r/TalesfromtheDogHouse

I just found this subreddit, and I finally feel like I can talk to people who will understand me.

I started dating this girl over a year ago. Growing up, I was never really around dogs. I didn't hate them, but I never liked them either. The smell, the noise, the jumping, the drooling, it's awful to me. Still, I could go to a friend's house and tolerate a dog being around without much of an issue. However, after I started dating my girlfriend, I realized just how horrible these animals can be.

It all started early on. When she used to come to my place, we couldn't even spend a full weekend together because she refused to leave her dog alone for a single day. Her parents were home and could take care of him, but she just wouldn't do it. I was annoyed but tried to ignore it, figuring she had her reasons, but honestly, I think it's all in her head.

Eventually, I started spending more time at her house. At first, she respected my boundaries. I didn't want the dog near us, so we would stay in her room with the door closed, and the dog stayed out. It was totally fine. But over time, she just started ignoring the fact that I don't like it. She leaves the door open and lets him in all the time. If the dog finally leaves us alone, she actually calls him back into the room. I get absolutely pissed because she knows I don't want to be near him.

I think all my current hatred for dogs stems from how unbearable this specific dog is. He cannot go a single minute without attention. If we are talking or doing anything and he isn't the center of attention, he starts crying, screaming, and jumping on us. It is the most obnoxious thing in the world. He's disgusting, too. He constantly smells terrible, literally rolls in poop on the street, and if I complain about it, my girlfriend gets mad at me and ruins my whole week. I can't even stand looking at him anymore. Whenever she sends me pictures of him, I get mad and immediately delete them, though I don't tell her that.

Her obsession with this dog is driving me crazy; it's basically her entire personality. We can't talk for 10 minutes without her bringing him up. She stops in the middle of our conversations to talk to the dog in a baby voice. It honestly feels like she prefers the dog's attention over mine. All of her affection seems directed solely at him. When she's at my house, she panics, saying he won't eat if she's not there and that he might starve. She even wakes up in the middle of the night terrified that he might randomly die in his sleep. She lets this smelly dog sleep in the bed right next to me.

Here is the dealbreaker: I always assumed that if our relationship progressed and we moved in together, the dog would stay with her parents. But I just found out her parents are moving. If we move in together, the dog comes with us. She won't leave him with anyone else.

Now, I honestly don't know what to do. I am seriously considering ending the relationship because I cannot picture a world where I live in the same house as this dog. Our relationship is perfect otherwise, but she forces this dog into everything we do. The dog essentially controls her life. She would probably miss work if the dog felt even slightly unwell. I feel like we are going to miss out on so many opportunities in the future because she refuses to leave him alone for a single day.

She claims the dog is "fragile" and that he saved her life because he "understands" when she's sad. But he isn't smart; he's just needy, gross, and literally cannot be away from her for 5 minutes without getting all the attention. She says he was bullied by other dogs before she adopted him. I genuinely believe it's because whenever he sees another animal getting attention, he gets desperate and aggressively attacks them for it.

He is the most hateful creature I've ever met, and he has given me a deep aversion to all dogs. But the biggest problem in all of this is that my girlfriend completely enables this behavior and thinks it's cute. I've tried ignoring him, scolding him, and talking to her about stopping the coddling, but nothing works. If I don't pretend to like the dog, she gets upset with me for weeks until I fake being okay with it. I am at my wits' end.

As title says... Besides the fact I had to lose my bf for most of the day, it was wonderful! I made them take the shit beast for a huge walk and I was able to do some housework with out her underfoot constantly, moving her from room to room. I got the kitchen floor clean after she covered the entire floor with mud and shit. Today I realised how much I appreciated the time away from her, it stinks down there again and she's worse then the bad smells she makes (hair and general dog smell) she sticks like a fly to her shit, the constant whinging and barking... I don't want to be homeless but it sounds better then dealing with the stink princess shit stain.... I'm going to talk to my bf again about her been rehomed, not to use my anxiety and fear but the fact no one wants to walk her coz she doesn't want to stick to her training or wants to brush her coz she doesn't like been brushed. She is used when the child wants to play but won't do anything to keep her and the only reason I wanted her to stay was for the child. If he's done then I am as well lol

