My father in law had been taking care of our dog because we moved and our landlord wouldn't let us have him there. He had him for about 10 months. During this time he took care of him and took him to the vet. He is a very lonely man with no woman and likes to go to the legion and drink his guts out and drunk text and asks his daughter to get him cause he's shit faced. Sorry for the language. He treated our dog like a king and like he was his baby. Which is fine, but he is a train engineer and is gone for 2 or 3 days at a time. So we would watch him while he was gone at work. He'd come and pick him up after he was home. The problem we are having is now we bought a house and we have him back. We keep him in the cage while we are at work 8 hrs and come home on lunch and let him out. He has access to food and water. We leave him out while we are home and sleeping but keep the bedroom door shut cause he will pee on stuff or get into trash. ( we had him house trained but my FIL would leave him out and let him pee in his house while away) he complains all the time how worried he is cause he has to be in the cage. During a phone conversation with my husband he brings it up maybe 2 times. He asks about the dog before he does his granddaughter. It's frustrating because he doesn't listen. I don't know how much more of his ignorance I can take and I don't know what else to say. I would tell him if he wants him that bad to tell us how to take care of him he could keep him. But he doesn't have the time to. What to do, what to do?
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apaylor2009 · 30/04/2014 23:56
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