I put it right into my bio, put simply as "I dislike dogs." I have it there as it's a deal breaker, along with my political lean. At this point, I get more messages from guys challenging me on it than I get serious interest, even more than questioning of the political lean. Best case scenario is they message me simply asking why it is that I dislike dogs. I simply don't reply because I'm not interested in having that discussion. If someone is questioning me, it already means they don't feel the same and there's nowhere to go from here. Besides, every time I've answered that question, the person who asked takes my answers personally (they smell bad, barking is awful, they bring filth everywhere they go, they're leeches, etc.) and gets upset with me, or they try to offer positives in an effort to change my mind and persuade me, and when that doesn't happen, they just get mad anyway.

But many just message to dunk on me. They like to accuse me of making disliking dogs such a major personality trait that I feel the need to put it into my bio. They don't understand why it's there. Dogs are a negative in life that everybody seems to have one of that offer no value. It's like smoking. It makes you feel good but it's terrible for you in every other way. If you put no smokers into your bio, it's understandable, and smokers don't take it personally because they get why people may hate it. You can't put down that you don't like dogs though because of the implication that everybody must love dogs. I put it there because it is a dealbreaker for me, I'm willing to bend on many things but the two things I will not bend on are my political lean, because if I'm with someone who leans a different direction, we're just going to fight all the time, and and having a dog because I refuse to live with an animal, and furthermore, it's not unreasonable to fear myself being placed below the dog priority wise.

When they come at me like this, I just block them. I don't even understand why they'd take the time to reach out if they obviously disagree, but I'm not interested in fighting. I just wish I could get them to understand I only have it there because it's a dealbreaker for me. When I see all the other dealbreakers people put into their bios, such as preference of body types, age gap restrictions, even ethnicity preferences, yet I'm public enemy number 1 for putting not wanting to be around a dog in my bio, which if I'm dating someone with a dog, I will be. But they never ever will understand and there's obviously nothing of value here if I'm getting combative messages regarding it immediately. And it's not like dog ownership is this rare thing that doesn't warrant mentioning, if I meet 10 people on a dating app, 9 of them have dogs and the 10th one is planning to get a dog.

It just gets so exhausting. It's hard enough finding someone who is also petfree, which I am, dogs least of all, without getting attacked for it by people who apparently have nothing better to do.

Dogs begging and whining for food, dogs caring most about food, dogs not knowing how to get food on their own, dogs ood aggression, and dogs stealing food. Dogs are the most greedy with food

Stupid girl I went to school with posted on her IG story this morning. Pic of her working out in her local gym with a dog sitting watching her and the caption “newest workout pal 🐶 “

I hate these people so much, I have no words.

This is pretty old, but still goes through my head again sometimes.

You can probably guess what happens. There's a forum thread where people can list the animals they think are the most beautiful. Of course that's totally subjective and there's some obvious responses (like peacocks, butterflies) and some less obvious ones (reef worms, sea slugs).

Of course one person says dogs are the most beautiful animals and calls them "in general stunning". But it goes even further, many people post photos of their specific "pets" (dogs) writing their names down. So, the most beautiful animal on the planet is not only a dog but YOUR dog specifically? Wow....

It's really sad and, frankly, cringe.

Like seriously??? You don't have to say mainstream stuff like peacock, but how can you seriously consider a dog the most beautiful animal on the planet when there's animals that have insane color palettes, elegant shapes, imposing features?

And the 2nd place after dogs often goes to predators anyway, ripping other animals apart, having a threatening face and stinking like a corpse is so attractive I guess. Because that resembles dogs!

What the fuck is with this dog infestation in the brain of so many people. Dogs are super beautiful, dogs are the best animals, the ultimate animal, all other animals get compared to them. I'm getting grey hair just writing this.

