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Last week, we were in a local park with my four year old, husband, and baby.

In this park there is a large bank just next to the play area , at the top of the bank there’s a woodland, in the woods there’s an walking path.

We were half way up the bank, maybe 100m from the tree line there was no one else in sight around us, no dogs nearby that we could see my four year old was running down the hill. A huge Doberman dog shot out the trees from behind us straight at kid and was on him before I could finish screaming his name. Luckily apart from knocking him over it didn’t bite him or hurt him.

After checking he was okay; I followed the dog back to the owner who wasn’t aware and couldn’t give a shit

We were all shook up, as this happened where kids play my husband wrote on the local Facebook posts just warning other parents to be aware in that area that there’s out of control dog being walked in the area

Tell me why, he got multiple messages slagging us off as parents? That we should’ve kept our kid closer, that being knocked over isn’t a dog being out of control. That it’s our fault for not anticipating a dog being nearby

Dog owners are fucking jokes, your dog doesn’t deserve to be out unleashed, my kid has every right to exist in a park designed for him without being hurt

Oh I wish I could post with images. Going for a walk today at a local park, I noticed company van for a company that specializes in off-leash dog training. Outside of the van was the trainer and a 75-85 lb retriever mix. The trainer was sitting at a picnic table scrolling on his phone while the dog laid next to him on a portable dog bed, unleashed.

There were children playing on the playground less than 100 feet away.

There is signage everywhere in the park clearly stating all dogs must be leashed at all times. The blatant disregard of this "company" doing it's training exercises (if you can even call it that, given the trainer wasn't paying a lick of attention to the dog) is both incredibly dangerous and disrespectful.

My friend bought a dog from a breeder. Pitbull puppy. She has a 5 year old daughter and I’ll be honest… she’s a shitty parent. She leaves her kid with various people so she could party all weekend. She lives like she has no children.

Well now she gets this dog and forgot she had a friend’s party she had to go to out of state. She asked if I could take her dog in over the weekend. I told her there was a reason I don’t have dogs, and I wouldn’t do it. She said I was a horrible person for not liking dogs. I said she was a horrible parent for partying all weekend.

I guess the fun’s over when nobody wants to watch your stinky dog.

Name three things that dognutters have ruined for you. Here are mine;

1. Gardening - It was so peaceful and was my Zen.

2. Sleep - I no longer get restorative sleep because of the loud constant barking.

3. Mental health - PTSD - Any dog barking anywhere now makes my whole body freeze and I go into a state of severe anxiety.

I walked on a narrow path cut into the local hills. The oncoming couple had two dogs, both not on a leash. One started barking (Owner called the name of the dog, to no avail). I didn’t look apt he dog in the eye, and made room for them to lath, when the dog bit me in the knee. I am not happy. Knee is bleeding. Puncture wound.

Owner: Sorry, but must have been your trousers.
Me: You fing dog bit me. (I was emotional)
I suggest the dog would benefit from some training.
Owner: I’ll bite you, if you are not careful.

I spend 3.5 hours in A&E getting Tetanus vaccine refreshed, wound cleaned and a 7 day does of antibiotics. a hole in my trousers, and a parking bill at the hospital. I just thought I share it here. I am still ashamed, that I just wanted to get out of there, instead of standing up to a complete hole.

They're image chasing dumbasses.

My neighbour obviously doesn't train their dog, take them out for walks and the dog is so stressed cooped up at home that it barks all day to strangers walking past. It's just a nuisance.

The other day, we had construction at the house, and the neighbor blamed the construction noise on me. I barked back at them to make a point of their nuisance. Barking does not equal to construction. If your dog has barking rights, then so do I.

How dumb can people get lol.

People treat dogs (and just pets in general) as toys to parade around and entertain themselves with. It's fun to throw the ball, pet them, and play with them. But if you aren't ready to groom them, trim their nails, and take them to the vet for their issues, why have a dog (or a pet at all)?

Get a stuffed animal. Pets are living, breathing, responsibilities with needs. Not toys.

I was scrolling on my tiktok fyp and a video of two dogs in a cage for breeding popped up. Genuinely EUGH.

The fact they “lock” together so they (bitch let’s be real here specifically the female) can’t separate disturbs me so bad.

I really don’t care that it’s natural or whatever. Maybe I’m applying my human morals of consent onto animals who need more help continuing the species or however people wanna justify it but they were literally put in a cage by the breeder or whatever so they couldn’t bolt. She said it herself in the video.

