Need to vent
 

Snickers crapped on the rug so, now my husband is making me "get rid" of her!!!!! A couple mistakes and now she has to go, seriously?????!!!!!!!!! I cannot tell you how extremely angry, hurt, devastated I am right now. I can't see through my tears...

Naughty dog
 

Hope he wasn't serious!! If he was that is so sad.

Is snickers a puppy? If so, are you crate training her? Puppies need time and patience to get it right. If she is allowed full run of the house she will be confused and just go when and where she need to go.

That's a terrible response. Try to negotiate with your hubby, when he has calmed down. And when you are less emotional.

No 1 You get yourself some enzymatic cleaner and either buy or rent a steam cleaner and clean the rug yourself.

No 2 Just say to hubby whether this is true or not; I've not done my best in making sure she is housebroken. I do have some alternatives that I learnt about on Yorkie Talk that I want to try. We CAN make this work! The alternatives are Xpens or a playpen with peepad in it, plus her water dish.
Also you can tether her to you, when you work around the house - this is to be always present to catch any accidents before they happen!

You need to make the effort if you want her outdoor trained to , take her out 5-10 minutes after eating ...don't fail at doing this - praise her like crazy when she goes. You can even use a command. Like pee or poo or no 1 or no 2. Make up a fun word .... IDK like Go whizz

Truthfully when I have puppies - I pick up the area rugs - send to cleaners and they don't come out again until they are housebroken. Now I know not everyone can do this; but it is an option.

Good luck with hubby.

Isn't snickers a rescue?

She has probably lead a rough life and wasn't trained properly, so it's going to take some time & consistency for her to learn good potty habits.

Calmly talk to your hubby about this. Would he expect you to abandon any other child you adopted because they didn't conform quickly enough? So, why would he a furbaby?

Can you engage hubby in potty training too? Have him take her out or take her to her potty area after eating &/or drinking?

Setting a dog up to succeed by creating the environment for successful pottying, and then praising & treating when they go where you want them to, is the key.

I'm not only concerned for Snickers, I'm concerned for you. This relationship doesn't seem balanced to me. I don't know if your husband is the type that yells first and then rethinks his position, but I don't feel like one person in a relationship should have that much power. You aren't really doing anything that impacts the health of your husband, he's just annoyed. If you have no more power than this in your relationship and or your husband doesn’t strive to try to make you happy, I would hope you would see a marriage counselor. By the way, walking after eating is an easy way to get them to poop outside.

I hope everything works out for u and snickers

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Wtg Nancy!

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: I could add more, but I will keep my calm about the situation. Just he's not my husband. My husband would ever act that way. I just saw your profile picture. Really !

Keep the dog get rid if the man. That's all I'm going to say.

Poor little Snickers :(. I would hope you and your husband discussed all the issues this little one might have being a rescue before she came to live with you. It is so sad seeing these little ones shuffled from one home to another. They are living breathing beings not inanimate objects. Please do your best to make him see this and please make sure he is treating her properly.

Since I left my parent's home, I do NOT take demands and orders and mandates, especially over simle, essentially unimportant things,,,,home foreclosure, yes....car wrecks, yes.....over drawn bank account by a thousand dollars, yes...child jailed, yes.......my puppy, NOT HARDLY!!!.....except my boss AT WORK, of course!!! I can not imagine a man that is SUPPOSED to be your LOVING partner, doing anything that distresses "the love of his life" as this is distressing you! He clearly does NOT like the little dog, nor respect YOUR feelings....over something as simple as a pup. I would just tell him NO!! The pup stays and I will work harder at housebreaking him! PERIOD!!

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My husband has tolde on countless occasions that I need to "get rid of" our older dog (we're not even going to discuss the issues brought on when I brought Blazer home) and I just flat out tell him no. I also tell him that I'll get rid of HIM before I get rid of the dog and that he needs to grow up. He gets over his stupid anger and moves in and goes back to loving the dog in no time. Stupid men with fast tempers that make them say things they don't mean. Snickers needs someone in her corner to love and defend her, you took that role and you should tough it out and stand up to your man about this. Plus everything everyone above said. (((HUGS))) to you!

that is terrible