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Definitely less happy

I am sure she is less happy

She did enjoy 8 child free years though and during that time she had an amazing time!!!

My dog is like the only child that suddenly has a sibling. It's been a year and a half now and I think she's gotten used to it. Sometimes she's jealous and wants our attention too and sometimes she's happy that she has someone to play with.

They are probably just as happy. Their day to day life has changed very little, if at all. Actually they probably get more outside time and frisbee throwing due to my son being obsessed with them. I think we are definitely not the norm!

It helps that there are 2 of them and they were already pretty bonded / independent.

@fuzzypeaches: I have dog guilt too, which I think has resulted in them being MORE spoiled. I can't order something for the baby without ordering something for them.

@LBee: omg I know! Dh thinks I'm so crazy because i keep buying dog toys also my once 7.5lb dog is now 8lbs from treats! Oops.

Our dog will get jealous from time to time but we make an effort to play with him and provide him with as much love as possible. He doesn't get as much exercise as he did before and I think that contributes to his jealousy. As DS gets older it's getting easier and he's starting to interact with him more which is super cute to see. Our dog is very good to DS. I have dog mom guilt as well! Now that it's the summer and DH is off from work hopefully he'll get out more. He needs to get all that energy out!

Before baby i think he was about a 9... We work 9 hour days so we tried to make the hours home in the evening count. Right when baby was born until 9-10 months, i think he was sad from loss of attention, he got verbally reprimanded a lot more, and there were times I was easily frustrated by him. I also had to kick him out of our bed because i often had to bring the baby into bed with us or i was getting out of bed a lot. Right about when the baby turned a year old things got a lot better. Our LO and Dog love each other, they play together, they're both pretty gentle and respectful. Its cute - in the morning they like to find each other. i'll ask the dog "where's baby?" and he'll run into her room and lick her through the crib slats. and dont let her find out your talking smack on her dog she will quickly correct you with a "Darwin? he a good boy" my husband started taking him for longer nightly walks while i put her to bed

One of our dogs was fine but the other (younger, more energetic) dog was really unhappy. He hid in the conservatory all day every day and started toiletting in the house. We rehomed him a few weeks back via a charity - we've heard from his new owners that he's very happy! We were worried about our older dog and how she would cope alone but she's actually even happier now because she gets all the attention and all of LO's food!!