This is not the news that I wanted to hear, you know over the years how much I could not stand the dog my sister brought to my family’s home? And how she keeps getting homes that didn’t allow dogs? Well she and her boyfriend did manage to get a proper home with a yard, and you would think she would finally take that dog from my family’s house right? WRONG! She instead brought a new dog! That tells me that the dog at my house is permanently staying, 4.5 years of me impatiently waiting for my sister to take it, only for her to screw me over in the worst way possible, the only reason I even allowed that dog to stay at my house in the first place was because I was told it would just be temporary, that ended up being a lie!
My family should know that I have no control over my meltdowns that I have when it barks, and since I promised that my Let’s Plays on YouTube would only return when the dog goes, now I can say that they are all cancelled.

Ive just recently became very critical of dogs. Been around them for all my life at home, and the current dogs we have right now are some of the most annoying POS's that I have the displeasure of dealing with. Went away to college and found out that I actually liked being without the mutts. I come home for summer, and I realized how annoying and untrained they are. Everytime we let them out to use the bathroom, they start barking their asses off. They surround the dinner table when I try to eat with my family and beg. My family is also fine letting the dogs lick the plates and such before we run them through the washer. They jump up and sleep on the beds, sleep on the furniture, piss on things outside, eat shit and other crap, jump up on cars, and destroy so much stuff. I open a door to go outside, and BOOM, all three of them vome running and crying to go out (egen if they just went out).This past week, my family went on a camping trip. I opted out, because that meant I had to be stuck with 4 people plus me, and 3 large dogs in a small camper.

Because I stayed home, they left the dogs home, and I had to watch them, and it was miserable. The youngest one would jump up on the counter, and bring down everything and destroy it. He destroyed: soda cans, new pair of shoes, shampoo, card games, paper work, food, ect. And if I bring it up to my family, they respond with, "He is just a puppy," and snap at me for being critical of the dogs.

We have to bring them with us to every vacation/camping trip because they are "part of the family" and it just makes it miserable. I want the dogs we used to have. They behaved. They were actually fun to have around. But now, we have a pit bull mix, a standard poodle, and a golden doodle. I despise them, and any time I call out how poorly trained they are, I get chastised and criticized by my family. I used to love dogs, now I just have nothing but annoyance by them.

Next door neighbor has four dogs in the front yard. Small ones, yappy as hell. Jumping all over . The yard is completely fenced with chain link.

Saw it this morning as I arrived at my own front gate. Delivery guy was next door on the sidewalk with packages . He seemed unsure where to leave the packages . So, finally, he left them outside the neighbor's chain link gate.

The gate has two signs on it : "Beware of dogs" and "No trespassing".

Not a good idea in this area to leave packages outside .

We have already previously told the neighbor about the risks when packages are left outside .

Some nutters have to learn the hard way.

 Honestly I really need to rant about the dogs in my house. They're my mothers dogs. It would be nice to move out, however I have one more year of school left. I have OCD and like to have a put together space without destroyed items, and the destruction is genuinely taking a toll on my mental health. I avoid inviting friends over because I'm worried the house smells like the dogs or that they've wrecked the house inside and out.

  I’m unsure if I’m over reacting to all of this, but here’s a run down of the situation. The larger dog lives “outside”, the smaller dog and the cat both live inside. The larger dog is getting older and was a good dog until it learned how to open doors and can now get inside the house. This dog used to refuse to come inside (hence why it was an outside dog, it did not like to be inside), and because it’s an outside dog, it’s quite gross and smelly. It has chewed through doors trying to get inside. When we call it inside the garage for the night, it only comes when my mother calls for it. I’ve stood outside for an hour before trying to call it inside while it just sat and stared at me, tail wagging. When it gets inside the house, it refuses to leave unless you drag it, and it’s hard to drag because it’s a big dog and fights back. It used to be helpful and bark when a car pulled into our driveway. Now it just barks randomly which causes the other dog to bark like crazy. Since it’s close to the 4th of July, it has started to bark at fireworks. It also likes to dig holes in the yard, but only one specific hole which is right over the water line, and it keeps continuously busting because of the dog. We’ve tried to get dog beds for it which it just tears up and carries to throw cotton all over the yard. I’m SO tired of mowing the lawn and having to clean poo from the blades/tires/deck. I like to have a nice lawn, but the dog piss spots make it look awful.

