Stay at the In-Laws was a nightmare!!
 

First of all, Happy New year to you all! Just got back from the In-laws yesterday and was back in work today:(

We stayed with them for 5 days, it was Pixie's first visit to their house and it was especially hard work for me, as there are sooo many hazards at their place! They just don't get what it's like to care for such a tiny dog! Pixie was very good really, she's still a puppy (7 months) she had a couple of little accidents which I managed to cover up pretty well!:p My hubby's parents obviously think we spoil pixie..MIL said.."she's got you right where she wants you". FIL insisted on feeding her treats when i told him not to:mad: (their collie X is overweight) They would drop food/wrappers on the floor which Pixie would get hold of and then I would be running after her and trying to prise the offending object out of her mouth! They threw leftover food scraps out in the garden which made toilet trips with Pixie a nightmare!:eek: They would leave outside doors open without even a thought for her safety! I had to have eyes in the back of my head! They never watched where they put their feet either and My baby was stepped on a few times, everytime she yelped my heart was in my mouth! I practically held her most of the time we were there to keep her out of harms way! I did take her crate which was a godsend! and did give me peace of mind when unable to supervise her properly!
Does anyone else have these problems when visiting relatives!?
Apart from all that, I did have a goodtime! It was just hard to relax!:rolleyes:

Being that I am the Pets Hotel for my family, I never really have that problem. If anything their overweight, under exercised pets lose weight and get the exercise they need while here. My nephews and niece have all been raised with pets so they know how to be gentle to them, with the exception of the one time my youngest nephew about to sit on top of Chip thiking he is like their lab. :confuse2: We did have an incident last weekend when they were here and on their way out the door. Which at the time I had my cat, my two boys, my sister's yorkie, and my other brother's cat. One of my nephews was holding the front door wide open. I could see all the animals inching towards the door, and I yelled "CLOSE THE DOOR!", luckily there were no escapes before they closed the door.

I'm sorry to hear about your experience. Maybe next time you can invite your in-laws to your house and show them how you actually secure everything for your furbaby. Some people are completely unaware of the life of our furbabies and what it takes for their safety.



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You are lucky they allowed you to bring her at all.

LOL. This sounds all too familiar.

Oh Boy!!! Can I relate. My parents came for thanksgiving and stayed 10 days!!! They KNOW I don't feed my dogs table scraps, well I look over at my Dad and he is feeding all 7 of my dogs pizza under the table:eek: Yeah you guessed it...I was cleaning up diarrhea for 3 days!!! OOh I was soo mad!

Hi there... Well, I can feel your frustration. Though, I do agree with JeanieK... that you have to look at the good side of it. Which is, that you were able to bring your furbaby with you in the first place. I've definately learned that taking Meka with me anywhere is my responsiblity. And in no way can I expect my destination to be able to fully accomodate my furbaby as she would be at home... So I bring everything that I need to assure her safety and happiness :)

Oh yes...I know how lucky I am that i can take her and i am very grateful for that..I just didn't realise until i got there how difficult it would be, we are very careful in my house not to drop objects that could be eaten or choked on, we don't throw scraps in the garden which the dogs will obviously eat if given half he chance, My MIL had even thrown onion out on her lawn!:eek:
I don't expect them to change their lifestyle just to accomodate my dog...but l just wish they were a little more aware..especially when leaving doors open. This was the first visit with Pixie so next time i will be much more prepared!

Sorry you had such a frustrated time. Since we have gotten yorkies we started having all family get togethers at Our house

After 30 plus years of being married, I don't bother submitting myself to the torture that are in-laws. I just send my husband home for a visit if he wants to go and I stay home with my babies. :^)

See, I just think that is disrespectful to the dog. Couldn't she have changed her habits to accommodate the dog? Sorry you had to deal with that. Dogs deserve respect to.

:p my in-laws when they are in my house will push Jasmine off of the couch or bed whichever she is laying on because they feel it is gross. Well my dog is clean and sleeps with me every single night in between my two pillows and it's her house so I get upset when they push her off and make fun of me for letting her on all of my stuff...I don't care where she is as long as she is safe!! But they won't pet her or anything like that I wouldn't dare take her to their house oh man...lol

I'm sorry you had such a rough time with your inlaws, but atleast your through it.

I don't want to come across as ungrateful and i realise how very lucky i am that i can have her with me..luckily they have always had dogs around and really don't mind having mine:) They just have no idea even how to care for their own dog properly...i mean..she had even thrown leftover salad containing grapes out on the lawn too...i had to go out and pick every piece up before pixie got to it, she would only go to the toilet in their garden while off the lead..I did try to make her go while on the lead but she was very fussy about where she went because of being in a strange place!:rolleyes:

Thats why i got this sign and put it so it can be seen as you come into the house : Our Yorkies live here, You dont !:D

I like that!!! Good one!

