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To dare to think that the Cult of Dog has gone too far?

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MariLlwyd · 25/04/2025 11:43

There is now not a single public space in my home town that is dog-free - and that includes cafes, restaurants and even the library. Local beaches, once a quiet escape, have turned into asylums for the fur baby/pupper brigade to inflict their poorly trained animals on others with children getting chased, people jumped on and tripped over and all to the sound of hysterical barking and frequent dog fights.
80 year old woman knocked over by uncontrollable dog? 'You got in his way'.
Ask politely that you take your dog away from our lunch table? 'Go fuck yourself'.
Sit on the most remote bench you can find? Peri-menopausal wild eyed harridan lets loose 3 dogs from her 4x4 to jump all over you and laughs that it's 'their spot' and turns unhinged when you push them away.
Yes, this is a rant and yes I hate most dog owners.
This weird cult that values darling dogs over human beings is actually pretty worrying.
I shall await the inevitable and hilarious 'incoming' from the emotionally stunted Doggo Nutters.

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Cherrytree86 · 02/05/2025 17:51

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 15:44

No, that you being a terrible parent and inflicting your child on the rest of the world

@peeweemermaid

a child badly behaved or otherwise might be annoying for you, but they won’t make you ill. Whereas a dog would make someone with a dog allergy ill.

Humans trump dogs, END OF!

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 02/05/2025 17:47

pinkfloralcurtains · 02/05/2025 13:58

Yeah but at least parents produce something useful in the form of future taxpayers who will fund your pension, staff your hospital, police your neighbourhood and wipe your bottom in your care home.

Can’t say the same about a dog.

Not all parents - maybe there should have to have some sort of licence to have kids.

We have kids around here who like to kill the local wildlife with catapults. I doubt the little bastards will grow up and do anything worthwhile. I have no idea if the parents know but they don't seem to do anything about it but maybe they would if their little shits had to be licensed and there was comeback on them. If it was a dog everyone would quite rightly be up in arms about it.

Missey85 · 02/05/2025 17:04

Catrionablocke · 25/04/2025 12:26

I agree. The funniest is when you see dogs in prams who look desperate to get out and walk.

My neighbour does this with her dogs 😂 the first time I thought it was a baby!

Dangermoo · 02/05/2025 17:01

OonaStubbs · 02/05/2025 16:57

It doesn't mean that you hate dogs just because you don't like seeing them all the time, in almost every place it is possible to go.

No you just have some bizarre obsession with them that I only ever see on here.

OonaStubbs · 02/05/2025 16:57

It doesn't mean that you hate dogs just because you don't like seeing them all the time, in almost every place it is possible to go.

Dangermoo · 02/05/2025 16:47

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 14:16

Anyone who starts a rant about the cult of dogs on an online forum is a cretin, and anyone who cant take criticism about their darling issue should join them in the cretin corner..

I'm still chuckling at that poster feeling the need to point out that dogs aren't tax payers 😄

SausalitoSue · 02/05/2025 16:10

HangingOver · 02/05/2025 12:50

You can't simultaneously have a problem with people who don't pick up shit and people who do pick up shit.

I really can 😆 well actually, I don’t have a problem with poo-picker-uppers as people, and never said I did. I just think it’s gross to carry it around swinging and if a friend is gonna strike up a conversation with me with that under my nose I would make my excuses and go ASAP. Grim!

I will caveat, since someone also said I must need my smelling salts on the daily 😆 maybe @vodkaredbullgirl , dunno who but that rings a bell…. Anyway 2 caveats 1) it’s the sight of it that’s gross as well as any potential smell, and scented bags are gross too 2) I don’t like to think of any poo in plastic. Why would I. My babies’ poos always went down the toilet fwiw, just as sewage should. Yes, nappies are gross too. Who thinks otherwise?? I’d say they’re the oddballs tbh!

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 15:44

Cherrytree86 · 02/05/2025 15:40

@peeweemermaid

thats not an allergy hun, that’s you just being highly strung

No, that you being a terrible parent and inflicting your child on the rest of the world

Cherrytree86 · 02/05/2025 15:40

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 14:26

Oh I can assure you some children have made me fell unwell, with their high pitched squealing, snot covered faces, manners of a pig in a sty, and generally repulsive antics.

@peeweemermaid

thats not an allergy hun, that’s you just being highly strung

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 15:33

YouMustBeTheWeasleys · 02/05/2025 14:54

@peeweemermaid but it’s not an allergy is it and it’s ridiculous to suggest that it is.

