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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is making me so sad. I've never regretted having my dog for a second.

Sure, having him requires planning our schedules a little differently - and no one likes being woken up at 3 in the morning when the dog isn't feeling well and needs to go out.

But our dog, who we adopted when he was about 2, brings so much joy, and fun, and love, and goofiness to our lives. I love our lives with him.[/quote]

You don't have to feel too sad! I'm a PP who said, if I was speaking truthfully, that I've regretted my dog and my husband moreso.  But he is spoiled and gets so much love & attention. It's just that I've regretted it from time to time.....I'd love to sleep in! I'd love to take off for the whole day w/ my family and not worry about getting back in time to feed him! i'd love clean floors! should we not have gotten him? we probably shouldn't have. but we did, and I'm open to all the love he brings to us. [/quote]

+1.  I'm the PP that talked about regretting our second dog and he has a really great life!  We don't take our frustration out on him or let it change how we treat him but if we had it to do over again, we would not have adopted him.

It's funny, on the parenting forum, you can pretty regularly see people stating that no, if they had it to do over again, they wouldn't have children or married their spouse, and other posters understand.  However, you state you regret getting a pet and people get upset.  Sometimes you make decisions you can't unmake that don't end up working out as well as you'd hoped, it doesn't make you a bad person.  How you react when the choice doesn't turn out the way you thought is what matters.  No one on this thread has stated "Oh yea, I hated our dog so I brought it to the pound."  It's just some people being honest that yes, they regret the choice to get a dog but they're making it work.  [/quote]

I think even those of us who do not regret our dogs have moments when it would be nice to sleep in or do an overnight in the city w/o having to find a dog sitter.  I get it, I really do.
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