Dogs Training Blog

I live in a house with my boyfriend and another roommate. My boyfriend and I have our own dog to take care of. Our roommate has a little dog of his own also. This is where it gets messy. He does not devote ANY time to the dog. He always leaves and doesn’t come back for hours and sometimes a night or two. He expects us to take his dog out along with ours when he is not here. Of course I do it, but he has never ASKED me to do it. He assumes we will and sadly he is right. I can’t just NOT take the dog out but I feel like it isn’t my responsibility to take him out, play with him, feed him, clean up his poop when he poops on the floor EVERYDAY. I am just tired of it. I have my own life, my own dog. I am just tired of the dog using the bathroom in the house everyday when he goes out pretty much hourly. I don’t know what to do. He doesn’t want him to be crate trained “again” because he feels like he is too old for it. But he’s only about 10 or 11 months, I feel like he needs it again. I actually have no idea what to do. Another thing is he doesn’t own a car, he owns a motorcycle. He says if he ever leaves he can put his dog in his tank bag (the dog is a Chihuahua) and it will be okay. So my boyfriend and I lent him our car so he won’t have to do that. I wish I was joking about all of this. Especially the motorcycle thing. I know that is unsafe and would probably blow the dogs ears out. So basically..What do I do? Do I tell this guy that he needs to be here more often to take care of his dog or give the dog back to his mother until our lease is up? I normally wouldn’t mind watching someones animal if it was not every week. Especially when he doesn’t even ask us to, just expects it.Sorry Y!A people, I know it’s a long rant. I am just at my wits end. Dogs are a huge responsibility even if the dog itself is tiny. Thanks. Gosh, thank you all so much for the advice so far guys. I really appreciate it. A lot. It’s just getting super old. His excuse for staying out 3-4 times a week and not coming home the next day is..”I have class early in the morning..”So instead of staying here he stays at his girlfriends apartment across town since it’s closer to campus. I took his dog out so many times today and I still found poop in the laundry room. GRRRR! The law does indeed need to be slapped around here. I am too nice.Lately when the dog has pooped inside I leave it there with a note next to it.”Here is a present! Love, Bentley.”That’s his dogs name, lol. But even he does that wrong! He picks it up but doesn’t scrub the area so there are little poop stains around. I usually find em and hit them with the Resolve. How can someone clean poop wrong!!? >_<;

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