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?!

I know that being around dogs is said to be beneficial to health, reducing blood pressure and so on. Dogs have the opposite effect on me and raise my blood pressure.

I imagine a PP was speaking about the section in JL that has appliances, kitchen equipment, crockery and cutlery and I should think it possible that a medium to large sized dog might knock things over with a swish of the tail.

I understand that some owners regard their dogs as they do their family and want to take them everywhere, but I’d prefer not to use cafes and restaurants where dogs are permitted.

Since when has that been a dog problem rather than an owner problem? Do you expect the dog to pick up
its own shit?

💯 agree I live near a small seaside town and every other person is parading their dogs up and down the prom. Then in the local big town people are bringing their dogs to the town centre. Why oh why? I'm sure the doggos would much rather run in a park or field

Oh well, if you've never known it to happen it must be true then 😂

I had a weekend in Whitby over the summer. It was like being at Crufts, but not in a good way.

@StarDolphins agree - in the same way that the dog is not choosing to hang out in JL. But the normalisation of it has seemingly come out of nowhere?

But let kids in, whose parents seem incapable of clearing up after them. Crying, screaming, running around whilst other people are trying to enjoy a meal and waiting staff are navigating around them with hot food…even changing babies on mats on the floor! Yep! I’ve seen it all 😡

Possibly. Or possibly people just talk about it more? There seems to have been a similar increase in Mental Health problems for humans, particularly children.

Oh do fuck off
My dog had cancer and before she was in pain I took her out in a pushchair just so she could get fresh air and a sniff around

I said that the dog is old and unable to "walk far" - not unable to walk at all.
Many dogs live long after they're able to "walk far".

It's not a news flash that you can leave a dog at home. Every dog owner knows that, but you don't have to leave it there all the time.

My mum took her little dog to the park in a pram when he got old. He couldn't walk all the way there and back but when there he could get out and potter about with other dogs enjoying himself. It was good for both of them.

You are talking about something you don't understand.

That would be my worst nightmare. I can’t understand why this is not discriminatory. Your workplace is not healthy.

And it’s not about animal hating. Some of us put human life and well-being as a tad more important. 🙄

Charming 😂

Point still stands though.

Yes I do understand. I just don't agree. There's a difference between the two.

I’m mostly just sick of the stupid dog ad begging for free photos on here.

Maybe whoever the sponsor is would get a better response by asking for photos of dogs in inappropriate locations from the haters on this thread

or even artfully shitting everywhere

purina could go next with a request for filthy cats beheading endangered baby penguin bollards

"Enslaved and made them stay in your house" 🤣 fireworks are anti social it's not as simple as other people making noise. The fireworks around my way sound like bombs going off!

Well my BIL can’t come to his parents 50th wedding anniversary dinner because the restaurant won’t let the dog in and apparently it’s impossible for it to be left alone. We should all change plans to go somewhere dog friendly, apparently.

it absolutely boggles my brain!!

I think what you fail to note @WhatNoRaisins is that years ago the majority of dogs were not treated half as well as they are today. I remember one of my grandfathers dogs - who lived outside in a kennel by the way not indoors - was so terrified of fireworks one year he scratched and chew chunks off the front door because he was so stressed and desperate to get inside. There was no one home as they were out celebrating New Years and the dogs were let out of the kennel to ''protect the property''. I can imagine thousands of dogs over decades spending nights terrified in their barns and kennels but the owners were either none the wiser or just did not really care.
Also a lot of people did not care half as much, not to give my grandparents generation as an example but I remember that they all had dogs to basically alert you when someone came onto the property and they all lived outside. When the dog got sick or injured and the treatment was going to be expensive they got put down instead.
Seeing both sets of my grandparents interact with the animals they own today reminded me how little their generation actually understood animal behavior, stresses and triggers.
So I don't think dogs/pets have gotten softer, for the most part they are just better understood.

The government needs to crack down on dogs, they are everywhere now and it is becoming a real problem.

Kids are humans.

No, you don't understand and have no experience of a situation where a pram helps both dog and owner have fulfilling and happy days. It's not harming you.

Children often scream and run around in shops and cafes though.

Well that’s ok then. Let them be annoying because ‘they’re human’. Just like that.

@WhatNoRaisins

Also don't forget the billion pound industry that has grown up around dog ownership that relies on us thinking a lot of things are necessary. Doggie daycare, dog grooming parlours, dog behavior experts, expensive medical treatments and operations, clothes, food, toys, beds, prams...The UK pet industry is huge.

What happened to Barbara Woodhouse and Bonios 😂