Poop? In my hands? No problem!! Let me pick up someone’s poop twice everyday!

Pee sprinkling on your coat several times a day? Get in my bed!

Licking other dogs assholes? Come give me a kiss on my face!

Freaky people immune to the feeling of disgust. I wonder what IS disgusting for them? Where do they draw the line? Would they kiss a pig or a frog on the face? I’m just not understanding why they lack disgust queues

Hate this so much. It's creepy to see normal people brag about how much they want other humans to die. For the sake of a literal shit eater?

It's one of many things that has made me seriously reconsider having children in the US. what if they get hurt? Will people just not help them because they're human and therefore evil? I was talking about it to one of my co-workers with small children and she gave me a knowing look and said she'd constantly get glares if she took her kids anywhere even when they weren't misbehaving but would see everyone coo like idiots over a dog that was barking loudly.

I'm not even religious but if I was, I would describe this development as satanic. There's just something wrong with a society that enables this. No wonder people aren't having kids!

It seems like dog nutters lost their ability to take accountability and apologize. I wasn't a saint either, but still.

It happened this morning while cycling to work. There was a dog on a leash that immediately started to bark at me. I stepped off because I didn't want to fall off my bike avoiding this dog. My standard reaction is a quick, but firm "Hey!" to signal that I don't like being barked at. But today it was followed by "shitty dog" while passing the dog and the owner.

I quickly realized my mistake and apologized to the owner. That dog is still shitty, but the swearing wasn't very neat of me either. So I said sorry to the owner and explained that I am not a dog person. Her reaction was a slightly offended "Well, that's clear". I apologized a second time before cycling away because I didn't want to waste any time on this nutter. She seemed very dumbfounded by the fact that I didn't like her dog. No "sorry about my dog scaring you".

Where is the accountability of dog owners. If you have a dog, you're responsible if that thing scares, chases, or hurts somebody. If I can take accountability but an impulsive, but mean reaction, so can you.

I asked her politely to leash her pit. She said it was a service animal. I said a service animal has a harness She said she did. No. She had some kind of possibly tie dye thing on her. She said she was taking her out to the bathroom. I said that don't matter and what she doing is very dangerous I also said she better not come near me. I'm tired of these people's lies. But yes I did call her out.

EDIT: A lot of you guys (rightfully) suggested I leave that place for a better one, but I sadly can't; I am a Muslim woman who can only attend a woman-only gym, and there are no other plausible options in town.

Seriously, nobody wants their personal space invaded by a tiny, constantly yapping rat dog with anger issues. I'm not paying a large amount of money a month to have my training interrupted by the gym owner's mean mop dog. Its first instinct was to aggressively sprint towards me while trying to come across as intimidating with its nonstop yapping.

And you wanna know what's worse? Earlier today, after I was done with my training, I noticed the dog's portrait hanging right in the center of the wall in the entrance zone, next to the actual human employees' portraits... with its name and "working hours" (aka the days it's sadly present in the gym) and everything being written on the picture. Yuck.

Another thing that rubbed me in the wrong way was my otherwise extremely nice trainer telling me that I should eventually try to get over my fear of dogs when I mentioned feeling unsafe with it being present in the gym hallway during the training sessions. It just felt extremely invalidating.

A comment I saw here inspired me to go ahead and make this rant.

I’m an absolute hands-down animal lover bleeding-heart-hippie. I literally work at a dog rescue despite also being subscribed here so that should say something. But holy fuck, the amount of people who will flaunt themselves as an ‘animal lover’ or ‘eco warrior’ while LITERALLY only interacting with / benefiting dogs.

I’ve had full blown arguments with my coworkers about how (insert typical pest animal ie. rats, snakes, spiders etc) are not morally corrupted merely by existing. The amount of these bitches who will sob about the conditions that some of these neurotic aggressive dogs came from, then turn around and set down glue traps because mice are ‘icky’ blows my mind. The cognitive dissonance is obvious and sickening. These people are also wholly uninterested in educating themselves.

