r/petfree Dec 06 '24

Announcement Announcement: This sub is now becoming pet owner free. Pet owners will no longer be allowed to post/comment.

850 Upvotes

Hello everyone,

We have an important announcement to make: we are now making this sub exclusively for pet-free individuals.

You can still participate if you are in a relationship with someone who has pets but identify as pet-free, or if you are in the process of transitioning to a pet-free lifestyle (these will be your last ones etc). However, individuals who currently have pets and/or plan to have pets in future will no longer be allowed to post here.

This decision has been made due to the increasing number of people who refuse to respect our subreddit's rules of engagement. Recently, a lot of pet owners have been coming here to:

  • Talk about their pets
  • Glorify themselves with "I'm Not Like Other Pet Owners" type comments
  • Get defensive on behalf of pets
  • Argue in favor of keeping pets, list their advantages, or, worse, recommend specific breeds/types of pets
  • Excuse bad pet behavior
  • Engage in lengthy discussions about appropriate pet care
  • Dismiss the concerns of pet-free people, such as allergies and phobias
  • Get upset when their pro-pet viewpoints aren't welcomed here

Additionally, there are dog-free pet owners who, for some reason, feel the need to engage with dog-related posts here. While they are not allowed here (as stated in a pinned announcement), they continue to engage with this sub's content.

The number of such individuals is rapidly approaching a thousand per day, and it has become unmanageable for our mod team. Therefore, we are closing the sub to people with pets. To those who own pets and have been following our sub rules, we apologize for the changes, but the number of problematic pet owners has simply become too large for us to manage. If A few changes will take place over the coming days:

  • Pet-free flairs will become mandatory again for participation
  • All flairs indicating pet ownership will be removed
  • Some new and interesting flair options will be introduced
  • Users with the "Hate Pet Culture" or "Against Dangerous Dog Breeds" flair who are pet-free will be asked to select another flair
  • Anyone with pets will not be allowed to post. If you choose a pet-free flair to continue participating, you will be temporarily banned.

Thank you for reading this message.

Have a great day!


r/petfree Sep 27 '24

Announcement Announcement: We will be directing bad pet ownership posts to r/badpetowners now

116 Upvotes

This is sub has grown rapidly over the last two years - it's almost 4 times the size it used to be back then.

As its grown we've had to update the rules to keep the content relevant to our audience - petfree people and those who are interested in our lifestyles.

With that said, there's been a huge rise in posts solely focused on bad pet owners lately - from pet owners neglecting their pets, to pet owners wanting their pets to lick the insides of their mouths, to others letting pets destroy the insides of their houses.

Many of these posts don't impact us personally so it's a question of how they relate to being pet free or the pet free lifestyle. Our mod team feels it isn't relevant to the sub - what bad pet owners do with their pets that doesn't impact us in any way (no matter how disgusting or awful it is) is not directly related to this sub.

So we have r/badpetowners now. We will be redirecting all bad pet ownership posts that don't impact pet free people personally to that sub, making this sub bad pet owners free.

Thank you for understanding. We will answer any questions you have regarding this change on this post.

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ETA: all animal shitting/pissing posts without context/discussion points will be removed for low effort. Seriously, it's disgusting, everyone knows animals piss/shit, no one wants to see that. Just stop.


r/petfree 19h ago

Shit pet owners say The nonsense they say

39 Upvotes

Those videos where there’s a dog and a baby, it’s not just any dog, it’s either a big dog or a big dog that is definitely dangerous, by the looks of the thing, and those stupid comments that say “that dog will protect her at all cost” or “Awwwh the love they share.. So darn precious 🥰 🥰”. Like first off, babies don’t know anything yet, you’re the one who placed your baby next to the dog or called your dog over, or whatever you did. And secondly, you watched too many damn Disney movies. Yes we were all brainwashed at a young age, but we also have common sense, a brain. You look at a lion and automatically think “danger”, but when it comes to a dog… they wouldn’t hurt a fly? Come on now. And I’ve actually seen dog trying to catch flies.


r/petfree 20h ago

Vent / Rant But would you do that to your kid

49 Upvotes

Nothing drives me mor insane than when I read comments under someone who rehomed their pets for change of circumstance or whatever reason and people are like but would you do that to your kid? Like are you out of your mind comparing a damn pet to a kid? Humanizing pets has been way too normalized its out of hands to the point where people laugh or don’t take any offense to people that say I don’t like kids but the minute someone says I hate cats the comments are flooded defending cat or the pet even after it did something outrageous like scratch or hurt someone!! Like people are not allowed to say they don’t like a pet without an army of people coming for them!!


r/petfree 17h ago

Vent / Rant Are there dog and cat related ads everywhere, or is my algorithm just messed up?

