this is to say, I think you are doing the right thing and I congratulate you for it.[/quote]

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