I had to rehome my dog because he hated my kids 🐶
They called him a “foster fail.” My husband and I were graduate students when, of all the rescued greyhounds that had passed through our home as fosters, I decided to keep Axel, a huge, tan, sleek beauty who loved me, treats and naps, probably in that order. He commandeered our couches and terrorized our squirrels. He was a wonderful dog, a loyal dog, an easy dog. He also had an air of cattishness about him, a judgy aloofness I adored. When I was twenty-four, we were perfect together.
But my husband and I got married, like most grad students who shack up long enough to foster pets together. I decided I didn’t want to be part of the modern university system and ditched my Ph.D. program. Predictably, pregnancy followed. It was a rough one, with severe depression andBut around four years after we’d brought Axel home, we welcomed a baby boy just in time for Christmas.And while he wasn’t a huge fan of that crawling human, he wasn’t actively hostile.
Axel stopped spending time in the room with our family. If we went into a room with our boys, he left. He didn’t want to be around us. I suddenly came with not one but two small people, and he loathed them. At night, he stopped sleeping with us, and started peeing on the floor in the kids’ rooms. He’d never peed in the house before. I read that urine marking can beA dog has perceived an intruder and is marking its territory against it. It’s meant to assert dominance. Apparently, this happens a lot when a dog has conflicts with other animals within the home. We knew right away that Axel peeing on the kids’ floor every night didn’t bode well, and we did everything we could to fix it. Nothing worked.
the kids. Or would have, theoretically, if he’d tried to get near them at all. Living with Axel was like living with a large, tan ghost who materialized at mealtimes, wagged his tail apathetically and left. He was nothing like the big, happy dog we’d known.
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