{"id":33405,"date":"2026-01-23T17:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=33405"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:09:05","slug":"my-husband-started-taking-our-dog-on-3-hour-walks-every-night-one-night-i-checked-the-dogs-gps-collar-and-my-stomach-dropped-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=33405","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Started Taking Our Dog on 3-Hour &#8216;Walks&#8217; Every Night \u2013 One Night I Checked the Dog&#8217;s GPS Collar, and My Stomach Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My husband started taking our dog on three-hour walks every night. One night, I checked the GPS collar app and saw the dot blinking at an address across town. I drove there, called him from outside the house, and his phone rang inside. When I pushed the door open, I wasn&#8217;t braced for what I&#8217;d find.My husband, James, and I&#8217;ve been together for nine years.We have two children. A seven-year-old daughter who thinks she&#8217;s already a teenager and a five-year-old son who believes he&#8217;s a dinosaur. Our life is the usual mix of chaos, half-eaten snacks shoved under couch cushions, and bedtime negotiations that never seemed to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when James started begging for a dog, I said no.Not because I hate dogs. I love dogs. But I already felt like I was running a full-time daycare, a restaurant, and a laundry service all at once. Adding a dog to that equation felt like volunteering for more chaos.&#8221;I&#8217;ll handle it,&#8221; James promised. &#8220;Feeding, training, walks. All of it. You won&#8217;t have to lift a finger.&#8221;I&#8217;d heard that before. About the kids&#8217; fish. About the hamster. About literally everything.But he kept pushing. The kids got wind of it and started their campaign. Puppy drawings appeared on the fridge. My daughter wrote a persuasive essay for school titled, &#8220;Why My Mom Should Let Us Get a Dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband started taking our dog on three-hour walks every night. One night, I checked the GPS collar app and saw the dot blinking at an address&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":71,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33407,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33405\/revisions\/33407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}