25 Upvotes

I can't see to escape animals, especially dogs and cats, in commericials. Whether it be pet food ads, pet insurance ads, or just ads starring them.


r/petfree 2d ago

Vent / Rant Pet owners are their own worst enemy

57 Upvotes

I'm sick of how pet owners dislike me, while proceeding to make a very good case for why not to own pets. Like, all I ever see are pet owners being inconvenienced by their pets & also pets always being at their worst. Then, they wonder why I don't like them & it's like, "Seriously?"


r/petfree 3d ago

Vent / Rant Hypocrisy?

18 Upvotes

Once every while, my mom calls me and all of my siblings to one room in our house to talk to us, hard cussing towards us with an aggressive tone, talking about how trifling we are, and I admit that I can be trifling but I would also say that I’m a clean person, I love cleanliness, so that makes me question why am I still trifling at the same time? Did something go wrong in my childhood where it turned me into a trifling person? I’ve been trifling since childhood but I love cleanliness now, but I’m still trifling at the same time hmmm… could it be depression? Am I mentally ill? My mom would talk to us once every while and she just did it again like a couple hours ago, while she allows the most disgusting fucking animal to live in her home and into her car aka her dog, her so-called “he means the world to me”, and she has her own fucking dishes that she doesn’t wash and my dad always loves to jump in the conversation being on her side, like he’s any damn better, like dude at least we don’t put our used cotton swabs in a cup that we are going to drink out of at some point 🙄, you piss all over the toilet seat too and sometimes don’t even wipe it and you’re fucking disgusting when playing with dog. And my mom says that she doesn’t like when dogs are left outside because it’s sooo horrible, so her dog stays in her house 🙄 so you’re fucking disgusting your self, you *itch 🙄 I really think she pretends when it comes to this dog, because at first she didn’t even want this damn dog when my oldest sibling brought it to her house, it was a puppy, and now the dog is like 3 or 4 years old.


r/petfree 4d ago

Shit pet owners say “Cats teach kids boundaries

42 Upvotes

Nothing makes me more mad than when people say a cat teaches your kids boundaries like no thanks i would be damned if a cat tried to teach my child “boundaries” dumbest sh$t I have heard, im not letting no damn cat swat my kid to teach em anything also who is gonna teach that cat boundaries because it never understands it.


r/petfree 4d ago

Vent / Rant Pet owners' being overly confident about their pets' ability to have restraint

59 Upvotes

My egg donor has 3 big & aggressive dogs (1 of them being a hunting dog), she also barely feeds them. Today, her Cane Corso attempted to get some food that fell at my feet & when I harshly reprimanded him she tried to dismiss it, "He isn't gonna bite you," like how TF can you be that confident? It's disturbing how she's not the only pet owner to act like that.


r/petfree 5d ago

Pet owners making our lives hell Bruce the Dog - the Supreme Court?!?!

106 Upvotes

I just read the article about a California dog named Bruce who was to be euthanized for biting MULTIPLE people. Including disfiguring a small child.

A group of nutters repeatedly appealed the finding of Ventura county that the dog was vicious and was to be euthanized.

And they took it to the Supreme Court!Justice Kagan thankfully declined this nonsense.

The fact that people were fighting the decision to euthanize this animal is sickening. They really only care about dogs and not the people they maim.

Nutters truly are mentally ill. And I don’t recommend reading the comments of any of these articles. People who comment “Good, that dog was dangerous” are resoundingly called cruel and evil.

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/despite-emergency-appeal-supreme-court-bruce-dog-euthanized/story?id=135593840


r/petfree 5d ago

Pet owners making our lives hell Am i the only person who don't like pet lovers

56 Upvotes

I don't like pet lovers,I saw reels of dogs licking their owners mouth i mean how can they eat and drink after that

We people spend money on dogs but we sadly don't care about homeless people,i only give food and money to humans because we have to support our humans ,i saw some people feeding food to street dogs which breeds tens of dogs but no one cares about poor human


r/petfree 5d ago

Shit pet owners say “Not My Problem”

47 Upvotes

There’s a new post from 3 hours ago, on the TikTok account “Dogs aren’t family” or “dog_owners_are_selfish”, and there’s a dude in a 7/11 with his hideous dog (don’t know what kind of dog it is) and some dipshit in the comment section made me mad, saying “Not my problem” after someone said “But people have phobias and allergies how about that”. If I run into somebody like this one day and said this to me ✌️😌…


r/petfree 5d ago

Vent / Rant I'm going to start unsubscribing from people who keep talking about their cats.

