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WilmaFlintstone38 · 25/06/2025 12:40

In shops and cafes, barking and making people jump, tripping over them in the street... Seems everyone and their Auntie Flo has a dog nowadays.

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LemonCheesecake2025 · 31/08/2025 10:06

Muffsies · 30/08/2025 21:02

That's the case with so many breeds tho, there are loads of breeds that are very dumb, and some that are completely neurotic. It's disturbing that weve bread them to be like that, just for out amusement and entertainment. And then there's all the hereditary conditions we've cultivated in them.. if you love animals surely it's sick?

I have a 12 year old beagle who has had no health conditions. She is the happiest little dog. She's had a good life.

WilmaFlintstone38 · 31/08/2025 09:29

Absentmindedsmile · 30/08/2025 21:36

Glorious isn’t! ❤️ 🐶

When you're out in a hotel and a barking competition is going on then no it's not.

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Muffsies · 31/08/2025 07:48

Onleemoi · 31/08/2025 07:44

I only get rescue dogs, I’ve had 4 now and try hard to undo the damage done to them by humans.

Still, none of your reasons are an excuse to hate the animals. It’s just further evident humans can be disgusting.

I don't hate animals, that's my entire point.

I hate irresponsible dog owners. The problem is the worst offenders will bang on about how much they love animals, whilst treating them like toys and entertainment.

Onleemoi · 31/08/2025 07:44

I only get rescue dogs, I’ve had 4 now and try hard to undo the damage done to them by humans.

Still, none of your reasons are an excuse to hate the animals. It’s just further evident humans can be disgusting.

Muffsies · 31/08/2025 06:48

NamechangeJunebaby · 31/08/2025 00:16

”bread” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Haha, yes that post if full of typos bc I was using my phone without my glasses on.

I stand by the sentiment tho. Why would any so called "animal lover" want to own one of these frankenstien animals? Some are mentally retarded or have serious neurotic tendencies. Some have chronic breathing problems, heart problems, back problems, hip problems.. the list goes on. Can you imagine being created to suffer conditions like this just bc someone thinks you look cute or quirky, or so you fit in a handbag, or so that you look scary? It is utterly sick.

I'm sorry but I think that the whole dog industry is unethical and cruel, I don't know why people continue to buy into into it, how do you live with yourselves if you have a sick dog that was bred to be that way?

Of course, some of you clearly think it's funny.

NamechangeJunebaby · 31/08/2025 00:16

Muffsies · 30/08/2025 21:02

That's the case with so many breeds tho, there are loads of breeds that are very dumb, and some that are completely neurotic. It's disturbing that weve bread them to be like that, just for out amusement and entertainment. And then there's all the hereditary conditions we've cultivated in them.. if you love animals surely it's sick?

”bread” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Absentmindedsmile · 30/08/2025 21:36

Glorious isn’t! ❤️ 🐶

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 21:31

The only reason I mentioned the erotic / kink stuff was because the dog lovers did it first, insinuating that those who don’t like dogs only ever talk about their anuses and excrement and must therefore have a kink. That dynamic was not introduced by me, I simply responded like for like.

YeOldeGreyhound · 30/08/2025 21:25

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 21:14

It’s not supposed to be a “gotcha”. Pets are friendly and loyal because they get fed. The pug in the report I mentioned tucked into its owners head within 4 hours of her death. I mean, it didn’t take long to start munching. And people treat these dogs as a member of the family, try to give them human characteristics. Give them the right to access human spaces as though they were humans.

But if a human pissed randomly on peoples garden gates, if humans squatted down and queefed out horrendo-logs onto inviting picnic grass, if humans randomly ran up to you and grabbed your chest and licked your face, or if humans tucked into their cohabitants face within four hours of their death - we’d think it was very weird indeed.

This thread is about the negative experience people endure due to the ubiquity of the canine in human spaces. And dog owners apparently have no empathy at all, treating our valid opinions with utter disdain. Because they “love” their “loyal” dogs.

