Abbie Chatfield has made the heartbreaking determination to rehome her nearly one-year-old pet Daisy.
The FBoy Island Australia host, 29, introduced the unhappy information on her It is a Lot podcast on Tuesday.
Abbie requested her followers and followers to ‘please hearken to the total episode earlier than commenting’ within the caption of the video she shared to Instagram from the episode’s recording.
‘In the present day’s episode I am actually nervous about recording. I am scared in regards to the backlash as a result of I really feel actually sick about the entire scenario,’ she started.
‘I will be sincere as a result of I do know that the choice I made was the precise determination for me and everybody concerned.
‘I’ve needed to rehome Daisy.’
Daisy is a one-year-old cocker spaniel the media character adopted into her family in April.
‘I will cry,’ Abbie mentioned as she started to clarify her determination.
‘Daisy is my pet. I’ve an older canine, Mr. Walter, who’s eight, and I’ve Daisy, who’s one-years-old in per week or two.’
Abbie Chatfield has made the heartbreaking determination to rehome her nearly one-year-old pet Daisy
Abbie Chatfield’s one-year-old pet Daisy (pictured) now lives with the sister of a very good good friend in Brisbane
‘I’ve needed to rehome her due to Walter and his traumas and the best way they’re manifesting. So earlier than anybody will get into my DMs, I’ve spent six months agonising over this.’
Walter suffers from nervousness brought on by his earlier house owners.
‘I’ve tried my absolute hardest and I by no means thought that I might hand over a canine, ever,’ Abbie continued on the podcast.
Abbie, who lives in a two-bedroom house in Sydney, mentioned she’s ‘tried actually the whole lot’ in her capability to discover a approach for her two canines to get alongside.
Earlier than she adopted Daisy, Abbie mentioned she has by no means heard Walter growl.
‘Adam (my boyfriend) calls him a sugar loaf. He is a blob of a canine,’ Abbie mentioned, including that since she started her romance with the Peking Duk entrance man that relations between her two furry infants had improved considerably.
The canines have been getting alongside higher since Abbie started her relationship with Aussie musician Adam Hyde, as a result of they every have a human, however she mentioned their inconsistent schedules are complicated for them
Though Walter has by no means bitten Daisy or been overtly aggressive together with his sibling, Abbie mentioned he fiercely guards his time together with her.
‘It received higher after I began relationship Adam as a result of there have been two of us and Daisy had Adam and Walter had me. However when Adam’s away, then I feel Walter’s nervousness doubled as a result of he received used to having Adam round,’ she mentioned.
‘Adam would go to do a gig and in these three days, Daisy could be asleep in a unique room and Walter would have evening terrors. It is like he is received shell shock.’
Abbie defined that canine trainers and her vet had advised her Walter was ‘useful resource guarding’ his proprietor, which is the type of behaviour canines show after they’re defending their favorite ball or bone.
She mentioned he would growl at Daisy and now usually pins her down as a result of he is jealous.
‘I had a ten minute bathe and he did it 3 times. She stands there fully nonetheless, shaking. She’s not doing something to him.’
Revealing the unhappy information on her It is a Lot podcast this week, Abbie mentioned that as Daisy (pictured) grew older and have become higher behaved, Walter’s tolerance for her grew to become much less
Initially, Abbie believed the issue would resolve as Daisy grew out of her pet section and received skilled out of a few of her ‘annoying behaviours’.
These included ‘liquid pooing’ throughout a flokati rug and destroying a number of couches.
‘She received older and she or he was much less annoying, but it surely appeared like his tolerance for her received decrease as her behaviour received higher,’ she mentioned.
‘In hindsight, I stupidly thought that having a pet at house would make him extra playful and due to this fact completely happy.
‘As a result of he was actually anxious, significantly after the abusive relationship I went by way of final yr, he received actually unhealthy from being round that.’
‘I really like her greater than something and she or he’s finished nothing flawed,’ Abbie continued.
She likened the connection between the 2 canines to that of King Charles and Princess Dianna.
‘She’s Woman Di – and she or he has an evil man dwelling at house – and that is Walter,’ Abbie joked lovingly.
Abbie detailed how she’d relocated to the Northern Rivers when she first adopted Daisy to offer the duo time to settle into their new dynamic, to no avail.
She’d additionally despatched Daisy to boarding college whereas Walter remained at house with a canine sitter throughout her travels to the US, and had engaged a canine coach and vets for knowledgeable recommendation.
‘When she went to boarding college, he was melancholic. It is like “do you want her or not?”‘ she mentioned.
‘Aspect observe: If you happen to’re pondering of getting a pet, my reply is do not.’
Sadly, Walter’s jealously of Daisy is not one thing that the TV and radio host mentioned she will resolve, and she or he did not wish to put both canine by way of the ‘trauma’ of co-existence for years whereas she ‘figured it out’.
‘I knew puppies have been exhausting and this isn’t the rationale in any respect why she was given up,’ she clarified after talking about how troublesome it’s to lift one.
‘I simply haven’t got the abilities, the capability, the understanding of canines [to fix Walter and Daisy’s relaitonship]. I am not a canine coach.’
Abbie added that if she was being egocentric, she would have stored each canines.
‘If I used to be being fully egocentric, I may’ve stored Daisy and finished two separate 40-minute walks a day as a substitute of a two-hour stroll every day. I am so positive that I am the most effective canine mother or father.’
Please nobody DM me as a result of I have been crying over this for months since I began making the choice to do away with her.
Abbie spent a good portion of the 45-minute recording detailing the lengths she goes to for her canines, together with curating impediment programs for his or her each day hikes.
‘The explanation I do not actually drink anymore is as a result of I do not wish to be hungover for Walter,’ she mentioned.
‘I might fairly ensure they’ve a two hour stroll to go creek hopping, seaside hopping, or park hopping.’
The choice has taken an enormous emotional toll on the favored TV and radio host, who mentioned that till the day she gave Daisy to her new proprietor, now a few weeks in the past, she was ‘scream crying within the bathe’.
‘I’ve raised her and gone by way of the toughest elements of her puppyhood. I’ve finished all of the exhausting work together with her. She is the most effective canine.
‘She sleeps together with her arms round my neck. I can not prepare that trauma out of him and all I can do is give him a secure place to dwell.’
Abbie mentioned that she’s rehomed Daisy with a very good good friend’s sister in Brisbane, who drove to Sydney to choose her up.
The TV host and podcaster mentioned that she will’t prepare her 8-year-old canine Walter out of his trauma response to sharing his mum with a youthful pet
She packed up all of Daisy’s issues and made lists of all her meals and exercise preferences for her new proprietor.
‘A number of weeks on I’m 100% positive this was the precise determination for each canines, however I’m heartbroken,’ she penned within the caption of her podcast submit.
‘I already really feel like a failure however I really imagine that it might have been purely egocentric to maintain each of my angels in a home that they’re each merely enduring not having fun with.’
Abbie’s 491,000 Instagram followers rushed to her feedback to reward the choice and provide type phrases of assist and encouragement.