u/Second_breakfastses

I’m planning a homebirth in August. Currently, I live under 10 minutes from 2 major hospitals with excellent NICUs, including my preferred back-up hospital. Our lease is up on July 1st and we’d like to move and purchase a house. The house we like (and my husband absolutely loves) is 35 minutes to the nearest hospital and 50 minutes from my preferred hospital.

Am I being unnecessarily worried about transfer times?

We have a 9 year old Cattle Dog. My husband got her as a puppy and I met him when she was 8 months old. She‘s always been great with general obedience (sit, down, come, place,etc) but had a few annoying behavior issues, mainly barking, leash reactivity, barreling past me and body checking me on the stairs, and generally getting underfoot. We resolved the stairs and underfoot issue by sending her to place.

My husband recently took a long business trip of several weeks, and I was able to improve her barking in the house and reactivity substantially. But since my husband has returned, she’s completely backtracked on all of our progress. Not only that, she’s completely ignores me when I ask for regular obedience like place, come and sit. She still listens if my husband asks or if I have a treat.

I’m at a complete loss about what to do. A lot of her obedience is a safety issue. I often send her to place 15-20 times per day because she has a history of knocking me down the stairs or scrambling directly under my feet in the kitchen. She wouldn’t recall at the park today. I gave her a bath this afternoon and she completely ignored me when I told her to get off the leather couch (wet dog+ leather= fabric damage).