re: Has My Buddy Gone Too Far With His Dog??

There is one of those doggy daycare places a couple doors down from my office. Its amazing and sad to see how many people, (most look like they don't have much disposable income) drop their dogs off at these places every single day.

What kind of dog is it?

I feel like I need to get this off my chest. When I am offshore my dog goes to the vet 2 days a week for what they actually refer to as pet therapy. The wife and kids were home so long during covid that the dog "lost his shite" when they went back to school in August. I am not a fan of this but the other 3 days a week my FIL comes to get him and "watches" him all day. This is a guy that left one of my kids at his house to go to the store when he was "watching" him one day. Said he forgot the three year old was there. If he has to go somewhere I'd prefer he's at the vet. Being with my FIL is a legitimate threat to the dogs well being.

Your buddy is humanizing his dog. My terrier will sleep all day when we are there. She’s a bitch though. Take her for a long walk one day and the next she is wiped out.

Your buddy does everything with his. You said hiking and other things. The dogs sleeps because it’s tired. Not because he’s depressed. Tell your friend to worry when his couch and window sills get gnawed on or the dog starts shitting on top of his work bag or suitcase. Or you said he’s a cop. When one of his gun belts/holsters gets destroyed then look into activities. That dog knows when the belt goes on he’s getting left. So the dog probably hates that belt, but he sleeps instead. That’s a well balanced dog.

A much easier solution here is for your buddy to just get another dog.

Not at all. We send our pup to dog daycare 3 times a week and have an on call dog walker/sitter if need be.

Although my wife does hire the sitter when we go out for more than 3hrs at night which I think I kinda ridiculous

If that’s what your buddy wants to waste money on let him. It’s your friends dog not yours.

I’ll never understand this love with worrying about other people’s personal shite this board has. Always baffles me.

Your buddy is 2 attached to the dogs. He's turned into the overbearing parent.

But instead of jacking his children with ritalin, he's going to coddle his dogs with pampering.


You need to have a talk, he's getting to the creepy dog owner area with this. He can still escape it

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Last night he texted me to say he is going to start putting his dog in one of those pet hotels two days a week because he feels the dog is lonely and that it sleeps too much.

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I assume this is like doggy day care. I brought my dog to day care every weekday for the first 8 months I had her.

Some people care about the well-being of their pets and don't want them to sit around, get fat and diseased from inactivity.