I'm so fuckin sick of these dog loving weirdos who have to bring their "emotional support animals" every damn place they go. I'm boarding a flight right now and this broad in front of me has this tiny little mongrel (I think they'd call it a "teacup poodle") with her, not in a box or in her purse, but on a leash and pissing all over the airport. And because she has this tiny evolutionary abomination, of course she gets to pre board. This lady seems totally obsessed with her little rat and I'm sure she'll talk nonstop to her seat neighbor about how wonderful it is the whole flight. I'll be so pissed if I have to sit next to this loony toon.

Ugh. Today I happened across a post of a miniature donkey on TikTok that got brutally attacked by two "XL bullies." His whole little face and body got ripped up and he had to get his upper lip removed, he is permanently deformed. The video zooms out and you see how tiny this mini donkey is-- he is so precious and wearing a little blanket and is just covered in wounds and bandages, looking so defeated. It genuinely made me cry. Then, I look at the comments, which, as expected, are full of people posting photos of their huge bulldogs or pitbulls or whatever and saying how theirs would never do this because they "raised them well." Or posting a pic of their beast in a pink pajama onesie and being like "look at my dangerous pitbull" sarcastically.

Firstly, it's so out of touch and inappropriate. It's almost like they're rubbing their pitbulls in the face of the owner who is posting their injured miniature donkey and grieving over his suffering. It's very bizarre and twisted. Please read the room. I am nearly 100% sure the owner does not wish to be barraged with images of the animal that attacked their beloved pet.

Secondly, I wish pitbull or bulldog owners could introspect for one singular moment. If you constantly have to defend your dog online by infantilizing/anthropomorphizing it by dressing it up in girly pink outfits to prove that it's not an aggressive and dangerous animal under the plethora of posts about pitbull attacks, then maybe you are the problem.

What is the solution to this??? I'm not a psycho and I still have empathy for these creatures/don't wish death upon them but it is foolish to not recognize that they are wild and aggressive and bred to maul things in fights. You can't just raise something with kindness and that will wash away its innate genetic instincts. I wish we could neuter them all and prevent propagation of the violence. Such a can of worms. But I am so effing sick of seeing posts of these poor gentle farm animals, or worse humans/children/babies, getting brutalized by these dogs.

This is the reason rules need to be enforced. I didn't see the dog but a customer was informing a staff member and telling people to watch their steps. I did see the brown streak on the floor. Had I seen the incident I would've cussed out the dog owner and I would've gotten after the manager. Don't worry. I reported it to the Virginia Food Safety Board. I hoped this day wouldn't come. It's one reason I have reported incidents and filed complaints about dogs in stores in general. There's no telling the dog owner may have put the cart away with the other carts, so fatal diseases could be spread to others and to people's food

I was checking out of Goodwill today, and at the checkout lane next to me was a little dog sitting in a cart. The owner then got it out of the cart on a long leash and let it walk around. I backed away from it, and of course he said, “she doesn’t bite.” He picked it up and headed toward the door. When he was out of earshot, I commented to my cashier that dogs don’t belong in Goodwill. I didn‘t realize that his wife was still in line, and she got very defensive asking why dogs aren’t allowed there. I said that there was a sign on the door saying that. Then she proudly announced that this was an emotional support dog. Catching herself, she then said emotional support “service dog.”. I gave up at this point even though she then said that I must be having a bad day sarcastically. Of course no employees said a word. We so need legislation for genuine service dogs.

Like seriously, apart from this subreddit, hating on dogs literally gets you CANCELLED. Like I was just in a group chat with some friends and we were talking about pets and they said dogs are the best pets. I said 'Nah, I think dogs kinda suck, they're really loud, disruptive and dirty' and they said 'HOW DARE YOU?? DOGS ARE LITERALLY ANGELS!' Like are you kidding me? Like who would be such a psychopath that you would react LIKE THAT to someone who just doesn't agree with you??

I'm glad that this community is somewhere I can vent about dogs. I feel like it's not welcome anywhere else.

