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AIBU to get annoyed with inconsiderate dog lovers

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StandardHeight · 10/07/2014 22:32

I don't like dogs, I'm not scared of them, I just don't like them jumping up at me as it ruins clothes, I don't like the smell of them on my hands and I don't like their slobber anywhere near me. Why do dog lovers seem to ignore me when I say I'm not a dog fan. They just let their dog sniff my crotch, lick me etc. and think it's sweet because they like me. I also frequently get dogs in my garden whose owners can't manage to keep them in their own gardens.
I get that some people love their dogs so much they're like another child but is it hard for a dog lover to imagine someone not liking them. I have friends asking if they can bring their dog to my house, I don't want it here. But I'm worried I'll offend them. I just don't get why it's so hard to understand how much i don't want them around me. AIBU?

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MyFairyKing · 10/07/2014 23:31

Sometimes my dog is inconsiderate. He regularly snuggles up close, farts evilly and then has the audacity to sniff at me and look disgusted. Inconsiderate little fucker. How can something so bad come our of something so small and cute?!

Staywithme · 10/07/2014 23:37

myFairyKing

That's hilarious. It's the fact that the wee feckers then get up and run away, leaving you with the smell of their fart lingering in the air. Thanks for that!

Staywithme · 10/07/2014 23:38

harold

I really think it's time you put some clothes on! Grin

SquigglySquid · 10/07/2014 23:57

There's little devices that emit a really annoying sound that only dogs and other animals can hear. It could help deter them from your yard. But if the neighbors have a dog next to you, I wouldn't do it as it can hurt their ears.

YANBU.

I don't like dogs jumping on me or licking me either. I like my friend's and family's dogs, but I wouldn't let them in my house unless it was for good reason.

I've been bit by "friendly" dogs that owners have reassured me would never bite me. I find that whenever someone says their dog is fine, they're trying to convince themselves more than you. Hmm

SignYourName · 11/07/2014 02:08

I think it's been established over the previous 4,328,412 anti-dog threads that it's NBU to dislike inconsiderate dog owners who don't control their pets.

In the shame way that it's NBU to dislike any inconsiderate people who don't act in a polite and considerate way, in fact.

Next!

MildDrPepperAddiction · 11/07/2014 02:53

YANBU.

I love my dog, but I don't expect everyone else too. Owners should respect that and not allow their dogs to jump up at all.

ShutTheFuckUpBarbara · 11/07/2014 06:38

I agree that an allergy, real or otherwise, is the only way to get dog owners to respect your wishes.

I have a phobia of dogs (I am working on it) but if I explain this to a dog owner they invariably think that THEIR dog is so wonderful that my phobia cannot possibly include them, and might even be cured when I realise how amazing their dog is Hmm

So now I have an "allergy". Much easier.

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StandardHeight · 11/07/2014 12:04

nohooting wow! My first ever request for someone to explain why they've replied a yabu
staywithme why the sad face. Are you an inconsiderate dog lover?
london I'll start a thread about inconsiderate people if you like. I could on for pages and pages but I chose to highlight inconsiderate dog lovers in this instance. Name the inconsiderate behaviour and I'll be happy to contribute.
coffeeinbed so sorry yet again to trouble youngest again to reply to a thread yet again about a subject listed yet again on AIBU. But do feel free yet again to say yet again the word "again?", yet again.
Also if you start a thread about mils, parking or cat shit, I'd be happy to to write "again?".
heathcliff27 GrinGrin
alisvolatpropiis don't really understand your comment! what am I saying no to? Is it the question about can I bring my dog. You seem to have failed to acknowledge the rest of my AIBU.
fluffy and signyourname my post did not materialise after research on mn to find out how many similar posts there have been. Should I run my AIBUs past you first in future to check the subject hasn't been addressed before? Some people like to post about subjects that may have been listed before "get over it" as you say.
harold I know people who would gladly pay for an inconsiderate crotch lick.
Slightly ranty post I'm sure you'll agree, but a bit fed up with unreasonably rude posts.

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mumblechum1 · 11/07/2014 12:07

YANBU. I like dogs which behave themselves ie just go about their business quietly but can't be doing with the ones which jump up/sniff crotches/slobber over me/nick my picnic and worst of all the ones which bark pointlessly and loudly at passers by.

coffeeinbed · 11/07/2014 12:57

Awwww! Rant away.
Whatever makes you happy!

