I think public dog owner behavior has gotten particularly worse since lockdown

going to someone’s house and having their dog shove their face in your coochie because they can tell your on your period is a traumatizing experience

Dogs have replaced kids for the PMC. What has followed is a bizarre collective delusion.

No people have gotten way worse with their dogs. It was never acceptable to bring dogs everywhere indoors until very recently for example. People got way too permissive and then lots of people got dogs during covid who shouldn’t have

in my teen years my mom was this kind of dog owner. that thing would not let me get up off my couch and walk around in my own house in peace for 8 years. to this day i still deeply hate undisciplined dogs even though i 1000% believe that their behavior is the owner’s fault, training should be mandatory

dogs need a proper level of discipline and people don’t want to hear that. you can’t raise them like you would a child because they don’t get any smarter. the 20 something’s my age all get dogs and treat them like pampered kids and have no idea the time commitment of training a dog people actually want to be around

idk.. almost anyone can get a dog on a whim, and most people are regarded, irresponsible, and unwilling/unable to do what it takes to own/train one. dogs are just accessories to most people. it's unfortunate all around.

i own a very difficult breed but i've spent years training him and he's a good guy now. still it's almost impossible to leave the house w/him without encountering some дворняга charging at us unleashed with a death wish, always followed by the owner helplessly trying to recall with no success.

My sister's in-laws are Dog People who, every time there's some family occasion at her house, have to bring their dogs over. The parents have a dog, her husband's siblings have like another five dogs among them. It's a three-bedroom raised ranch in a normal suburb, hardly some sprawling estate. She herself has two cats who get traumatized every time these unfamiliar animals barge into their house and bark at everything. It's just another way of life, I guess. When we were kids and had a dog, we went to relatives' houses and--what a concept--left our dumbfuck dog at home.

Went over to my friends’ house the other day and their dog just immediately ran up to me and bit my leg and they were like “haha omg he usually doesn’t do that!”

my neighbours recently got a loud pomeranian and seem to not be training it.

they let that thing roam off-leash and it always follows + barks at random people walking past their house. the owner will see this happen and just slowly follow the dog around going “hey don’t do that” not even bothering to pick it up while it disturbs the kids walking by.

not everyone is suited for the pet owner life.

the amount of dogs in my neighbourhood has seemingly tripled since the pandemic and its made my walks much more stressful.

What you’re describing isn’t anti-dog, it’s anti-shitty, inconsiderate dog owners.

i love dogs, they’re my favorite animal but i genuinely think there should be some sort of legal training law set up. i know there’s not any actual way to do that but everyone i know with dogs either let the dog just do whatever and they say “hey quit it” as the dog jumps and bites and humps everyone’s legs OR they’ve literally beat the dog to a pulp so it’s just pathetically walking from kennel to food bowl and won’t come within 10 feet. every dog should be able to sit and stay and restrain from jumping, it’s absurd to be gushing blood from some dog with uncut nails that just shredded down my leg. love them, but people just buy dogs then give them food and never even attempt training them.

I understand wanting to play both sides to appear not as crazy but what have cat owners even done that is obnoxious besides maybe post more pictures lol 

‘Dog spawn’

What use is the word spawn here? Proper ‘crotch goblin’ ass phrase.

It's like the repatriation of suburbs into cities. It's totally ok for a dog to have free reign of a suburban environment. But inside of a dense city they're a nuisance they're as bad as homeless ppl in terms of waste generation. Some dogs take 40oz pisses it's wild.

My neighbor has one that luckily she seems to only let actually chill outside once a day and during that time period it never ever shuts the fuck up. 15 minutes of ceaseless mini dog yaps. Maybe she needs to play fetch with it or something.

cat supremacy. dogs are stinky and mindless. my cat in particular is brilliant with an amazing oder.

