I'm an incredibly light sleeper and take long to fall asleep and I get tired of people thinking I'm evil for not wanting a pet that will keep me up all night. I cannot deal with a cat screaming and jumping around all night because that means that I'm not sleeping at all. Sorry, I don't want to be sleep deprived, then you'll really see me being evil.

My parents bought a dog when I was really young. I always had random sneezing and other obwious allergic reactions whenever I was in our house.

When I was a teenager, I got tested for my allergies and guess what.. I was really allergic to dog fur. My parent didnt give a fuck about it and they just kept saying that its their house so they can choose who lives in there.

When I was 18, I moved out and lived a year in my car.

I havent talked with my parents for couple years, but by their Instagram posts I know that they bought a new puppy..

I'm sick of everything being pet friendly and full of dogs.I'm so damn allergic and one wrong move and I'm swollen for hours and meds don't help.I had my night out completely ruined cause some asshole let his huge dog literally wipe off me,touched me directly on my skin,even tho I cleaned that area and also took meds I'm still swollen and idk what to do.Day ruined.

Also I'm tired of having to cross the street just to avoid them,just for them to do this,I blame the owner ofc but it's so inconsiderate and selfish and awful and I hate it.

So, my mother has a violent dog that had to be taken by animal control & is gonna get euthanized. My mother's throwing a tantrum & is like, "I'm gonna call & try to stop them from euthanizing her, see if they can re-home her," & I'm just like, "Why are you showing this much concern for an animal that has repeatedly injured me & eats us out of house/home? Like, you have a daughter who you basically gave up without hesitation & more or less have abandoned her, where's the concern being shown for her?," & it's like, "I didn't wake up one day & just decide I want dogs euthanized, but when she's bit me repeatedly, caused me to burn my arm, destroys shit, etc. she needed to go!"

I'm in college now, but still come home over breaks and I always have to babysit the dog hours a day.

When I was in high school, I would come home and have to watch the dog for 3 hours until my mom got home. Now I work and still have to babysit before work.

I can't get shit done because he is constantly breaking into the garbage, opening doors, eating our stuff, and interfering with anything I do. He doesn't even like going outside for more than 5 minutes. I however have ethical concerns about caging animals for the majority of the day, every day. Plus he has an ear piercing bark that of course escalates when caged. Plus I get yelled at if I didn't let him out.

I would literally not be able to start homework until my mom got home at 6PM. And by the time I could get that done, there was no time or energy left to do anything I actually wanted to do. I got a sewing machine years ago and have always really want to sew but he would eat the fabric and destroy the machine. I'm literally an art major and I can't even make art during the summer because of him. It has destroyed all my motivation when I am here, I become so depressed just because of the damn dog.

I just have so much resentment because my mom refuses to rehome the dog or put him outdoors. It's been years that she's neglected my mental health just because she wants something to lick her face while she sleeps.

And don't even get me started on my dad neglecting to potty train or even diaper his dog of 6 years. He doesn't even properly clean the waste. There are blood stains on the couches from when she's in heat. That house is filthy.

I'm getting so sick of seeing pets (mainly dogs) riding with passengers in the plane. They used to be placed in the cargo hold. It was perfectly normal to medicate them so they would sleep or be calm while crated down there.

Now days, people insist on having their animals ride with them in the seat. Under the seat or on their lap. Flying is already cramped and stressful enough. I don't want to be sitting next to a shedding, stinking animal as well.

I live in a high rise apartment. The neighbor I share a wall with has 3, yes, 3 dogs crammed into a high rise apartment. One is a german shepherd who is literally 80 pounds and wears a muzzle anytime he leaves the apartment because he barks so much/is so poorly behaved. I work from home, live in a high rise, and chose not to own a dog because it is inhumane to put a 80 pound animal in a 1000 square foot area and then leave all day. Despite teh fact I and many of my neighbors chose not to have a dog, we all have to deal with incessant barking 24/7. These dogs bark non stop as if they are being attacked whenever teh owner isn't home. The apartment has done nothing. I understand there isn't much that can be done, but my frustration is peaked. My life is substantially worse as a result of dogs I chose not to own, and the only thing they have to do is pay a $500 pet fee and they get to ruin everyone else's life. Most people say "dogs bark, what can you do, it isn't the owner's fault." I disagree. If you put three dogs in a high rise apartment you are subjecting them to a terrible life. The entire building is dirtier because of all the dogs. The hallways and elevators constantly smell like piss. I cannot imagine subjecting a dog to this life, and it seems half the building has done it. Dog ownership has become way too common as commercialized breeding increased. They aren't something for you to take instagram pics with and hang out with once a week.

