AIBU to think dog owners have low hygiene standards.

We get it: you don't like dogs and you think they are disgusting.

Other people loves them and enjoy having them in their lives.

No idea why you think it is OK for you to suggest that makes them dirty and look down on them...judgemental and daft.

😂😂

Yes, and every time they go out some horrible germy dog is jumping up at them. I walk nearly every day in a huge park that’s a favourite with dog walkers, and in many decades IIRC I’ve only ever once had a dog jumping up at me.

Maybe they can sense that the human doesn’t like them and do it on purpose! If I were a dog maybe I would, too. 😈😂

I don't get the obsession with hygiene some people display. It feels very OCD to me.

My experience is that people obsessed with hygiene tend to be more often ill with viruses than those who are not. Maybe it's a vicious circle. They fall I'll, they increase their hygiene duties, they lower their immune system, they fall ill.

They then feel entitled to judge those who don't uphold their standards and think it's perfectly acceptable. It isn't.

Hygiene very much comes down to how you've been raised. It's about how it impacts on others around you. If you stink of sweat so that everyone stays away from you, then yes, you have a problem. If you don't, then who cares how often you wash!

Bet my pup has cleaner bollocks than some of your husbands. 😉

@K0OLA1D yes! Always such anger and venom....imagine being this het up about someone else choosing to have a pet in their home.
It's the 'your filthy, smelly mutt' comments for me, like all dog owners are going to shrivel up in to a ball of tears because someone has called our dog a mutt.
Also, always popping 'Fido' in there. It's 2024, Abraham Lincoln is long gone - go with Bella or Luna instead 🤷🏻‍♀️

Exactly. I genuinely don’t care if other people don’t love my ‘smelly pooch’, why would I? I care that we have a happy house, and we do. Our dog contributes to that. If people don’t want to visit my apparently filthy, stinking house, they don’t have to. Funnily enough though we have a lot of regular visitors to our house and are often told we are excellent hosts.

My cat doesn't make the house smell unless she does a poo in the litter tray (or somewhere she shouldn't!) but we definitely don't wash our hands after touching her and she sleeps wherever she likes and gets hair everywhere.

The rats make the house stink despite my best efforts and I do make more of an effort to wash my hands after touching them because they are a bit stinky.

I would like to say we are a hardy family but me and my eldest child are always coming down with something!

I like sharing my house with animals and I'm not bothered about being a clean freak. For me they make my house a home and I put up with the hair/smell/muddy paw prints although the rat smell does annoy me a lot but I can't seem to stop it.

Thing is, I don’t thing most dog owners care about people’s judgements in this respect. They’re getting a lot of love and happiness from their pooch. They and the dog are happy, having a few sniffy visitors making judgements is a very small price to pay.

I feel the Lab is judging the Spaniel 😂

Studies have shown that children who grow up in a dog owning household have stronger immune systems, a lower risk of asthma etc so they must be doing something right……

It really is, but I suspect you didn't mean that genuinely.

Here's my two! One knows its place...the other is a spaniel...be prepared to be disgusted!

I find people who are not keen on dogs or treat them as if they’re way below them…pretty suspect

Dogs are amazing.

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Hmmm

dogs are better than people. I don't mind putting up with their funky smell

“It’s been 8 hours, I can’t contain it any longer … must talk about dog’s arseholes again”.

And dog owners are the weird ones? 🤯

Hope you’re ok @MsKatia

Totally agree.
But my dogs are the best and I wouldn't have it any other way!
Sometimes I lie in my dogs bed with him 😄

I'm always surprised when some of these people post. I get that not everyone likes dogs, but some of the comments 😂. It's like the underbelly of society are just lying in wait to think up the worst possible descriptions of how repulsive dogs/cats/MILs can be.

I'm having a bit of an emotional day today, personal stuff, and my dog just makes it better. So does my MIL btw.

I certainly don't have as high standards as some Mumsnet posters about cleaning and laundry.

I feel sorry for people who are so germ phobic. Life must be exhausting and restricting for you and all those around you.

We don’t let our dog to sit on a sofa or sniff the food but yeah, we probably do occasionally touch her and then proceed to touch something from a shared plate. “Disgusting” is a subjective thing, isn’t it? What’s important to consider is that we are all still alive and I honestly can’t remember last time I had a tummy bug. So correlation between touching dogs and getting harmed by whatever dirt you think is on them seems pretty low to none. In fact, I would hazard a guess that we could all use a bit more bacteria in our lives.

Yes, as if we care what people with that level of angry vitriol think! We are all here chilling with our dogs!

Honestly, I find small children more grim. The things I watch my friends kids do- picking their nose, sucking their fingers then touching the TV remote. Give me a dog any day!

They always sound so uptight and miserable. Trying their hardest to be scathing with “you smell” comments. Just get a dog and be happy!