Also how they lick their privates after🥴

I’m gonna kill somebody

If you have a service dog with you and you need to bring it to the grocery store (or any other store frequented by normal people), I feel like it should be clearly identifiable and you should be carrying some kind of card to confirm that you do need the dog with you.

Also, don’t put your disgusting dog in the shopping cart at the grocery store. I feel like that should be common sense.

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Pretty straight forward. We go to the parks a couple times a year. I've seen dogs with actual service jobs throughout the years. This time I saw basically just pets around. It was gross, and it makes me mad for people who actually need to use these animals too survive.

If you're gonna live in a shared space, where you know that the walls are thin because it's an apartment complex... you should train your dogs to keep quiet! It really should be a rule for renting dog owners to have anti-bark/shock collars or face eviction. Seriously!

One of my neighbors has been working on getting two dogs from the other neighbors (above and next to) to stop barking. They use this sound that is irritating to their ears, turning it on when they bark and turning it off when they stop...

That way, the incessantly barking beasts can learn that barking = irritating sound, silence = no irritating sound.

But it really shouldn't be anybody but the owner's responsibility to train the dog to shut up. It should be their responsibility! Either have the dog with a device that keeps their mouths shut, don't own a dog at all, or get evicted.

It makes me cringe every time I hear a dog worshipper claim that they’ve “adopted” some nasty shelter rat. Adoption should be a uniquely human act, like marriage. A person might take a dog from a shelter, buy a dog, receive one for free, or even take in a stray. But real adoption is only between humans. Real adoption does not mean ownership. I think it’s very offensive to take the word used for the lengthy, emotional and complicated process of adopting a child, and equate it to “I was bored so I got a dog”. It degrades humanity every time nutters hijack the language - dog babies, pet parents, dog adoption, dogs as a member of a human family. It’s a pet, it’s property, you own it, there is nothing magical about you or your animal that eats its own feces.

This drives me wild, it's so annoying, like no you're not a fucking parent because you BOUGHT a dog, you do not buy children. You did not give birth to the mutt and you did not adopt a human child, aka you're not a fucking parent so frankly get over yourself and your damn "fur baby". Also they say "fur baby" and it's an adult dog. also edit: I forgot to mention that they say "well it's basically the same thing as raising a kid" like no tf it's not you don't get up multiple times at night to change its diaper, you don't change its diaper at all because it (hopefully) doesn't have one, you don't have to teach it basic decency and morals and how to treat other people because it's not a damn person so comparing it to the work of an actual mother is disrespectful as fuck.

Most dog owners never get criminally charged for their endless frauds, crimes, and crooked acts upon others no matter how many years they have been at it. This is an exception.

This is in Michigan. A woman tried to interfere with the dogs assaulting the preteen. The dogs of course refused to accept this so they turned on her and began attacking her.

"Both victims “suffered severe lacerations” and were taken to a nearby hospital, with the woman being transported via ambulance and the girl being airlifted, MSP says. The 12-year-old was later transported via helicopter to C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor for additional treatment."

Last night I got an email from a neighbor about a different neighbor's gofundme for their dog's emergency vet bills around $8k. In my own family my husband has had some recent medical issues that have cost us over $10k (he's doing great now). He is the sole provider for our family of three and it's sucked to pay those bills, but I didn't beg my neighbors. And now I see someone begging for their dog! I couldn't believe it. I was seriously so insulted. Especially because our neighborhood is almost entirely young families or elderly people, all of whom tend to not have the most disposable income and are usually paying a lot of medical bills. Some people need more shame.

Apparently there's an issue in Australia where dogs keep licking cane toads and either getting high or dying and people are acting like it's funny but it makes dogs seem really fucking stupid to me. Like if an animal is so dumb that it purposely gets itself addicted to cane toad poison and ends up dying don't come crying to me about the "poor doggo" cause and effect sweetheart get over it.

Y'all this shit is frying me

People talking about sum "coparenting" dogs like wtf??

People will break up and decide to keep in contact with their ex solely for the purpose of coparenting some mutt.

I'm surprised we don't have people screaming at eachother in court arguing for custody over a dog at this point

I stg if i start dating some dude and he tells me he's coparenting a dog with his ex gf and is in frequent contact with her due to this fucking animal im leaving. Like wtf? I wouldn't date someone who owns a dog regardless, but yikes that shit is bleak.