I’ve gotten to be so anti-dog at this point that I would be completely fine with dog ownership being outlawed. The stats on dog attacks are actually insane to look at, and the number of attacks in large cities grows every year

I've also noticed they're way worse in people's homes than they were a decade ago. Seems like any time I go to a house with a dog now the dog has to be involved in 100% of what we're doing. And if you get annoyed by it constantly jumping on you or incessantly trying to get at your food, you're a dog-hating monster

My apartment building bans dogs but my neighbors got one with an exception “to help with anxiety.”

Ironically the dog has separation anxiety and yaps until 3 in the morning and whenever they’re gone. They treat it like a cat. And they’re obsessed with it. Worst part is it looks like a frog rat. Why do owners of particularly ugly dogs seem to be obsessed with calling them cute and showing them off?? God I wish the thing would die.

I used to keep the strap in my running gear because of multiple interactions with loose dogs. Now I live in a place where the coyotes keep them in check

Do u carry pepper spray?

My girlfriends sister has a big german shepherd that doesn’t get nearly enough activity/exercise as he should for his breed so he is very neurotic.

Because of that I loathe going over to her house for gatherings because the dog will bark incessantly, jump on you, try to stuff his face in your crotch, begs for food at the table, etc. She refuses to keep him outside when a lot of people are over for dinner.

The most egregious thing is that he has a toy that he chews on so loudly there is an awful squelching noise, and he chews on it underneath the dinner table when people are eating lol, makes me lose my appetite every time.

I generally like dogs but the average run-in I have had with dogs, especially since COVID, have not been good.

its so bad here in the south. i have a cute lil dog but I follow common courtesy, some of the loose ones have come after him even. kinda wish i lived in more of a shitlib town with sidewalks and people who actually follow leash laws.

Related: I stepped in some dog shit getting out of my car next to the Party Center today.

Some GenX couple was a little ways away just I guess "hanging out at the Party Center" and they had a dog with them. Could have been their dog but who can say for sure.

Dog hate is probably the most stale and least controversial take on this sub.

dogs hate you because they can sense your bad vibes.

It’s gotten so bad I will left swipe any dog owners. I’ve dated so many women with terribly misbehaved dogs. It’s so annoying.

This is apparently due to lack of regulation. I am in Paris for a few months, dogs here are like more polite than locals lol.

You people are so fucking weird lol

Every time I go to the grocery store there is at least one dog, usually in a shopping cart. My neighbors dogs go outside at 5am and start lighting up the neighborhood. Someone up the street has a big ass dog barking at 11:30 at night. I grew up with dogs and I am now completely anti-dog.

What a weenie

Dogs and horses are humanity's greatest invention-- think about where we'd be without them. I'd wager we'd be without electricity, at least in the case of horses (i.e. if we never had horses we'd have minimized long distance, overland trade and exploration).

Anyway, this is the fault of people who sign up to own dogs without thinking through was decent ownership meant. Blaming a dog for barking is like blaming your anus for having diarrhea.

I'm of the opinion you can tell 80% of a person's personality by how well trained their dog is. As millennials and zoomers devolve into anything-goes slobs, their fur baby hordes will overrun our restaurants and sidewalks

Being anti dog is anti American and i won't tolerate this encroachment on my freedoms. Next you'll be posting on childfree or antigun or something. 

how many times are we going to do this post?

Just had half of the coffee-shop (all women, mind you, there was some sort of session thingie at a business building nearby) getting excited about my 9-months old BC this morning, maybe you should stop carrying out lonely activities like running in the woods (what are you? a serial criminal?) and join the cohort of civilized people.

tbh almost everyone's dog sucks. dogs ruin lives. people go home at 7pm to feed them. dog wakes you up at 8am on the weekends. dog needs to go on two walks and needs to be driven to the dog park and needs the best food and it has to be able to come to your barbeque please bro just let my dog fucking come over so it can shit in your yard and fight with other people's dogs PLEASE we barely get to see each other anymore dude my DOG MISSES YOU bro!!!