Dogs are everywhere?!

[LadyMonicaBaddingham]

I took DS to a university open day today. Two separate families had brought their dog with them! Is this someone I've missed?! Why is this necessary?!

How dare you! Cats have the legal right to roam and shit in your flower beds.

I like dogs (although I don’t own one). They make me smile when I see them in the park.

No dog needs to go to John Lewis though. No human really needs to go, either. Go for a lovely walk with your dog and enjoy the fresh air. Fuck the shops.

I have seen a grown man shit in the street in Ibiza town. Broad daylight. Busy shopping street.
His friends didn't even bag it and bin it.

Nah very much doubt it.

I'd prefer never to go to a pub again if that twat was the landlord

My baby hates being dragged in and out of shops!

Sadly I've moved to a very doggy town (I got into a HA flat, and didn't have much of a say as I was going to be homeless otherwise.) Between the complete numpty dog owners (saw a woman let her dog off the lead in order for it to run across the road earlier, 🤦🏻‍♀️) and idiot motorists who give zero fucks about pedestrians crossing the road or even the damn paths (my baby's pram nearly got hit by a van parking on the path earlier, I was not happy. This was on the sodding high street,) I'm feeling fed up and homesick for the place I used to live. There's so many off lead dogs running around. Look up dog repellents. There's things that make a noise or spray, that unlike pepper spray you use on humans, is perfectly legal to carry and you can get it on Amazon.

Exactly what I was thinking. We could do with an “Animal Haters Corner” section where they can all froth to their hearts content.

I work in a dog friendly office. It’s absolutely brilliant. We have at least one dog in every day (the business owners) and sometimes two or three. We have outside space for them and a local park for walkies.

I work in a public building which allows dogs. I’m not a fan. I didn’t grow up with dogs and I’m not really a dog person, unless they’re very small they do kind of scare me. My colleagues however love dogs and some of them are practically rolling around in the floor with them when they come in. I stay behind the desk and admire from afar. Someone asked me the other day if she could bring in her dog in the future and it took all my willpower not to roll my eyes and say if you must.

Also my daughter, when she was a child, was terrified of dogs. She has grown out of this and now likes them but if dogs had been allowed everywhere when she was young we’d never had been able to go anywhere.

I love dogs, have had dogs for the vast majority of my life. I have never wanted to take a dog shopping with me and no dog I have owned would have liked sitting inside a noisy cafe or restaurant. I completely understand why people who are allergic to dogs or don't like them don't want them in cafes and shops.

My MIL does this. I refuse to go for a dog walk with her.

In mitigation the dog is old and she has to walk her other dog, so to save leaving old dog at home sad and alone she takes him in a buggy.

We were at a beach today. DS just wanted to do some digging and rockpooling but random dogs kept bounding up to him so I couldn't turn my back even for a minute in case he got knocked over or worse. Then we were walking past a house later and this very noisy dog just jumped over the garden wall and blocked our way on the pavement yapping at us. To be honest I regret not kicking it out of the way. When we eventually got past it kept following us and crossed a busy road to annoy someone else, owners nowhere to be seen. Pisses me off.

When you say kitchen section, do you mean where they sell kitchen units? If so, you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel with this. It’s a display unit, you’re not getting your sea bass on a pea puree served from here, it’s showing you what a kitchen would look like if you bought it from them🙄

JL definitely don’t let dogs in the food prepping area of their cafes. Try harder.

Humans shitting in the street is (thankfully) relatively unusual.

DOGS shitting everywhere is endemic.

I rest my case.

Sometimes the dog is just old and unable to walk far, not in pain.
If you have an old dog and have enjoyed walking all your life - should you stay in until the dog dies or have a perfectly healthy dog put down so you can go about your business?

Lots of elderly folk in my town can still get out to the park and the seafront purely because these dog prams exist. They're a good thing.

I was bought up with dogs but agree there are far too many everywhere! Maybe I am just a curmudgeon.

@AgileGreenSeal i bought him a dog pram - he’s too heavy to carry and he couldn’t walk for quite a while. He was very happy being taken out.

why wouldn’t i do that?

why does it upset you so much that people care about their dogs?

So are vapers/smokers, feral children, PITA MILs, strangers who park in front of your house etc. are all these things annoying yes are they going to go away no…since Covid people seem so ill-equipped to deal with life which never has been and never will be exactly how everyone wants it to be all of the time.

Yes there has. Lots were bought, as you know, during covid, and were 'brought up' with constant company, so now have seperation anxiety. Also, I suspect a lot of those owners just aren't natural 'dog people' and a bit clueless. I adore dogs, and appreciate an outside table at a cafe, or inside a traditional pub, but shops etc, just no. Also no, to expecting other people to welcome your dog into their home.

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Obviously the PP means the utensil section where they sell plates, saucepans, aprons and tea towels etc. Gross having a slobbery creature rubbing up against it all.

I would love that. I would find people much more tolerable if they brought their dogs to work with them.

Every uni open day I have been to this autumn has had at least one doc in the lecture theatre - absolutely ridiculous!!