  The smaller inside dog is also a nuisance. He barks at EVERYTHING. Birds outside, the larger dog when they’re outside together, thunder, EVERYTHING. He gets on the table if there’s any dishes on it. I’ve left a plate unattended for five minutes to use the bathroom and came back to it knocked onto the floor being eaten by the dog. He gets into the trash can and climbs into it and throws it all over the house whether there’s food in it or not. He’ll get in the trash just to eat the crumbs out of an empty box. He goes outside and brings in fleas with him, and then we have to bug bomb the house because of it. He’ll scratch at the door to come inside like he can’t wait five minutes for someone to let him in, and because of this the paint on the door has come off entirely in a spot. We have to keep the cat’s food bowl really high up or he’ll get into the cat’s food. He sits by the table during dinner and will instantly shoot under it to catch any dropped food. He jumps on anyone who comes over, and barks frantically at them. He’s just REALLY annoying. I had a bag of can tabs and was adding a tab to it, and he started begging for the bag of can tabs like it was food. He gets fed twice a day and his food bowl is always out for him to eat from. He chases the cat around the house snapping and barking at it for hours, knocking stuff over and running into things. He even randomly has decided to poop in the house. The part of the yard he is in isn’t any better, and since it’s a smaller area, it’s actually worse. It would be nice to walk in that area without having to scrub my shoes afterward, and to not have urine burn on the grass. He doesn’t chew up everything, just select things. He seems to only chew up important things. Here’s a list of some of the items he’s chewed up: 4 different pairs of Airpods, a Bible, auto insurance cards, a photo ID, couch cushions, and he also pissed on and chewed up a brand new expensive laptop. You can smell him when he walks into the room no matter how many baths he gets. My mother also bathes him in MY shower, and doesn’t really clean the dirt and stuff out of it. I’ll need a nice relaxing shower, get everything ready for it, and then open the shower curtain to dog hair and dirt on the floor of the tub that I have to scrub. My mother also got rid of the only dog I've ever liked (very good dog by the way) because she "made him sad". He's probably "sad" because he doesn't have a new mess to make.

I just want to rant somewhere. I moved in with my girlfriend recently, and she's had this dog for a while. I hadn't known how awful these creatures were until I started living with one.

My long time partner and I house his adult son,for free( Whole other story) .1 in the past we took in his sons dog,while he lived w his gf. It came to us starved! I mean totally mangey and thin. So vets,food,the whole nine,got that dog healthy again.Eventually died. Ok 2. Took in his adult daughters dog that was dumped on her by baby mama. Never socialized,totally anxious French poddle. Pretty smart but barked forever at everything. Freaked out around kids,walking etc,would shake in car. Of course I ended up walking it,toileting,grooming,etc. but the dog was sweet on me. Eventually she moved out ,took dog with her because her mom refused to take it back after promising it would only be temp. Eventually step daughter rehoused( surprise)lol. So finally living dog free. 3 this is the WTF. Two days ago partner comes to me with sob story about sonny boy telling Dad that his counselor suggested he go ahead and get a dog because " he was depressed from no having a dog,and that's why he binge drinks once a week ,because he's sooo lonely" BS. TELLS DAD he's getting a dog and he'll sleep in his car with it if it's not Welcome. Does Partner step up ,say no,have boundaries? Course not because he's a dog nutter too. Instead sets me up to be bad guy. Gives me this whole" mayby it'll help him not drink" Delusional speech. I tell him no, we're not ready,remind him of costs,what happened previously,etc,etc. Can we talk more,yadyadyad. Tells me ,told his son I have to say yes first. Right cause it's all myyyy fault. Even though last time HE would lose his shit( not me) because dog wasn't being taken care of and he didn't want to come home having to deal with it. Anyway we go inside and Wooff. Tells me he'll talk to son. Dude and Dudettes ,this is one massive dog! I come home tonight and and I'm friendly to dog( she had a female owner so can tell she already wants to be with me.lol.So I say out loud, is she walkable,she's gonna be a 2000 THOUSAND a year dog,etc. Just saying things out loud ,but not being mean or anything. Suddenly Son whips out all pissy about what I said. Then Daddy comes to his Defense. I BLEW up at them both told them they can pay for the house themselves,told them they don't respect me,I really BLEW up. They ran. Lol. But seriously. The son can't even afford life,works only 6 months,no unemployment bennies. I am so upset. It's not even a hatred if Dogs. But I hate people who act so fing righteous and attached to these animals,AND THEY don't even Care about these animals. They don't walk them . Let them stay alone all day, don't train,etc. You know the drill. Will leave them with their bladders bursting. Like Dogs should live outside. It's cute at first then it's all hair, drool,and neglect and they don't even see it. How do you get a dog that big when you won't take it out to exercise. It's disturbing how they claim to love dogs but really they treat them like garbage. I don't want to deal with this. My boyfriend also just lost his job,so I don't want to be the AWhole,but literally ,this is a pattern and it's going to get ugly eventually. These people are so selfish. I don't know what to do. I was in a rage. If I say no,there will always be resentment. If I go ahead ,I'm doomed.i never said yes to this Dog! And now I'm the bad guy and we are not talking. I'm stuck ,because I don't see anyway out of this.

