to think that dog owners shouldnt assume that everyone else is a dog lover?

[urtwistingmymelonman]

when I bump into you in the park I don't want to have a soggy nose repeatedly pushed into my crotch.
when I come to your house for a cuppa I would prefer it if your doggy didn't keep trying to hump my leg.
and when im 17 weeks preggers I don't want a bloody great german shepherd jumping up at me pawing at me with his claws as if hes trying to bury a bone in me!
don't get me wrong,i like dogs and I think anyone who mistreats or neglects them should be hung,drawn and quartered but aibu to think that when this sort of behaviour is displayed said fluffball should be pulled of instead of doting owner giggling and rolling eyes at me in an isn't he adorable kind of fashion?

I am not at all ashamed of my feelings towards dogs in particular and house pets in general. I dont like them and never will, I will never understand who anyone can put a pet higher in their priorities list than their human family, I will never understand how anyone can possibly defend an animal attacking a human.

But I dont expect others to think the same way, I just ask that they respect my feelings and not allow their animal near me. Is that really too much to ask?

And no, dogs are not people too.

Select, I think most dog owners are like you. I hope so, anyway. I wish they all were.

If a dog is well behaved and I get to know it, I can grow a bit fond of it. Mostly, they bore me and I don't really get why so many people want them.

Weirdly enough, I quite like chihuahuas.

I have two dogs and I don't want them doing the things OP describes to me, let alone to anyone else. YANBU at all.

Exactly, lteve, hazel, on the other hand, human beings...

Bogey, Yes they are people, just doggie people with unique doggie personalities, not human people. And oh yes I value my dog way over many human people I know, including some family members.

Kittens you are making the mistake that all humans are badly behaved, rude, disrespectful etc. I don't think it is fair to tar all people with the same brush. I like dogs, I don't like badly behaved dogs or dogs that have selfish owners who can't see that their dog distresses other people.

Ok, Kitten...........if you say so......

you are making the mistake that all humans are badly behaved, rude, disrespectful

Well given that is how she has behaved on this thread, you can see why she would think that.

I view pet animals as animals I don't anthropomorphize them because they are animals not people. Dogs are not four footed people in fur coats they are dogs, end of.

To be fair bogeyface, telling someone their house "stinks" isn't exactly being nice, you know.

There has been quite abit of rudness on this thread, as there always is, and there is really no need for it.

Dogs are really not people.

And the 6,450 figure is not the total number of dog bites, but the total number of dog bites requiring hospital treatment. The actual number of dog bites is bound to be more than that. But yes it's not the total number of children - sorry, I misremembered. That is 'only' over 1,000.

Doggies are not any kind of people they are animals they do not have any kind of people emotions they have animal emotions and traits jeezus

I have a dog i dont hate dogs but really my dog is a pet an animal and there is no need for my dog to be jumping slobbing all over anybody

Dogs are not people too.

Sorry, haven't read thread but YANBU.

I work with three dog obsessives owner/lovers and it drives me up the wall. Nothing against dogs, I'm just not an animal/pet person.

And when you're sat between three of them hearing how "Benji wenji brought home a little present and OH you should have seen his little tail wagging, he was SO CUTE" With two others also offering tales of pet adventures it makes me stabby at the keyboard.

but the total number of dog bites requiring hospital treatment.

Yes indeed, hospital treatment including tetnus shots, which you should always have following a broken skin injury.

The actual number of dog bites is bound to be more than that

Yes indeed, but the figure won't be 8.3 Million now will it?

There were also:

550 murders
30,999 assaults using knives and requiring hospital treatment
5,911 firearms offences
10,900 children killed or seriously injured in road accidents

Shall I go on?

Bogey, Yes they are people, just doggie people with unique doggie personalities, not human people

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Thanks Kitten that has really cheered me up!

I love these threads. Utterly batshit

I have two dogs. They smell like dogs. They leave hair everywhere. I clean a lot. They are not people. That's just weird.

Oh, and I found this statement very interesting Wallison

Unintentional injury is a leading cause of child death in England and Wales. Around 2.7 million unintentional injuries that lead people to seek hospital treatment occur in UK homes each year, over 40% of them caused by falls. Half a million people in England are admitted to hospital due to accidental injury each year.
Treating injury costs the NHS over £2 billion a year.
Falls are a major cause of disability and the leading cause of injury mortality in people aged over 75 in England and Wales.

Antisecco

Depends on your definition of 'people'.
Btw human beings are animals too. Some of you don't seem to realise this!
I'm not making the mistake of thinking that all human beings are bad. Where did I say that? some are, some dogs are bad too. But percentage wise, I'd have to say that the humans win in terms of aggression and fouling the environment.

Can I just say as well that I think I must take ownership of the odour factor here (I think I may have started it on p5), and I did NOT use the word stink. I said the houses smelled of dog (far less emotive word ) and put no slant on it whatsoever, or qualitative judgement, just that I am peculiarly sensitive to it.

people are humans animals a dog is a being not a person please stop referring to your 4 legged friends as furry people it is just bonkers and this is why dogs have so many behavioural problems sometimes human emotion

Anti- best you can do? Really?

My dog has no behavioural problems, and I can do what I want. She has her own personality and I regards her as one of the people in my family. Why does this upset you?
You are an animal, just as a dog is. Don't you know that?