Annoyed With His Pups

[BrandiBroken]

This is more of a passing rant than anything I suppose...

 

I'm a huge fuzzy animal lover, though do tend to lean more toward cats than anything. But since being back in my boyfriend's life for the past few years I've been more and more exposed to dogs. Which is all fine and dandy and used to even be a highlight before I moved was getting to visit and play with all the pups. I mean, he has three himself... he used to live with his biological mom who also had three, then one of his brothers moved in who had four so I would be around when we still went to visit after he moved out and all.... I recently met another one of his sister's who has two.... his biological father has three I think then had just had a number of puppies who some I met... then his parents have two, another sister one and her boyfriend another, his older brother has two more dogs... which those I have been around at their houses or when staying on vacation at the cabin. Literally have had nine dogs in a small cabin at one time running around with eight people more than once. And a variety of breeds... from a chihuahua, pitbull, dachsunds, root, miniature pinscher, ect. All insanely friendly and I do love to death. Always cuddle and play and all is fine.

 

Then... my boyfriend moved in. With his three pups. Back at the first of Feb.

 

The biggest issue for the first three months and still sort of it, is that I had five cats when he moved in.

 

I only have four now as in the barely first few weeks my mama cat managed to sneak outside and run off and I haven't been able to find her. There is a hole in my kitchen floor for hooking up the washer and dryer I was told but I had placed several large boxes on top of it to avoid such a thing. Of course, dogs moved in, played, knocked them over and she managed to get out. She had never been outside since I moved halfway accross the country, didn't know the area, didn't have her many cat friends from back home running around. And she was in heat again. Had her scheduled to go to the vet and off she went.

 

I kept four of the babies. One I had already found a home for before he moved in, he wanted one of them, and I had the other three. Which this was in Feb and they'd been born in Sept. They had been living around other cats for about a month and a half, plus had just gotten to know my brother's older dog, but then I moved and they were all by their selves from the end of October until he moved in.

 

Then when they all came in, they were all basically resitricted to one room. They went from having the run of the house to being in the back room where they could hide. Which I understood was going to happen but then time just went on and on. I had to move their litter box, food, and water into the back bedroom... all their toys and supplies. And they just would not leave. For months. I felt like the worst owner on the planet. And it ticked me off all the more is he just moved in with his pets and they got to take over. And I again understood letting them get used to a new place too. But he wouldn't have them get left outside for awhile or keep them closed off to a part of the house so the cats could come out and play again or even just get used to them. It was annoying.

 

So this went on for months. And I was at the point of telling him he had to move out or change to accommedate everyone but the cats started slowly coming out more so I waited to see. So now they do come out and play and sometimes cuddle up with the pups and all is mostly fine. My girl cats still really don't like them much and the dogs still chase after them sometimes and all but it's a lot better now.

 

But, other than that, the annoyance with the pups is they are just constantly in your face, follow you around, lay on you... all the time. They are indoor, on everything, sleep in the bed, under the covers, get on the couch, lay all over you, crawl all over your stuff. You cannot walk without all three following you, sit down they will get in your face or come get on top of you, ect.

 

My boyfriend had surgery ten days ago and has been mostly stuck hanging around in bed. I try and go in there and spend time with him and all but the whole time is fighting to keep dogs out of your face and from stepping all over you.

 

Anytime you are on the bed or laying out on the couch you will have to jolt up and protect yourself from getting crushed from his largest dog. Laying on you to just smacking you with his paw or stepping all over you.

 

I work from home and on a number of occasions have lost everything I was working on because one will just come jumping from the back of the couch onto my lap or roll around and get on my lap before I can stop her.

 

The bed and trying to sleep is the absolute worst though.

 

One dog has a deformation sort of, he has all four legs but one is stuck up next to his body and so is not used for walking and such. So he cannot get up on the bed by himself. He has stairs which he will not use. So you put him on the bed, he will jump off a thousand times to chase the cats around, then will come back to the room and bark at you until you wake up and put him back on the bed. He's one who won't lay on you but will cuddle with you, which that I don't so much mind. But then he will wake you up another way by rolling on his back and kicking you in the face.