My boyfriend has a dog and I can’t stand living with it. He whines, ALL THE TIME. If he wants to cuddle, he whines until you put him on the couch even though he is perfectly capable of jumping up himself. He whines if he wants food, even if the bowl is full. He whines and stares and begs when he wants YOUR food. He whines if you won’t play with him, even though he becomes uninterested in playing the second you grab a toy. He whines to be let upstairs to play with his Mom’s dog. He whines to be let downstairs when he’s bored playing with the dog upstairs. He whines to go outside, and then proceeds to not go pee or poop. He whines to come back inside. He whines anytime he doesn’t get his way, and has clearly learned that if he whines long enough he will get his way. For me, this is beyond annoying and disrupts my peace constantly but my boyfriend either tunes him out or just babies him because “awww he’s so cute he’s just a little guy he needs help getting on the couch”. While I can admit he is small and cute, he’s also aggravating. When he isn’t whining, he’s peeing or shitting on the floor or worst, he’s eating our food off of the table when we run upstairs to do laundry. What’s worse is my boyfriend KNOWS about these behavioral issues but instead of correcting it he just cleans up the pee or poop and says “Eh I don’t mind because he’s a little guy and it’s not much to clean up” or he just moves the food off of the table out of his reach. He also has never crate trained him in the 5 years that he’s had him so he free roams (which clearly doesn’t work). He also lets the dog sleep IN bed with us, UNDER the blankets. The dog has 2 beds of his own but they clearly go to waste and he usually just tears them up when he’s playing. The co-sleeping is the worst part for me because I’ve always been taught that dogs are animals, not babies, and I think it is beyond disgusting to have a dog rolling around in your clean sheets. The dog walks all over dirt and grass, rubs its ass outside after shitting, and lays on the ground, and then he just lets it lay in bed with us. I get that he’s a small dog and maybe I’m just a germaphobe but it makes me so uncomfortable knowing that everything on his paws are now on my skin. And don’t even get me started on the hair. You could pet and brush him for hours and the shedding would be nonstop. It gets absolutely everywhere. Black outfits ruined, it gets in my underwear after we’re intimate on the furry ass sheets, I’ve even been eating my food and found that the dog’s fur made its way onto the plate because it practically coats the air in the apartment at this point. We’ve talked about it and he reassured me that he would work on the dog’s behavior, but as I’m typing this, I just found dog shit on the bathroom bath mats. I don’t feel like I have much say so in this because I moved into his space and I know he loves his dog in an abnormal dog parent sort of way. But the longer I live with a dog, the more it becomes a dealbreaker for me and when we eventually get our own place, I refuse to live with a dog that acts this way. Advice?

Recently moved in with my partner of 2 years and I'm struggling to adjust to his dog

He has a yappie ass yorkie which has been the only animal that he's had through a difficult time period and a divorce. The dog is incredibly spoiled, he's allowed to sleep on the pillows and in the bed and my partner gets up with him every single time he whimpers which is literally once every 90 minutes to 2 hours. This dog is 9 years old. I told him this is worse than having a newborn child which parents trying to sleep through the night pretty quickly but he just laughs it off and thinks that that's what's adorable about dogs... The fact that they remain like newborns forever if you allow that.

At first I was very respectful of the relationship and I recognize the fact that I'm not a dog person... So maybe I just can't understand that love. But as this goes on I'm becoming less and less tolerant of it because I'm seeing that he is replacing human relationships with this silly dog.