I would have said: "She's got me right where I want to be".

Sorry it was a difficult visit. Taking the crate was a good idea; that usually works for me. My relatives beg me to bring my dogs to family gatherings but they really just want to fuss over them for a little while and hand them back to me. There are a lot of really small children in my family and every single one of them wants to hold the dogs, which makes me nervous. I think it's stressful, but I would still take them on overnight trips as I couldn't stand being away from them.

My future in-laws are the same. They have an outside dog but never even dreamed of having a dog in the house. Lucky for me, I've got two! Since I just got KaCee, I haven't had to take her there yet but A.J has gone to visit several times. The very first time I stayed there with A.J, they made him sleep in the garage!:eek: The poor little guy barked all night long and of course, they kept making comments about his bark, and will he ever stop, etc! I couldn't believe it! Of course he was barking, he was in the garage! Then, they expected him to just lay beside me the whole time. All A.J wanted to do was explore! MIL actually said to me that her days of having a messy house are over! All that came to mind, was hmm..her grandchildren are gonna love visiting her:rolleyes:

I know how you feel we have only had out baby a month and we took him over my inlaws house and just let me say he will not be going over there unless it is in the summer and we can stay outside. They have a male German Shepard which is 120lbs. They feed him crappy canned dog food which she buys at Walmart. She mixes in table scraps in it. She can always be heard yelling "if your done eating put your scraps in the dogs dish!" She feeds him these junk liver treats which she insist are good for the dog. So they were partying it up on Christmas eve and his dad was throwing potato chips at the shepard and of corse my dog is picking up everything he can put in his mouth. Then the MIL tries giving my dog liver treats and I told her no and she was so insulted. I felt like telling her my dog was not a garbage disposal like hers. I felt so bad for my dog because there dog kept licking his face and it looked like he had stuck his head in the toilet. Needless to say I had to give him a bath from being licked to death. Some people just don't understand how protective us yorkie moms are.

I feel your pain. If anyones read my other threads....my logan got very sick at my in-laws. He gets some people food from my husband & I but very small pieces of only certain things. Well these people just don't get & everytime i turned around someone was feeding him something. What part of he's had enough do people not get.

Plus my MIL babysits these 2 little kids that are always there & they chase him & grab at him. It makes me a nervous wreck because I'm constantly worried about what he's doing. And I feel so bad because i have to scoot him out of places he shouldn't be because someone left a door open.

Usually I send my husband by himself but at the holidays I feel I have to go, but next year logan maybe staying with my mom. She knows how to care for a dog.

When I was freaking out cause he was sick the whole family was looking at me like I was totally nuts.

My pup hasn't gone visiting yet, but I have an X-pen for him that he uses when he's outside. All of your remarks have informed me that the X-pen goes with us when we go visiting ... it will keep him safe in more ways than one. I think that traveling with the pup will be akin to traveling with a human baby: a whole lot of baggage to support one little heartbeat :D .

Sorry you had such a stressful time trying to keep your baby safe. I had to laugh though (please nobody bite my head off) at the thought of your inlaws throwing food out on the lawn--who does that? Half an onion? eek! Don't they have mice or rats or other pests where they live? (reading that I just pictured a yard full of random food scraps, like a giant compost or a Waldorf salad) tee hee

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It is hard traveling with Yorkies. I would definitely recommend a x-pen. I have heard to many horror stories of kin folks visiting, and someone accidently lets the Yorkie out with disasterous results. That is why were never go see our in-laws together, although they love dogs and would welcome them all, we just have too many to travel with. Hopefully your next visit will be better.

I can truly relate to this one. I spent two weeks at my daughters house, to help out with my new grandaughter and her sisters. Of course I brought Maggie:aimeeyork & Bailey :aimeeyork with me! My daughters' 120 # Rottweiller :eek: wanted to play tag with my little ones, so they had to spend the whole two weeks locked in the bedroom. I don't know what I was thinking.:confused: Everyone kept saying "They just want to play!"
We're home safe and sound and may never leave the house again:D

I'm sorry but I agree. :thumbup:

And again...I KNOW how lucky i am to be able to take her! i just did not realise all the hazards involved!:eek:

OMG! I know!:eek: They cannot stand anything going to waste..especially food! and if it's not to be eaten by their dog it goes out on the lawn for the birds...and every Rat in the neighbourhood of course!:eek:

If my furbabies are not welcome, then we're not going!!!:(

My feelings exactly!

my furbaby IS welcome there, they just put so many dangers in front of her without even realising it...I don\'t want to complain about everything as they are so good about letting me take her there...it\'s a difficult situation:(