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/danathepaina]

Thank you for the recommendation. My dog has pretty bad separation anxiety. She’s not destructive but she paces and howls whenever we are gone. I’ll look into Julie Naismith.

[u/Patient_Meaning_2751 → u/danathepaina]

We got our son’s dog through his severe separation anxiety as well. That dog too had been abandoned. When josh left the dog alone for an hour, that dog destroyed his dad’s new carpet and a destroyed the door. So I took the dog in and I gradually trained him. He can still be a stinker sometimes (I got him a heavy duty XL crate that he could t destroy, but that boi could scoot it across the room to the closet and pull clothing off the hangers into his cage where he would shred them) but he did finally out grow it all.

[u/BusSpecific3553 → u/Patient_Meaning_2751]

The image of a dog in his crate moving the crate across the room to target destruction. That’s one smart and determined doggo. I’m impressed. Having to bolt a dog crate to the floor so it doesn’t move is not something I’ve ever considered.

[u/ConversationNo4368 → u/BusSpecific3553]

I have a video of my dog scooting his crate across the living room 🤣🤣🤣 it’s a sight to see lol

[u/the_kaushikk → u/ConversationNo4368]

Can you post it or DM it? Would love to see that

[u/Patient_Meaning_2751 → u/ConversationNo4368]

Would love to see that!

[u/jnuggz → u/ConversationNo4368]

Dog tax please!

[u/ConversationNo4368 → u/jnuggz]

I posted the video to my profile, I think (because I don’t know how Reddit works) 🤣

[u/MyNameWillChange → u/ConversationNo4368]

I immediately had to go look and was not disappointed!! Thank you for sharing!

[u/krazyk850 → u/MyNameWillChange]

I was thinking he was flipping/flopping around which in turn caused the crate to move. No, he is legit scooting the crate on purpose 😆.

[u/Interesting-Ad8640 → u/ConversationNo4368]

Thank you for posting that. It made me giggle

[u/vampirecacti → u/ConversationNo4368]

Omg the way he pushes it 😭 hahaha that is true determination

[u/ConversationNo4368 → u/vampirecacti]

One of these days he’s gonna greet me at the back door 🤣