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Why does my husband think I don’t know what I’m talking about?

The first dog we had I fully trained because my husband was barely home. Of course, my husband still messed up some of the training, but I got the basics in at least.

This time he works from home (ever since COVID). I’ve been working from home for 16 years now.

Anyway, he’s around during the day, but he won’t follow my very easy training steps. As in use the command “no” instead of stop it, knock it off, or bad… because consistency. He can’t handle that. Seems “no” is hard to remember.

I’ve also asked him nicely not to play with the puppy with just his hands. Puppy thinks hands are now toys. He will randomly start biting at me. Thankfully his teeth aren’t all in.

Anyway, it’s not like my marriage is all peachy, but why can’t he even attempt to properly train the puppy? I’m about to build a dog house to put my husband in!!! Just more things to fester inside.
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Greyjedi · M
Perhaps because women most often speak from a place of emotion, not necessarily fact.
Dewkissedrose · 46-50, F
@Greyjedi It’s true, but I know to talk facts to him. Like I showed him how the puppy was biting me because of what he was doing. Once the puppy started biting him, then he believed me.
Greyjedi · M
@Dewkissedrose Yeah puppies bite, finding a way get them to stop biting is tough. My brother’s younger dog used to bite and then her big sister bit her and she stopped mostly biting. If the puppy recently got teeth a toothbrush or tough dog toy might help. Or spray it with water when it bites.
Dewkissedrose · 46-50, F
@Greyjedi Yeah. I have several of the hard chews around. I give those to him when he bites. He loves them. He’s starting to know he can chew on them but not me. lol