Seems to me if your kid loved the dog so much he would have the dog.
To be fair to the kid AND my mother, I was extremely, well, I'm not going to call me psycho, well the word fits, why not, I was coming off a med that made me super manic and I let the kid (to be fair tot he kid he was like 6) talk me into adopting this silly little dog who the kid fell for online (the big dog was with my husband back east.)
I knew the dog's history, found wandering in the desert 2 years old and this adoption society had neutered him and whatnot, but dogs weren't really my animals and I was like "I AM CERTAIN an older dog will be easier to deal with than a younger one...." Hahahahah. Unhousetrainable. DID adore the child, so tried to bite once, then it was over, ate SO MANY of my shoes I was finally like, 'This dog needs to be outside, man, I mean if he eats another pair of my shoes I will beat him to death with them." He loves outside, and my mom and kid are in CO, and my mom doesn't really have any indoor area that is not carpeted where he can be contained I don't think, and she's in a condo. He is not the easiest dog to have.
I did not think about all these issues, and since my husband is home he can have the dog kind of tag along and notice if he needed to go out, but he's NOT the kind of dog you can leave inside for ANY period of time without pee and poop everywhere. I think the kid would like NOTHING more than to have the dog (he owns another one he takes EXCELLENT care of but she's housetrained.)
I am a little miffed at my mother for not SUGGESTING it since my son IS home and something could be jerry rigged, I mean, we are talking a few months, but I think her fear is if she allows it, well, she will never get the dog OUT and my son will have to go to work at some point. So....
I just REALLY don't even want to put the dog in a kennel, honestly, but I am just going to pray very hard that something comes UP for us. I mean, kenneling that dog he would be miserable. As would my husband. They are bonded now.
It's probably my OWN fault for like, adopting that crazy little creature, but you know in some ways.... My husband's stepdad was extremely violent with dogs it was how they were trained (at least by this guy) back then, and when we got the big dog I had NO CLUE the husband would employ those methods. He only stopped when I told him I would take the dog to the pound if he ever hit her again and death would be kinder....
The husband has been able to train the dog a fair amount just by spending so much time with him, and it's been kind of awesome to watch him truly fall for this tiny, ridiculous looking creature and treat him very, very gently. I have never heard him raise his voice to the dog and they love each other. The dog is like mostly Jack Russell but he's tiny but just... tough and he and Igor like wander around interacting. It's fun to watch. So, it's my fault really I HAD NO CLUE but I adopted the dog over the strenuous objections of EVERY adult nearby. LOL. So, eh.
I am OVER IT WE have gone through EVERYTHING now consolidation begins. I'm just stressed. I have no house, I have no doc really , I have things I have to do that I don't know how to DO and yeah, my pdoc can't dump me but my PCP sure can. Sigh. But yeah, spraying, especially with another female dog (my kid's dog is a chick) that's like, you can't train that out. We tried everything.
Anna