 

His girl dog wants to live on top of me. She's always too close. All the time. Sits on me, lays on me, crawls in the corner of the couch beside me, sleeps too close or tries to sleep on top of me. I don't mind her, she's a big sweetie. I don't mind her sometimes laying around me and cuddling, getting pets, but allllll the time. And she's the one always having me lose the work I am doing or having my laptop drop from the couch or bed.

 

All of his dogs are more weight than I can take laying on me without feeling suffocated. But his third dog takes the cake. He is a wolf-dog hybrid. On his four legs he's basically to my hip, on his hind he's taller than me, and he outweighs me. And he has ust been bruising and scratching me up since moving in and it's to the point now it's just I'm so annoyed with him around.

 

For the past several days I have hardly been able to walk, yet again, because all throughout the night I get trampled on by him. He jumps up, steps all over me, lays down and I have to spend about five minutes trying to get him off of me and out of the way so I can lay down. Which doesn't always work so then I have to go sleep on the couch. My ankle is killing me. It's the first place that gets hit and is the one place that gets hit every single time. No matter where I manage to be, he will find and step all over me.

 

He will lay down on my legs when I'm asleep waking me up and trapping me. It doesn't matter how I'm laid out... stomach, back, side, curled up, laid flat... he will find and curl up on me. Then I have to struggle to get him off of me and lay back down. And he will then just follow me and follow me.

 

When not sleeping but laying down, he will come lay fully accross me or just accross my stomach and chest. And about makes me pass out from a combo of the weight and the fact his elbows get stabbed into me plus his huge face knocking into me.

 

My legs, back and arms have all been scratched and bruised up from being stepped on constantly plus the fact of his huge paws. Which he will smack you with constanly. And will leave huge scratch marks down my face and arms, sometimes bleed, end up as huge long lasting bruises. Knock you accross the face, side of your head which will leave you close to dizzy. He will jump up on his hind legs and pounce at you. Which means I scream and drop everything in my hands and get away as quickly as I can as have had two bad accidents with him actually getting ahold of me already.

 

He has a very large head. Which he will put in your face at all times. He nudges at your hand anytime he can get to it or your face. Knocks under your chin making teeth clank and head hurt so much you'll end with a headache, will stick his nose in your face when trying to lay down or sleep and it will wake you up.

 

And just for the past like two weeks I've been so irritated. I had a huge swollen spider bite that made it so I could barely move from it which kept getting trampled on, my right foot was killing me, now my left ankle is back to hurting for the dozenth time since moved in. I haven't been able to sleep because this new found increasing need for the large on to lay on me which makes me more irritated with the other two always trying to and if all three trap me in I'm ready to scream. It takes forever to make it from the kitchen to the living room if I have food in my hands. Going through one door way is a battle to get around all of them trying to jump on top of me so I have to swirl around is circles until they are far enough away to safetly walk without getting knocked over the food or a soda flying out of my hand.

 

They are nice dogs. Too nice at that. Loving and affectionate. They love everybody, don't bite, do bark and drive everyone around here insane, but still. Testing my patience sometimes. Especially right now with also the fact they just want to go outside, then come back inside, then get let back out over and over and over. > Which also my boyfriend decides is something I should just "do." I could be busy with work and trying to get something important done or in the middle of something but apparently I need to get up every five seconds.

 

Maybe when I feel better and there's back to having more room on the bed once he's all healed up from his surgery and all it'll go calm back down. Right now, just doing all I can to keep distance from them. Not that this is an easy task.

[BellaDonna]

They sounds like very, very sweet dogs. It just sounds like they were not trained well and lack some general manners. An obedient dog will not lay on you without an invitation. I would give them a stern "no" if they invade your space, and when they are doing something you don't like, turn your back to them. You need to establish yourself as the leader of the pack when you are there, so they might listen to you.

[BrandiBroken]

They sounds like very, very sweet dogs. It just sounds like they were not trained well and lack some general manners. An obedient dog will not lay on you without an invitation. I would give them a stern "no" if they invade your space, and when they are doing something you don't like, turn your back to them. You need to establish yourself as the leader of the pack when you are there, so they might listen to you.

