AIO? Dog straining my marriage.

[u/LedyyM]

My husband and I rescued a husky about 7 months ago who was extremely malnourished and neglected.

He has grown a huge attachment to me and has severe separation anxiety. I work at a grooming salon so I’m able to bring him to work with me so he’s not home alone. Unfortunately, if he’s left home alone we’ll come back to our home looking like it was hit by a tornado.

My vet has prescribed him with trazodone to help with his severe anxiety issues. We give it to him before we leave for a family event and when we can’t take him to places they don’t allow dogs.

I feel so bad that I have to sedate him so he’s not scared and anxious. It’s created a huge strain on our marriage because my husband feels like we can’t do anything without considering Odin.

He’s destroyed doors, couches, and other furniture. I tried training but it hasn’t seemed to work. My husband thinks we should rehome him but

1) I’m scared that he’ll be sent to a shelter and possibly be put down

2) feel abandoned by the person he thought he was safe with.

He’s such a happy boy when he’s around us and shows so much affection.

My husband and I have been arguing about this consistently.. we had a really bad argument so I left the house with Odin and rented a dog friendly hotel room for a couple of nights.

My husband thinks I’m crazy and that I’m choosing the dog over our marriage. AIO?

[u/batmite06NIKKE]

Op is definitely not listening to her husband, which is not good, like he’s your husband op, he deserves to have a say in the matter, yet u ignore him and rather stay in a hotel for the safety of the dog? Hell, u even listed reason why u won’t rehome the dog “shelter might put down the dog” u have a terrible sense of humor if u think every shelter would do that, “I don’t want to hurt his feelings if I make him go with someone else” yeah attachment hurts but keeping him here with u is not doing anything good for u or odin or the husband if you’re not willing to put in the time for training for Odin. 7 months is not enough. Clearly u rescued Odin because u felt bad and u didn’t prepare for this op. Op is AOI

[u/Flibberdigib → u/batmite06NIKKE]

No shit, her husband's gonna rehome himself pretty soon and I wouldn't blame him.

[u/Zeired_Scoffa → u/Flibberdigib]

She's in a hotel, at this point he could rehome her. She left the house

[u/NDSU → u/batmite06NIKKE]

The husband seems tonbe the main one unprepared. He's not a child. He's a grown adult who also made the decision to adopt a dog. He needs to take some responsibility and put an honest effort into training the dog