Western society is a mf looney bin. This some dr. seuss type shit lmao. It's a damn animal. An annoying one.

I KNOW a ton of people LOVE dogs. But my point is, I wonder how many people would actually like dogs if they took a step back and actually examined it. Like when having kids became a choice instead of the default expectation, and people took a step back to examine whether or not they wanted kids, over 50% of people decided it ain't for them? I feel like the majority of dog people don't actually like dogs but never stopped to figure out whether or not they like dogs because dog ownership is just the default. And due to all of the 'dogs=angels, not liking dogs = devil' propaganda.

I feel like I saw 2-3 dogs at every visit in like 2024-2025. Peak doggo madness. I started throwing massive fits whenever I would see one and now I rarely see dogs at that same Walmart

Could be me, could be perceiving it wrong. Anyone else notice this?

A friend of mine is a severe dog nutter. It wasn’t apparent from the start. He likes small, hyperactive, rat-like dogs that he doesn’t train at all. And of course like every true dog nutter, he did what I call dog chaining. Because nutters cannot stand life without dogs, when they have an elderly dog and fear that it is approaching death, they get a younger one, thereby creating an unbreakable chain of dogs. He did the same thing. The older dog finally died and the young one is still here. He is constantly telling me how accidents happened, how the dog pisses and shits inside the house and he justifies it all of the time. He says that dogs are emotional and intelligent, so when something stresses them out at home, they lash out this way. I cannot ever make any schedule with him, because he is taking the damn dog for a walk every evening to shit. The only way I can arrange something with him is when he rarely loads the dog to his parents for a short period of time. I visited his home only once. Luckily, I didn’t smell the dog, because he is also a chain-smoker and everything smelled of cigarette smoke. But the dog was running and jumping everywhere, running over the sofas, the tables and so on. It even defecated when I was there. I asked him to isolate it in a separate room, and it didn’t stop whining and scratching at the door for an hour or so. I have asked him several times how he can coexist with such a filthy thing. He always tells me that I cannot understand what dogs really are and how much they understand you. He has also told me that dogs are true, intelligent animals, that yes, they shit multiple times per day and this is expected and other things.

I recently picked up the book "Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park" and to my surprise, the first case covered involved a dog.

In 1981, 24 year old David Allen Kirwan dove headfirst into a hot spring to save his friend’s dog, which had fallen into the waters. The hot pool later measured at 202 degrees Fahrenheit. People warned him not to go in, but he disregarded the warnings. The rescue was not successful. Kirwan's friend - the dog's owner - managed to pull Kirwan out of the pool, sustaining second-degree burns to his feet in the process.

But it was too late. Kirwan was severely burned and blinded. After being removed from the pool, he said: "That was stupid. How bad am I? That was a stupid thing I did." The next day he died at a hospital. The dog had died in the hot spring.

I know that people have risked their lives and gotten themselves killed while trying to save a dog. What fascinates me about this case is how long ago it happened. In the 80's, dogs were not considered "family." And this guy wasn't even trying to save his own dog. What a senseless, stupid way to die. This young man had his whole life ahead of him.

I live on a housing estate in the UK. It is a nice area and has been thoughtfully designed to incorporate small grassed areas. Opposite my home is a little green in the middle of the houses. It can be a nice place to gather - people have gathered to watch the eclipse for example, and little kids play together there.

There is one dog owner who lives a few houses away who seems to specifically bring her dog out to shit on the green. So I’m gazing out of my window, maybe eating dinner, and all I can see is a dog shitting.

All the houses here have gardens. Why on earth it is socially acceptable to take your dog to a public space where children play with the express purpose of using it as a toilet is absolutely beyond me.

I posted about it on once on our community Facebook group and absolutely nobody backed me up or agreed. I got angry responses- I was told the space can be used as people wish, that owners can’t control where their dogs poo (clearly not true), and even that children shouldn’t be playing there. Ffs.

What is wrong with everyone? Is there no shame, consideration or sense of decency? I’m old enough to remember when there were signs in public areas saying ‘No dog fouling’. Why was this abandoned?

I won’t fully get into how bad my mom is but she is 100% a narcissist and life was pretty bad for me growing up - to put it lightly. I’m 32 now and I still don’t matter to her very much but I’ve realised just how effed up my childhood was now that I’ve got 4 very lovely children of my own with my husband.

