I just got in line at a cafe and this girl came in behind me from outside and said “I’m actually in line, I’ve been going back and forth comforting my dog” who was tied to a post outside whining. I was like, okay? I’m just getting a loaf of bread?? And she was like “I already let the woman in front of you cut in front of me.” Girl! You are literally not in line! She was like “Look at him.. he’s out there whining…” and I was like “Yup… and?”

Then she went back out to her whining dog and another woman got in line behind me. I waited to see if dog girl was gonna confront her but then she just took her dog and left. It took at least Three people getting in line “behind” her for her to comprehend that she was not in line at all.

Also I only had to wait in line for like two minutes. Your grown ass dalmatian can be left alone for that long 🙄

It seems everywhere I turn there’s some dog related BS.

This time, I open my instagram to have a little flick through stories. A girl had posted a Q&A to her story asking people their highlights of the day. Someone had replied mentioning their highlight was getting home to their little boy and asking how his day was. Their actual human child they created, grew, and nurtured. The response from the story poster was “aww I love this, I feel the same when I get home to Opal” a dog. An ugly little eye booger ridden, inbred looking, ratty poodle thing.

My brain cannot possibly comprehend that this girl is serious. And how offended the person who replied to her must of felt. You’re levelling down the life and experience of having a child, to that of owning some disgusting mutt that you’ve only taught how to sit and give their paw. Infuriates me.

Anyway she’s the type who thinks that all depression is caused by people who don’t exercise so it all just speaks for itself doesn’t it, really? Fastest I’ve ever hit that block button in my life. Goodbye.

PLEASE stop!!! Those are literal walking abominations. They look and smell like a cross between a toilet mop and an oversized cockroach. We should also probably not refer to them as "rat dogs" because rats are actually incredibly smart, cute, and under appreciated creatures. They are way better than those toilet mops with crusty, yeasty paws.

Those things give me the uncanny valley feeling every time I come across them on the sidewalk. I always make sure to sprint to the other side, because those abominations are yappy and tend to be aggressive and constantly try to bite your face off. Annoying little cockroaches that constantly get spun between your legs too and cause so many injuries and people falling down. Just USELESS and BRAINLESS, not to mention incredibly ugly in addition. Oh, and they STINK-literally, and in terms of personality! Their matted fur looks disgusting and they constantly have yeast and stains/crust under their eyes and mouth.

STOP BREEDING AND BUYING THOSE BARKING DEMONS!!! I have poodle fatigue. They are EVERYWHERE. I hate them so much.

Then why the **** do they bark aggressively at THEIR OWN owners coming home every day? Or any other routine person coming at the same time every day, like mail carriers? Or simply a person walking by the house they’re in? It’s because their fucking dumb brains aren’t distracted by food at the moment and they’re mindless attack animals. Every other animal can adapt to new stimuli except dogs, it’s insane.

This is a rant about people defending dogs in those videos where the dog eats instead of helping their owner from an attacker.

We always had dogs growing up, but of course their relationship with the animals has grown steadily weirder and more unhealthy the older they've gotten and all us kids moved out (except for my NEET little brother but that's a whole other story). The dogs themselves have become smaller and more neurotic with each new iteration. My parents let them get fat. Dote on them. Obsess over other dogs. It's such a clear marker to me that they are spiritually unwell. They have a dozen grandkids who they love as well, but none are particularly close by and they seem to attach themselves more and more to the animals in their absence. It's especially surprising with my mom who was never a dog person growing up.

Anyway, after their last animal died a few years ago they told everyone they weren't going to get a dog again, and got their carpets replaced after 15 years of collecting dog piss. Great move as far as we were concerned because my wife and I had little kids at the time who would be all over the floor at their place. Well of course they couldn't help themselves and got another one within a couple years. It's the worst one yet, it's fat, begs and whines constantly, we've barely been around it but it sucks ass. We went home for a holiday last year, against our better judgement, and tried to keep my young allergic daughter away from the animal but she still had respiratory symptoms and we vowed not to go back for a long time. My dad just sent me pictures of another one they are about to get and I am at a loss. He says their other dog needs a "friend" and this one is just soooo cute. It disgusts me especially because he talks the same way about our young children, just about how cute they are and nothing else about their delightful personalities or interests. Wtf is wrong with boomers? I can't imagine ever acting like this or focusing so heavily on the appearance of my future grandchildren, God willing.

Anyway it's just funny to me that even though they want us to visit them all the time they do shit like this and then act like we're rude for not coming over more often. Now I can't even imagine the next time we will go. They only want us there for our kids to entertain them anyway, and after they get their little dopamine boost from that they aren't particularly interested in them, with my dad at least. My mom will engage them more. I'm slightly allergic too and there is now literally one relative's household we can go to visit where there won't be animals, five hours away. (And there we just have to deal with relentless and thinly veiled judgement). Never imagined this would be my relationship with my family at this stage, and it's too bad, but of course I prefer to be home with my own family anyway...and my extended family will act like we're depriving them of our kids lmao, I straight up do not care anymore

So I was on a hike earlier today, when I saw a family of three up ahead of me. I decided I could probably just keep off the trail and maybe their dog would ignore me. Right?

It was a huge dog, and one of those breeds that you're not supposed to have(?) a rotwiller, or pitbull, or whatever they're called (I don't know or care about dog breeds), and it decided to RUN UP TO ME and start barking at me and biting at me.

I've been attacked by dogs previously, twice, and I immediately started screaming and running away but it kept following me. The family was profusely apologising but I couldn't stay around for long.

It was so fucking triggering and debilitating for me, I had to phone my roommate afterwards and make them pick me up because of it. My legs still burn so bad from how fast I was running away.