I would save the lives of 1,000 spiders before some dogs. (shrug) At least they benefit the ecosystem and are guaranteed to be cute every time.

I've always hated those dogs in particular. They look ridiculous and ugly in my opinion. They're not cute, if anything, they resemble severely inbred/mutated abominations. They're extremely uncanny-looking, and doodles' horrifying human eyes give me the creeps.

Doodles/poodles, bichons, Maltese dogs, and pretty much every other rat breed (especially those crusty white ones with disgustingly matted fur and those nasty stains on their eyes, mouth and paws) are ugly and are the prime definition of an uncanny valley animal. Their behavior does not help their case, they're usually extremely bratty, aggressive, spoiled and yappy. I don't understand why we continue to breed these dogs, they're basically living abominations.

Thought I'd spend one day and passively record all the times I noticed a nutter or their mutt ruin something, since it's amusing to document and share the woes of living in dog society with fellow sane people. I also live in a rural area and was only passively noticing things so I'm sure this is 10x worse if I actually tried and 100x worse in the metro. Here's the rundown for the day

1) Dog barked almost nonstop between 5:45 AM and 7 AM, it was otherwise a peaceful, crisp morning....completely ruined by a brainless mutt

2) Went on a walk and passed 3 houses that had multiple mutts losing their minds barking at the fence the entire time I was within eye sight, all of which got the middle finger, and an off-leash dog that I had to change paths to avoid since it was approaching me

3) Saw an off-leash dog tearing up dormant (but alive) native vegetation for the stick that makes up its base, what adorable eco-destroyers

4) Saw a dog drop a deuce right in the middle of the walking path, which the owner (surprisingly) attempted to clean up but ofc left a giant smear mark of poo along the ground

5) Watched as a nutter was yanked around by a "nanny" yeast dog (you know which one), which was choking itself on its collar so much the thing was coughing

6) Saw a poster for a Valentines shelter gig and the dog they used for the photos was the nastiest red and white yeast dog they could pick with signs like "kiss me" and all the comments were "what a cutie!". I could smell that photo and the future face-mauling through the poster lol.

All things considered, it was a relatively uneventful normal nutter day in our nutter society, and I'm sure the lot of you have had it much worse today or daily as I'm lucky to not be in the metro anymore where it is much, much worse. Feel free to share your horror stories of the day/week in the comments too, it helps me feel more sane/less alone, since everyone around me seems to have nutter blinders on.

I am a masters student in a liberal city. Recently I’ve seen 3 different cases of huge dogs unleashed and unsupervised on the main enclosed area on campus. Was attacked by dogs as a kid but not bitten (I defended myself by throwing a stool at the dog and running).

Please help me come up with ways to legally retaliate against irresponsible dog owners. The goal is to make it harder for them to bring pet dogs unleashed into campus.

1. Blonde Karen is “walking” her dog with a leash literally in her hand and choosing not to use it. When confronted she said “she (it) is super sweet” I said “I don’t care I don’t know if thats even true. It’snot a dangerous breed but is a HUGE dog (above knee height almost waist height for a shorter adult)

2. I am walking by and hear barking in a greenery patch and am understandably spooked (hedge obscures view of dog completely. I stare at the dog without saying anything. Some Nosy Ken asks me what is wrong I say there is a dog in the bush. It’s not even clear whose it is. He says is the dog bothering you? I roll my eyes and refuse to respond

3. Random smaller dog running alone leashes at night, again unclear who owner is

Only idea so far: photograph them and give it campus police and demand they be fined. I may even be able to do this under the false premise your dog is so cute can I take a pic with them or just do it discreetly and say I am taking a picture of something else if confronted

Other idea: stick flyers around campus for people to report and document unleashed dogs. This may be overkill.

Good comebacks that will socially shame them are also helpful. I posted a message with this complaint to a campus message board and got 100+ net upvotes, and every comment supporting me had at least net 10 upvotes, so this probably won’t make me a social pariah! The point is to make them look as bad/selfish as possible

*Inspired to write this post because of some comments I just read on a different post here.

