These threads always turn nasty and there’s really no need.
If you don’t like dogs then fine, don’t go on to dog threads to read about them, and don’t go out and buy a puppy. It ain’t that hard.
Invariably badly trained dogs are the fault of the owner, and as a general rule dogs do not savagely attack unprovoked, usually there is a reason why, even if we don’t know it. Keeping dogs and children apart shouldn’t just be about protecting the children from the dogs, it is about protecting the dogs from the children.
I have 2 dogs. One is a retired guide dog, and the other one is a dog who will be officially qualified as a guide dog next week, who I have spent the past nearly 6 weeks in training with. And before anyone says “ah but that’s a guide dog, that’s different,” err no it isn’t. Granted someone else did the destructive puppy phase and the training, but at the end of the day it’s still a dog. It still sheds hair and shits, I still have to pick up after it, actually I don’t, because guide dog owners are exempt by law, but I still do anyway, and I do have to pick up after them in my garden.
And they’re not just my dogs, and they’re not just my mobility aids. If they were just there for my mobility then I wouldn’t have kept every single one of my dogs when they retired, I would have sent them off to live somewhere else where they were no longer my responsibility.
And if I didn’t like dogs I could have just stuck with a cane. Many blind people do just that. But after nearly 5 years, some with serious illness, then lockdown and waiting for a dog, I have finally got my life back. And I couldn’t have done it without my dogs.
Oh and, if they’d told me I couldn’t keep my retired dog when I got the new one I would have waited.
PS: was going to put up a picture of the new dog but he’s not qualified yet so it wouldn’t necessarily be appropriate ATM.