Thanks to Reddit I have recently started putting my foot down and will literally just tell him "I'm not going to compete with the dog for your affection."

My partner has admittedly talked about the fact he's not very comfortable with emotions or showing affection based on his childhood and his divorce and I have been very understanding of that. But when he comes home from work he immediately cuddles and kisses the dog and tells the dog over and over how much he loves it and I feel like I am struggling to get that kind of attention out of him. I want to reiterate that I understand the dog is important to him and I do like the dog, but I feel like a second class citizen compared to this animal.

He seems really taken off guard by my concerns like when I mention I don't feel like we have a clean bed with a dirty dog inside of it or that I feel like he gives the dog more attention than me... he says we to need to discuss in therapy because "the dog is also part of the family".

No... It's not. It's a DOG. I appreciate the fact that he's willing to go to therapy for it but I don't feel like me and the dog should put on the same level and I still feel like this is a way of telling me that I'm the problem and we're going to go get me professional help to gaslight me into thinking that I'm not the problem.

Sorry just a little rant and thanks for listening. I've lost hope that there's anything I can really do about this except for the dog to die and he is 9 years old. I've already started laying the ground work and saying that I'm not willing to get another dog but I will do the best I can to care for this dog while it's still here. Just so wild to me that some people don't understand the boundaries and difference between a pet and a human.

I just wanted to rant about this, if you don’t know the history of what’s happening just take a look at my previous posts, but to sum it up, I live with my mother and she has a dog and I hate the dog, she knows I hate the dog and it’s coming between us due to her.

Tonight we were watching fireworks and she brought the dog out to watch with us, which I hated but I bit my tongue. He stopped at one point and stared at something and my mom said, “there’s nothing there what is he doing.” And I jokingly just said, “he’s just dumb.” And my mom reached over and hit me. I said, “what’s the big deal? You call him dumb too.” And she said it was different because she says it in a “joking way.” I responded with, “he doesn’t even know what we’re saying why does it matter.”

I’m just pretty annoyed right now it kind of ruined my mood.

I feel super guilty even typing this and having these feelings but I’m starting to get upset. It’s always like a maybe for anything I invite him to because of the dogs. I always feel like the dogs come first. His mother is a nut job about the dogs and they live together. Literally causing him to not be able to pick me up from the airport because she was working that evening and “no one would be home to feed the dogs” even though he 100% would have been home to feed them at the time they normally eat.

I love him so much and we have talked about reasonable solutions for the future regarding puppy pads in the house, dog door, having someone stop in to let them out… but I just hate that almost every single plan you make has to consider the dogs.

I’ve posted about this dog previously and the fact my mom owns this house and brought him into it against my wishes, and I couldn’t do anything about it. Well, today he comes inside stinking AWFULLY and wet, and immediately ruins my mood, super hyper and jumping everywhere.

My mom said, “you’re so cute, *my name* also thinks you’re super cute.” And she knows I hate dogs and I hate him and I’m just fed up with him so I replied, “no I don’t, I think he’s gross and ugly.” And she just went silent, lol.

I’ve done this before in the past and she says it makes her really sad and it’s rude of me, but I’m tired of her saying to the dog that I find him cute or even care about him. I know it’s kind of stupid and petty of me but I don’t care, if I have to listen to dog BS then she can put up with this.

My boyfriend has a 103-pound Doberman/Malinois/German Shepherd mix that is poorly trained (bad dog manners: try being 5'4 petite and having a very large dog jump on you and knock you down out of excitement, its not fun!), has anxiety, sheds heavily, barks constantly, tries to dart out the front door, and has very few boundaries. My boyfriend lives in a small apartment, doesn’t walk or brush the dog, and dog hair/dander is everywhere, literally piled up in corners of every area of his place. I try to overlook things because he treats me well, we have a good relationship, and because its not my house but its very off putting when I walk in and see dog hair all over my boyfriends clothes, which will obviously get all over me, and dog fur tumbleweeds everywhere you look (and no he doesn't vaccum/sweep his floors or lint roll his clothes if we go in public).
I have two dogs myself, but they have rules, boundaries, dog-free zones, and I keep up with cleaning because I’m allergic to dogs (they dont sleep with me but they do have their own beds and blankets etc). I dont spend the night at my boyfriend’s apartment because the amount of hair, dander, and overall cleanliness makes me uncomfortable and aggravates my allergies (my boyfriend doesn't know that is the true reasoning).
My boyfriend says he’ll be better about cleaning, grooming, creating dog free zones/boundaries, and training the dog when we eventually move in together, but he isn’t making any effort to improve those things now.
I’m worried that if we move in together, I’ll end up being responsible for cleaning up after a dog that isn’t mine because I’m bothered by the mess and he isn’t. I also think about having children someday and don’t love the idea of my baby crawling around on floors covered in dog hair and dander.
Am I being unreasonable for questioning whether moving in together is a good idea when our standards for pet ownership, cleanliness, and household expectations seem so different? How do I have a conversation with him about it to where he will be better and managing his dog?

