[Carol607]

We are going over to my husband's sister for Christmas day. She has two dogs-a Jack Russell and a Cairn Terrier. We were there for Easter and at that time in addition to her dogs, her son brought his new puppy, a small terrier mixed and her daughter brought her dog, also a small terrier. At that time, my husband's sister asked why we didn't bring Jamie. I replied that Jamie was not totally ready to be brought to a new location but I would bring her when she grows up a little more and is more settled and totally housebroken. All the dogs and children got along fine. (My husband's other sister has 3 small children.)

So with this in mind, now that Jamie is 1 year and 5 months and a good girl, I had planned to bring her for Christmas to my sister's house. I even bought her a new dress to wear. I thought it was appropiate to double-check so I emailed his sister and asked if it was okay that I was bringing Jamie. She replied that since her daughter was bringing her dog-that would make three dogs so four would be too much. (Her son no longer has his dog-long story) She even went as far to say that the other sister's two year old is nervous and cries with her dogs so bringing Jamie would be too much.

I am quite upset mainly since I feel that we are coming from an hour and fifteen minutes away and probably longer with traffic. Her daighter is only 5 minutes away. Maybe she should ask her daughter not to bring her dog. Also my 2 year neice loves our dog and is not nervous around our dog.

I am certainly not going to bring Jamie if she says we can't. I feel like emailing her with my issues but my husband says let it go and either not go at all or just go for a couple of hours. I really don't want to go but that's not fair to our little neices and nephew who are looking forward to their presents so I guess we will just go for a couple of hours.

What would you do? and I'm I wrong to be upset?