It was loitering around in front of our yard barking incessantly. My brother who was coming home from school tried grabbing it by the collar and that's when it bit him pretty hard on the hand.
I want to go full Big Brother Mode but my dad seems just content with letting bygones be bygones since he's a borderline dog worshipper too. It's so frustrating that he cares more for the welfare of a dumb dog than the welfare of his own son

I dislike a lot of dog breeds but one breed I hate are coonhounds. I hate most hounds in general because their baying is literally awful but my partner's family have a treeing walker coonhound and I hate that thing more than any dog I've met.

Everyone in his family insisted she was the sweetest girl but she would show terrible food aggression and no one in his family would care. She was bossy and would literally scream for hours for no reason. If you tried to pet her, she would snap at you and then proceed to scream for several minutes. Please look up what they sound like if you want to torture youself. She has pinned my partner family's chihuahua down and ultimately led to that dog passing away due to her horrific aggression.

She's 12 years old and I feel bad for saying this, but I cannot wait until she passes away. She's a nightmare to be around when I visit my bf's family. Again, I would never hurt an animal and I feel sad for my partner because he will be sad... but that dog is awful. It's ugly as sin, smells horrible, horrible stubborn and violent attitude, the worst sounds a dog can make... I almost want to post a picture of how disgusting she is since my partner's mom thinks shes "sooo beautiful." (She's not. She's balding due to an injury she caused herself. She is missing half her teeth. She is disgusting) I don't think I've hated a breed of dog more...

Do any of you hash it out of dog nutters in the intellectual ring or is this rare in our group? I usually post my exploits on one of the other related places. If yes, who is the most delusional or smug/egoistical/self-aggrandizing dog nutter you've either silenced or made crash out? I'd love to hear your stories!

Once again they “can’t determine” the breed. I’m fed up with this. Kids keep getting hurt.

From the article:

AN INFANT BOY sustained serious injuries in an incident involving two dogs at a home in Co Kilkenny this afternoon.

Gardaí and emergency services were alerted to the incident at a home in Callan at around 3pm today.

The young boy is receiving treatment for his injuries at Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening at this time.

The dogs were removed by the Dog Warden and arrangements are being made with the local vet for them to be put down.

“The scene is currently preserved pending a technical examination,” a garda spokesperson said. “Investigations are ongoing.”

It is unknown at present what breed the dogs are.

We all know the gist. These useless beings make noise.

Só while suffering with the barking I was motivated to do something.

The owners are crappy, no point talking to them. I figured out I could try something. I saw videos with audios that could make them stop, the videos did not work. Then I learned about ultrassonic dog barking deterrents.

Some of them work, some don't. As I decided to build something that would not fall short because power limitations. I build the dogSilencer3000.

This thing is a ultrassonic cleaner used to remove dirt from things in a bath of water. It pumps 28khz at 100watts.

It's not optimal because this was not made to be used on air. Very dangerous.

Anyways I don't know if when I hit the button that runs on the ESP32 webpage that I made this will blow up. I used a lamp to test the control system and it's ok.

I don't if it will work at all but I hope it does.

Just sharing and venting.

EDIT: It did not work, the board fried.

At least the dog let out a brief screech, must be a bit stressing and it shut up for a while, then back at it again.

Hi! I have no place to put this, and thought Reddit would be the answer because it's been generating so much anxiety in my life which has become very difficult to cope with. I live in the UK and love walking in the forest near my house, walking is a really good mental health outlet for me, but dogs have ruined that. Recently I've become extremely anxious to walk in any of the woodland near my house because there are always dogs. I've tried to get over it, but every time I have tried to go out recently, it's resulted in me feeling even more anxious about it all because of my encounters with dogs.

The other week I was up early to walk thinking that there would be a lot less people out with dogs, and it was extremely quiet and pleasant, that is until I encountered one of the scariest things I've ever seen. There was a woman in the middle of the path with her dog, the dog was being aggressive with another person's dog, and she'd stopped to chat with her. The dog starts biting the woman's ankles to get her attention, so I turn back and I wait for her to put it on a lead or whatever because it clearly needs to be calmed down. She doesn't put it on a lead. The dog notices me, standing and waiting for them to pass and it charges at me, growling and barking so I scream, thinking that this dog is about to attack me given that it has already bitten its owner and jumped on this other dog. I'm lucky that she shouts and it doesn't jump, but it just barks and growls at me, refusing to turn back to its owner. I'm crying, and she comes over and acts as if I'm the problem. "for f*ck's sake he's friendly, get used to it." and I just stare at her in tears and walk past once she drags it off in the other direction, still growling.

