Wife Asks Her Husband To Rehome His Emotional Support Dog Because She Is Stuck With It At Home All Day Long

• By Danish Faheem
• 4 months ago
• 5 minutes read

People often think that getting an emotional support animal (ESA) will magically solve all their problems, but that’s not how it works. An ESA is a living being that requires care and attention, not a device you can turn on and off. Taking care of an ESA can give you a sense of purpose and help you connect with others. However, it’s a mutual relationship, and both you and the animal benefit. Unfortunately, some people forget this and leave the responsibility to their families, as seen in our story.

In today’s story, a mother with three kids,, working from home in a small apartment, faced a challenge related to an ESA. Her husband, who suffered from severe depression, insisted on getting a herding dog as an ESA, despite her concerns about the work involved. Despite her saying no, he ended up getting an untrained, high maintainance puppy. After the husband returned to work, the puppy ended up becoming OP’s responsibility who didn’t want a dog, in their house, in the first place.

With 2 warnings already received for not working properly, OP asked her husband to do something about the dog.

Scroll down below to read the story!

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Image Credits: Zen Chung (not the actual photo)

1. Let’s find out!

2. OP, who works from home, lives with her husband and kids in a house that is getting smaller by the day as the kids are growing up.

3. After getting depressed, OP’s husband wanted to get an emotional support dog, but she begged him to wait till they got a bigger house.

4. The husband ended up getting a dog that was an untrained herding puppy.

5. Because it was high-maintenance and untrained, OP begged her husband to either return or rehome the puppy, but apparently he had already fallen in love with it.

6. Since her husband returned to the office, the puppy has now been OP’s responsibility as she works from home.

So the dog is now OP’s. A dog she never asked for. It is crazy that the husband chose an untrained puppy as his emotional support dog. That too was a puppy, which was high maintenance. If you think about it, he got himself a puppy to support him, but the puppy requires support too. Untrained dogs are a mess because they create a huge mess, and now this puppy is OP’s to look after.

OP cannot sit there and do nothing about this. The dog will either have to be trained or rehomed. Something needs to be done here. Let’s see what happens next. Scroll down below to continue reading!

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7. OP has gotten two warnings from work for not completing tasks on time, and that is because she is too busy looking after the puppy.

8. OP finally told her husband she had had enough and didn’t want the puppy in their house anymore. He would have to do something about the situation.

9. He quickly began b*tching saying OP has always complained about the dog. The matter was taken to the courts of the AITA community.

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Here’s what the AITA community had to say about this:

10. It would have been in the best interest of everyone!

Via many_hobbies_gal

11. Make it very clear, OP!

Via mdthomas

12. A working dog is not appropriate for an apartment.

Via Creepy_Addict

13. Those are 2 sucky struggles to have to pick.

Via Emotional-Run-4277

14. What did he think? The dog would train itself? Magic is not real.

Via AlwaysLurking91

15. Only they would know.

Via DavidANaida

16. A dog that was there to take care of someone needed taking care of. Hilarious!

Via Redditor

17. Come up with ways to resolve this issue. You cannot sit there and do nothing about it.

Via jenniw3g

18. I second this!

Via Every_Caterpillar945

19. It is a free option to exercise, so why not? It may work.

Via VioletIsNotPurple

20. Period.

Via AilingHen69

OP was NTA! You cannot throw a responsibility at someone and expect them to honor it quietly. It is like asking a medical surgeon to create the next iPhone’s UI. There is no match here. OP ended up with a puppy she never wanted. The conditions were very clear. If it really is an emotional support puppy, then the husband should take it with him to the office. The puppy is at home all day, making life a big mess for OP as she tries to work from home.

OP needs to do some thinking. Either this emotional support dog gets rehomed, or she leaves her husband. I really hope you guys enjoyed this one. Don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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Dog tax.

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