How long have you had them? It'll probably just take time and take more experience or certain circumstances and hopefully it will just "click" in his brains. Remember not only do you have dogs to train but you also have DH to train too.

I think what got my hubby to start is that I had him stop looking at their "exterior" of what they are and how they look but had him look at their eyes, how they interact with us, their body language, and starting speaking for them "so to speak". Know what I mean?

i have had Henry for a lil over a yr, but Teddy had only been here 2 months.. I didn't push him too hard on Henry, cause he didn't want an inside dog in the first place.. after my TAH I told him I wanted another pup and I found Teddy and fell in love!! I am going to try the look in his eyes thing though! ;)

This is my BF all the way. He is amazing with my dogs. I don't know if he is so much an animal lover, or if he even loves my boys, but he will carry them around, walk them, take them for ice cream. He will take pics of them to send to me just because he thought they looked cute doing something. He buys them food and treats for his house all the time. He lets them sleep on the bed and even between his legs even though it gives him a backache in the morning. He brushes them. He watches tv with them and points out dogs on tv so fletcher can watch (my fletch watches tv like a person, but when dogs or other animals come on tv he goes nuts!!) He taught them how to swim in the pool and puts on their lifejackets without making fun of me. IF he is home and Im at work he will go and pick them up and bring them to his house so they are not home alone all day. He plays peek-a-boo, rubs tummies all night, picks up pee & poop, mows the lawn a different way so its easier for them since they came into his life.

I love him all the more for it and it shows how much he loves ME by making my boys as important to him as they are to me! :)

IM a lucky girl! :)

LOL. Yes the look into the eyes never hurts. Especially when it gets bigger and you see tears swelling up if its an emotional moment.

What's TAH?

I can't imagine anyone not feeling love for these animals, especially when you come home from work all day and coming home with them greeting you and they are so happy to see you. If they do that to your hubby you can say things like, look how happy they are to see you, don't you just see all the love they have for you? They miss you so much! Then you can also give him that big puppy dog eyes.

My husband is something like that also! I think, like someone already said, they are jealous! He thinks we are all nuts, going on about our furbutts the way we do! He is doing better, lets him lick his ears when he first comes home, and sometime letting him sleep with us! Before he would not even think of letting Nolee sleep in our bed. Slowly but surely, we are getting there with him!:animal-pa

TAH- total abdominal hysterectomy.. sorry lol yeh we are going to start givng daddy some extra puppy love hehe

I'm sorry that your hubby doesn't take an interest in the things that you enjoy. I assume it's not just your furbabies, is it? Of course Yorkies (or any dog for that matter) aren't things...didn't mean to imply that.

My husband loves Abby and Daisy as much as I do. He enjoys seeing me enjoy them. When I buy them new clothes, he just chuckles to himself because he knows how much I love dressing them up.

We took them to the riverfront the other night and I had them all dressed up in dresses and bows. Some guy asked him if Daisy was a girl...Umm, she had on a dress with a can-can under it and big bow in her hair...

Hubby said, Nope, Cross Dresser .....

He walked Daisy all over and after we had dinner at an outside cafe w/ the girls (Abby and Daisy) he picked Daisy up in his lap and held her. Both he and my son love our babies.

We also have an 85 lb Golden Retriever that we all love to pieces.

I so wish I had some sage advice to give you. If my hubby talked like that to me, it would really hurt my feelings. It sounds like to me the problems go deeper than your dogs. Maybe he'll come around eventually. I hope for your sake that he does.

:hug: I wish you the best of luck.

PS Enjoy the heck out of your babies and dress them up every chance you get! There's no reason for you not to enjoy them to the fullest!! :wub:

I like that :) I think I'll tell hubby how much I appreciate him tonight. :love:

LOL...Mine is not into golf or sports.
He likes to play music and build things.
Right now he is working on the house...:D
But, if you ever come my way, let me know.
Maybe you can stop by and visit..;)

;)...there you go.

Mine is so not a 'sports man', but he loves golf... he is into building... we bought a house in Fisk and we are rebuilding it....


Anyway

I finally had a talk w/him tonight, and made him talk to me even though he really didn't want to get into it... it turns out he IS jealous of the dogs!! He said that I spend so much time w/them that I don't always get to give him my undivided attention... it never occurred to me... for one i am ADHD and my attention is squat anyway lol and two we have a 3 yr old and a 9 yr old you would think that he would be over that by now lol!! But we have always made time for each other... i told him that i would make sure we get more mommy and daddy time, but that i was going to get a girl yorkie (after teddy is fixed and fully potty trained), that i was going to dress her up in pink frilly dresses and he was to keep his sarcasm to his self!! :D:D i think we have a breakthrough!!!!!!!!!

My fiance says he likes your husband and would like to meet him haha He feels the same way:rolleyes:

My heart is jumping for joy for you! Its very refreshing and always good to have heart felt talks and every great relationship is based on good communications. I'm so happy for the both of you! (BTW, what did he say when you told him you were getting a girl? lol)

LOL He gave me "THE LOOK" you know the one that says 'uh no' and I gave him the little smile that said 'yeh you know i will' lol.. we have an understanding though ;) lol I never thought he would be jealous, so i didn't even give it a second thought... he is one of those sarcastic, buttheads.. but i guess he needs his mommy and daddy time lol.. i guess i have been so busy with everything else i havent been pampering him as much... between his new route (he is a vendor), the kids starting school, and every weekend we have ppl here because we are rebuilding a house that has fire damamge.. things have been so hectic he is missin his love ;)

We are really into hunting & outside stuff so when I went to buy cloths I bought 2 of the same camo tshirts. He would put them on both of them and of course when we took them off the babies would be mad, they liked them. He couldn't say anything about the shirts beause he loves camo. Now I buy whatever I want. :D