'They tore open $40 worth of raw hamburger meat': UPDATE: Mom's untrained dogs are uninvited from the family lake house trip, but when she brings them anyway, chaos ensues

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Aug 2, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

Why can't parents just respect their children's requests for once? 

It seems like this mom was determined to ruin the family vacation because she couldn't stand that her two untrained dogs were being left out. Despite having a dog-sitter lined up, this entitled mom brought her two pups along anyway—against her daughter's adamant requests—and chaos ensued, leaving trash and torn apart garbage in the wake of 2 devilish Maltese dogs. 

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  • "WIBTA if I told my mom that her dogs are the only ones not allowed on family vacation?"

    My mom has 2 half Yorkie half Maltese dogs, these dogs are my mom's world. The problem is they are obsessed with food, they will go to any lengths to get human food. It started with a bag of barbecue potatoes chips on my kitchen counter ripped open and devoured, leaving a huge barbeque dust mess
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  • Next was an entire pizza that was snatched off of the table the moment I went to grab sodas from the kitchen. In the span of less than a minute when I returned half of the pizza was gone, the dogs were standing in the other half of the pizza and there was pizza sauce all over my carpet.
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  • Next get together they found there way inside even tho I asked my mom to keep them in the backyard. They got into my kitchen and tore open 2 bags of hamburger buns, and ate around 40 dollars worth of seasoned raw hamburger meat and a block of
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  • cheddar cheese. At this point I told my mother her dogs were not allowed at my home. She has stopped coming by altogether, which does hurt my feelings because if it's a choice between her kid and the dogs she will always pick the dogs.
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  • I'm planning a family vacation, booked a nice cabin for the whole family to stay in. My sister is bringing her dog (well behaved female Pitt) so I know it's going to be an issue when I tell my mom her dogs are not allowed to come with us. I don't want
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  • to spend the whole weekend making sure not a single scrap of food is left out for even a second otherwise her dogs with tear it apart and potentially make a huge mess in the cabin I paid the deposit on.
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  • My sister told me to just tell my mom that she has to keep a close eye on her dogs but I have tried that before and shes proven time and time again that she's either unable or unwilling to control her dogs behavior.
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  • WIBTA if I tell my mom her food crazed dogs are not allowed on family vacation even tho another dog will be there?
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  • Once your kids are grown, it's time to start treating them like adults, but parents don't seem to grasp that the house rules apply to family as well. 

    Recently, I've been undergoing an intensive training regimen for my dog, and it requires consistency; otherwise, my dog's bad behavior may backslide. Alas, then there was a day that I asked my mom to watch the dog for a night while I was out of town. Sure enough, she completely ignored my desperate pleas to maintain his training, and over 24 hours, his bad behavior returned with a vengeance. She admitted that she didn't follow any of my requests and decided to do whatever the heck she wanted, and I spent weeks trying to re-train him again. 

    Like reading my own story out of a crystal ball, something about this tale strikes a chord in the entitled parent department. Just because you've lived a longer life doesn't mean that my adult opinion—and my adult requests—are garbage. And in this case, garbage that'll likely be torn apart by a pair of bad dogs.

  • Update! WIBTA if I told my mom that her dogs are the only ones not allowed on family vacation? How she responded
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  • Packing up at the end of the vacation, a few of you asked me to update on what happened. I don't know how to copy links so I guess click on my profile to read the old post? Idk how reddit works y'all are smart enough to figure it out.
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  • Took the cowards way out and asked my dad to break it to her that her dogs weren't invited. He wasn't happy about it but he said he gets it, then he told me some mildly disturbing stuff that he was just
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  • laughing off? Like they had bought a locked bread box for pastries on the counter that had been chewed to pieces in order to get to the cinnamon rolls inside and showed me a picture of the bottom of their
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  • fridge that had been extensively chewed like the dogs were desperately biting and clawing to get inside. He stated he loves the dogs too but could understand why someone wouldn't want them around during vacation.
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  • Dad reported mom took it well and the dogs would stay over at their neighbors who they are good friends with. I was relieved.
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  • Everyone showed up and started unpacking except my mom who my dad said was tying things up at the house and she would be by later. Mom didn't show up that night and I missed her.
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  • The next day mom did show up but (as many commenters suspected) brought her dogs with her. Tried to play it off as nothing giving out hugs and smiles but I was upset. I also tried to play it cool but I told her that
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  • her dogs were not to enter the cabin and that they could not stay the night. She waved me off "yah yah ok I get it" It was fine for a few hours but then I noticed some dirty napkins were floating around in the breeze. I
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  • discovered that the garbage bag we had tied to the picnic table had the bottom ripped out and paper plates had been shredded and licked clean. I cleaned up the mess furious and confronted my mother and told her this is exactly why her dogs weren't invited.
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  • My mom tried to blame my sisters dog for the mess "you didn't see what happened it could have been her..." I told her that there was no way I would blame Lola for the mess since her dogs are known for doing
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  • this kind of thing. My mom clammed up and said "fine I will just take them home" and left with the dogs. My dad wasn't happy after that, saying I didn't have any proof and I went too hard on her. My uncle thought it was funny and he was glad to "not have the little trying to steal his hotdog"
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  • It put a damper on the whole trip. I just feel like an idiot for trying to make this work in the first place. I miss my mom and I wanted to make family memories but it really does feel like the dogs and my mom are a
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  • packaged deal now and asking her to leave them even for a short time was never an option. Alot of people said this in the comments, I don't think I was ready to hear it yet. Thanks for being so responsive and the comments really did help me see the reality of the situation I'm in now
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  • Perimentalpause Your mom is playing russian roulette with her dog's health, and with anyone around the dogs. What about kids? Young kids eating food where the dogs could are at risk of food aggressive it from behavior. Not to mention ALL THE
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  • THINGS that are bad for dogs that they're getting into. Onions. Garlic. BAD FOR DOGS. That's on pizza. There's also all the things they're chewing through to get to the food. Ask your mom if she loves her dogs
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  • enough to train them, because she's going to put them and her in a situation where they're going to get a blockage from eating something they shouldn't. They will DI, and it will be expensive. Small dogs are
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  • not cute when they're feral. They're poorly trained, and her home is torn the f from it, so this 'but they're just babies' bulls excuse doesn't fly. She's cutting herself off from her social circle because she
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  • refuses to train her dogs. And she's putting their health at risk. You can't blame the dogs. They're dogs. Blame your mom for not initiating training when this first started happening. Your dad laughing it off isn't helping.
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  • Your parents need a serious intervention. The dogs will get into food, medication, things they shouldn't touch because your mom doesn't want to give them boundaries. Your mother is missing family functions because her dogs
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  • are little demons and no one wants them around. Rightly so. I would be so ped if food I put time and effort into making/preparing was destroyed by little tasmanian dust bunnies with teeth. It's not cute. It's harmful. Your parents have lucked out that they haven't gotten seriously ill yet from what they're allowed to get into. NTA, btw.
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