My dad has a dog, one of those fluffy ones, that he's obsessed with. He's always talking to it, yelling random things, ALL DAY LONG. You can't have peace if you want to study or watch something. He happily yells at the dog for everyone in the house and even on the street to hear, things like "my baby," some strange nicknames. I'm thinking of moving out and suspecting he has Tourette's. He also talks to the dog as if it understands something

It's nearly 6AM and I've been awake since 2AM bc my gf's dog just has to pace around and do that fur shake thing they do at night. Between the sound of it's claws on wood floors and it's jingling collar it's impossible to stay asleep. I woke up and put him out of the room and he then whines pressed up on the door banging into the door

I didn't grow up with dogs because my parents came from a muslim country and I always grew up with the house being very tidy and clean. My gf is american and well she's just very used to having a shit ton of pets shedding fur everywhere. I have found dog hair everywhere from in my coffee, to on my clothes to even on my balls. It's a part time job cleaning up dog fur and avoiding getting dog fur in my clothes, backpack, laptop, coffee cups etc and it annoys the shit out of me knowing that nothing is ever truly clean and this dog will shed its hair everywhere just existing in proximity to all my stuff

I'm convinced this dog obsession in america is clinical. Everywhere I look in this city there are homeless and drug addicts but people throw a prisoner collar on a dog and drag it around places and are convinced they are somehow good people? These dogs are basically indentured servants and it's no wonder they run right out the door away from their owners whenever they get the chance. Dogs are simultaneously genuises in the eyes of their owners when they are "good" but "stupid" when they try to escape their nut job owners. You cant have it both ways

I don't dislike dogs themselves, they are just animals and can't help being what they are and sometimes this dog can even be cute/funny for example how it guards the door from the outside when im using the bathroom. But the relationship people have with dogs is seriously sick.

I need to vent because I feel like I'm going insane! Also, because it's so socially unacceptable to voice ANY negatives about a dog, its actually now growing a rage inside of me the more I'm forced to just "grin and bear" this.

It's a long story but basically my mum is a Support Worker, one of her clients abandoned her dog (10yr old Staffy), moved interstate, and left the dog in the backyard. The company my mum worked for left the dog in the backyard for 2 weeks and eventually planned to take him to the shelter. Every single dog person we knew was telling us non stop that we MUST go get that poor dog and find it a home otherwise if he goes to the shelter it'll be the end for him because of his age. We eventually caved in and decided we will get him and it'll be super short term and we'll find him a new home. Holy shit was that THE worst decision ever!

This dog is not trained at all! I've grown up with cats so I know absolutely nothing about dogs other than the time a dog brutally attacked my cat and left him for near dead. Hence why taking this dog was a HUGE deal for us given our past (not that this was at all a good enough reason for all the dog people).

I cannot believe how needy this dog is! Its honestly repulsive, not cute, not funny, actually the most annoying, overstimulating thing ever. He stinks, all the time, no matter how often he is bathed. He barks non-stop, and mainly to piss me off, I'm dead serious, he cannot stand my mum not being home and frets instantly and then needs to be able to have a visual line of sight on me at ALL times while she is gone or he will go around to ever window around the house barking to get my attention, and I mean a piercing LOUD bark. I work from home and its become a nightmare, I have literally ran around my house like a headless chicken mid meetings, mid phone calls and mid stressful work tasks to try shut this dog up to the point of completel overwhelm where I have sat on the ground almost in tears because I can't take it anymore.