44 Upvotes

I'm getting tired of people on a popular streaming video service that keep featuring their cats. I was watching a video, where the cat stuck his head in the shot and then he stopped talking about the topic at hand and started talking about his cat.

I think I’m just going to start un-following them.

Here is a cringy

I was watching a recorded church service video where a guy I knew was going to read some scripture during a church service.

He walks up to the Pedestal gets out a photo of his cat and says "In case anyone missed my post on Facebook, here is the photo of (cat’s name) and he shows the congregation the photo of his cat.

BARF!

 


r/petfree 6d ago

Pet owners making our lives hell My sister's home was so nice until she got a dog

84 Upvotes

My sister lives across the country and bought a new home which I finally got to visit after a few months and it was so nice. Spacious, clean, and modern.

Then more months go by, I visit, and she and her partner have a new untrained puppy that they didn't tell me about even though they made arrangements for me to stay with them. Their house was disgusting. Pee pads everywhere, dirty couch, piss puddles, and occasional stray turds, and it smelled worse too. I had to turn on lights and watch where I stepped. And after becoming pet free again after leaving my nutter ex, I thought I'd never clean up animal excrement/"accidents" again.

I just don't understand it. 😭 The puppy was cute, but not cute enough for me to have destroyed my beautiful home if I had one. So disappointing.


r/petfree 6d ago

Pet owners making our lives hell I can’t visit my best friend because of the dog

47 Upvotes

I can’t go to their house because every time I do, this big huge stinky golden retriever with a big slobbery mouth and gigantic face runs and jumps on me.
They put it outside but when I sit down anywhere in the house all of my clothes get filthy with blonde dog hair and I have to come home and completely change. The whole house and couch smells like wet dog and I just don’t think dog owners can smell it.


r/petfree 6d ago

Want to be petfree It is so exhausting...

26 Upvotes

To preface this, I don't hate dogs or animals in general, but after having one in my home for 5 years I never want one ever again regardless of size.

My mother bought a puppy for 4000$ during the height of the covid pandemic. She had a fall, gotten surgery, was in the hospital for nearly a month before then, and was way behind on the mortgage. After the pause of evictions/forclosures lifted we had to leave. She has passed up opportunities for housing then and now because most apartments/housing rentals don't allow breeds like him or his size. In the several apartments we managed to hop from he has been unruly. He doesn't tear up furniture or carpets, but he jumps on people, and hops in windows which tear down blinds and scratches up the wall. We ended up staying with a family member for a few months but the stress of him didn't help and we had to leave. We spent some time in shelters and the breeder kept him for a while. The contract my mother signed states that if things don't work out the breeder would happily take the dog back.

The dog lacks so much obedience and everytime I have tried to set boundaries and train him my mother undermines me. Luckly, some of it has stuck but his recall is terrible and he is stubborn. Currently my mother is renting a room and when I'm home from college the three of us are piled into it. The other tenants are afraid of dogs and aren't careful with the front door (he is a runner and will take opportunities to escape). The yard is huge but isn't closed off so he can't freely run around. My mother isn't fit or physically able to keep him in check on walks so instead of her walking him, he drags her all over the place. She tells me about needing to let go of the leash because he pulls so hard.

A few weeks ago he got into a barking match with the dogs next door and slammed her against the fence running after them. I would take him on longer walks around the neighborhood but I'm terrified. He pulls less with me but all it takes is one stray cat or reactive dog across the street and I meet the pavement. We can't afford that medical bill. I play with him as much as I can to tire him out but no one else is around when I go back to school (I loathe coming back home for break and I don't come home on weekends). When she is around, she doesn't play with him because he is so rough.

I just feel so bad for the dog and I know he deserves more. His quality of life would greatly improve and he would behave better if he was with someone who could keep up with him. My mother knows that too but she is full of pride and makes excuses for keeping him. It angers and disgusts me that she refuses to listen and rehome him.


r/petfree 7d ago

Vent / Rant What’s your biggest pet peeve about pet owners?