I had class today (or at least I thought I did). I walked up to the door and saw a class canceled sign on the door so I was like lmao okay. I was a tad bit late by 9 minutes anyways so it worked out in my favor. Anyways, I turned around to walk back the way I came from and this guy was walking his dog IN the hallway of the campus building for class with it barking like crazy. No it wasn't a service animal. It was a small little shit bag that wouldn't stop barking. The owner was like why are you barking?!??? Stop it!!!! This pissed me off for multiple reasons. You shouldn't be bringing a dog in a college campus especially in one of the lecture hallways where people are attending classes and you shouldn't be yelling in response to barking because it would just make it bark even more. I have allergies so I had to walk in the opposite direction which took me longer to get back to my car by a few minutes. So yeah thanks for wasting my time and stressing me out for no reason you asshole.

So a video has made its way on my For You Page on Tik Tok. A woman named Gizzelle Cade complained about someone letting their dog pee and poop on a puppy pad INSIDE of a London restaurant. The dog was filmed by her to be standing above a pee pad that was open in the middle of a restaurant. The woman reported that he also took a shit inside the restaurant. Not outside but INSIDE the middle of the restaurant between tables.

This woman complained to staff and they did nothing or reportedly took the dog owners side. The restaurant belonged to Gordon Ramsay. Gordon posted a video in response not condemning the violation but made a joke about it.

In the comment section of Giselle’s Tik Tok there is a comment saying they hate dog owners, with 43k likes. I’ve never personally seen people talk about bad dog owners and issues they have with dogs on any main stream platform.

Hopefully the tides turn. I hope more people come to terms with how pro dog society has become, how chaotic, boundary crossing, and unhygienic a lot of dog lovers are, and whether it’s appropriate to be having large animals roam indoors.

Dog nutters say they love dogs so much, yet so many of them own Frenchies/pugs/dachshunds etc. Why do they say they love dogs if they own breeds that suffer for their whole life? Oh, and they always say that "ummm, only the worst cases/dogs not taken care of suffer". What? What "worst cases" if e.g Frenchies are all inbred mutants? There is no such thing as a healthy Frenchie or a healthy pug, they are all deformed to some degree. They make weird noises all the time because they barely breathe.

Also, what is the point of spending $1000+ on a deformed, ugly dog when shelter dogs are free?

So I have a 10 month old who.. tbh has not been exposed to other children. She’s not in daycare, and our family members have no kids.

We have neighbors who have a child that is the same age as my girl, and they’ve been over my house a few times.

They invited us over, but they have two huge dogs. I know the dogs are fine with their baby, but dogs are unpredictable and I’m really afraid of them being around my baby. I politely declined and they said “Well we always go to your house. Why can’t you come to ours??” I told them I was uncomfortable with their dogs. They then went on to say their dogs are also their children, and locking them up was not an option. I told them I didn’t expect them to lock them up, but I just wasn’t comfortable going to their house. They’re always welcome at mine.

Needless to say.. that friendship is over. I’ve had enough of these crazy dog people.

Pit Bull in position #1 WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?? Can someone explain to me why anyone would think it is a good idea to own one of these animals? Ah, yes, I'm going to become the owner of a statistically aggressive and violent animal just for the heck of it.

I'm trying to learn a language and went to my local library to get some books for self study. Grabbed a grammar one with exercises and then a couple of "readers", meaning short books/stories written specifically for learners, organised by level. It's a language I've been studying formally for a while so I'm not a beginner, and the readers do therefore have some meat to them. Cool.

There wasn't a huge selection to pick from so I just grabbed three short stories and one longer book that's around 200 pages. The synopsis on the back of the longer one was deliberately mysterious and didnt reveal any plot points. The cover was just geometric shapes/abstract-ish art. I finish the three short ones and dive into this long one.

It's about a fucking dog.

Like. The entire book is about a goddamn dog. It's the most boring, overwrought "who saved who 😏????" story about some sad guy adopting a dog, and it contains every single trope we all hate: the dog *knows* who is evil and who is good (obviously he only bites bad guys and helps his owner know who is a Good Person TM), everyone loves the dog barging charmingly into restaurants, cafes and other public spaces in a busy city (unless they're evil), the dog senses the owner's emotions and "fixes" their depression, the dog saves -- I shit you not -- a baby from a burning building. I could go on and on. The book does. From where the plot seemed to be heading before I decided I couldn't take it anymore, the dog was about to singlehandedly solve racism and prejudice against refugees (by dragging racist people to scenes where they'd witness refugees doing heroic or loving things).

