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Many, many, many moons ago lol when I was married, my husband was ok with me getting a dog, he was NOT a dog person. My very first dog as an adult was a mini Poodle. I was working full time but every spare minute I had I spent with my Gigi training her. Gigi was first with everything, first to eat, first to have her needs met. We were boaters at this time and Gigi always came boating with us. She was my 2 y/o toddler and like a toddler I watched her like a hawk. I had her about 1.5 years, my son who was then 10 y/o one day said to me, mom, you care more for Gigi then you do me lol, my husband agreed with my son saying yeah and me too, I told both of them, hey, when you are thirsty, you get yourself a glass of water, or soda, when you are hungry you open the frig and help yourself to food, when you need to go tothe bathroom you open the door and go. This is a DOG, she cannot get her own water, she cannot open the frig and feed herself, and when she needs to pee and poop she has to WAIT to do that. So YES the dog comes first. My husband was jealous of all the attention I lavished on this girl, but, come Saturday’s he was insisting he was taking her to work with him lol, we would always fight, me saying nooooo, him saying yessss lol, So Saturday’s she was his girl. She was very well behaved, well trained. JMO… maybe your husband was jealous of the time you spent with your past baby, and doesn’t want to go through thatagain, some men are funny that way and would never admit to being jealous over a “dog”. A dog is like a human baby, they need OUR time, attention and love. I have no suggestions, no advice on how to convince your DH to accept this precious little baby. I could/would NEVER advise anyone to not be devoted to their pets. Yorkies DEMAND attention, NEED human contact, I do hope you and DH can work this out, I do hope you can keep this little girl. As women when our children are grown and cannot be cuddled orhave moved from the nest we still have that mothering instinct and need/want to hold and cuddle, I do hope your DH can realize this and not deprive you of fulfilling your needs. On the other side of the coin, dogs also can hold ppl back from doing many things, this can be another reason your DH is not happy having another fur butt join your family. (((hugs))) I pray things can be worked out.