The very dogs that would be dining on them within hours of their deaths.

Again, that does not mean we can't trust dogs. Maybe that pug was already starving when the owner died. The rescue my own dog came from has rehomed a pair of greyhounds that had also started eating their owner after they died at home. That does not make them dangerous or not to be trusted when you are still up and about.

Why are you holding dogs to human standards? They are animals, not humans, so they are not bound by the same laws as we are. If you took your child to the zoo and saw a great ape having a fiddle with it's penis (which does happen), would you laugh it off and say that is what animals do? I bet you would be complaining to the the staff about it. Filthy animals not living by human rules.

It is ok to not like dogs. It is not ok to say shit like dog owners get off by picking up poo, or find it kinky to express dog anal glands. Do you get off when you change a nappy? Because that is your twisted logic... and so typical of the more extreme dog haters on here. It is not enough to just not like dogs... you have to come out with utter drivel too.

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 21:14

YeOldeGreyhound · 30/08/2025 19:43

I am not sure what point you are trying to make. It is not the gotcha that you think it is. All animals have survival instincts and if they see a food source when starving, they will eat it. But the vast majority of dogs wont eat their owners. Cats are more likely to. Where is your hatred of cats?
They literally put their bumhole everywhere, and lick it all the time too. They shit in people's flowerbeds and kill wildlife.

And again, there have been cases of people eating the dead when they were desperate. There is no malice involved. It is basic survival.

It’s not supposed to be a “gotcha”. Pets are friendly and loyal because they get fed. The pug in the report I mentioned tucked into its owners head within 4 hours of her death. I mean, it didn’t take long to start munching. And people treat these dogs as a member of the family, try to give them human characteristics. Give them the right to access human spaces as though they were humans.

But if a human pissed randomly on peoples garden gates, if humans squatted down and queefed out horrendo-logs onto inviting picnic grass, if humans randomly ran up to you and grabbed your chest and licked your face, or if humans tucked into their cohabitants face within four hours of their death - we’d think it was very weird indeed.

This thread is about the negative experience people endure due to the ubiquity of the canine in human spaces. And dog owners apparently have no empathy at all, treating our valid opinions with utter disdain. Because they “love” their “loyal” dogs.

The very dogs that would be dining on them within hours of their deaths.

Muffsies · 30/08/2025 21:02

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 18:29

Pugs aren't the brightest dogs though.

That's the case with so many breeds tho, there are loads of breeds that are very dumb, and some that are completely neurotic. It's disturbing that weve bread them to be like that, just for out amusement and entertainment. And then there's all the hereditary conditions we've cultivated in them.. if you love animals surely it's sick?

YeOldeGreyhound · 30/08/2025 19:43

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 18:08

Amazing at eating their owners corpses.

I am not sure what point you are trying to make. It is not the gotcha that you think it is. All animals have survival instincts and if they see a food source when starving, they will eat it. But the vast majority of dogs wont eat their owners. Cats are more likely to. Where is your hatred of cats?
They literally put their bumhole everywhere, and lick it all the time too. They shit in people's flowerbeds and kill wildlife.

And again, there have been cases of people eating the dead when they were desperate. There is no malice involved. It is basic survival.

Onleemoi · 30/08/2025 19:32

22 negative incidents and has documented them all whilst simultaneously studying all things dog (from teeth to bum hole). Perfectly normal.

VanGoSunflowers · 30/08/2025 18:56

@HangryLikeTheHulk for someone who doesn’t like dogs, you have spent a lot of time researching things about them including reading papers on how quickly they would eat a human corpse 😳

@LemonCheesecake2025 never had a negative experience here either

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 18:37

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 18:31

It’s up to 21 now what with the two separate dogs which charged our lakeside bbq, and back then I forgot the one involving my other half’s elbow being bitten by a dog which raced out of an apartment, jumped up and bit. So now we’re on 22.

I've reached 53 without having any trauma with a dog. We were camping last night and the campsite owners dog came to see us with a stick. She just wanted us to play. Absolute beauty 😍

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 18:31

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 18:28

You are quite funny.