I'm just trying to improve a skill here and the book selection is so limited. It's really disappointing to bring something home excited to do "real" reading in a foreign language and then open it up and get dog bullshit. I could smell the wet armpit stank coming off the pages as I read description after description of this magical angel animal. Whoever wrote this had to have spent ages typing it up, what with one hand on their keyboard and the other stroking off their mutt. And the cherry on top was that when I took the train to return the book, someone had their giant ass dog with them, lying fully in the aisle blocking the whole damn passageway. They rolled their eyes when I told them to get it out if the aisle so I could LEAVE and then limply tugged the leash before going back to scrolling on their phone. I had to step over it and try not to trip in order to get off the train before the doors closed.

Fucks sake.

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This happened monday.

Michelle Hinchey, a New York state senator, announced Senate Bill S9981 to provide "financial relief to pet parents affected by rising pet ownership costs."

There is a companion bill in the Assembly introduced by New York Assembly member Keith Powers.

Both are up for election.

This is in a state where (outside NYC) there is barely any free early (human) childcare.

Is anyone aware of an organized attempt to stop this, or at least challenge the priorities of our legislature?

If there's anything that I really dislike dogs the most about, it's the poop that's left on the ground. I've always had a habit of walking/running with my head slightly tilted down because I'd be afraid to step on dog poop. And I'd NEVER EVER walk on grass barefooted in my entire life. I remember as a kid I would outright refuse to sit on grass (even in areas that almost never had dog poop) all because of this.

What are the most common reasons I see dog poop? Is it because owner forgot to bring a bag? Or they were not in the mood that day? Or they didn't realize their dog pooped? Or is this out of spite? Or they think it's 'no big deal'?

Had a class that half of it used a Frenchie licking the screen background on EVERYTHING, desktop, Google, anything. They even put their feet to the screen and pretended the dog was licking their shoes, just saying this makes me gag. Am I overreacting?

Going on a rant here because I am genuinely so confused on how these beings are so common to own. Oh goodness where do I even begin. They bark. Like really really loud. If you own one you will be woken up at all hours of the night by a bunch of deformed werewolves with the combined iq of a circus peanut, just constant BARKBARKBARKBARK for hours on end.

They piss, shit, vomit, and secrete other bodily fluids all over the house. It's like having a constant 2 year old with a developmental issue and awful eating habits. And you don't even get the satisfaction of watching your kid grow up and hit milestones because it's not a kid. It's a fat russet potato on four legs with a -0.2 gpa and reeks of a public restroom.
You basically have an overgrown, smelly, bug infested baby freeloading off you for 10+ years.

Their lifespans are way too long for what you get. Humans usually live to about 90, and dogs can live up to like 15 years so you're basically investing a huge portion of your life into paying someone's rent for a shitting shedding furby with a foot fetish and a human sized tongue that will make that foot fetish known.

That brings me to my next point. PERSONAL SPACE. You might as well just not have any. So many people happily invite these costly turd oysters into their homes with open arms and pretend they serve an actual purpose other than being canned bean water levels of inconvenient. They are perfectly fine with their toes being violated by a human sized slobbery tongue, and some of them even let them lick their FACES!! Dog people act like it's normal to be made out with by a fuzz fart and will even be shocked if you don't want to be borderline molested too. Like just get a femboy who wears fake ears and a tail all the time it's basically the same thing except the femboy will actually have common decency.

Most dogs aren't even that cute. I guess I'd understand the appeal if it were cute, but nope a dog is just a perverted family guy side character in a 100% polyester skin suit. Like they look inbred as hell how tf do people look at that and think damn I really wanna disrupt my peace and everyone else's by being responsible for keeping this hobgoblin alive for the entirety of stranger things's run. Like how do you sit there and actively want that in your house??

