This sadly sounds like a story that happened in our family last year. The circumstances are different, but the frustration sounds the same. My daughter had two Yorkies. She was 100% dedicated to them in the beginning..she worked full time...she went out alot at night...dogs stayed in the laundry room due to no time to walk them and they weren't potty trained..daughter gets married..hubby doesn't like the potty messes in the house..they stay irritated at the dogs now constantly because "nothing is working". The once happy Yorkies now cower when daughter and SIL come home..bark twice as much as they did..and this cycle grows more intense by the week. I try and nurse them through this trying time as well as I could, but when "nothing works" nothing WILL work if you get my drift...baby comes along and now I am bringing the furkids to my house because I feel sick and sorry for them and its breaking my heart the way I watch what is happening to their little spirits. After going through this for a year and a half (she had the dogs for 4 years) and many tears later because I could not have her two and my three in my upstairs apartment...I insisted she rehome them..I can look back NOW and see the reason the frustration wasn't resolving, was because she was done! I feel like it was a "set-up" for the inevitable. They do have wonderful, loving homes now, and I hope if the OP is at this place, that she can be honest with herself. Yorkies sense when you are frustrated and angry with them. They will act out, because they have no clue why and what you want from them with this emotion. Watching the transformation of my daughters two absolutely convinces me of this. We have crazy busy lives too, but I make time for my dogs because my heart is in this. They are my second set of kids and I'm in it for the long haul. |