I hate my mother in law’s dog…

No advice needed, I just need to rant.

For context, we live with my mother in law and brother in law. My MIL has some significant mobility issues and has for a while. My FIL passed away in June from dementia.

So about a year ago my MIL's beloved dog died from old age. And she impulse bought a puppy. She found it on the AKC website and instead of vetting the breeder she met the breeder in a parking lot and bought the puppy there. She was told he was a Yorkie but he's clearly some kind of mix.

So you can already see the problems.

This dog just… Well he sucks to have.

He couldn't stay downstairs at night because of my FIL, so we agreed to help out with the puppy at night. Which somehow turned into us taking care of this puppy all the time.

Now he's basically our responsibility instead of my MIL's. She sees him for about two hours a week.

The nightmare part is the barking. He starts at 5 in the morning. This morning it was 4:30. And she won't pay for a trainer to come in to help with the issue. My entire sleep schedule revolves around waking up because of this dog.

And if he gets bored or has too much energy during the day, it's more barking. And it is so obnoxious. We finally got sick of him yesterday and took him downstairs for my MIL to deal with and it was amazing.

By contrast, my wife and I have a basset hound dog. We vetted the breeder, didn't impulse buy. She's about 2 months younger than my MIL's dog and is so much better behaved. Especially with the barking thing.

I want to re-home the Yorkie but at this point he and the basset are a bonded pair so we really can't without stressing her out too much.

I'm just exhausted and hate this awful little dog that I didn't choose and would never have chosen but am responsible for.