My dog. I feel horrible that I am so frustrated with him. But he's regressed in behavior since A came home. He poops/pees when no one is watching, he paces in the kitchen (clicking his damn nails), barks and growls at noises... He's got such a gentle soul, so I know this is not like him, and before A he was my baby. He's been with us through some of our hardest times and I feel bad that I yell at him, but I'm overwhelmed trying to figure out A that dealing with my dog is just too much.
I totally get this.
Pre kids I was super involved in a dog rescue. I couldn't fathom how people would give up their dogs when they had children. Horrible people!
Well....the I had Benjamin. Our two dogs were so great. But one has totally regressed just like you mentioned. Paces, barks, very anxious all the time and the nail clicking on the hard wood is driving me insane. He barks at his reflection. I. Can't.deal.
So when H isn't home I put them in the bedroom. I can't have two other souls depending on me and needing me every second of the day right now. B is so high needs I can't keep an eye one the dogs and DS1 enough.
I totally get it now. It's hard to have a dog with issues and newborns/toddlers.
My dog. I feel horrible that I am so frustrated with him. But he's regressed in behavior since A came home. He poops/pees when no one is watching, he paces in the kitchen (clicking his damn nails), barks and growls at noises... He's got such a gentle soul, so I know this is not like him, and before A he was my baby. He's been with us through some of our hardest times and I feel bad that I yell at him, but I'm overwhelmed trying to figure out A that dealing with my dog is just too much.
I hear you on this. I have little patience for my pets lately. We have a high energy border collie who needs walks everyday, and right now she gets about four walks per week. Used to be fourteen (2/day). I feel like she's constantly underfoot, and I'm over her braking at the stove, toaster oven, cats, people in front of our house. I yell at her a lot too. I didn't notice how much I was yelling until DS1 started yelling at her too.
Hugs for you and pets for your pup. You're both going through a huge adjustment, hopefully he settles soon.
I've been offline all day. DH's family lives in the Bahamas so we've been trying to chat with them nonstop. They're all safe but they have extensive property and house damage. It will take a long time to rebuild.
I've been offline all day. DH's family lives in the Bahamas so we've been trying to chat with them nonstop. They're all safe but they have extensive property and house damage. It will take a long time to rebuild.
I'm so happy to hear they are all safe, but that really sucks about all of the damage :-( My brother and his family are in Miami - hoping they don't get hit too badly.
Hope everyone in the southeast is safe with the hurricane! icaughtfire and anyone else.
We're getting heavy rains now, it's going to really pick up in a few hours so both kids are in our room tonight. I'm just hoping not to lose power, but seeing that we lost power & cable/internet for a few hours before the storm even came I'm not so confident! Thankfully I'm not on the coast so we should be just fine 😊
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Post by madamewaffles on Oct 7, 2016 5:36:45 GMT -5
Thank you for validating my feels, melody330 & littlesthobo. It's a huge adjustment for him too, so I try to remember that. Hopefully soon he will start to get used to the new normal. H & I joked A's first words will be, "No, Max!" Frequent words in our house.
Thank you for validating my feels, melody330 & littlesthobo. It's a huge adjustment for him too, so I try to remember that. Hopefully soon he will start to get used to the new normal. H & I joked A's first words will be, "No, Max!" Frequent words in our house.
Our cat completely regressed and started peeing and pooping on baskets of clothes, the couch, bouncy seats. I think it started as territorial and stress induced. He even peed on my 4 year old niece's head while she napped on the couch because he was irritated that new people were coming over all the time. So he is mainly an outside cat now, we leave the garage cracked for him to get in and out and food. I feel bad but H was threatening to drop him off in he country if we didn't do something.
Thank you for validating my feels, melody330 & littlesthobo . It's a huge adjustment for him too, so I try to remember that. Hopefully soon he will start to get used to the new normal. H & I joked A's first words will be, "No, Max!" Frequent words in our house.
I totally get you on this, and I just have cats. They were so much our babies before J came, then they quickly became a nuisance but I felt so guilty getting irritated with them. We started having to lock them in the basement at night because they woudl roam the house yowling all night and after J started STTN, no way was I then going to let me cats keep me up. We had to put one to sleep right before A was born, and while I was heartbroken, there was also a sense of relief to have one less creature dependent on me, especially one who was sick and needed extra attention and medicine everyday.
And yes, dont be surprised if A really does learn to yell at the dog. When ever J sees one of the cats on the counter he runs over there yelling "No Lily!!" and shaking his finger at the cat.
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