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A Mumsnet user chronicled how her husband requested to adopt a dog not long after he refused to have a third baby

“I’m asthmatic and just don’t want a pet,” the wife told him

Another Mumsnet user who read her post replied, “You don't need to be making a third child — you already have one”

A husband appears to be barking up the wrong tree by wanting to get a puppy instead of having a third child with his wife .

The wife explained on the community forum Mumsnet that after her partner said “absolutely not” to another baby, he firmly requested to adopt a dog.

“I was quite upset, but obviously if he doesn’t want another child then that’s that,” she wrote. “I said, ‘No, I really don’t want a dog.’ ”

“He has said, ‘But you wanted a baby — a puppy is much less of a co

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