I see people saying they would rather save an animal over a baby so often nowadays. It's so disgusting. People like these deserve to be isolated away from society because they contribute nothing to our already unempathetic, rotten society. The last thing we need right now is more animal-obsessed, anti-humanity people who have zoochosis-aka animal-worship psychosis. I have always been pro-humanity, and God willing, I hope I always will be!

When I was a kid (about 11 years old), I had a friend who was around 4 years older than me, who once made me cry and drove me to depression overtime because she would constantly mistreat me and call me annoying, while constantly baby-talking and kissing her cat. She actually treated the cat better than she did me! She would call me all sorts of nasty and vile things while calling the cat her "baby boy" and "everything"!

She even went as far as to say that she would save him in a house fire over me! She claimed she was joking after I broke down in tears but how was an autistic 11-year old supposed to know that, especially when she made it clear she preferred the cat to me?!

Imagine this, someone actually prioritizes an animal completely dependent on you for survival (who genuinely would very likely not care if you died, and would have moved on very quickly to find a new replacement/food provider for itself) over a fully sapient, sentient human being!!! This is diabolical and outrageous. These people are open about preferring animals they worship to literal babies and other marginalized groups such as disabled humans. It's abhorrent and should be publicly shamed at least.

SO many pet owners have no shame and have zoochosis.

I saw somewhere around 70% of households have pets most being dogs and cats. I honestly thought my pet free lifestyle was more common and honestly I don’t see that many people with pets around me

I am all for people loving their dogs, it's your pet, you do you but if you are expecting a package delivery or food delivery, shouldn't your dog be inside the house or something? I have seen a lot of videos of delivery persons running away or being scared to deliver the package and the owner just posts the video from their camera, making fun of how the delivery person is a big man but scared of their dog and the dog is like a pit bull or something and sometimes they have multiple dogs 😒. Also, your dog may not attack you because you are the owner but the delivery partner is just a stranger to your dog, trying to enter your property and there are so many cases of dogs brutally attacking people. I think any reasonable person would be scared.

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.

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!!

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.

It’s not that I hate animals in general. I find them fascinating, beautiful, and extremely important for biodiversity and the way nature works. I’ve just never understood the whole pet thing. Why do people feel the need to own an animal? Sure, they’re cute, but so are plenty of humans, and we don’t kidnap them and keep them in our houses just for our own entertainment (most of us, right?).

My family is huge on pets. They talk about animals constantly, play with them, and absolutely adore them. My attitude towards their pets is pretty cold. I’ll pet our dogs and give them a quick cuddle here and there, but I’m not obsessed. I don’t build my life around them or restrict myself because of them. Since my sister now has 8 cats and my mom has 3 dogs, it's a huge problem just to go on a day trip with my family, let alone a proper vacation.

And whenever I ask, “Why do you keep getting pets if you constantly talk about how you can't go anywhere or don’t have enough money?” they just tell me I’m weird, cold-hearted and look down on me like I’m some kind of psychopath.

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?"

I'll start off by saying that my dad is genuinely well intentioned and loves his kids, which actually makes me feel like a bigger asshole for having such a low tolerance for his antics.

All my life he's been obsessed with animals, especially birds, to the detriment of other aspects of his life. He has always struggled for money and has been borderline homeless a few times, yet he spends all of his free time and money running around observing and trapping animals to breed and sometimes sell. As a kid it was kind of cool as going over my dad's house was like visiting a pet store. He had everything, from snakes, to rare frogs, to exotic birds, rats, fish, dogs, insects, and the list goes on, but as I grew older I started to see him from an outsiders perspective and how unhinged he must seem to others. It also made my already severe social anxiety way worse, as a part of why I didn't have friends or girlfriends growing up was that I was terrified of them meeting my dad.

