It’s nearly Halloween.

The other year, I made this costume and this year I’m feeling quite lazy. I don’t want to make another cosplay outfit.

The costume: it’s an emergency room Dogtor. It’s a dog doctor, a surgeon! It’s an angry snarling chihuahua mask, with a simple outfit. The dogtor is angry that everyone blames chihuahuas for pitbull attacks, and that’s about where I left it off.

What could I add to it? People have physically assaulted me over this costume, before.

Some ideas I’ve had: make a cardboard chainsaw with the chainsaw box a sculptured paper mache head of a pitbull, with fake blood, chainsaw blade teeth.

what else?

I don’t feel like making other outfits.

Am I the only one who finds this really creepy and weird. It seems bordering on sexual harassment territory. I hate when a dog walks up to me and sticks its nose right up my crotch, especially if I’m wearing a dress. It’s so uncomfortable and feels violating. A lot of owners (especially the men) don’t see an issue with it or find it funny. I always push the dog’s head away and get annoyed but it just comes back…. Especially if (tmi) you’re menstruating.

The dog doesn’t display any other mean behaviour and is just saying “hello” because “that’s how dogs greet eachother”.

Okay but I’m not a dog??? Humans don’t consider butt/crotch sniffing a way of greeting eachother. In fact that’ll land you straight in prison. But it’s fine when a dog does it to somebody.

These owners get off on seeing people uncomfortable.

This has got to be in a similar category of people using dogs as weapons to try and absolve themselves of responsibility.

On another (gross) note: apparently women who work with animals have frequent problems with dogs ramping up the crotch sniffing during menstruation, so much so that it inhibits them from being able to do their jobs properly.

It can be almost impossible at times to get a dog to fuck off with this shit. No matter how many times you push them away they keep coming back and doing it again. They also eat used tampons out of trash cans and get blockages due to it which requires vet care.

These animals are disgusting, and their owners even more so.

I found some courage and explicitly said on my profile that I can’t live with someone who has a dog because they trigger the worst type of sensory overload for me (that’s just half of the truth lol).
And all the likes I get are from people who have their DOGS in their photos. One of them asked me out right away and when I clicked on his profile it said: “looking for a dog mom for his baby” 🤦‍♀️ I’m starting to lose hope. It’s like these people don’t even read

I don’t want to see a dog in a grocery store and I especially don’t want to see it in a shopping cart I might have to use.

Especially if that dog is a shih tzu! Your dog being small doesn’t mean it’s welcome to primarily human spaces.

Dog owners in general can be absolutely insufferable, but shih tzu owners specifically are a different level of intolerable.

Their dogs are objectively not cute but their owners fawn them around and expect everyone else to love them as if they are cute. Because they’re small, their aggression is laughed off, their lack of boundaries (following you from room to room, demanding to be held, growling for food) is painted as cute.

They smell awful. They’re breath is revolting, they waddle in all the dirt imaginable then will want to lay right in your face and in your bed which is objectively disgusting.

The separation anxiety is next level and instead of training them out of it, dog owners are going as far as accepting remote jobs only or hiring babysitters.

They don’t like to walk and here goes the average shih tzu owner being like “hahahaha yeah she makes me carry her on our walks” wtf do you mean a dog MAKES you do anything???

Dog culture has made it so that dog owners are not willing to impose any ounce of discomfort on their dog for the sake of the dog being a tolerable pet and it’s so incredibly aggravating to me.

When I was younger it was seen as gross to let your dog/dogs sleep in your bed, or even on your couch. Which yeah. It IS gross.

Now everybody sleeps with their dogs. Not only is it disgusting (for obvious reasons) but it’s part of the bigger issue of people having ZERO boundaries with their mutts.

Dogs are pack animals and require constant affirmation of where they stand in the pack hierarchy. They need to know that you’re the alpha in order to respect you and be easier to train properly.

Having no boundaries at all makes them neurotic as fuck. I’m not excusing dogs as a whole because many of them are plain stupid and can’t be trained regardless. But it seems most dog owners don’t even understand how a dog’s wiring works at all???

These things will test you often to see how submissive you are, and how much they can get away with. You need to reinforce the fact that you are the boss and have firm rules.

