đź“ť Brothers dog is driving me nuts

By Dependent-Benefit859 • Score: 3 • April 13, 2025 11:45 AM


Hi everyone. I’ll try to keep this semi short. Recently my brother is going through a divorce and he sold his house he and his ex wife owned. He has about a week, possibly longer (I’ll get into that in a minute), before he can move into his new house. During that time he’s asked to stay with my husband and I which includes our 7 month old and 2 large dogs. He also has 2 dogs which he brought here with him. One being a small well behaved dog and the other…large and crazy, not trained at all, barks constantly, and is 2 and half years old. Originally he asked to stay a week but due to an issue with the seller not wanting to fix a major issue, they agreed to fix, it could be longer. That’s up in the air for now. His dog has been barking constantly. And you know what he does, barely anything. Just quietly says “nooo.” It literally does nothing. It’s been driving me nuts. My husband is very laid back and he is even getting frustrated. She also has peed and pooped many times in the house. Monday-Friday my brother goes into the office and leaves us with the dog from like 8-6. My husband works from home and I am a SAHM. It’s becoming a lot and I don’t think I can take much more of it. Most of my energy goes to my baby. On top of all of this my brother has a 7 year old who he gets every other week. He and his ex have split custody. Well if he ends up staying longer than a week he’ll have to bring her here too. Overall she’s a good kid but I’m constantly telling her to stop messing with my baby. She doesn’t have siblings and doesn’t understand being gentle, all understandable. What isn’t okay to me is I’m the one telling her this and once again my brother does nothing to help with that issue. I’m put in a hard place because other than the dog issue and potentially my niece staying and possibly driving me crazy my brother has helped alot. Like doing dishes and buying food. I’m also stuck in a hard place because he let my husband and I and our 2 dogs stay with him for a month while we were looking at houses when we moved closer to him. But I was still pregnant with our baby and our dogs were 100% our responsibility and we did chores, bought groceries, and I watched my niece alot. So give it to my straight AITA for being pretty irritated?

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