Are you poster that once listed about 20 incidents that had happened involving dogs? It was quite amusing. The poster was definitely unlucky.

I've been away for two weeks and excited to pick my two up from the kennels. At no point going forward am I going to worry about dying and them eating me. I mean if it happens it happens. Their waggy tails and cuddles will be cute though.

It’s up to 21 now what with the two separate dogs which charged our lakeside bbq, and back then I forgot the one involving my other half’s elbow being bitten by a dog which raced out of an apartment, jumped up and bit. So now we’re on 22.

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 18:29

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 18:08

In the paper I read, one of the pets was a pug, and started eating the owner within just FOUR HOURS of her death.

Pugs aren't the brightest dogs though.

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 18:28

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 18:08

Amazing at eating their owners corpses.

You are quite funny.

Are you poster that once listed about 20 incidents that had happened involving dogs? It was quite amusing. The poster was definitely unlucky.

I've been away for two weeks and excited to pick my two up from the kennels. At no point going forward am I going to worry about dying and them eating me. I mean if it happens it happens. Their waggy tails and cuddles will be cute though.

Seasidegrandma · 30/08/2025 18:10

Go to Wetherspoons they don't allow dogs.

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 18:08

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 15:26

I don't know why I'm lowering myself to argue with you.

Dogs are amazing.

Amazing at eating their owners corpses.

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 18:08

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 15:23

I honestly believe a Beagle would not eat a human owner if they died.

One of the characters in Game of Thrones got eaten by his wolf like dogs.

You obviously know very little about different breeds of dogs.

In the paper I read, one of the pets was a pug, and started eating the owner within just FOUR HOURS of her death.

caramac04 · 30/08/2025 17:40

@HangryLikeTheHulk was the research you linked something you found when researching whether or not to have your own dog or cat? Have you got any on dogs arses as well?
Just seems odd to amass this knowledge about an animal you hate.

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 15:26

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 14:53

Sure, the odd anecdote. But corpse scavenging is so common a scientific paper was written about the phenomenon.

”Dogs tend to eat the face and throats of humans, then break the ribs and chew on bones. Cats, on the other hand, often strip skin from the nose, upper lip, and fingers (the same places, Rando notes, that they nip at when playing with a living owner). Scavenging is more common with dogs than cats, Byard adds, “but I don’t trust either of them.”

I am not going to link the paper as it is pretty graphic.

I don't know why I'm lowering myself to argue with you.

Dogs are amazing.

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 15:23

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 14:53

Sure, the odd anecdote. But corpse scavenging is so common a scientific paper was written about the phenomenon.

”Dogs tend to eat the face and throats of humans, then break the ribs and chew on bones. Cats, on the other hand, often strip skin from the nose, upper lip, and fingers (the same places, Rando notes, that they nip at when playing with a living owner). Scavenging is more common with dogs than cats, Byard adds, “but I don’t trust either of them.”

I am not going to link the paper as it is pretty graphic.

I honestly believe a Beagle would not eat a human owner if they died.

One of the characters in Game of Thrones got eaten by his wolf like dogs.

You obviously know very little about different breeds of dogs.

HangryLikeTheHulk · 30/08/2025 14:53

LemonCheesecake2025 · 30/08/2025 13:20

It common to hear stories like this below. You talk rubbish.

  • Jack Russell Terrier (Colorado, 2023):
  • A small terrier stayed by the side of her owner for 10 weeks after he died in the mountains, losing half her body weight but ultimately surviving.
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Sure, the odd anecdote. But corpse scavenging is so common a scientific paper was written about the phenomenon.

”Dogs tend to eat the face and throats of humans, then break the ribs and chew on bones. Cats, on the other hand, often strip skin from the nose, upper lip, and fingers (the same places, Rando notes, that they nip at when playing with a living owner). Scavenging is more common with dogs than cats, Byard adds, “but I don’t trust either of them.”

I am not going to link the paper as it is pretty graphic.