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Dog people - please explain to me

jonsdeedeejonsdeedee
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SILs boyfriend has a dog. They are coming for t-giving. We have a small house - 2 bedrooms upstairs, a den/bedroom downstairs, eat in kitchen and living room. Our yard is not fenced in. We will have 8 people for dinner plus DDand we have a cat.

Why would they think its ok to bring his dog? A dog we have never met and who is not use to children?


thank goodness DH nipped that in the bud when she mentioned it.

 For the record I had a dog all growing up but we never brought it anywhere with us.  If we went somewhere we made arrangements for it to be cared for. 


 

 

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Re: Dog people - please explain to me

  • sammiekcsammiekc
    Did they ask or just assumed they could bring the dog over?
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  • bwralcbwralc member
    Do they live far from you? Otherwise I'm not sure, why they would bring their dog. In my family we are weird like that though, when we have family parties everyone always brings their dig and they all play together. I wouldn't do it to a friend though or of our family is having a huge party with friends, etc who wouldn't understand our madness LOL
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  • jonsdeedeejonsdeedee

    she asked what we were doing with our cat.  DH asked her why and she said they wanted to bring the dog.  Oh its some kind of german sheperd mix.

     

    They live about 2 hours away.

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  • FirefightersBrideFirefightersBride
    i would never bring my beasts to someone's house when they were not invited.
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  • mielkedemielkede
    Sometimes it is hard with dogs to leave them home for long extended periods of time especially if you are going to have 4+ hours of travel time on thanksgiving. They could always pay to kennel their dog instead if they are worried, but that gets expensive too. Maybe they could keep the dog in your garage if they feel that they really need to bring it and no one else can check on it for them. I have 2 dogs and it really limits how long I can be gone from home especially when I figure in travel time.
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  • jolis_petits_bijouxjolis_petits_bijoux

    Ditto PP who asked if they were OOT.  If they aren't from OOT, I have no idea why they would bring the dog.

    I love animals, but I would never bring my animals to someone's house for Thanksgiving, unless they were specifically invited.  And then I still probably wouldn't.

    My BIL and his wife have a 2 year old lab who is a very nice dog, but is still very "puppylike" and has had no obedience training.  They have brought her over to our house several times, and each and every time, she has peed on something and/or broken something.  After several times of this, we told them that the dog can't come inside the house.  I would be beyond mortified at my dog's behavior... but they just don't seem to get it!  ::sigh::

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  • C.MoC.Mo member
    imagejonsdeedee:

    she asked what we were doing with our cat.  DH asked her why and she said they wanted to bring the dog.  Oh its some kind of german sheperd mix.

     

    They live about 2 hours away.

    This would infuriate me. They are the ones visiting, and they are asking what YOU are doing with YOUR own pet? The whole situation seems very inconsiderate (on their end).

    But, people get CRAZY with their animals. My ILs, who are normally very rational people, stopped speaking to us for a month because we wouldn't allow DD to be at their home without us because of their maniac dog.

    Glad your DH took care of it!

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  • XKGXKG

    I dont think there is anything wrong with asking if they could if they live OOT and cant find a place to board thier pet.  Boarding is very expensive, and requires you to leave your pet with strangers.  Not something I would do.  It sounds like they asked in a strange or inconsiderate way, though.  My family is very dog friendly, but even we do not usually bring our dogs to major family functions (as in, we bring them to sunday breakfast, we do not bring them to Thanksgiving).  We split up our 3 dogs between family when we go out of town. 

    My husband's family is not very dog friendly, but my husband's aunt brings her dog EVERYWHERE.  Its a shih tzu, but aggressive.  Its tries to bite us and tried to attack our (small) dog the one time we brought one of our pets with us to visit his parents.  She opted to not come to my shower when she was informed the dog couldnt come, but, because we forgot to tell her no, she brought her dog with her to our wedding!

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