Our mini-dachshund is spoiled. I admit it. We don't have friends and relatives in and out frequently like some people do. She's never once been around children. We are simply three devoted adults competing for her affection and that's all she's known.
But once a year we have relatives come through and visit us for a few days on the way to visit their son's family in North Carolina. They don't like dogs.
She acts angry and speaks harshly to her, whenever our dog puts her feet up on her chair asking to be picked up. They are horrified that she begs at the table. We have to spend the weekend sitting in the tiny den because that's the only place with chairs too high for her to jump up on. They've said, "Why don't you put her outside?" and I've explained that she knows to bark to be let back in and she would continue barking until that happens. She's 14 now, toothless, hard of hearing and half blind but they cut her no slack. I'm dreading their next visit in two weeks.
Thoughts?
. Those babies are adorable!!
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