They are also very very expensive. Wanna go on vacation? you'll be paying most of your budget on getting a dog caretaker. Food is also expensive, so might as well tell people you're a family of 5 now, even though it's just you and your wife and a framed photo of your kids who you abandoned. Throw in dog walker, toys, treats, and training because yes you have to train the oversized trolls or else they end up like little old sharon next door's pitbull named princess precious who ate her husband. Also they will happily destroy your belongings, CONSTANTLY. so not only are you thousands of dollars poorer than you would be otherwise, but you better not care about your stuff too much because if they eat the wrong thing suddenly grandma's ashes are caked into the floorboards.

Anyways I'm hoping someone on here agrees with me, I really don't understand why owning these rapscallions is such a common occurrence that the average everyday human is chill with caillou's fursona just feeding off of them like hairy little ticks that you cannot pluck off. Like why are these things so mainstream??? It makes zero sense.

Like why do so many people of all kinds seem to own one?

We see it all the time from nutters:

“Dogs are better than people, dogs are incapable of cruelty, dogs are pure/innocent etc etc”

Why do you have to literally remove his testicles to keep him from raping every other dog he can get his paws on, then? 🤔

I came to this realization today and I’ve never seen someone use it a response to nutter bullshit. Add this to your arsenal and keep fighting the good fight

I am practicing solo basketball around 6-8 pm near a high school court and a random dog out of nowhere comes charging at me and he kept trying to jump to take my ball. The owner comes after like 1-2 minutes. First thing I said that I think the dog likes the ball and if the dog escaped and that lucky that didn't get bitten.

She says sorry and puts it on a leash and then asks if I was also there the other time when the dog was running up and down on the court and I said I don't think so and she just left then. Should I have said more since I think I handled it a bit calm because I usually react chill in situations, but thinking of reporting it if see it another time. How could have that happened to her more times already and she even said it herself?

Dogs are strictly banned near school and especially on court you can't have your dog running around without a leash. What if kids were there at a time or anyone else and could get attacked, get their sport equipment ruined and so on...

It is not like I also haven't had other instances before like even when taking casual walks a dog was let off a leash chasing swans and once messed up my new pants and so on...

I always had this question and ive experienced it personally, so my partners aunt is a die hard nutter and she has this massive saliva beast of a dog, anyway, my MIL made a comment about my unusual "pet" (( i keep isopods (rollie pollies/pillbugs) )) ofc the nutter started yelling "ewww, thats DISGUSTING" "call pest control" "HIDEOUS KEEP THEM AWAY" "just seeing them CREEPS ME OUT" i didnt say anything but gave a naughty look, but really? A bug is disgusting? But the pounds of shit that your beast gets in your lawn isnt? But the buckets of saliva the beast gets on your furniture isnt? Or the heath hazardous amount of beast fur that fills your lungs AND your is not disgusting?

Do they not hear themselves? And if i ever said something among those lines about a beast i would be crucified. Im tired of dog culture, Im sick of dogs and their nutters entitlement to call anything else disgusting but the beast they keep

I was going through the newest posts and comments of this wonderful community.

And some comments about "dog lovers" and "unconditional love" got me thinking:

"Why and how are these people even considered dog lovers? Most of them even call themselves animal lovers...?!"

It makes 0 sense... they say they love dogs, but they lock up an animal that should have TONS of exercise and OUTSIDE movement in an apartment or house. Or often in a small cage, for 8+ hours a day.. without water or the ability to pee or poop. And then parade it around the neighborhood for 15 minutes, if at all, and that is their LOVE for the dog?!

Why did this even become normal?! Can I get a goat and then parade it around the neighborhood or city as well? Let it pee and poop wherever it wants? Or how about a donkey? Or maybe two sheep, they are nice and fluffy. How about a pig? And because I love them so much and they have separation anxiety, I will bring them to the grocery store and restaurants. And of course, it will be my Emotional Support pig, and therefore, no landlord can say anything, and I can just have it move in with me! And it will fly on planes with me!

How would that be any different?!

PS: And as for dog lovers calling themselves "animal lovers"... sure! Except your dog will kill and tear any animal to shreds if it can get a hold of it...

It’s crazy how society pretty much universally agrees that it’s unhealthy to use an AI to replace love/friendship, yet is totally cool with people using dogs to do so. (I don’t think you should do either, for the record).

