My husband got a dog a year and a half ago and he has been babying her to the highest degree ever since. Bringing her everywhere we go, blaming her bad behaviors (shitting on the floor after just having been outside for over an hour) on not getting enough exercise, allowing his family to feed her table scraps to a point of her ripping food out of people's hands, etc. She is extremely territorial of her cage, her water dish and my husband. So if I even so much as walk by her cage (she sleeps in there with the door open) she will either lunge out at me or she will just start growling. She has gone after the cat several times for simply walking by the cage or the food dish. If I'm in bed with my husband snuggling, the dog starts whining and freaking out, trying to crawl between us, where she will proceed to nip my face. My husband says it's her way of "playing". She has shit on my bed several times and we now have a no dog allowed on the bed rule, which my husband goes against by calling her on the bed to snuggle after he gets home from work. Whenever I bring any of this up, my husband says "Don't let it stress you out, she just needs to get outside more".
I'm starting to resent my marriage and find myself wanting to leave constantly. I hate this dog. I never even agreed to have the animal to begin with but he took her home and then got a new job which requires him to be away from the house much more often so 100% of the responsibility of this animal has fallen on me. I didn't sign up for this. I asked him from day one to get rid of her and he said he would but a week later said he couldn't because they were too attached to each other and she would be sad. Now he has planned to go hiking, which I've asked him to do for years and had him say no to me, just so he can bring his dog hiking. I'm over it and I don't know what to do. I've tried training and she doesn't listen to me but either way, he fucks it up but rewarding her bad behaviors.
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