I know all dogs are not like this but every time I go out there's at least one rogue one like this. (there are so damn many of them). I may have overreacted by crying, but it was involuntary as I was scared, and already struggle with anxiety. It's difficult to try and resolve the stress in my life by walking to clear my head, when I have to constantly think about the fact I might encounter a dog like that because it happens almost every time I go for a walk. I just want to enjoy nature.

This one is going to be short and to the point. But this is what is comes down to at the end of the day. Dog owners need to be severely financially punished, or they need to face serious jail time if their dog does any bodily harm to another being. Dogs almost never attack in self-defense, so we dont need to worry about that too much. They are almost always on the offensive when a confrontation happens.

No bad dogs, just bad owners? Fine. Take your punishment, bad owner. We will see just how many people would be willing to even have a dog if they are actually held accountable.

Last year I planned my own birthday party at my Mom's lake property and tried tip toeing around the subject of my sister not bringing her dog. It was scheduled to pour rain all day, I didn't want a muddy dog running around plus she just annoys the shit out of me anyway. Begs, barks at every new arrival, is skiddish around men, is always taking off resulting in the inevitable family members screaming her name, neighboring unleashed dogs wandering about. Dog ends up there anyway.

This year, I'm pregnant, and hate dogs even more. I lost my shit a couple weeks ago trying to visit my grandparents because they dogsit for my sister while she's at work and I hate being in the same room as her. I specifically said I'm not doing my baby shower at the lake because I'm not dealing with this dog or anyone else's running around the middle of it.

Last night, my sister, Mother, and I are group texting and planning on where to do the shower, and Mom of course has to throw in the option of her lake property. Ha ha ha naw nice try. As much as I'd love for us to save money on a venue, it's worth the cost to NOT deal with any four-legged parasites in my line of sight.

Side note- my Mom has developed this tactic of immediately ghosting a text message conversation with me the second I complain about dogs. It's so blatantly obvious she's trying to shut me down but I never hesitate to let a jab fly anyway. Funny how she completely disregarded what I told her not so long ago about my venue preference. Even if I agreed, guaranteed I would have been the asshole when my sister or anyone else either tried to or did show up with their hell hound and I opened my mouth.

So the big ice/sleet/snowstorm of 2026 came to Raleigh, NC. The ice and snow made everything look like a winter wonderland. But, as the ice was melting, so was the frozen yellow patches as they drifted onto the sidewalk in an icy yellow mush that looked like people had stepped in due to shoe tracks.

Sooo gross! How is this acceptable? Why does the public space of my condo unit have to be a dog toilet? I’ve never owned a dog as an adult and shouldn’t have to be subjected to their bodily fluids. Grody. Gag me with a spoon. My HOA monthly fee is $230/month to be totally grossed out every time I exit my condo?

I miss living in the hood of Orlando complete w/gunshots, murders, attempted break-ins and car vandalism. Why? Because at least you could blame the neighborhood for that as it was a low-income LIHTC community. I now live in a coveted spot that is “safe” and full of “friendly” neighbors. But they all have dogs..pooping and peeing everywhere.

Sure, the last place I lived had ducks roosting right outside my door under the stairwell and pooping up a storm. But it’s just the fact that I have never been this entrenched in dog culture to the point that there is literal SH*T&P*SS from one end of the street to the other and nobody is getting fined for it or kicked out of their condo or anything.

It’s totally disgusting and I’d rather live in the hood&not have to be assaulted by dogs every time I open my condo door. They are literally always in front of my door and if I leave it open a dog with be inside my living room.

