Guests with dogs

snowball
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:25:57 +0000

My husband always wants to take the dogs with us when we go to local family members homes for dinner. My mother is happy to have the granddogs, but my sister in law is not at her home. It bothers me that my husband begs his sister when he know how she feels; I always say no and he still wants them to go. While we do take the dogs with us for rides when the weather allows, and we go out to lunch on the weekends to dog friendly locations, I understand when someone else doesn’t want the dogs around.

That said, we host Thanksgiving every year and my nieces are allowed to bring their dogs if the weather is nice and the dogs will play outside. We have a few that don’t like dogs, so the dogs stay outside until most of the guest have left and the food is out of reach After that, they are allowed inside and most are ready to nap by that time. My two are so worn out that when the last guest leaves, they fall asleep wherever they were standing at the time the door closed for the last time!!