It has been 3 years now.. 3 years of hell.. all of the people who pressured us into doing this have vanished and can't help at all.. re-homing him has become impossible, rescues won't take him and people are put off by his size (30kgs), the kicker in it all, I ended up calling the shelter and they won't take him because he's reactive to other dogs 🙃 so all of this guilt from all of the dog lovers about the dreaded shelter only to find out nope that would have never happened anyway and we have royally f#%ked ourselves.

I have now spent $1k to see an allergist to be told I have severe dog allergies, I'm on steroids, sprays and antihistamines daily. From the time he moved in I have progressively been an itchy, swollen and painful mess. I decided this cannot go on after seeing the allergist and that I am going to try re-home him again. I posted him on Gumtree the other day (I think Australian equivalent to Craigslist) and I received countless horrible messages including death threats for putting a 13yr old Staffy on Gumtree and that I should just continue to take medication daily (which give me great side effects btw) because this dog who I was trying to help out of a bad situation is now my problem and even worse, I'm the bad guy for not just keeping him. Doesn't matter that I am physically uncomfortable daily, doesn't matter that I've spent thousand's on this dog to have his skin cancers removed, doesn't matter that I feed him, keep him well looked after, have him professionally groomed every month.. no, to the dog people thats not good enough! These people are actually crazy! Treating me worse than the bloody person who abandoned him in the first place!

All I genuinely came here to say and vent is that I AM NOT A DOG PERSON AND I HATE DOG PEOPLE.. it's honestly freeing to say especially because I know an angry mob would come for me if I ever said that around anyone, so it's really nice to have a space to be able to say it.

I will find this dog a home, I will have a sh*t free backyard, I will be able to open the window and have fresh air instead of horrible dog stench, I will be free from being constantly watched and barked at, I will not have to spend my money anymore, I will be able to not be itchy and swollen and uncomfortable every single day.

The day cannot come soon enough 🙏

It's a heatwave where i am, so everyone is on edge and irritated. I can't leave or I'll get heat sick. The dog won't stop walking around and jumping off the sofa and on a good day coz I'm constantly at the house it drives me nuts... Yesterday and today I will unlive if she pushes to far.

This dog has made me fear dogs when I use to lije dogs and now I see the many flaws they have. It's constant and is driving me insane.

This thing has dogged me bricks me and shits acts all innocent to her owner but behind his back she's aggressive towards me. Has caused many arguments as he doesn't see her behaviour just my reaction.

It needs to be walked and brushed. Because of her last owner she learnt she can do what she wants damn anyone else. So last argument I said I'll walk her for a child's sake so she can stay. I was made to feel guilty due to "she's just a dog but I've made up my mind she's getting rehome" which would break the child's heart.

No one walks her as she pulls, the child (pre teen) refuses to do anything with out a fight (due to the mother who trained the shit beast) no one can brush her because she hates it so there is constant hair every where especially my underwear! I have a pure hate of hair I can't stand it on me or in my food to the point I make it a mission to make sure I'm hair less but on my head and eye area.

Why am I trying for a dog who will only expect more and not remember her good training and when no one else can be bothered with her. Rehome the idiot, it will make life a lot easier and better here... I'll be able to cook, I'll be able to breath, I won't have to sweep rooms which is like 90% dog hair, I won't have to keep checking my clothes and body or my food. I'll be able to clean the house and not worry about dog shit and fur and crumbs and kibbles everywhere. I won't have to be driven to the point of wanting to unlive myself, the gate can come off the door so we don't have to keep stepping over, I can leave a door open with out worrying she's gonna go in the room and shit out of pure spite and punishment!

Why should I keep trying when no one else will?

It's hot, I'm irritable and I'm over this damned dog and have no where else to word puke!

(I can't leave unless I am going to unlive, I can't go back to my home country as my only step there is to unlive anyway. This house is my last chance and that horrid shit beast is pushing me constantly but acts sweet and innocent so only my reactions are seen...

