I don't know what to do. Got a patterdale-jack Russel cross just before Christmas, complete surprise from my partner. I'm at the point where I'm considering rehoming or selling her.
Some things to know, I am currently bed bound, I'm unable to feed, train or generally take care of her and it's going to be multiple months before I can walk properly again due to complications after an injury. I also have an iron temper, ask any of my friends, they have never seen me angry. I'm not trying to be tough or hard, they're just important bits to know for the rest of this.
My partner will not train our puppy the important bits. She doesn't sit, she doesn't stay, she has zero recall, she barks constantly throughout the day, she knows exactly what her name is and yet won't even acknowledge when I say her name, if it's just me and her in the room she jumps and screeches at the door for someone else, her tail was docked wrong and she needs to go to the fucking vet NOW, we've had her two months and she hasn't been to the vet except for jabs, she's not chipped, she has bitten me, she has bitten my partner, she reacts very badly to the four other dogs in the house (none of them are mine and have been her years longer than my dog), if they fight the other people in the house just shout her name, one of those dogs is a fucking German Shepherd, my little patterjack is not winning that fight ever, she hasn't been on a walk since a week after we got her and she will grab food directly out of people's hands while they are eating.
She does twirly whirlies though. And she rolls over, and she does paw and she does play dead, you know, the incredibly important commands for a three month old dog to know. She's 1000% trainable, but she can't be around me much because she will jump on and hurt me (which she has done multiple times already) so I can't train her and I don't know what to do, no one else in this fucking house will train the dog not to pick fights with a dog five times her size, or not to shit on the carpet (which they will happily complain about though), or ANYTHING ELSE IMPORTANT.
I don't know how long I can carry on with this. My temper is shot, I'm getting angry a lot, lot more than I want to and it's starting to affect me at work, my patience used to last hours, now I can't get through a half hour phone call with a customer without having to make up some bullshit excuse to put them on hold so I can calm down. I don't like this, I can't handle the dog, the three other people in my house won't handle her in any meaningful way, I can't keep their brutes away from my dog, I can't feed her, I can't train her, I can't do anything about anything and I don't know what to do.
Thanks for the vent, putting it into words I'm a lot calmer now.
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