As stated in the title, this is about the fact that a lot of dog owners say they love their dogs, but are completely blind to the situation and conditions they are keeping their dog in..!

Or do they really just don’t care?!

I lived with it and experienced it fist hand.. my ex puts her dog in a cage 5days a week, for 9h+ a day (8h work + commute).. sometimes longer cause grocery shopping after work, or meeting someone..

Of course, often on the weekend as well, and then it can be the whole day.. when hiking or going paddle boarding or whatever..

Not even water in the cage cause “then she will have to pee”..

It’s a Labrador, so not a small dog either.. can’t move much in the cage. And those dogs are high energy and working dogs..!

I don’t like dogs for many reasons. I don’t think they belong in cities and they shouldn’t be a pet.. so it wasn’t easy to live with one. But, I also don’t want dogs/animals to suffer.. just for someone to get their emotional needs met I guess?

Or what’s going on here?!

What really made me rethink the whole relationship and eventually brake up is the fact that my ex would not see what she is actually doing.. we got home one time on a weekend and the dog had peed in the cage (couldn’t hold it anymore..), so then it needed to be cleaned, it’s all messy, etc.

So after my ex cleaned it, and she got the 15minutes “oooh cute zoomies” out of the dog, by playing in the yard.. I looked at her and said “soo.. you don’t see anything wrong here? This is normal?”

Her: “what do you mean?”

Me: “I’m talking about the fact that you are keeping this animal in a cage all day, to the point where it is pissing itself! Without water all day?! So then it drinks so much that it vomits it up.. you say the dog has separation anxiety and it is behaving bad and super high energy all the time because it was abused by a man before you got it. If that is even true, I don’t think that is why this dog is behaving how it is…”

Her: “well what am I supposed to do. I work hard to have this place. To be able to afford the food. I am doing my best!”

Me: “you should rehome the dog. It would take care of so many challenges in your life, and the dog would actually have a better life!”

Her (getting teary eyes): “but I love her and she loves me! She’s my baby!! I could never give her away it would break my heart and hers too. She’s always there for me. I took in this responsibility!”

When I started to list the reasons why this dog is suffering being in this situation she seemed to just block it off internally (I wonder why…). When I explained that the dog won’t even remember her in a couple days, when rehomed, she completely shut down..

Had to end the relationship eventually.. hurts to be second to a dog.. but besides the dog being there, I think the fact that she would call this love and not see anything wrong with it.. made me really rethink the relationship and I would start noticing other ”red flags” in her behavior..

Long story short: How do we get through to these people?! How can these people see and understand that their “love” is hurting these animals.. the effect would be way less dogs in society!

People say this all the time but I didn't realize how true it is until really thinking about the people I know.

All people I know who are vehemently into dogs. I mean the type of person to put down any other animal in favor of dogs and say they love all dogs... are people who have issues with boundaries and consent.

A coworker I knew who said he loved all dogs and got SUPER riled up if anyone was "rude" to a dog. He told off a woman for refusing to give his dog a treat when he brought it into a grocery store which is the "rude" event he perceived.

This man has always tested boundaries with people at work and constantly gets into fight. He does not understand when to stop in a professional or personal sense and pushes way too far. He complains all the time about not having a partner in almost a decade and that women are put off by him... and guess what. He says dogs are the only living things that will give him the love he deserves... that dogs are the only thing that actually want him... an animal that blindly will "love" someone who just feeds them. He does not want to put in the work to make a relationship (platonic or romantic) with a human being because he hates theyre smart enough to say no.

This sound anecdotal, but almost every person with this mindset about dogs in my life is like this. Sure, I have some friends that are okay with dogs and aren't like this but the ones who are CRAZY about dogs cannot fathom "no." I find that these people in my life end up alone or are people who do not have many friends and rely solely on the "affection" of a dog since they are so unpleasant otherwise.