Pet sitting this weekend was awful
@shaggin (74175)
United States
February 23, 2020 6:00pm CST
Friday morning my boyfriend dropped off his dog for me to watch overnight for two nights.
She had dandruff and is usually stinky so I gave her a bath. I had asked him to do it before dropping her off but when he came he said he didn’t wash her because he had a million things to do.
As soon as she went in the tub I noticed she was bleeding (in heat). Barely any to notice though but I kept her in the kitchen after where it’s easier to clean up.
I gave her a sleeping bag to lay on so it would be soft and nice while she dried. By 10 am she had peed on it. Must have been all the water she drank and poor bladder control. So I threw it in the wash. I asked my dad to watch my niece so she wouldn’t be around all this.
The stress of everything caused me to start bleeding too.
Saturday the dogs woke me up at 6:30 to go out. I cleaned up the floor after and saw she was bleeding more. So I cut a hole in pull-ups my niece no longer needs and made her wear it.
Sunday morning when I got up she had torn apart her diaper which caused me to have to clean up the floor again and wash the sleeping bag. I was glad I thought to have her sleep in the kitchen over night in case that happened. With her diaper on I had let her roam the house while we were awake.
My boyfriend came today at 9 to pick her up. He had taken the dogs for a walk and when she came back in she was dripping blood all over. I stared cleaning it up and my boyfriend said “Where’s all the blood coming from”. I said “her, I told you she’s bleeding” and showed him the diaper she had been wearing.
He wont admit she’s in heat saying big dogs only go in heat once a year. I sent him screenshots of three Labrador sites that say they usually go in heat twice a year. He said he doesn’t give a bleep about what I read on the internet. I said then if she’s not in heat she needs to see a vet then because somethings wrong.
After they left I vacuumed all the hair off the floors and washed the bloody sleeping bag.
I posted on Facebook asking dog owners of large dogs how often their girls go in heat.
So when he was here later while his son was hanging with friends at the school I told him what everyone on the post said which all but one said every 6 months. He said he didn’t want to hear it.
A few minutes later he said he should have bid $1000 on a beagle he saw the day before so he could breed him. I said no because then he’d need to get a female too.
He started yelling at me saying “You think I don’t know that? My families been breeding them for over 30 years you act like I’m so stupid explaining everything.”
I told him he didn’t need to be a jerk and that is he doesn’t want to hear me say anything about his beagles not to tell me anymore. I was mad and upset and started to cry so I told him he could watch whatever he wanted on the TV and that I was going up to my room to read a book and be alone.
Photo is of his dog in her diaper.
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14 responses
@Courtlynn (67091)
• United States
24 Feb 20
Wow. I'm so sorry he's being a jerk. Maybe he shouldn't have the dog at all if he's not going to learn about it and take proper care of it. Nor should he bring it to your house just for you to have to clean up after.
I hope next weekend is much better for you.
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
24 Feb 20
@Courtlynn he said she wasn’t bleeding at his house. She was bleeding very little the first day here so he might not have noticed it. I’m keeping track of when she is in heat now. If it’s the same time next year he goes away I’m not watching her he will have to figure something else to do with her. I got my dog fixed he should fix her as well instead of just letting her bleed all over his house it’s disgusting.
I think when he started yelling at me he was really still mad he’s wrong and won’t admit it. Pretty immature way to act.
Next weekend is leap day and I intend to go find a geocache Saturday no matter what the weather is.
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@Courtlynn (67091)
• United States
24 Feb 20
@shaggin very immature.
Yay that sounds fun
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@Tina30219 (82906)
• Onaway, Michigan
24 Feb 20
Sounds like your boyfriend needs a expert to tell him his dog is in heat if he don’t believe you or nobody else. I know having to deal with that I would need a drink and a quiet place to read
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
24 Feb 20
@Tina30219 he's too stubborn I'm sure to call a vet. He wouldn't want to risk having to admit he was wrong.
