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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay but what would you do? Spouse just left for work and dog is whining at the empty water bowl. Do you give the dog a little water? Make spouse come back? Leave the dog thirsty even though you're home all day? Charge spouse a tax?

Trust me if the dog has diarrhea one day you won't be casually just leaving that for spouse's eventual return.

This won't work. Dogs are living beings. If you dislike them so much you will not like how much they affect your life. It will not be possible for the dog to be a spouse thing separate from you. There will be too many lines crossed. There will be too many possible situations you will have to step in, and ultimately the dog won't understand why it communicates to you but you won't meet its need thus making it really hard to properly train and socialize the dog.[/quote]

Have you realized that what you described is why the OP doesn’t want a dog? [/quote]

But the PPs point is that what she described is the [i]exact reason [/i]an agreement wouldn’t work. It’s not logistically feasible for OP.[/quote]

Then perhaps the spouse needs to be pro-active and do things to not make the dog OP’s responsibility when the spouse isn’t home. Like put the dog in a doggie daycare when they’re at work for example. Hire a dog walker. Clean up after the dog or hire someone.[/quote]

It’s. Not. Feasible.

As the first PP said, you can’t account for every situation, and training is exponentially more difficult—if not impossible—if one party is ignoring the dog. [/quote]

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