{"id":1279,"date":"2012-09-13T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2012-09-13T10:30:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:30:58","slug":"fur-parenting-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/fur-parenting-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Fur parenting fail"},"content":{"rendered":"
On April 7th, our little girl pup was born.\u00a0 Seven weeks later, we took her home with us.\u00a0 Three weeks later, we had to give her to my in-laws… where she still remains today.\u00a0 What happened\u00a0you say?\u00a0 I’ll tell you… it’s called fur parent fail!\u00a0 There, I’ve said it.\u00a0 I’ve been ashamed to admit it, but I can’t hide it anymore.\u00a0 People are asking questions, neighbours are giving us weird looks.\u00a0 They know the dog is no longer around… so where could she be?\u00a0 Well… it’s time for the truth to come out.<\/p>\n
Yes, it was my idea to get a dog. I thought it would be a perfect addition to our family.\u00a0John and I always talked about getting a dog and\u00a0Kyle loved dogs so much, it only made sense.\u00a0 I figured the timing was right.\u00a0 Kyle was a bit “older” and we weren’t yet expecting our second child.\u00a0 I figured it gave us a good year in between kids and Kyle wasn`t as needy anymore.\u00a0 All of this makes sense, right?<\/a><\/p>\n When we brought our pup (Corona) home, all was good.\u00a0 At first a least.\u00a0\u00a0However,\u00a0at this point\u00a0I was\u00a0one month pregnant\u00a0and suddenly, I couldn’t stand to be around her.\u00a0 Her smell was bothering me so much, I couldn’t come within 10 feet of her.\u00a0 That made it a little hard to take care of her.\u00a0 Also, she couldn’t stop jumping and biting Kyle.\u00a0 When she was still really small, it wasn’t a big deal, Kyle could handle himself.\u00a0 But once she got bigger, she pushed Kyle over.\u00a0 To say the least, he wasn’t a happy boy.\u00a0 So Corona spent most of her time outside in our backyard.\u00a0 Although being outside was nice, it wasn’t fair\u00a0to her.\u00a0\u00a0What’s more, Kyle was on a new sleep schedule, waking up between 5:30 and 6 AM, around the same time as Corona.\u00a0 Since I was not feeling well (did I mention I was pregnant and super nauseous from Corona’s smell and super tired ALL THE TIME???), my husband would be the one who would wake up early each morning taking care of Kyle and Corona. His main objective became\u00a0keeping\u00a0Kyle and Corona\u00a0separated and happy at the same time.\u00a0At 5:30 in the morning, this was a frustrating task,\u00a0and I was no help.\u00a0 To say the least, my husband started despising my “great idea” of getting a dog.<\/p>\n To help us out, my in-laws offered to watch Corona for the summer.\u00a0 They spent most of their time at the cottage, and figured she would love it up there.\u00a0 And they were right, she did love it up there.\u00a0 <\/a>And what was supposed to be a short-term solution, ended up being\u00a0for the\u00a0long-term.\u00a0 I was finally able to admit that we really couldn’t take of Corona, with our second child on the way and Corona still\u00a0being a puppy when the baby arrives.\u00a0 It took me a while to admit this, but I had.\u00a0 For the sake of my husband’s sanity, and for our non-fur-children.<\/p>\n Where the signs there all along? Sure… there were some.\u00a0 When we were seeking out a breeder, a few e-mailed me back saying that I would be hard pressed to find a breeder willing to sell us a pup with a two year-old son.\u00a0 I just figured they were jerks.\u00a0 At the time we researched this, I wasn’t pregnant, but I was by the time we went to pick up Corona from the breeder.\u00a0 My first pregnancy was\u00a0very tough (gagging, nausea and vomiting, and extreme tiredness).\u00a0 So should I have figured out that things would have been the same this time around? Probably… but who have guessed that a puppy smell would have bothered me?\u00a0 I didn’t!<\/p>\n