Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vet says she's not incontinent bc then she would just walk around and dribble. She knows she is going just needs to go a lot or she ends up going in the house. She's upstairs because that's our living level. Downstairs is just a foyer. She likes to be near us so I think keeping her downstairs would be cruel. The yard is just a tiny grass patch in the front of the house. It's our front lawn basically.

I guess OP wrote that post. I wrote the post about OP complaining that the dog went 8 times a day and I find it unreasonable to expect any dog or human to go less than that per day. I wonder if DH is disgusted with the OP because she refuses to take what seems to be a little dog out to pee. Perhaps this wasn't an issue and they moved to this place.

I think OP just doesn't wan to care for a dog.

Her whole life she's gone out three times per day. Once in the morning. Once when we got home from work. Once before bed. Dogs all across the country live like this. When she started having accidents I hired a dog walker for the afternoons. What normal dog goes 8x per day? Do you pee 8x per day? You might need to see a doctor too!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vet says she's not incontinent bc then she would just walk around and dribble. She knows she is going just needs to go a lot or she ends up going in the house. She's upstairs because that's our living level. Downstairs is just a foyer. She likes to be near us so I think keeping her downstairs would be cruel. The yard is just a tiny grass patch in the front of the house. It's our front lawn basically.

I guess OP wrote that post. I wrote the post about OP complaining that the dog went 8 times a day and I find it unreasonable to expect any dog or human to go less than that per day. I wonder if DH is disgusted with the OP because she refuses to take what seems to be a little dog out to pee. Perhaps this wasn't an issue and they moved to this place.

I think OP just doesn't wan to care for a dog.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but that is bs. How many of you walk your dog eight times per day? She gets walked twice, when DH gets home and before he leaves. The dog has had a long life and priorities change. I'm not a single woman with no other commitmentS anymore. She gets good care and lots of love and I am absolutely entitled to put my well being above the dog. I take care of the whole family, I have needs too.

Anonymous wrote:That post was directed at pp 14.17. To pp 14.27 I am not adverse to putting her down but everyone says you know when the time is right. I'm not sure I feel the time is right-I just don't know.

Anonymous wrote:The vet says she's not incontinent bc then she would just walk around and dribble. She knows she is going just needs to go a lot or she ends up going in the house. She's upstairs because that's our living level. Downstairs is just a foyer. She likes to be near us so I think keeping her downstairs would be cruel. The yard is just a tiny grass patch in the front of the house. It's our front lawn basically.

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised that your dh isn't more bonded with this 16 year old dog. I think that's what's throwing me. Isn't it his dog too?

Anonymous wrote:She's small enough to carry. It is simply not feasible for me to take her down multipls times per day. I'm not hauling two kids plus dog down a flight of stairs that many times. Nor am I going to sacrifice what little free time I have to do that. Between childcare, I take care of the home (laundry, clean bathrooms, vacuum, mail, bills, make beds, etc). In the lite downtime I have I take care of myself (shower, eat). I also run a small and lucrative consulting business part time. The dog likes the balcony. It's big and airy and she's happy sniffing around out there. I pick up the poo daily and change the per pads every few days. I'm not going to feel bad about not adding more to my plate. I don't just sit around all day. I think my DH should just keep the status quo. We can have a gross balcony and a happy mom or a clean balcony and a miserable mom. I think I am more important than the balcony.

Anonymous wrote:She's small enough to carry. It is simply not feasible for me to take her down multipls times per day. I'm not hauling two kids plus dog down a flight of stairs that many times. Nor am I going to sacrifice what little free time I have to do that. Between childcare, I take care of the home (laundry, clean bathrooms, vacuum, mail, bills, make beds, etc). In the lite downtime I have I take care of myself (shower, eat). I also run a small and lucrative consulting business part time. The dog likes the balcony. It's big and airy and she's happy sniffing around out there. I pick up the poo daily and change the per pads every few days. I'm not going to feel bad about not adding more to my plate. I don't just sit around all day. I think my DH should just keep the status quo. We can have a gross balcony and a happy mom or a clean balcony and a miserable mom. I think I am more important than the balcony.

Anonymous wrote:She's small enough to carry. It is simply not feasible for me to take her down multipls times per day. I'm not hauling two kids plus dog down a flight of stairs that many times. Nor am I going to sacrifice what little free time I have to do that. Between childcare, I take care of the home (laundry, clean bathrooms, vacuum, mail, bills, make beds, etc). In the lite downtime I have I take care of myself (shower, eat). I also run a small and lucrative consulting business part time. The dog likes the balcony. It's big and airy and she's happy sniffing around out there. I pick up the poo daily and change the per pads every few days. I'm not going to feel bad about not adding more to my plate. I don't just sit around all day. I think my DH should just keep the status quo. We can have a gross balcony and a happy mom or a clean balcony and a miserable mom. I think I am more important than the balcony.