A drink would have been nice but usually being upset and drinking just makes me more upset. I didn't want to cry anymore then I already did.
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
24 Feb 20
@Tina30219 but when proved wrong getting mad over it is ridiculous. I can admit when I’m proved wrong. It doesn’t bother me at all.
Are you having a drink just because you like it or are you upset?
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@Tina30219 (82906)
• Onaway, Michigan
24 Feb 20
@shaggin Men never want to admit they are wrong. Speaking of a drink I am having one right now while sitting here and mylotting. Right you definitely don’t need to cry more than you did
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
24 Feb 20
Gee, that was real hard work for you.
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
24 Feb 20
@Alexandoy a lot of extra laundry. When I bathed her to dry her off took two towels. Another to wipe up the water on the floor and a hand towel. My slippers, housecoat and socks got wet so they had to be washed too.
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
24 Feb 20
@shaggin we have a female dog that we put inside a cage when she is in heat.
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
24 Feb 20
@Alexandoy I’d feel bad making my dog stay in a cage for 3 weeks while she bleeds. Thankfully she is fixed. I did make her wear a dog diaper though so she wouldn’t get blood all over my house.
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@FayeHazel (40239)
• United States
26 Feb 20
Is there a reason he's leaving her unfixed ? Well I'm sorry, he 1) doesn't sound very responsible (You showed him the dog's diaper, and evidence from online, what makes him think he's right? Plus this is his choice to not have her fixed, so...) And you're saying he wants another dog? Wow...
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
27 Feb 20
@FayeHazel he wants to breed her. That’s the last thing I want but it’s not my say. He wants to get a big kennel and breed beagles too. I am completely against it.
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
27 Feb 20
@FayeHazel if we wind up living together I won’t have any choice. I don’t even want to think about it.
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@FayeHazel (40239)
• United States
27 Feb 20
@shaggin Yeah... I mean if he's not willing to admit when he's wrong (like about the dog being in heat) - I don't think that's a great attitude for undertaking something like dog breeding. Just be sure you don't get roped into it - if that is what he does
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
24 Feb 20
@Nevena83 not much else I could do really. He was 4 hours away I was stuck taking care of his dog. She was a pretty good girl I'd have to say. Peeing and bleeding were not something she meant to do in the house. I was more mad at my boyfriend for not admitting that she is in heat or has something wrong.
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@BarBaraPrz (49565)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
24 Feb 20
Your boyfriend IS a jerk. Kick him in the head and kick him out! He is abusing your good nature.
I didn't know that dogs bled when in heat.
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
24 Feb 20
@BarbaraPrz
if I kicked him in the head I would be a bigger jerk then he is.
Yeah when they are in heat they bleed and make a mess. My dog was small and a lot easier to get in a diaper but I had real dog diapers not pull ups like I used for my boyfriends dog this past weekend.

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@snowy22315 (189034)
• United States
26 Feb 20
This guy doesn't seem to take good care of the pets he has, breeding them would be the last thing I would encourage. Just another source of stress.
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
26 Feb 20
@snowy22315 exactly my feeling on the subject of him getting any more animals
. I haven’t talked to him since. I just have nothing to say I’m so disgusted with him right now.

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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
28 Feb 20
@simone10 My dog wen through two heats before I go there fixed. The first time I had had it set up to have her fixed and the vet cancelled then never called back to reschedule and she went into heat. The next time I thought I had a year until her next one to find somewhere else to have it done but she went in heat in 6 months. As soon as that happened I called the human society and they put me on the list but it was almost 6 months again before they got her in. It was right before she would have went into heat again.
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@shaggin (74175)
• United States
26 Feb 20
@DianneN I feel like she would have better care living with me (not that I want her but...). I keep an eye on things and he doesn't pay any attention. If she isn't in heat then there is something wrong with her and she should see a vet. Him getting mad is ridiculous.
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