My parents flea-bitten, disease-riddled beasts just treat the house like it’s their own personal toilet. Why am I subjected to living like this?! I just want them gone

I’ve been with my boyfriend for 2 years. Boyfriend is great but his dog (more so his parent’s dog, but my boyfriend lives at home) is a nightmare. I know it’s down to poor training, but I can’t enter the room without the dog rushing over and jumping up, biting and barking at me. This goes on for the entire visit. They say he’s ‘playing’ but he will bite and chew my sleeves while growling and not letting go, bite at my hands, won’t let me walk anywhere and just spend the whole time barking. I had bite marks all over my hands the last time I visited and my legs had scratches and long vertical bruises where he’d jumped up so much. He will even do it when I’m sitting down and will jump across the couches and go straight for me. I feel so awkward because he won’t let me move and just viciously barks at me like some rabid monster and the whole time they don’t do anything about it. Apparently he does it with everyone who doesn’t live there and they think that this behaviour is acceptable, I’ve seen the dog do it while the 90 year old Grandad was visiting, who almost fell over in the process.

He ruins my clothes every time I visit, scratches my legs from jumping up, chews holes in my sleeves. It’s gotten to the point where I will wait in the car because I’m petrified of that dog. Prior to this I had no problem with the dog, my family used to own dogs which were great and every other dog I have met has not behaved this way at all. He doesn’t get any correction from behaving this way, the parents will just stand there calling his name but it doesn’t work. I was round for a barbecue the other day and after biting and barking at me non stop it sat next to me while I was trying to eat and spent the whole time barking like a maniac because it wanted my food, jumping up at the table, and they did nothing about it, other than saying I was annoying him because I wasn’t eating my food. I had stopped eating because it made me uncomfortable trying to eat with a dog jumping up and barking in my ear for 10 minutes straight. I’m not one to scold someone’s else’s dog as I don’t really feel like that’s up to me. They’re the type of people who see the behaviour as ‘cute’ and make up little personality quirks for him like ‘oh he’s just missed you’ or ‘he just wants your attention’, instead of facing the fact that their dog is untrained and an asshole. He will just be chilling in the room and the second I walk in he guns for me and starts barking, jumping up, biting. It is relentless and has made me fearful of him.

My boyfriend brought the dog over to my house for the first (and last time) as his parents were redecorating, and the dog spent the entire time barking and trashing the place, finding anything to chew while also trying to attack me. He will pick up plastic bags and try to eat them, and growl if you try and take it away. In fact, he will pick up anything and chew it, shoes, pens, bags, anything! My whole house reeked after he visited too.

I’ve just never known a more horrible dog! It is a cockapoo so I don’t know if it’s to do with cross breeding but the dog is a monster. My boyfriend and I are supposed to be moving out soon and struggling to find a place so he has suggested moving in with his parents to save money to buy a place and it’s a lovely offer but I do not think I would be able to live with that dog, and I know by saying so, I will be labelled as a dog hating villain by his parents. I don’t know if I’m the problem but this dog’s behaviour is insane. He is un neutered, which explains a lot. I don’t take it personally from the dog at all because at the end of the day he is just a dog, and I’m sure he would be a nice companion if they had put in the time or money into getting him trained.

UPDATE -

Thank you for all of the responses, I didn’t expect to get so many! I’m glad that I am not the one being unreasonable, however I also understand that I do need to grow a backbone in this situation.

I should add that my boyfriend does spend most of the time round my house when I’m not at work, he only stays at home with his parents when I am working. I very rarely stay the night round his house anymore, I used to when we first met but he realised that I was uncomfortable. The dog is a more of a family dog, so I only really have to see it when I do have to visit my boyfriends house for events/family visits, which thankfully are now rare and the reason why I now wait in the car when he has to visit home to pick something up. I’ve come to realise that it is sort of an unspoken subject between us that I have a problem with the dog, and I will be making that more apparent to him when we have a talk about it. He has said in the past that the dog was previously trained when he was younger (they’ve had him since he was a puppy), and that his parents just continued to spoil it, but I do think that was just an excuse on his behalf for poor behaviour.

I am going to speak with him and make it clear that it’s not a good idea to move in with his parents. Although we would be saving money in the long run, I don’t think I or the relationship would be able to last in that environment. He seems to think that the dog will get “used to me”, but quite frankly I don’t want to take that risk and be confined to hiding in a bedroom and risk having all of my things ruined. If the dog was trained then there wouldn’t be this issue. I’m also going to make it clear that I do not wish to own any dogs in the future, as the behaviour of his dog is clear that he is not committed to putting in the training, time and effort that a dog requires.