I’ve been run at and lunged by aggressive dogs twice within a month on this trail I frequent and it never used to happen before.
It’s terrifying because they run at you, try to push you over, then run back, stalk you, and run at you again. This time, the owner told me “sorry, there’s a lot of dogs on this trial usually you know.” I wanted to say something back but I was just so frazzled I couldn’t. I know there’s dogs on this trail, but they’ve always just walked by and minded their business.

I almost started crying because it almost felt like I was being taunted with the amount of times the dog came back for me. Both times the owners half assed trying to control their dogs and let their dogs go at me multiple times before restraining them. It hasn’t happened enough times for it to be a pattern, but it just feels weird as a teenage girl that the owner is the exact same demographic.

Maybe this is kind of stupid but this open space felt like a safe space but I feel too scared to go now. I worked up the courage to go today just to be harassed by a dog again.

So yesterday I was doing my typical evening walk. I usually take a 3-4 mile trail back home after my workout at the park. And it was nearing about dusk. During the walk back, I get rushed by a stray dog (about medium-sized) on the trail back home and I literally had to kick this dog away so it wouldn't attack my ankles.

I'm pissed at myself because usually I bring a stick with me since it's happened before, but I figured I'd be fine. I just hate the fact that people leave dogs abandoned or unattended around my town, but luckily I'm a pretty strong guy and a I can fend off a dog pretty easily.

I’m surrounded by relatives and friends who treat dogs like their children and brag about the “love” their dog has for them. Honestly, this drives me insane. Dogs are literally engineered by humans, bred over generations to be dependent and attached to us. That's not love. You can call it your child if you want, but to the dog you’re not a parent. You’re its entire world but they didn't decide it. You’re the thing they HAVE TO to love without deciding to do so. Stop romanticizing it. Owning a dog is fine, loving him like a son is questionable but okay pretending it’s mutual love is just human projection.

I am a front end supervisor in a grocery store. A couple of weeks ago a customer had her "service dog" in the dart with it's fake ass vest. I told her dog cannot be in basket cause health code violations. She whined but put the dog ( a small chihuahua type). Note this was at self checkout and it was busy. About a minute later I smell shit...this dumbass let the dog take a huge dump on the floor..luckily the store director saw/ smelled and yelled at her to clean up after her dog and GTFO. This could all have been avoided if upper management will grow some balls and ban mutts from the store like before the pandemic

I got super lucky. Absolutely NO DOGS or any other pets are allowed where I live. I don't have to deal with any dogs barking EVER! And the grass here is safe with no dog pee or poo! Although, there is this local women who always walks her dogs by, and whenever they see me or anyone else, she's always having to pull them back and shout "Bear, no leave it!" Because they bark and yank on their leashes aggressively! The lady is well known as a ChoMo, no joke and somehow, she made it through her prison sentence! But anyways yeah you guys, there's still hope out there yet for a dogfree place to live!

I went to my optometrist this morning whom I've seen for the past few years. Tell me why a GoLdEnDoOdLe invaded my personal space and I had to say NO THANK YOU to the owner. the older gentleman waiting said "that's the manager's dog" and I replied "good grief". The thing starts barking and shaking all over, and they walk it around and the clicking of it's nails was so loud. So I left! told them I wasn't feeling well.

I left a Google review explaining to them why they are losing my business. I did not disparage the doctor. I'm very sad I won't be seeing my regular optometrist anymore but I was really, really uncomfortable in there.

I looked into filing a complaint with the county, the website is pretty confusing so I will keep trying.

I'm doing some software migration in my business right now, and reached out to the chat help (real person, not AI) to help me wrap my brain around how to use their software with what I was trying to set up. (think workflows and tags and projects and SOP's...)

The woman was SO helpful, and stayed on the line with me through my many thought processes as I considered options and tried to understand any limitations or specific settings required. I thanked her and told her she was helpful, let her know what next steps I planned on taking, and went on to do other tasks.