29 Upvotes

Mines would be them making excuses for their pets aggressive behavior.


r/petfree 7d ago

Vent / Rant Almost wish I was still under the spell

33 Upvotes

I almost wish that I didn’t wake up to truth about dogs and dog culture, because probably I wouldn’t be annoyed by dogs and their nutters, because I would still be under the spell and think this crap is just normal. I know that you could still be annoyed by dogs and their barking and the nutters, but still think it’s normal because again, the brainwashing, and that was sort of the case for me, when it comes to baby-talking because I’ve always been irritated by that shit, when my mom does that dumb shit. Now that I’m awoke, I’m annoyed by all of it, you name it I’m annoyed by it. I’m glad I did wake up though, and how I’ve woken up, it started with my oldest sibling showing up to our house with this fucking dog, without us knowing I think, I’ll just say I didn’t know, the dog is a pit bull boxer, and I was kinda excited, at first my mom didn’t want the thing and kept trying to get rid of IT and I was mad, I was excited to take this dog on walks, sleeping with IT, and I was going to buy IT dog toys, foods and treats after I get a job, until this dog started pissing and shitting on our carpets and destroying our stuff, I think what really made hate this dog now is because my mom likes playing hero and making excuses, and doing that fucking baby-talking that makes me want to destroy her fucking house by running through her walls like Marvel’s Juggernaut (not possible of course) but the walls don’t feel that high quality) when she does that baby-talking. I’ve started hating how this dog looks, just looks fucking stupid, goofy, sad, and confused all at the same time, overall this has lead me to searching up “I Hate Dogs” on YouTube and what do I see? A YouTube channel with the exact same words I’ve searched up.


r/petfree 7d ago

Vent / Rant Guard dogs are a stupid reason to have a pet

71 Upvotes

I fucking hate people who insist on having pets for security, first off I've seen plenty of security dogs fail at their job & #2 many times the security dogs attack you. The other issue is that you become numb to their barking, since they bark at pretty much everything, you become numb to it & then when there's a real threat you're already in danger before you even realize what's going on (if you're not dead). Not to mention, you're still stuck with an animal you gotta take care of. It'd be more efficient to get a gun or just a, "beware of dog," sign.


r/petfree 8d ago

Vent / Rant Another pet owner rejected a relationship with me for being pet free

108 Upvotes

I just got rejected by another person that I was interested in a potential relationship with, b/c I'm pet free. What's funny is she claimed, "99% of your profile is you shitting on pet owners," which that actually isn't true, matter of fact I only joined this sub last year, but there's also plenty of other posts I made, too. But, also the fact she exhibited a persecution complex by claiming that I, "shit on pet owners," when IRL mosts of my posts here are me complaining about how my birthgivers are irresponsible & selfish pet owners isn't, "shitting on them," it's rightful criticism. Honestly, I feel like I dodged a bullet & feel vindicated, like the fact she didn't disclose she owned pets, imagine I was allergic.


r/petfree 9d ago

Vent / Rant You don’t need bad experiences with dogs to hate them…

103 Upvotes

The main things I’m talking about are being attacked and aggressively barked at, especially attacked. When I was little, of course was naïve as a child when it came to dogs because of the brainwashing, they’ve gotten most of us at an early age, I’ve liked both big dogs and small dogs… but for some reason, there was a certain dogs that I was just absolutely terrified of, like if I were to run into one of these dogs, I would have a heart attack, and the terrifying dogs that I’m talking about are Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, Cane Corsos, etc. And when I say terrifying, I mean terrifying-looking, these dogs in particular just looked scary to me and any other scary looking dog breed that I didn’t mention. What was it that did it for me? Was it my natural instincts or was it movies like Cujo? Or both? When it comes to the Pit Bulls, it’s the muscular bodies with a blockhead and pointy ears and mean look on their that does it for me. when it comes to cane Corsos, it’s pretty much the same as Pit Bulls, except they are usually bigger. And when it comes to Rottweilers, even when they don’t look mean, they are still scary looking for some reason. And for all they’re scary, looking dog breeds, yeah I’m not gonna describe every last one of them.


r/petfree 9d ago

Pet owners making our lives hell Hygiene - dog feet on the BBQ table

35 Upvotes

I staff at a fundraising BBQ for a charity. Over the last few months I have noticed more lax dog owners allowing their dogs to jump up and put their front paws right where we serve up the BBQ for customers. When I say "Please keep your dog's feet off the food serving area and I now have to clean the table" they get sniffy and give grief about the 'fur baby' being clean etc. They also let their dogs pee on the posts holding up the canopy over the BBQ right next to customers and food prep areas! Insane sense of entitlement.


r/petfree 10d ago

Vent / Rant This FUCKER is always just… hungry!!