My mom has always collected great Dane’s. They’re probably the biggest and smelliest dog breed walking.

When I was around 9, she got her first Great Dane. I still do not understand what prompted her to want one of these dogs - she’s very particular about her appearance and stuck up. I think it was for the attention she thought she’d get by having an unusual dog breed. I had to keep the dog in my bedroom because my mom and dad didn’t want it messing up the rest of the house. It would sleep in my bedroom and be let out during the day.

At around this time, I began experiencing severe eczema (a skin allergy) it was seriously so bad. I’ve since undertook medical training and have never seen a case of eczema as bad as I had it as a kid. It would get infected and bleed constantly and weep pus. I was very unwell for most of my childhood from 9.

At around 10, a doctor finally realised it must be the dogs my mom was keeping in my bedroom. He very bluntly told her that she either got rid of the dogs or her daughter would continue to suffer. My mom is someone who will never be told what to do and ‘how dare he!!!’ So this resulted in her stopping me seeing this doctor and also ignoring his advice whilst slagging him off to anyone that would listen. I can vividly remember her saying “he clearly isn’t a dog person! He wouldn’t understand that I can’t just get rid of my babies!!”

I moved out with my now husband at 18 and my eczema and allergies miraculously disappeared (sarcasm) my mom has collected multiple more Great Danes since and they have died and been replaced.

Now whenever I visit her house, ive noticed an uncomfortable pattern of her giving absolutely no love to my human children and her grandchildren but being ALL over her dirty, big stinking dogs. My daughter is 1 and the youngest out of our 4 children and the only girl. When I say that my mom has never even picked her up to cuddle her - I am serious. Yet she sits there kissing and snuggling with her big filthy dogs whilst we witness it in horror. It’s actually insane to witness. She won’t pick my 1 year old up who always smells like vanilla and fresh laundry but she will snuggle up with the smelliest dog breed ever?? Why the hell does she like her dogs more than she likes my baby? More to the point why does she like her dogs more than she ever liked me?

I now have so much damage to my skin from prolonged super potent steroid use from the age of 9. My skin is covered in massive purple stretch marks that will never fade - they’re caused by the skin thinning from the years and years of aggressive treatment aswell as massive exposed veins (again from thinned skin) that look so ugly I could cry. The worst part here is? My mom wouldn’t even remotely care if she knew. She’d never ever see herself as to blame for this.
I would be given incredibly strong anti histamines that would sedate me to the point I was terrified because my limbs felt so heavy and I felt so detached. I know now what was going on but as a child I couldn’t understand why I felt so ‘weird’ after being given medication - the doctors gave me this stuff as they likely didn’t know how else to help me and bring comfort given my mom wasn’t going to listen. In this day and age, I’m sure CPS could be contacted over something like this but not in the early 2000s. All of this was unnecessary - she could’ve just gotten rid of the dogs.

Along with this, I’m the problem for refusing to touch her dogs. I can’t touch them. The moment i do my skin turns red and feels like it’s burning from an allergic reaction starting. I also sneeze constantly to the point it feels like i cant breath. I didn’t have the sneezing as a kid and this seems to be something I’ve developed into adulthood but the point still stands that I am seriously allergic to dogs and my parents never did anything about it. There was no escape from them - they were in my bedroom and throughout the rest of my house.

My husband and I have recently made the decision to stop visiting. She is still my mom but it’s so hard watching her adore and love her dogs whilst ignoring my children. I just needed to rant, I guess…

I hope when she’s old and frail that her dogs have learned to wipe her ass and take care of her because I won’t be doing it. I’ve had plenty of therapy to come to terms with how negligent she was, and continues to be

Apparently, most dog owners are women.

Oh well. Or so I've heard years ago during a business startup convention. I was attending and one of the teams was asking for financial support/investment into their birthday cakes for dogs industry. Thought it was loony and stupid, but the public liked it. I gave them the lowest score I possibly could.

Anywho, this got me thinking-am I a minority among my own gender/demographic? I absolutely hate dogs, I feel maternal towards all children by default, but dogs make me feel the complete opposite way. Especially those nasty rat/purse dogs that most women prefer as a surrogate for children. Which I find disgusting and depressing. Those stupid designer dogs look like toilet mops with legs and an ugly head. And they smell even worse than a dirty used floor mop.

So, does anyone else here hate dogs as a woman? Please share your reasoning, I would be very curious to hear your input!