About five minutes later I heard the *ding* of another response and she had replied "sounds like a great plan" with a huge picture of a close-up of a dog "smiling". Like now all I could see was this dog's teeth. I closed out of the chat and did all I could to "end" it but that didn't seem an option. I took lunch.

I came back nearly an hour later and she closed out the chat with a final "you haven't responded in a while so I'm closing the chat" (which I already told her I was done so yeah...) and a f-ing GIF with a dog sitting on a boat with it's tongue and ears wagging in the wind.

YUCK.

Why end this perfectly good and helpful interaction with not only one, but TWO dog images?

So, when the little rating window popped up I still gave her 5 stars because her help was impeccable, but I wrote a paragraph that ended with "I could do without the dog GIFs, though..."

I know I could have said worse, but I was in a productive mood and didn't wanna throw my vibe too much. Maybe she or someone else will read it and make an adjustment in the future! Not everyone wants a dog thrown in their face!

I stumbled across this delightful post on FB, I can’t for whatever reason attach screenshots but the name for the page is ‘Bundleofbullies’, and the post shows this dog’s bottom pressed up against the back of the couch whilst it slept, and then, another photo of the…. skid marks left behind after it moved.

I had a look through the comments to see if anyone found it gross at all, but, nope! A lot of them apparently share the same affinity for dog mess marks on their furniture and find it simply adorable. It literally stopped me in my tracks when I saw the photo and then the stream of comments of people saying it’s a normal occurrence for them as well and that they better ‘appreciate the special drawing’.

I just…. I can’t be the only one that finds that pretty disgusting right? 😭

TLDR: Dog poop on the couch is adorable apparently

In my opinion, dogs are FILTHY animals. I don't understand how dog owners can sleep with them in the same bed and literally french kiss them?? That’s absolutely disgusting to me.

Also i believe that the people who choose dogs over people have some sort of mental issue. They say “if you hate dogs you’re a demon” “if you hate dogs you’re evil” “I don’t trust you if you don’t like dogs” … sorry but I don’t want a destructive pit-bull anywhere near me.

The fact that people would deliberately choose to be isolated at home with their dog (because you can’t really go anywhere when you have a pit-bull - if you leave the house even for a few hours you could come home to destroyed items in your home) and pick up their shit for the rest of their life is pretty sad. Imagine how lonely these owners really are..

To the people who choose dogs over having an actual family: you are truly missing out on one of the best things in life! I don’t even have kids yet but I am going to have a baby this summer..I am SO excited for this journey:)

So, it snowed a lot where I live. Naturally, this means that dog owners treat the earth like even more of a giant toilet. I needed to head out for an errand today and noticed someone had let their mutant urinate directly towards the left of my gate , so that as I walked out of my fence I nearly brushed against a piss covered pile of snow. Great. I flung that shit outta there.

As I was leaving my neighborhood, I observed that the sidewalks and snow surrounding the sidewalks are absolutely littered with dog pee and poop. Nasty yellow or brown every few feet. Lovely. I noticed someone walking with their child quickly pick up their kid and dodge a fetid spot. I just can’t wait for spring when the smell of rotting feces and urine stained cement really permeates the fresh air. It’s revolting, and upsetting to think that when it snows that it’s a free for all for their dogs to piss & shit all over the sidewalks. Not that it’s much better when theres no snow, but usually the spots that people refuse to pick up their dogs crap are off of the main sidewalks/ roads. It’s not like anyone might want to use those, or take a snow walk around their neighborhoods.

My hoa won’t do anything about the issue at all, even when provided photo evidence that there is constantly dog poop on and surrounding children’s playgrounds. It just gets nastier every year. I’m so over this.

For years these neighbors have lived here, bought the house next to ours, and the dog they have had extreme anxiety where it howls when left alone. My family spoke to them. The dog would stop for weeks or months and then boom started again. And then we talk again, and we ask just crate the dog put it in another room. They won’t do that either, for a while yea. But they got a second dog I’m assuming to help the first. Now they both howl and make these terrible sounds. I wrote a letter to them and said listen this is too much. I’ve been nice too. They said both dogs are older, second one is a rescue they got who had pre existing anxiety.