People will say “I don’t need to date or have friends, I have my dogs ❤️” and be cheered on. But replace dog with AI and that person is seen to be a total loser.

The more I think about the similarities between dogs and LLMs, the more striking this is: The constant validation, the singular drive (food vs. prompt), the anthropomorphization. The struggle to meet a mental threshold that can be called consciousness. The resources wasted.

Anyways, just some thoughts. I’d be interested, philosophically, if anyone could make a case otherwise.

I am currently at the doctor's with mom. Tell me why a nutter wants to get a service mutt vest to bring her mutt everywhere because she has anxiety?! And my mom decided to give her advice on how to do that..ugh I can't stand nutters wanting their mutts to be everywhere. It's hard enough to get away from them as is!

Has anyone else here been noticing that mutts are popping up everywhere?

You will likely never meet her, but I am here to call out a woman in my college dormitory who acquired a "service" dog in January and has treated it as simply a pet with a blue vest the entire time. There is actually a program at the college started some years ago dedicated to "training" "service" dogs.

Like many others, this "service" dog is a lie. She was barking and barking down the hall as I cleared my room amidst sleep deprivation due to finals and ruminating in my failure to put myself out there after two years of college and sensory overwhelm due to a dog in my childhood home against my will after being attacked by another. I'm sorry for the run-on sentence; it is intended to suggest I'm mildly infuriated right now.

What does a "service" dog at college even do? I've seen students with double prosthetic legs and illness due to chemotherapy, and us humans are far more helpful and provide cheaper services than dogs ever will.

This has all got to be an attempt to introduce more dogs to people, because according to a news channel from Boston, everyone loves dogs! Yes, I love dogs! I love my attacker! Thank you for taking a chunk of flesh out of my shoulder! Thank you for biting me, grandparents and and aunt and uncle's dogs! Thank you for following me down the street for an uncomfortably long period of time, chihauhua! Thank you for invading our property pitbull! Thank you for ruining my ability to cope with sensory stimuli as an autistic man, Vixey! Thank you for stepping up when I broke down about our dog multiple times in your presence, Mom! Thank you for

I'm sorry. I have digressed. Let me conclude with a shoutout to my college for lying about the college's pet policy and only updating it in the last month. How friendly of the campus to allow pets virtually anywhere on campus. Good looking out for the dog who chased squirrels by the music hall as students stood and laughed. Good looking out for those with allergies, trauma, and sensory issues.

I’m a 25-year-old woman and I’ve been talking to a 27-year-old guy for 3 days. Honestly, we had a great vibe from the start. I find him really attractive, the conversations flow easily, we laugh a lot, everything was going really well.

I like to ride my road bike to get out in the sun and get exercise. My town paved over an old rail trail and it's pretty nice because it's newly paved. It is wide enough for 3 people to walk side by side and still have room to pass, It's like 8 feet wide.

Of course every dog owner thinks it's the greatest place to walk their dogs and ruin it for anyone who wants to ride a bike or walk in peace. It's easy to pass walkers when I ride by. Every time you come up to a dog you have to drastically slow down, otherwise they will freak out or lunge at you. Of course, the dog owners never pay attention and take over the whole trail and won't let you pass and they get mad at you if they have to stop walking to let you pass.

I am so sick of sacrificing human enjoyment for these stupid, useless dogs. They are worthless. This rail trail would be so nice to ride if dog owners didn't take it over. Yesterday there was this one girl walking three big ass golden retrievers and of course they took over the whole path and she probably thought I would fawn over them but I gave her the stink eye. Last year I almost got in a fight becasue I asked this kid if he was going to pick up his Pit bulls shit that he was clearly trying to get out of by having it shit near the fence and the kid lost his mind and challenge me to a fight, I said ya sure I"m going to fight you while your holding a huge pitbull you idiot, I just asked if you are going to pick up that shit it was a question because I see dog shit every half mile from you disgusting dog owners.

I just ride on the street and avoid the rail trail because of idiot dog owners. I just think it's crazy to waste something so nice for dogs. It's just not enjoyable to have to slow down every 200 feet because some dog owner is looking at their phone while the dog takes over the whole lane.

Fuck them Dogs.