Me and my wife got two lab mix breeds when they were puppies, two girls from the same litter. She had never had dogs before, I had had two small dogs. They are now 11 months old. I’ve crate trained them and potty trained them and they are just the sweetest things. I was able to play and exercise them with walks and outside time and able to afford food. Everything with them was okay apart from an accident here or there and some chewed up things, we’ve deemed to be separation anxiety when I would leave for work. Then me and my wife found out we were having a baby! Throughout pregnancy things got a little worse they would have more accidents and more occasions of chewing things up that they shouldn’t be. My wife started getting really annoyed with them to the point it would stress her out to leave anything unattended downstairs with them. I wasn’t able to walk them as much because I was busy preparing our 2 bedroom condo for our baby. The stress level started to rise. Then our baby came and i was hoping it would get better but it’s gotten a lot worse. The dogs are great with the baby, not aggressive at all or anything it’s not that. They started acting out more, it would be an everyday thing were there was either an accident or something would be destroyed. And my wife’s postpartum aversion towards them has reached a point where everyone in the house is so stressed. I want to make sure my wife and child are comfortable and stress free, bottom line. I love my dogs but I don’t think with this life change that I can give them the attention they need to work out the stress and energy when I am taking care of my family. We’ve tried different things but my wife still doesn’t like them anymore and they still have issues that cause us stress. My attachment to them and their attachment to each other has me really hesitant about re homing them. I don’t want them to be separated and I really don’t want to be separated from them either. But I would do whatever I need to for my wife and child.
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