AIBU to think dog owners have low hygiene standards.

@HopefulllHolly

I was clearly winding up the PP at this point.

This may have been your intent but it didn't come across as such. It just made you look really silly.

Oh come now there’s another thread where dog owners are bitching (ha ha) about each other’s breeds and having a sort of aryan master race hissy fit about pedigrees and “poos” and “doodles”. It’s surreal first world problem bollocks.

Dog haters are above all that. We hate them all equally.

@Mischance

No, but normally only dog haters are irate enough to start a thread about it

Psychopath and maniac are not clinical diagnoses, nor slurs so please get off your high horse. Jesus Mumsnet needs to take a chill pill and get a sense of humour, what a sad little life! I was clearly winding up the PP at this point. Absolutely ridiculous.

And ‘maniac’. All the incorrectly-used terms for the mentally unwell are coming out. With a liberal and immature use of laughing emojis.

This is incorrect. If you look at the definition of hygiene, it's about keeping clean, especially to prevent illness or spread of diseases.

Under this definition, you could put dogs at the top and children at the absolute bottom.

@kenidorm sorry.

Me? I never used those words.

@kenidorm Have you heard of hyperboles before? Imagine calling someone unintelligent (which I’m absolutely not by the way, highly educated in fact) because they made a comment in jest. Absolutely ridiculous 🤣🤣

@kenidorm
I think you are confusing things.

Psychopath and psychotic start with the same few letters. They derive from the word psyche meaning related to the brain. That connection apart, the two things couldn't be less similar. To correlate them is doing someone with psychosis a grave disservice.

Haven’t read the thread but am guessing it’s full of the usual ‘people are worse’ excuses. I agree with you OP.

What amuses me is when people insist on being a shoes-off household yet let their dog sit on sofas and beds!

Anyway I don’t have any friends with dogs so we don’t bother each other and lead separate and harmonious lives!

I agree with you that animals in the house make things dirtier but I bet the pet owners with 'low' hygiene standards are fitter and have healthier immune systems than people with spotlessly clean houses.

I say this as a non pet owner.

@HopefulllHolly

It’s a turn of phrase meant in light-heart. Go stroke a dog and calm down you maniac 🤣🤣😂

Which one? Psychopath, or psychotic? Do you always use these words so flippantly or was it just for today?

My initial suspicion was correct. Thanks for confirming.

Dogs would exist in some form - wild dogs, wolves. And i reckon without us humans, animals would look after this world far better than the human race.

It’s a turn of phrase meant in light-heart. Go stroke a dog and calm down you maniac 🤣🤣😂

There was no argument; just pointing out that calling people who don't like animals psychopaths is not acceptable and absolutely does make you look like you are not too clever.

Moving on, do you even know what psychotic means? It's a bit harsh for a chat about dogs.

Also, missing the part where i said I don't have a pet?

@kenidorm sniggers I don’t know you know! I think it might be more “lacking in the old intelligence” to argue with a stranger over the internet when you don’t have a pet so can’t possibly comment? No? 😉 Frankly psychotic if you ask me 😏

You don't have to be a "dog hater" to recognise that they have unhygienic habits.

I think people who say you can't know love until you have been loved by a dog and to call people psychopaths for not liking animals are a bit lacking on the old intelligence.

I'm not anti animal, neither do I think having pets is unclean, but come on, what is that absolute crap?

I’m a dog owner and I’d probably agree with you to an extent! I don’t allow my dog to sniff counters and tables. I don’t take him into shops and cafes either. But yeah within the confines of our home standards although not appalling are definitely lower than they were pre-dog. To be fair I can say the same about having kids too!

Those with pets (particularly dogs and cats) live longer, have stronger immune systems and are happier. And to be honest - you don’t know love fully until you’ve had a dog love you. Wouldn’t trade it for the world! Frankly I find people who don’t like animals psychopaths. 😌

I think you might be onto something, @ThisQuirkyPeachHare, but not as revolting as you describe…
Having managed perfectly well without owning a dog, we rescued one about 4-5 years ago.
Having made rules about where the dog was allowed in the house, we slowly came to accept that he’d break every single one!
He has his own place on the sofa (which is rigorously cleaned if we have guests - It’s a leather sofa, so very easy to remove all traces of hair and smell), he is allowed on the bed (which gets changed 2 or 3 times a week because of that) and we all love the dog, so he’s allowed to have cuddles any time he wants.
I have had to change the hand soap we use though, as we were all getting very dried out from handwashing after touching the dog and before touching food, so not doing that is, I totally agree, lazy and unhygienic.
We have never left food on low tables, so that’s not a problem: we eat at the dinner table, and snacks are collected from the kitchen and consumed there and then.
The house is definitely not as clinically clean as it was before the dog, but our lives have changed immeasurably for the better in other ways…
And we get more exercise, so on balance, we are much better off than before, and not any less clean!

So true. Must have quiet lives.

One of the best ways to build children's mine system. People are obsessed with dog bashing here.

That reminded me of a nephew, then maybe 8 or 9, who remarked to DSis that their dog was licking his balls again.

Dsis told him that the correct word was ‘testicles’.

Some days later he said, ‘What was that word again, Mum? The one that means willyballs?’ 😂😂