OP, what breed are these dogs? I'm asking because I have a lot of experience with certain high energy breeds--my family lived on a farm that bred and trained (for work and competitions) herding dogs.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand people's attachments to dogs that are clearly not good companions. Just get rid of them. Your child will appreciate having a calmer life. When I was a child, we apparently had a dog - the dog pooped in the hallway while my sister was in her high chair. The resulting chaos caused my sister to tip over the high chair and cut her tongue really badly - she nearly lost half her tongue. My mom rehomed the dog and I don't even remember it - although in all the pictures I seemed really attached to it. The dogs should go.

Sounds like the poop didn't do anything but, your unstable mom did though. What if your dog was sick? Your mom probably was at fault and yet blamed the dog!

You know her mom didn't "rehome" the dog, her mom put the dog to sleep.

Why don't you ask your mom what really happened, because "rehoming " dogs wasn't a thing 20, 30 or 40 years ago... they took the sig to the vet and put them down.

If your mom was that mad, do you actually think she spent any more time and energy on trying to find a new home for the dog??
Nope, she put that dog to sleep.

Ask her.

Then good for the mom, young kids and dogs shouldn’t be in the same house.

Whatever you say... clearly your incapable of multiple responsibilities.

Young kids and dogs can be perfectly fine in the same home, the problem occurs when you have lazy, negligent owners & parents, who think that their dogs will turn out just fine without obedience training, and then the dog assumes command of the family (the pack) as the alpha

If you don't sign up a new dog for obedience training, guess what?? It's YOUR fault alone when they don't listen, not the innocent dog's.

You've set that dog up for failure... the blame is not on them, it's on the incompetent, unaccountable owner.

It's not the dogs fault, but god forbid that owner take responsibility or accountability when everything goes wrong, and "chaos ensues".
So they once again take the easy easy way out.
They put the dog to sleep or "rehome" it, rather than take the time & effort that they should have when they got the dog initially.

That's nobody's fault but the negligible owner... and also negligible parent (not only did the parents not train the dog, but her sister somehow managed to tip her highchair over, fall and get hurt, all in the mother's presence??). 🧐

* Btw, I'm NOT referring to the OP, I commend the OP for trying to make the situation better, unlike the PP above's awful mother.

I see that this thread has been "cleaned up"...good!

With animals it is unfair to punish them after time has passed because w/out the benefit of communication - they really do not know what you are punishing them for.

Anonymous wrote:I personally would feel just awful re-homing any one of these dogs to another person.

I could only do so if I offered full disclosure.

I do realize that doing so will minimize their chances for finding another family - but it would be just so cruel to not disclose all of this to a potential new owner.

Why would you assume that OP wouldn’t disclose? Here’s all OP has to say: “I’m pregnant and overwhelmed with my two dogs. I can’t give enough exercise or training (list attempts here) for D1 and D2 is still having accidents (despite x attempts at training).” Lots of people might do better with the dog and even if they don’t, lots of dog owners don’t seem to mind what their dogs do.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand people's attachments to dogs that are clearly not good companions. Just get rid of them. Your child will appreciate having a calmer life. When I was a child, we apparently had a dog - the dog pooped in the hallway while my sister was in her high chair. The resulting chaos caused my sister to tip over the high chair and cut her tongue really badly - she nearly lost half her tongue. My mom rehomed the dog and I don't even remember it - although in all the pictures I seemed really attached to it. The dogs should go.

Sounds like the poop didn't do anything but, your unstable mom did though. What if your dog was sick? Your mom probably was at fault and yet blamed the dog!

You know her mom didn't "rehome" the dog, her mom put the dog to sleep.

Why don't you ask your mom what really happened, because "rehoming " dogs wasn't a thing 20, 30 or 40 years ago... they took the sig to the vet and put them down.

If your mom was that mad, do you actually think she spent any more time and energy on trying to find a new home for the dog??
Nope, she put that dog to sleep.

Ask her.

Then good for the mom, young kids and dogs shouldn’t be in the same house.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand people's attachments to dogs that are clearly not good companions. Just get rid of them. Your child will appreciate having a calmer life. When I was a child, we apparently had a dog - the dog pooped in the hallway while my sister was in her high chair. The resulting chaos caused my sister to tip over the high chair and cut her tongue really badly - she nearly lost half her tongue. My mom rehomed the dog and I don't even remember it - although in all the pictures I seemed really attached to it. The dogs should go.

Sounds like the poop didn't do anything but, your unstable mom did though. What if your dog was sick? Your mom probably was at fault and yet blamed the dog!

You know her mom didn't "rehome" the dog, her mom put the dog to sleep.

Why don't you ask your mom what really happened, because "rehoming " dogs wasn't a thing 20, 30 or 40 years ago... they took the sig to the vet and put them down.

If your mom was that mad, do you actually think she spent any more time and energy on trying to find a new home for the dog??
Nope, she put that dog to sleep.

Ask her.

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Anonymous wrote:Rehome them both and don't feel bad about it. Life is too short to beat yourself up over two dogs.

She didn’t beat herself up. She beat the dogs instead.

OP here. This made me literally LOL.

Dogs are now on a strict training program with multiple training sessions a day. We've suspended walks and park trips until they're more manageable and are focusing on games and treat training at home for exercise.

D2 doesn't have any medical issues, she spent nearly 2 months in a foster home where she wasn't allowed outside due to Parvo fears, so it's ben deeply ingrained in her to just pee/poop wherever. It's been a tough habit to break.

I do feel bad for D1 because she loves to run. LOVES it. At the park she'll easily run for 2 hours. But she gets so excited and amped up from running around, that we all decided it's best to curb the energetic behavior until she learns some impulse control.

I'm the PP upthread who uses a prong collar on my dog occasionally.

Good. Training requires a ton of mental effort on the part of the dog. It's real exercise. My dog can run around all day (did I mention he's a northern breed sled dog?), pulling weights, but it does nothing for his behavior. What changes his behavior is training. Multiple short sessions, done very consistently, will end up fixing a lot of problems. Not all, but most.

Good luck with the potty training. I once successfully potty-trained a recalcitrant foster dog that had been in God-knows-what hellhole before she came to the shelter. It was hard.

Thanks. Yea, D1 can run all day and it does nothing. I’ve watched her run at the dog park for 2-3 hours and still bounce off the walls. And right now when she runs, she’s running like a psycho, running into dogs and people, leaping over top of them, just sort of bounding around barking and looking for things to get into. I get dogs need exercise, but it really feels like allowing the running just teaches her to act all crazy. I did order one of those 50 foot leashes so I can take her to the park and throw a ball for her to chase, but can still manage some control.

What breed dog is D1?? Nothing tires her at all? I have a 1yo GSD and 20min of ball/fetch with the flinger (50 yard throws +) leaves her so exhausted she will barely move. For a few hours anyway. Are you totally sure there is no feasible exercise that would tire D1?

Fortunately in this life every thing is not a vote. Do what works for you and don’t look back.

There’s really no shame to rehoming a dog. It’s a dog and you are expecting a baby. You have plenty on your hands !

Haha I tried out the electric shock on my husband. Pretty mild but very effective (on the dog) used to twice on the lowest setting then moved to buzzing which was easily effective. Dog is very well trained.
But in OPs case: rehome them.

I personally would feel just awful re-homing any one of these dogs to another person.

I could only do so if I offered full disclosure.

I do realize that doing so will minimize their chances for finding another family - but it would be just so cruel to not disclose all of this to a potential new owner.