I really need some advice or help. We adopted Oscar our pit/lab mix about 3 years ago the rescue guessed he was about 2. I am a single mom and at the time only worked a few nights a week bartending so we would be outside all day with him and he would be wore out when it was time for me to go to work. A year and half ago I found myself with a really great work opportunity to better provide for my family him included. But the hours are much more demanding, so the attention he gets has of course gone down.
In turn his behavior has gotten out of control. He goes to the bathroom all over only my daughters room even when we are home and he was JUST outside for 25 min. Constantly. Her barbies, her laundry. I try and keep her door shut and remind her too but I’m a little outnumbered and stretched thin when I’m in the laundry room washing all the things he already peed on.
He doesn’t have a urinary infection I have had it checked so many times. I have tried crates(he eats/breaks them) I have a nanny cam I can talk to him while at work. But he creates so much work for me when I come home on top of homework, baths, dishes, laundry I planned on doing, paying bills. That by the time I’m done with the things I planned on doing + the additional work he has made for me there is now no time for him to play. And it just keeps getting worse. I don’t have a fenced in yard so I have to walk him or put him on a run in the yard and he mostly just gets put out on the run now because I do not have the time to take him for a run after work like I used too.
I hardly want to come home anymore, I know there will only be messes and after being at work for 10 hours I’m pretty crabby already. I’m sick of coming home after a long day to be miserable.
I don’t want to be that person who regimes my dog because I don’t have the time for him, but I’m beginning to feel selfish if I don’t.
He is such a sweet and loyal dog most the time, and to have this thought breaks my heart. But I know neither of us are living our best life like this.
In turn his behavior has gotten out of control. He goes to the bathroom all over only my daughters room even when we are home and he was JUST outside for 25 min. Constantly. Her barbies, her laundry. I try and keep her door shut and remind her too but I’m a little outnumbered and stretched thin when I’m in the laundry room washing all the things he already peed on.
He doesn’t have a urinary infection I have had it checked so many times. I have tried crates(he eats/breaks them) I have a nanny cam I can talk to him while at work. But he creates so much work for me when I come home on top of homework, baths, dishes, laundry I planned on doing, paying bills. That by the time I’m done with the things I planned on doing + the additional work he has made for me there is now no time for him to play. And it just keeps getting worse. I don’t have a fenced in yard so I have to walk him or put him on a run in the yard and he mostly just gets put out on the run now because I do not have the time to take him for a run after work like I used too.
I hardly want to come home anymore, I know there will only be messes and after being at work for 10 hours I’m pretty crabby already. I’m sick of coming home after a long day to be miserable.
I don’t want to be that person who regimes my dog because I don’t have the time for him, but I’m beginning to feel selfish if I don’t.
He is such a sweet and loyal dog most the time, and to have this thought breaks my heart. But I know neither of us are living our best life like this.