 

 

Oh, they are. They're adorable and wonderful... and I love them to death honestly... it's just there's sooo much of them and all the time, every second, every day! And they're just so heavy and on me all the time... my body is just worn out and aching all the time at this point from getting stepped on and the like so much. My heaviest cat (who isn't heavy really) can even walk on or accross me now and I will yelp if he hits a number of areas as they're so swollen and bruised up or on their way to such.

 

I've started being more spoken out and less submissive toward them recently. I felt odd trying to discipline someone else's animal but something had to be done. It's just hard when he doesn't really see anything wrong with it, encourages it... towards me anyway, not so much himself he just let's it happen most of the time. When he started noticing my body was turning black, blue and purple so much he's come around a little but there's a long way to go.

[BrandiBroken]

And some TMI... like when we are trying to be intimate... dogs around.... kind of a mood killer for me. I can't say I exactly enjoy the audience. Also do not enjoy paws flying at me in an unprotected state or noses sticking into places they don't need to be, be that a private area or in my face or crawling under me, ect. Trying to lick me... sorry, but no. During sometimes but afterwards... no. It's like a beacon for the largest dog to want to come get on top of me or in between my legs so I can't have a moment to myself after all is said and done, no, I have to jump up before he can get to me and try to grab my clothes quickly and run to the bathroom.

 

Sigh.

 

One of them also pees on my panties when they're off. Yuck.

[SophiaNYC]

And some TMI... like when we are trying to be intimate... dogs around.... kind of a mood killer for me. I can't say I exactly enjoy the audience. Also do not enjoy paws flying at me in an unprotected state or noses sticking into places they don't need to be, be that a private area or in my face or crawling under me, ect. Trying to lick me... sorry, but no. During sometimes but afterwards... no. It's like a beacon for the largest dog to want to come get on top of me or in between my legs so I can't have a moment to myself after all is said and done, no, I have to jump up before he can get to me and try to grab my clothes quickly and run to the bathroom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sigh.

 

One of them also pees on my panties when they're off. Yuck.

 

We have three pets (now) I just took in a beautiful Maine Coon I found. My dog is small and I have had him for 10 years, he will go in the bathroom and pee on the floor when we are intimate like he is mad lol. Now I take him and put him in his crate or lock the door so they can't be around. I know it can be annoying but maybe they need more excersie? I didn't read the entire post but maybe they need to be wore out so they literally just fall asleep on the floor to give you a break?

[SophiaNYC]

It doesn't sound like you are a big dog person, cats are much more self sustainable.

[BrandiBroken]

Sophia. indeed I am more of a cat person. I have only had 3 dogs in my life- none of which were "mine" and were family members, and started taking in cats and raising strays and having some of my own from the time I was a teenager. I'm used to and enjoy their attitude in general much more I guess, at least that I know of.

 

Heh, well it's nice to know it's not just us on the intimate peeing animal thing. It only happened once he moved in here, not when I'd be at his place. Just gets a tad annoying on that side of things.

 

Well, I have a large fenced in yard so now that it's summer they want to go out more and more (and be let back in to go BACK out) so they've been playing around more... just seems to have made them more excitable it seems sometimes. Plus there's a dog on all three sides of us so at any given point ears perk up, barks start, running through the house to look out windows (including getting tramped on the bed is in front of two in the bedroom right at our heads), wanting to out out, ect.

[Tiffany Vitale]

I agree with you they need training but could be great dogs if trained right so they won't be such a pain in the ass

[BrandiBroken]

I agree with you they need training but could be great dogs if trained right so they won't be such a pain in the ass

 

For the most part, in other areas, they have been taught well... just an idea of personal space? Not so much. And when one tries to get them more broke of it but the other-and their actual owner-doesn't and encourages other behavior it can be a pain.

 

The two male dogs are about four years old. He had one since it was born and the other just about since he was born too. And the female is coming up in eight years. He had her since she was two.

 

And they obviously love and adore him and he them but gah I'm just extra irritated right now by not having a second where they're not in my face and on top of me.