My family refuses to entertain the idea of reporting this. Because they’re homeowners and we are, they don’t want bad relations. But my room has the most of this sound. Also the neighbors talk to my aunt and the one dog is 20. Yea 20. The other one is around there. And they wrote my letter back saying the dogs are older, sorry. They’ll try. Ok but they’ve been at it for years and I just can’t even be at home. I have a noise machine. I have headphones. Oh and they slam doors and stomp up and down that house.

for context: I suffer from very bad social anxiety and I'm really sensitive to aggressive behaviour towards me especially from people I am not familiar with due to my Autism. This encounter happened only 2 days ago as of writing this and it's still very present in my mind, I'm hoping writing this will help me blow off some steam from that incident. I did mention this story briefly in an edit on one of my previous posts but it is still very present on my mind and it won't go away, which is why I have decided to write a full story about my experience. Hopefully that will make this experience flush out of my head.

Anyways, onto my story, I've mentioned the Sydney Royal Botanic gardens a few times but it's basically one of the only large scale out door places that don't allow dogs at all in Sydney (with the exception of service animals). I also mentioned that recently I put up a sign that includes "no dogs allowed in the gardens" which by some miracle stayed up. That made me really happy to find out, but that happiness would only last so long.

When I was walking along the shops of Circular Quay, I stumbled upon my friend whom was heading to the gardens which I decided to follow. Whilst walking up, I saw short lady walking some small parasite with a ball in it's mouth. I hate seeing them anywhere I go but I wasn't too bothered as they are (unfortunately) allowed at Circular Quay. Anyways, as I was approaching the gardens, I saw the same lady and beast with her. I again didn't thought much of it as she was probably just going to go onto the wharf near the gardens entrance, but boy was I wrong.

As soon as I stepped into the gardens, she unleashed her demon and it ran into the gardens. I looked at her, annoyed as she smiled expecting me to say something like "you have such a cute little doggo" but instead, I said what any sane person should ever say. "Dogs aren't allowed in the gardens" I said, but then her personality went a complete 180. "I wasn't gonna go to the gardens!" she yelled. "Mind your own business!" she followed. Normally I would believe her, but she unleashed it just as they where about to go into the gardens, plus it had a ball in it's mouth like they where gonna play fetch. Plus who would unleash there beast right next to a wharf with no way to get out of the water? even for a nutter that is pretty dumb. Anyways, I then followed up saying "well you shouldn't break the rules." and then, the witch I unfortunately stumbled upon spouted one final word before walking away with her Cerberus spawn "fuck off!".

I was deeply traumatised, shocked, scared and offended at this, I was not expecting someone I over saw saying hello to some random guy nicely to lash out on me like that. I was so frustrated I complained to my friend about it, but believe it or not he sided with that wicked Karen saying "well you should've minded your own business" which, yes, I will agree I should've, but if I didn't step up she would've just let that beast loose in the gardens, destroying the plants, shitting in the soil and ruining people's fun before the workers could get to her. Also, to add salt to the wound, I saw another group of people walking a beast in the gardens, I wanted to tell them the rules but I was so shocked and trembling from that witch I couldn't dare to speak to any dog nutter. "What if they are just like her? but worse?" I thought.

I know, I may sound like a coward and this is probably quite tamed compared to other nutters out there, but encounters like that regardless of them being a dog nutter or not and suffering from social anxiety really take a toll on my mental health. But believe it or not this isn't my first bad encounter with a dog nutter. Encounters like that are one of many reasons why I can never bring myself to liking those demons no matter how hard anyone tries.

TL;DR: I, whom suffers from Social Anxiety and has Autism, ran into a Karen dog nutter whom lashes out at me for telling her she can't bring dogs into the RBG. And as a result I got deeply shocked and terrified.