AS ridiculous presumably as suggesting that all dog owners are intellectually sub normal, or all dog owners allow their dogs to jump all over and are continually shitting on the road on front of you.

YouMustBeTheWeasleys · 02/05/2025 14:54

@peeweemermaid but it’s not an allergy is it and it’s ridiculous to suggest that it is.

HangingOver · 02/05/2025 14:46

FullOfLemons · 02/05/2025 12:54

They don’t though. They are different people and it is perfectly possible for the poster to have an issue with both groups.

If someone finds seeing a stranger, minding their own business, holding a collected poo in a tied plastic bag 'stomach churning' frankly I'm surprised they're able to leave the house without smelling salts.

vodkaredbullgirl · 02/05/2025 14:32

SausalitoSue · 02/05/2025 12:17

Ugh it's so foul. Me and DH were watching someone the other day, stopping to chat to his friend with a little bag of shit swinging. The pong must have been vile. Stomach churning!

Scented nap sacks solves that problem.

vodkaredbullgirl · 02/05/2025 14:29

Mrsbloggz · 02/05/2025 12:07

Dog faeces everywhere it's revolting, and little plastic bags with dog feces oozing out of them everywhere🤮🤮🤮🤮
Dog people walking along swinging their little bags of dog feces 🤮🤮🤮🤮

😂 you are funny, must of us don't swing the poop bags about. And as for people who hang poop bags on trees are the lowest of the low.

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 14:26

YouMustBeTheWeasleys · 02/05/2025 14:21

@peeweemermaid thats just not true is it and such a ridiculous and basic non argument that dog people often trot out “oh but I’m allergic to children lol”. No one is allergic to a child - you might not like them but they don’t make you feel unwell as dogs and other animal often do for some people, myself included.

Oh I can assure you some children have made me fell unwell, with their high pitched squealing, snot covered faces, manners of a pig in a sty, and generally repulsive antics.

vodkaredbullgirl · 02/05/2025 14:26

Someone is in the windup mood today 😆

YouMustBeTheWeasleys · 02/05/2025 14:21

@peeweemermaid thats just not true is it and such a ridiculous and basic non argument that dog people often trot out “oh but I’m allergic to children lol”. No one is allergic to a child - you might not like them but they don’t make you feel unwell as dogs and other animal often do for some people, myself included.

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 14:16

pinkfloralcurtains · 02/05/2025 14:03

Anyone who writes off an entire generation is “useless snowflakes” tells you as much as you need to know about them.

Anyone who starts a rant about the cult of dogs on an online forum is a cretin, and anyone who cant take criticism about their darling issue should join them in the cretin corner..

pinkfloralcurtains · 02/05/2025 14:03

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 13:59

Given the amount of useless snowflakes we have to employ, that is those that manage to get a job I doubt it

Anyone who writes off an entire generation is “useless snowflakes” tells you as much as you need to know about them.

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 14:00

LovelyCupOfTeaThankYou · 02/05/2025 13:45

Many people are allergic to dogs.

quite a lot of people are allergic to your offspring too

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 13:59

pinkfloralcurtains · 02/05/2025 13:58

Yeah but at least parents produce something useful in the form of future taxpayers who will fund your pension, staff your hospital, police your neighbourhood and wipe your bottom in your care home.

Can’t say the same about a dog.

Given the amount of useless snowflakes we have to employ, that is those that manage to get a job I doubt it

pinkfloralcurtains · 02/05/2025 13:58

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 13:01

Generally because dogs behave much better than children. Personally I think the cult of motherhood b has gone much further and way too far in the wrong direction.

Yeah but at least parents produce something useful in the form of future taxpayers who will fund your pension, staff your hospital, police your neighbourhood and wipe your bottom in your care home.

Can’t say the same about a dog.

Mrsbloggz · 02/05/2025 13:57

Dangermoo · 02/05/2025 13:47

So your attributing lack of intelligence to dog ownership?

I'd say lack of intellect correlates loosely with dog ownership and reasonably strongly with Facebook use.

Dangermoo · 02/05/2025 13:47

Mrsbloggz · 02/05/2025 13:02

I agree but can you imagine it . . . the idiots on Facebook 'they're killing our fur babies'
(I jest, actually it would be 'their killing are fur babies')

So your attributing lack of intelligence to dog ownership?

LovelyCupOfTeaThankYou · 02/05/2025 13:45

peeweemermaid · 02/05/2025 13:01

Generally because dogs behave much better than children. Personally I think the cult of motherhood b has gone much further and way too far in the wrong direction.

Many people are allergic to dogs.