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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, give me some perspective DCUMers.  Am I being unreasonable?  Here's the situation...

I love my family dearly and Thanksgiving, in our family, is the one holiday that we are always together for.  Not it's just my family, my brother's family and my dad.  They live 6.5 hours away and I've invited them here this year.  They are happy to come, but they want to bring their dogs.  This has come up before, and I've always said no.  My sister-in-law takes this personally and seems very upset by it.

I said no for the following reasons:
1. We have 2 cats and a dog.  Although our cats have adjusted to our dog, I don't know what they will do with two other dogs staying at our house.  My worst fear is that they start to pee on the carpet because they are afraid to try to get to the catbox or just because they decide to mark.

2. Their dogs have been know to have "accidents" - like, all the time.  Although I'm constantly being told that they don't have accidents anymore...

3. I would then have a total of 9 people (possibly 10) staying in my 4 bedroom, 1 level home, along with 2 cats and 3 dogs (or potentially 4 dogs, because I think that they assumed that my niece could also bring her (large) dog).  It seems like too much to me.

Trying to see it from my SIL's perspective, her dogs are tiny and cute and they are her surrogate children since she is now an empty-nester.  [b]She ALWAYS lets us bring our dog to her house (which I appreciate)[/b].

Am I being unreasonable? Rude?  Should I just suck it up?  :-([/quote]
You lost me with the bolded.  It is rude to bring your dog and not allow other dogs unless you already know there is a problem with the dogs.  Your problems are all maybes - maybe the cats will pee, maybe the dogs are still having accidents, maybe it will feel crowded.  If Tday is that important to your family, I would invite them with their dogs.[/quote]

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