You see I would never rehome my dogs. Everyone the whole pregnancy told me to get rid of those dogs. That dogs and babies don't go together.

But kids and dogs do go together and I have been preparing both my dogs for this for their whole lives really because I knew eventually we would have a child.

I know as a kid the time I didn't have a dog I was miserable, dogs are an important part of my life.

I'm not scared of the fact that my Terrier would intentionally hurt her, but my Terrier is clumsy and extremely friendly and I am afraid that she might accidently scratch her or step on her or something. The worst thing is when I am holding my daughter and my Terrier comes up to sniff at her and my daughter sees her she starts crying. She is a good dog but she is just overly friendly and I am trying to teach her boundaries when it comes to the baby. She is a 25lb lap dog and whats to stop her from thinking she can come and sit in the babys lap....poodle already tried.

Anyways I know its a me thing but I feel so bad because I find myself not giving my Terrier as much attention as I do even my poodle. And I want to but she is a handful right now as it is. (We have had bad weather conditions and what she needs is a good offleash run, and I can't safely give that to her right now.)

we live in an apartment so we don't have a yard. The yard we take our dogs to is my grandparents yard and its not safe right now to let them out to play in, its so muddy and mucky that they could get hurt out running in that....its slippery and deep. It just really needs to dry up. Both dog parks in the area are either under water or partially under water, so we can't take her there either. There have been a few other places I've tried but no luck. Even tried the dog park that is an hour away and conditions aren't much better.

She really needs a good offleash run, but all the places I try to find for her are either extremely muddy and unsafe or still flooded.



I know I'd feel better about the whole situation if I could get her the exercise she needs right now. She still gets two walks a day (an hour each) but those are leashed but what she really needs is to just run.

And the calmer she is the more I feel I can trust her around the baby, but with the weather conditions the last 6 weeks have made for a very hyper dog (and she isn't hyper by nature.)

The baby though isn't quite 3 weeks old