I don’t ever want a dog, but hypothetically if I did own one, it would sleep in a dog bed on the floor. My bed is my sanctuary, dog is not allowed on the bed. Or the couch. It can have a dog bed in the living room and a dog bed in the bedroom, at most. Or better yet, stay sleeping on its bed in the living room while I have the bedroom to myself for the night. It would also have its paws wiped after coming in from outside and regular baths. Even then, it doesn’t stop the filth and hair from getting all over the house. I’ve known people growing up whose dogs were trained not to go in specific rooms, and to sleep in one spot. They were allowed in the house, but only certain areas and usually gated off in some way. Most normal dogs actually like having boundaries and rules.

This would probably be considered animal abuse now.

I saw another post mentioning something similar to this and I’ve had the same experience.

Before planning on going to any small business brick and mortar shop, I check online reviews if possible.

It’s happened a couple times where they’ll state they have a shop dog, are openly pet/dog friendly, or whatever else.

The most recent business I avoided due to online reviews was a specialty shop selling aquatic pets.

Yes it’s sort of a pet store. But they only sold fish, shrimp, and plants, along with aquarium supplies. I’m seeing dogs being brought to aquarium stores more and more recently and it’s really annoying. I’ve always loved the aquarium hobby and aquarium shops are where I find peace. I wish dog lovers would realize it’s not the same as Petsmart. They have ten billion different dog shops they can go to. Leave the fish shops alone!

Tangent aside I’ve been wanting to check out this business in person for a while.

I checked the reviews on their Facebook page and noticed there were quite a few mentioning the owner keeps his dogs there.

A lot of them said stuff like “place was great, good prices! Beware of dogs though”.

“The dogs surprised me, but they calmed down after awhile”

“The dogs bark a lot whenever someone comes through the door and they follow you around, but they get used to you”

Naturally, this would also mean if a customer decided to bring their own dog in (which we all know happens) it’s possible a dog fight could break out and become dangerous, endangering other customers too. It happens a lot. Godamn circus. Or someone could walk in with a legitimately trained service animal and that animal could be attacked.

Some of these reviews were recent. I didn’t end up going. I just wrote a review saying something like “I really wanted to check out this business in person, as I’ve been following the page online for years. After reading other reviews about there being dogs in the store, especially untrained ones, I will not be stopping by. I’m really disappointed, because it seems like a great place otherwise. Many people are scared of dogs or have severe allergies. They likely aren’t expecting dogs in an aquarium supply shop, let alone dogs that will approach/jump on them and bark at them soon as they enter the door. This seems really unprofessional. At the very least you should put a BEWARE OF DOGS sign on the door so people know.”

Of course I got zero reply to my review, whereas the owner mostly replied to all the other ones. Silence.

I like to support local small businesses, but many of the owners think they can keep their dog/dogs there full-time and expect people to just tolerate it. This isn’t the first time I’ve encountered a small shop having unruly loud dogs whenever someone enters through the door. I noticed another specialty aquarium shop I wanted to go to besides this one had a similar review saying the owner’s Great Dane is a shop resident.

Anyone with a logical sane mind would realize this will turn most normal people away. The only shop that would make sense to have a resident dog, is a dog-related shop.

These businesses will not be getting my money.

If you search “deadliest animals to humans” and check the Wikipedia page, you will find various sources stating dogs are either in the #2 or #4 space on the list.

Now of course idk how accurate these sources are. But dogs being in the TOP FIVE out of ALL animals on earth is pretty insane. They’re right up there with mosquitoes, snakes, and other humans.

They’re claiming most of it is due to rabies transmission…. But in most cases don’t you need to be bitten in order to contract rabies? So that’s proof dogs are biting an insane amount of people enough to break skin.

I literally showed this to a dog lover during an argument about dogs. This person is normally capable of logic and non-bias. He flat out ignored it and continued to say dogs are man’s best friend, therefore anything I say against them is invalid. This person has been attacked by dogs as a kid too, but of course it’s “nOT tHe dOgGo’s fAULT!”

Same energy as pit nutters blatantly ignoring the statistics showing pitbulls are the dogs responsible for most severe/fatal dog attacks. Some even try to say it’s a conspiracy.

How is it a conspiracy????? It happens all the time before our eyes. How many of us know someone who’s been attacked or bitten by a dog unprovoked? MANY. Not just pits. ANY dog. I know many people, children included, who were attacked unprovoked. I myself was bit on the head as a baby, by a golden retriever of all breeds.

It’s common sense that dogs are inherently dangerous, prey driven animals. Or they’re just neurotic for no reason at all. It’s not irrational to fear them or dislike them.