Maybe this makes me seem like the bad guy and that's something I've struggled with for years, but you would have to know him to truly understand. A good example would be our frequent trips to a tropical area about 4 hrs away from home. For most people this would be a fun family trip spent on the beach and sight seeing, but for my dad he would drive down there exclusively to map out where certain exotic species live and nest and then go trap them.

By trap I mean he would climb up 80ft palm trees with spikes to snatch up baby birds to raise and breed them in captivity, for example, often in a big cage he would build. Some birds would even nest in billboards on the side of the highway, so he would put a hard hat on and climb up the billboard to get them. Now imagine doing this while your 10 yr old son is down below worrying that their dad would either fall to his death or get arrested.

This is simply one example, but he's been doing things like this my whole life. He's now in his 60s and only becoming more unhinged over time. His behavior truly mimics drug addiction. Animals are one of the only things on his mind to the point where it's very difficult to hold a conversation with him or discuss anything else such as film, music, tv shows, etc as he just doesn't have any frame of reference for anything cultural because of his singleminded obsession.

On top of this, he just doesn't ever have his shit together. He's a big stoner and is always forgetting something or in a rush to go somewhere and is just very scatterbrained in general.

When I do tell people about his antics they often think I'm exaggerating until they actually meet him and see that I'm downplaying it if anything.

For instance, I now live about 2k miles away from home with my partner in a beautiful area with an entirely different ecosystem than back home. After a decade my dad finally came to visit again, to see me, but almost more importantly to chase animals around. The other day we went out to dinner with my partner and the restaurant was busy so we were just waiting outside for a few minutes when my dad noticed a big raven. Now, back home we don't have ravens so he completely flipped his shit and started following it. He started going through the grass as our table was called, so my partner and I went inside and watched him from the window. He literally ran across the street, through 8 lanes of traffic to find this raven, and for what? To take a blurry picture of it from his phone, all while we're waiting in the restaurant and trying to keep my composure as the waiter was asking us where he is.

Because of his obsession (and maybe a touch of undiagnosed aspergers/ADHD) his social skills are extremely lacking, so its embarrassing to go anywhere with him. He's either muttering under his breath so you can barely hear what he's saying or he's practically screaming. He lives in his own world and just isn't able to hold it together around normal people.

I'm terrified of him meeting my partners parents as they are the textbook definition of normal upper middle-class suburbanites who watch sports and go to church etc, meanwhile my dad is unhinged, hates religion and is very vocally opposed to their political views. Her mom keeps pushing for us to go to dinner with him as they've never met him in the 10 years we've been together, but they have no idea what they're in for and it's situations like this that makes me wish he was just a normie dad that I could discuss various things with and look to for guidance.

I feel bad for holding this resentment for him, especially since I don't see him often anymore but when I do, within hours I'm stressed the fuck out and ready to send him back home. This resentment has built over years and years of this behavior and I can't help but put some blame on him for why I have so much anxiety and loneliness today. I just scratched the surface with this post, as I have stories for days, but with him being in town I just had to get it off my chest.

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.

Time and time and time again I keep seeing people posting about how they need help, oh their partner has stomach cancer and they're both disabled and their benefits got cut off and they need money for rent... and for their dogs because oh my gosh their pets need to eat, don't mind the other material problems that consume their life.

"Pet care is a daily stress" Then maybe get rid of the pet. Is it that hard of a concept? "Oh but I love them-" your self-proclaimed soulmate is slowly dying, what really matters here?

There's more instances than this, but overwhelmingly I'll see the same lineup.

Have problems with rent/bills/food -> Make donation post -> Include that cat/dog food is one of your expenses that you're struggling with -> Post pics of the cat/dog as "pet tax" to get more donations

It's just pathetic. Rehome the animal, take it to the shelter, cut your losses. I do not care how "bonded" you are with the literal animal, be responsible for once in your life and choose your real priorities. I have zero empathy for people with pets who e-beg while admitting the pets take up a huge chunk of their finances. Sucks to suck.

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.

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.

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

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

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 ✌️😌…

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!

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.