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Can't give much advice regarding non-dog family and holidays, but we got Odie relatively recently (he's nearly 7 month old now - we got him at 11 weeks) and our kids are the same age as yours. They've got sooo much from having him in the house! It's amazing to see both of them learning how to treat him (and vice versa) and I have this notion that having someone at the bottom of the pecking order kind of helps with the sibling equilibrium.
Having said that, it's been far from easy! There are a lot of logistical headaches that having a dog has introduced and then at the end of the day once we've got both kids down to bed, Odie decides he's going to be really hyper until about an hour before we head off to bed ourselves :-)
Definitely worth it, though.
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Newb q:
I want to get a dog. A whippet ideally. But my wife is really hesitant. She's worried about the restrictions dog ownership will put on being able to visit non dog-friendly friends and family and on the location and duration of holidays. I'm not sure these are really that big of a deal. Can anyone relate some experience around these concerns?
Neither of us have owned dogs before although we both love them and have them in the extended family. We live in a decent sized house with lots of steep stairs. We're in a small town on the edge of marshes and woods. We have a small garden that I'm keen to discourage the local cats from shitting in and we have two kids, 2 and 5 (both of whom are mad keen for a pet).
Whippet and learn to adapt?