You need a doggie, though, Standard, you'll be nice and mellow after a long walk, very beneficial for calming down.

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StandardHeight · 11/07/2014 12:59

Perhaps If I did get a dog I'd post about inconsiderate dog haters. Can't see it somehow, you never know.

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coffeeinbed · 11/07/2014 13:02

In hindsight, maybe not such a good idea after all.
Poor dog.

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StandardHeight · 11/07/2014 13:06

Awwwww coffee, if it makes you feel better to be a bit nasty, fire away

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HappyAgainOneDay · 11/07/2014 13:29

We have no dogs and don't want them in the house although we'll pat someone else's dog. We had a party once and the guests included a couple who came from so far away that they were spending the night with us. A surprise to us, they brought a big dog with them (long haired labrador or retriever). It looked nice and was well behaved but I just didn't want it in the house. And it had to spend the night in their bedroom. In the morning, not wanting dog poo in our garden, I pointed one of the couple towards some nearby woodland.....

We had another party some years later and a couple brought an akito. It had to stay outside either in their car or tethered to a porch post because we had toddlers in the back garden. I wasn't having it in.

StandardHeight Just say no. Tell them that you don't like dogs in the house if you have to get down to brass tacks. The truth. If your friends are offended because you are discussing your home, what sort of friends are they?

smellyfishead · 11/07/2014 13:41

It does my head in tbh, yes you think your dog is lovely, cant do anything wrong etc, but I have as much right not to particularly like it.

my downstairs neighbour got dogs recently resulting in me having to put a fence up as she let them crap all over mine and adjoining neighbours gardens, they bark constantly when outside and one of them goes for people, yet we shouldn't be cross with them or tell them off as they are only like that because they know we don't like them!!!! Biscuit

some are ok, but some ARE very smelly/ slobbery.
At the end of the day I don't like having my crotch sniffed or my feet licked, ewww.

writtenguarantee · 11/07/2014 13:49

In the shame way that it's NBU to dislike any inconsiderate people who don't act in a polite and considerate way, in fact.

The problem with inconsiderate dog owners is that they don't get it. They are probably very nice in other parts of their lives, but when it comes to dogs they aren't. They think it's cute when their dog jumps on people and licks them and seem to take offence when you tell them that many people don't like that.

smellyfishead · 11/07/2014 14:24

^yes exactly that, they seem to be oblivious!!

MarmaladeShatkins · 11/07/2014 14:31

YANBU

I used to be friends with a woman who had two very smelly bull mastiffs. She would insist that we go to hers for a drink before going out for the night but couldn't understand why the rest of us would recoil when her two minging hell hounds would slobber all over our going out clothes.

You love your dogs, I get that. I do not. Please stop them from transferring their smelly hair onto my black dress. Yak.

RevoltingPeasant · 11/07/2014 14:32

Am I the only person on MN who has never met someone who thinks it's cute when their dog jumps up?

Have I seen people who can't be arsed to control their dogs or who ignore, them? Yes.

People who got a breed they clearly couldn't handle? Yes.

People who haven't trained them properly? Yes.

But people who actually think it's funny when their dog jumps up?

Only on MN!

MarmaladeShatkins · 11/07/2014 14:34

I met a woman who thought it was impossibly cute when her Jack Russell dived nose first into my picnic and licked my pork pie. Angry

Then got shirty with me because I didn't indulge the little twat.

These people exist!

DogCalledRudis · 11/07/2014 15:53

My dog once sniffed some woman's crotch and sneezed. She got grumpy but probably was very smelly down there Grin

Bowlersarm · 11/07/2014 15:55

Oh don't be so ridiculous OP.

VivaLeBeaver · 11/07/2014 15:58

I think we need to ask MN for an "inconsiderate dog owners" topic.

We're averaging a thread a day at the minute. All nearly enough exactly the same.

IrianofWay · 11/07/2014 15:59

I am not sure how anyone could argue with you really.

I don't think anyone could argue with you about anyone being inconsiderate. Inconsiderate parents, inconsiderate old people, inconsiderate cyclists... nope! Perfectly reasonable to be cross with all of them.

IrianofWay · 11/07/2014 16:02

"Am I the only person on MN who has never met someone who thinks it's cute when their dog jumps up?" Nope. I have met people who apologise when it happens even though I personally don't mind. Never met any who greet their dogs muddy paws on someone's trousers with peels of girlish laughter though...