I felt like reaching into the television and slapping that lady who had the pomeranian. When Victoria asked who she loved more: the dog or her husband, she says, after a LONG pause...."well I guess I love my husband more....but he's [referring to pooch] my baby!!!"
The lady would rather sleep with her dog than her husband, maybe she and the dog should sleep in the dog house so the husband can finally sleep in his own bed without getting bit.
that was a yorkie and i felt soooo bad for the husband
shareTeddy Pom-Pom was a pomeranian.
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I understand your feeling bad for the husband but, the husband
needed to get a backbone, put his foot down and make that dog
sleep down stairs. If the wife can't handle it, then she can be
the one to seep on the couch.
I love watching her show, but it amazes me how many dumb people
there are who allow their dogs to get away with what they do.
If a dog has an emotional condition like the dog that fixates
on reflextions, or the dog who had the fear of men, that's different.
I don't see this particular episode, but I did see the episode with the stay-at-home dad who slept on the couch rather than sleep in the bed with his wife and her yappy Pom and Maltese. In the case, his choice of sleeping on the couch was definitely "getting a backbone." He was saying to his wife "I won't live like this" and it was her who needed to get a clue. Not only was she putting those dogs before her marriage and her husband (and a rather attractive husband at that!), she was also putting them before her own toddler daughter. That's what was really disgusting. She had no concern of what an environment those yappy, anxious dogs and her own yelling and screeching was creating for her daughter. Not surprisingly she referred to the dogs as her "babies," and not her daughter. If that husband needed to a get a backbone about anything, it should have been about her daughter. Honestly, even if Victoria did successfully help with the dog's yappy, that husband still ought to issue his wife an ultimatum - see a psychotherapist about her entitlement and priority issues, or he files for a divorce and takes the daughter.
It's bad enough to see people who don't care how their bad pet owners skills effects their marriages, but it's more disturbing how often Victoria helps people with children and the people have no clue or concern about how such their bad owner-pet relationships effect their children. It always seems they have more sympathy and concern for the dog than they do for their own children. Like the "punk rock" couple (who hadn't gotten the memo that punk died in 1986), who seemingly got their bull terrier as some sort of fashion statement (which is a red flag in and of itself). They expressed all this concern and empathy for their dog when a vet told them he should be castrated, yet when Victoria showed them a video of their daughter saying she was scared of the dog, their reaction was muted and detached. Victoria had to egg them on to get some sort of parental-ish concern out of them. Sickening. Now, I'm a life-long animal lover and matriarch of a multi-pet household myself, so I get how deeply people can care about their pets. But people who bond more strongly with their pets than their own children have serious emotional and interpersonal issues that need to be addressed, if only for the sake of the children.
Like the "punk rock" couple (who hadn't gotten the memo that punk died in 1986), who seemingly got their bull terrier as some sort of fashion statement (which is a red flag in and of itself).