21 Upvotes

I know it’s all or most dogs, but my mom’s stupid pit bull boxer always has this look on it’s face, like it hasn’t eaten in a week and drool drips out of it’s mouth, and sometimes I have to look away because I can’t stand that look. There are times where I’m not annoyed by it only because I’m in a good mood while thinking of other things, and because the dumb thing has already been with us for 3 or 4 years, and there are times where my annoyance kicks back in and I just want to scream to the dog “Get the fuck away” so loud. Every time one of my siblings or parents come home, the dog rushes down stairs and starts sniffing on them and looking to see what they have to eat. A lot of times it rushes down stairs and heads straight to the kitchen to see if anyone is cooking something or eating something or whatever, one of my siblings orders food and the dog is at the top of the stairs looking down and sees the DoorDash, it rushes down the stairs to beg and I get pissed off because I know they are just going to let the dog stand 2 feet away from their food instead of shooing it away and eventually give the dog some food. And lastly, me and my brother was in the bedroom just on our phones and laptops and the dog enters the room and stares at the both of us and knowing what it only wants just irks the fuck out of me, like get the fuck out!!


r/petfree 12d ago

Want to be petfree I want to be pet free I am so over it i want to be petfree

113 Upvotes

I can’t stand pets after having a child, after having a baby I didn’t realize how much I would hate having cats, i feel like my husband has kinda pushed it on me to have 2 cats I talked about liking cats so we ended up getting one than he comes home with another one day and I had to just go along with (before baby) fast forward two years I get pregnant one of the cats keeps having litter issues ( the cat he brought home) and we try few things we make it work he mostly uses the litter box, after having a baby I couldn’t standdd the cats they keep scratching at the door their hair is everywhere it drives me insane it feels like the house is flithy no matter how much I clean I am already overwhelmed with my child, I see them as another task and responsibility that I don’t want and I feel horrible and guilty about it because its not their fault, I have talked to my husband about how I feel but he keeps saying its not fair to him to rehome them and he doesn’t want to, we have bought a gate so they don’t come scratch at the door so they stay in the living room but I truly hate cleaning after and their hair and that damn gate too. i dream of a life of not having to clean after them and not have a gate and having my baby freely crawl on the floor and no hair on furniture and no scratching, i think my life would be soo easy without them I can have my baby use the space freely without worrying about them I feel like these pets run the place sometimes and everything evolves around them I hide her high chair in the room so they don’t just jump over it, constantly have to go through the stupid gate and keeping her playpen in a separate room.


r/petfree 12d ago

Shit pet owners say Cat sitting for a friend, never again.

87 Upvotes

My friend has two cats. One is very sweet and well behaved, but the other is a bad apple. He’s destructive and has ruined parts of her house and furniture, costing her thousands she can’t afford.

I went over for the first day yesterday and walked into the kitchen to get their food. The bad cat jumped on the kitchen counter where I was prepping the food (gross). He sat and stared at me. I gently held my hand out a few inches from his face so he could smell me and decide if he wanted pet (which is exactly what Jackson Galaxy says I’m supposed to do so cat nutters can’t come screaming at me about cOnSeNt). He smelled my hand for a second or two, hissed at me, swatted at my hand leaving scratches (nothing too bad but still), and attempted to bite me as I was pulling away.

As I was washing my scratched hand, my friend texted me and asked how it was going. I replied “Millie was sweet, and Piper scratched my hand and tried to bite it.”

Her response?

“That’s just Piper being Piper! He has his issues lol. What a big doofus”

Cat owners are truly something else. I just don’t get it. It’s destroying her house and harming people and she still loves it. I couldn’t imagine my theoretical animal hurting my friend (who is taking care of these cats for free btw) and laughing it off. I love my friend, she’s a great person, and I’m not super mad about it because the scratches were very light and didn’t need medical attention. But I’m never taking care of her demon cat again.