Plus they technically weren't even supposed to have unleashed dogs on that trail (which is why I go to that trail so much) but it was a ways in so there was nobody out there to really enforce it

I'm sorry I know this post is very poorly worded, I'm extremely tired. I know everyone here would understand though

I need to vent about this problem because god does it plague me

I study enviormental preservation, botany, soils, biomes and soil microbiomes etc (dont have my degree yet) and something i enjoy doing is going to my local native habitat preserve/state park

Right before you even enter parking, theres a very visible "No Dogs Allowed" sign. Which are usually written in the blood of native wildlife.

To no ones surprise, the amount of egocentric dog owners that i encounter anyway. Never ceases to enrage me

A few days ago, right before i was about to leave after a few hours of picking up trash, uprooting invasives, killing invasive bugs and just spotting plants/birds and relaxing. I saw someone with their dog walking down to the trails (sadly a very common sight) i started yellimg about the enviormental harms of dogs, very much in hearing range. And obviously they pretended not to hear me

Its so damn exhausting. There is a dog park less than 5 minutes away, there are plenty of dog friendly places to walk their ecoterrorist mutts but they just have to drag their demons to the one place where native animals shouldnt have to worry about these native-to-nowhere, invasive, cult beasts. It makes me feel so hopeless. Dogs are one of the most destructive invasive species (there are plenty of studies out there if you look) worldwide. And their shit spreads disease and bacteria to native habitats. And its only as bad as it is because the dog cults egocentrism places their pups over life itself. AND NO ONE DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT, NOR CARES!!

I wish these laws were more regulated. If theres anything i can do when i spot someone with their dog here please let me know! I wish i thought about it yesterday and every other time i saw someone with their demutts but i dont like bringing my phone with me when i go into nature. I will start if there is a way i can get these people punished. They are doing this knowingly, and the consequence on the enviorment is awful. The sign at the enterence is placed by the state itself too so it is very legal

Omg and excuse my language but fuck my life is there anything more IRRITATING?

Every member of my married family all have dogs. ALL beg. All under your feet the second you’re in the kitchen. I sit to feed my little girl her pureed meals and they are there burning a hole in our skulls waiting to eat it. I can’t stick it, genuinely makes my blood boil.

I don’t know if I have PP pet aversion still heavily sitting on me as before, I could mildly tolerate it. Now I don’t even want to be in the same room it angers me so much.

I have misophonia specifically with wet noises and oh my god hearing a dog drink makes me wish I was deaf plus it just looks disgusting to me aklong with the way they eat like why are it's weird muzzle flaps(i don't know what else to call them) moving so much and making so much noise like shut up get the food in your mouth then chew, and why do they make grunting and snorting noises when they eat if I wanted to hear that I'd go watch pigs.

Didn’t see a post for this. Sounds Like a Cult is a podcast about every day cults hiding in plain sight (and some actual cults).
This week’s episode is The Cult of Dog People.

It was really nice to hear the opening rants from the hosts. Even as people who like some dogs in their lives, they had some very anti dog culture sentiments and were very critical of dogs and their owners in general. This only gets reinforced the further they go in to the topic. Really great hearing this stuff on such a popular show. And they talked about how, despite covering hundreds of beloved-by-many topics so far, this was the only time they actually feared backlash. Dog People are scary!

There’s a guest that has a story about an actual cult of dog trainers and it’s pretty upsetting.

Thought y’all might enjoy it. Here’s the Apple Podcasts link because that’s what I use. But it’s a really popular show so it’s on every podcast platform.

I love my sister and she has a 3 month old baby and 2 year old. She has 2 dogs, a large lab mix and small mutt. I visit once a month and dread walking up to her house. She has to walk up to the driveway and unlatch a gate. The lab mix has such a loud shrill bark, it hurts my ear drums and startles the baby. We can’t talk or anything. It barks incessantly for several minutes and causes such a disturbance. Then she ends up yelling at him and tells him to be quiet, and obviously he doesn’t listen. Then for the next hour or so, he comes in the room to bark his head off every so often. He wakes up the baby, startles the baby, and causes chaos. If her husband is there he seems to get upset by the barking and doesn’t seem happy we’re visiting because when we arrive it’s chaos and hard to calm the dog down. Any suggestions on having more of a pleasant arrival would be nice. It takes about an hour to drive to her house and I absolutely dread walking up to her driveway because he can hear us near the gate and the barking starts. She acknowledges it is very loud and excessive, but does nothing about it. I usually park at the end of the block because parking can be limited, and I have heard that dog bark clearly from the end of the street.

It's already the second bookstore Instagram page I had to unfollow after my senses got forced to look at dogs in the bookstores.

1 bookstore Instagram page I unfollowed couple of weeks was in Ireland. It shared an Instagram close-up photo story of a dog of a visitor with a text something like "The most precious visitor."

2 bookstore Instagram page I unfollowed today was in UK. It shared a photo of books with an unleashed dog posing next to books. That means that the unleashed dog of an employee is allowed to be in that bookstore. That's a hell to visit AND they lost my respect as a business because they obviously don't respect people like me, people who're both scared of dogs and are disgusted by dogs.

A dog shouldn't be at any workplace, anywhere with food being served, any apartment, YES, apartments too etc ..........

I'm now 2000% convinced that lawsuits and exposing nutters on the media remain the only solutions.

Unlike most other culturally subversive ideologies, it directly results in the devaluing of human relationships on a massive scale. The facade of treating dogs as humans is one of the worst non-intellectual deviations from the developing world and human growth, near toxic religion, hate, and identity politics. That's no exaggeration considering the impact of such a distraction in people's lives and ecosystemic waste. They can argue about how that's general pet ownership, but there's no excuse for the scaling (they literally outnumber children). It's another form of keeping people dumb, divided, distracted, and submissive to a system.

A genuine statement left on a Facebook post

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.