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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to baby gate and childproof 1 or 2 rooms for the puppy. Your MIL’s timing with the puppy is unfortunate but keeping a puppy in a crate for a week is cruel. [/quote]

Op here - are you actually serious here?? There’s no way I have two full rooms available that can be puppy proofed. Not a chance. Our house is mostly carpet unfortunately. We have five bedrooms upstairs and a basement bedroom where MIL/FIL are staying (all carpet). There’s a small 4x4 area of tile down there. I have offered up a puppy pen for upstairs and one for the tiled area. I can’t puppy proof an entire room or two.

We have allowed their various dogs over the last 20 years to come. Far, far more than how often we have brought our dog. They have owned two aggressive dogs that we once allowed and they bit a kid simply for walking into the room. We didn’t realize how ill behaved the dogs were (if this tells you how honest snd open they are about things). They eventually put that dog down as it bit another grandchild and also their other pets. The other dog was never allowed to come again even though they insisted in it coming.

Their aging dachshund has been to our old house and current one. Last time it was elderly and it was sick and vomited all over the house. I had no idea how sick it was, but allowing that to happen in our house was beyond rude.

So, my one well behaved, quiet, docile and kind GSD has been to their house twice, maybe 3 times over 9 years. I feel like we have been more than fair and accommodating. They travel to us more, or we all travel to other locations (and we don’t bring pets). [/quote]

With this additional update, just say no. As a host you don’t need to negotiate the terms under which MIL will or won’t accept. It’s your house. Say no and she can decide to come or not. [/quote]

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