Rehoming dogs due to kids allergies

tk123

A random question but is this real or just an excuse people use to offload pets - I've seen it used as a reason (excuse?) or more than one occasion? How many other people here have pets and allergies... like me? I'm gasping for an inhaler as I type this but too lazy to go and get one!

cocker5

tk123 wrote: »

A random question but is this real or just an excuse people use to offload pets - I've seen it used as a reason (excuse?) or more than one occasion? How many other people here have pets and allergies... like me? I'm gasping for an inhaler as I type this but too lazy to go and get one!

I'm going to have to be honest and say I think alot if the times it's used as an excuse. It's an easy excuse where they feel people are less likely to judge etc.

I know two families one where a child has asthma and one allergies.. On both occasions doctors said pet were to go. Both cases families worked hard to keep the dogs, constant brushing, clipping, hoovering the house , all carpet removed from the houses and some alternative treatments and low and behold all are living together with no problems!

It's the doctors IF someone had asthma and allergies the doctors are quick to say pets must go but in my opinion in many cases it's a lazy way out!

tk123

cocker5 wrote: »

I Both cases families worked hard to keep the dogs, constant brushing, clipping, hoovering the house , all carpet removed from the houses and some alternative treatments and low and behold all are living together with no problems!

Sounds like our house lol!!

cocker5

tk123 wrote: »

Sounds like our house lol!!

I personally think in many cases it can work (not 100% of the time) but in many cases dog owners are lazy, take the easy way out instead of researching .. And trying to work things out! But that just me!

With the amount of dogs being rehomed due to allergies and due to immigration or moving to apartment.. We must have the sickest kids in the world, living in one bed apartments... I just don't buy it.

Whispered

I'm pregnant at the moment and I never considered it could have an allergy. That would be a nightmare!

tk123

Whispered wrote: »

I'm pregnant at the moment and I never considered it could have an allergy. That would be a nightmare!

Just swaddle the baby in vet bed to build immunity! :pac::P

Whispered

There is probably as much fur on my couches :cool: I have it that way on purpose - to build immunity. (that's a great excuse for not cleaning, thanks TK!)

borderlinemeath

A good friend of mine has severe asthma and had several hospitalizations as a child. Never once did her family get rid of the pets, and they always had a dog.

Since she's moved out and got married and had children of her own she'd love to get a dog, but everytime she goes home now, or to her sisters house she reacts badly to their dogs, she needs to acclimatize herself again to having a pet in the house to build up her defences.

Kimbot

I know someone that got a dog about a year ago, his daughter is allergic to dogs but he still has the dog around the child all the time. I thought it was madness for him to get a dog in the first place.
If he does give the dog up at any point that will probably lying be used as the excuse

Knine

I have a dog allergy. After a grooming session its bad! However I also have severe hayfever.

I just have to live with it. No way am I giving up my dogs. The wire coated dogs affect me less.