Have you ever had an argument over your dog?

United States
February 15, 2007 6:23pm CST
Hi, I was wondering if you have ever had an argument over your dog. I have plenty. We had a Siberian Husky who after months and months of trying to train her the proper way, and she still refused to listen to us and be a good dog, we started arguing over the smallest things with her. In fact, because we argued so much over her, we sold her to a good couple. Have you ever done that? I was wondering if it was "abnormal" or if there were others out there who have done the same thing.
3 responses
• United States
16 Feb 07
Hi, my family and I have 10pets, 3 dogs and 7 cats. We have a 6 yr old golden retreiver named MAX A MOOSE. Max is very stubborn and will shake his head and growl no, when he does not want to do something like go outside or move. The thing is he is really smart and usually has a good reason for arguing with us. For instance, we have a 2 yr old mutt named Schultz, who is very hyper and loud, always barking and nipping at the older dogs, and the older dogs take turns "taking the baby out", when Max can't deal with the little nut, he will refuse to go out. Schultz will actually bark, if he feels that he doesn't want to do something, and that too me is his way of arguing as well. We would never get in an argument over our pets, because that is just the kind of family we are. We are all about animals at this home. I do not feel this behavior is unusual, I just think that dogs can be just as if not more stubborn than ppl. Have an AWESOME one! Glo
• United States
16 Feb 07
Gosh, you really sound like my household :) I have 12 animals, 2 dogs (male dobermans), 4 cats (1 male and 3 female), and 6 guinea pigs, we had 10 total, but one of our guinea pigs surprised us with 2 babies. They are the cutest little things you could ever imagine having. I've been told that I own a small petting zoo! LOL!! I just laugh and say yeah, but they are my babies. To be honest though, I DIDN'T want to sell my husky, she just almost killed my youngest doberman. My husband and I were sleeping and we had let the boys out not even 20 minutes before this happened and all of the sudden we hear my doberman screeking bloody murder! Seriously! So I look out the window because it was loud enough to wake us up and she had him trapped up against our fence and was on top of him biting the crap out of him. So I opened the window and put a stop to it. Told the boys to go to the door (which they obeyed IMMEDIATELY with no questions asked) and as I opened the door there was a ton of blood on the cement, my baby was bleeding from his paw. I didn't think much of it because he was still responding well to me and there wasn't much sign of too much pain. So I went to to work and was let off early that night, when I got home, my neighbor was in my yard (which just so everyone knows he knows it's a HUGE no-no, but he refuses to listen) and I yelled at him and he said my husky was IN HIS HOUSE! She had jumped the fence 4 times that night! So I brought her back to the house and let the boys in, but by this time my poor baby wasn't responding to me AT ALL! This is the MOST OBEDIENT DOG IN THE WORLD! He wouldn't come to me, so I finally went to him and he was looking at me and shivering really bad and my husband got home and told me exactly what I was thinking that he wasn't doing well. So at MIDNIGHT I called the vet (I felt horrible, but I was afraid of losing him). The vet helped me out to save his little precious life! But anyways, to make this LONG story short, it was THAT and several other reasons why we sold her. Don't think I didn't love her because I did. I fought to keep her for many many months, but I knew that was the last straw.
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• United States
16 Feb 07
Hi, I tried to respond last night, but right in the middle of a few replies, I lost internet connection. Anywho, I hear ya, I am a dog lover, but there are some boundries. I beleive you loved her, but enough is enough. When we brought Schultz home from the SPCA, my Shephard/Black Lab mix,his name is Ike, tried to kill him. Schultz was 8 weeks old and Ike just went insane, Schultz almost lost an eye, now fortunaltley for us, Hubby and I work out of our home, so we were able to keep them separated from one another,untill Schultz was big enough to defend himself. I am not sure what we would have done, had Ike killed Schultz. We love all our boys, but I am not sure how I would handle it, if they became a serious problem to themselves or us. Have an AWESOME one! Glo
• Canada
16 Feb 07
i argue with my dad alot over my dog...czu its MY dog, not ours, and he tends to try to take charge with her, he's always tellin her to lie down, and do sitdown or sumthing, adn never lets her just wonder around the house, like shes only sniffing around, she has to be in his sight all the tyme, then after a certain tyme he dont give her ne water, cuz he dont want her to pee on teh floor (understandable i know) but still he tries to take over, when he alwasy says he wants mothing to do with her!!
• United States
16 Feb 07
You should "lay down the law" so to speak. Not so much where you can't live with him anymore, but enough to make him understand who's the dog's REAL owner is! In your case, YOU are it's owner, not him. Therefore, he needs to back off some and let you be mama!
• Philippines
16 Feb 07
yeah happened to me too, but i didnt come to the point i had to sell her. one time, when i was feeding my dog, she didnt want to eat her food, so i stayed next to her telling her to eat it all up(in a tone thats kinda like in a way when your telling a kid to finish all her food). but my dog really doesnt want to, so what she did was to touch her food bowl with the tip of her nose to make it look like she was eating it. she did it everytime i told her to finish her meal until i finally gave up on her. i was laughing as i was walking away coz i was surprised she actually understood what i was saying and even tried to fool me! hahaha!