God I am bored of dogs

[Orteul]

And they are everywhere. Obviously barking and shitting which is annoying anyway. But also running and shitting around every tiny bit of green space in cities so that no one else can use these places apart from dog owners. Even when you go to a pub or café half the time these days it's "dog friendly" (why do we all have to be fucking "friendly" btw? "Tolerant" I could at least understand). You can't escape the fucking things. At work we even have dullards cacking on about how they want "office dogs" - nightmare as far as I'm concerned and really if you're going to be accommodating people's personal life at work surely a fucking crèche would be a higher pissing priority. Pet dogs don't even do anything. They literally just exist so that people can have pet dogs. Why the fuck are they suddenly everywhere?

Yes, so when you see small children act all feral in public, throwing stuff about and trashing the place, then just remember it is ok because they will be wiping your bum and paying your pension in a few years.
You are not allowed to show any disapproval, or comment on their parents.

Honestly it was a surprise. Never happened before and we were not informed. It was an introduction so I suspect it will visit again.

What?! 🤔😆 I need kids to wipe my arse and provide me with a pension??!

That's literally how pensions work so, yeah, you do. The money you're paying into your pension now (state or otherwise) is funding people who are already retired. When you retire, employees working at that time pay in to fund your retirement payments. You will be living off them, just as others are living off you now. Right now, those future employees are children. Or not yet born. But when you retire you'll definitely be reliant on them financially. Let's hope there's enough of them and that you've been sufficiently nice to them that they'll work hard for you, eh?

Ohh where are all the other trades being taken while the future care workers are wreaking havoc and annoying people?

Thread about dogs, people start discussing how much they hate children. They're in no way related whatsoever, fucking weird

But in the context of this thread, we are not allowed to complain about children acting like utter shits in public, because they will be paying our pensions in the future (which is bullshit... a great many wont do that at all).

The whole is weird!!!!

@Orteul I’ll try not to judge those little bottom
wipers too harshly. You sound completely batshit!

*Thread!

I absolutely hear you.

I have a severe allergy to dogs (furry animals in general) and live in an affluent area full of families with three kids & chocolate labs/cavapoos- my own DCs would happily deliver a moon on a stick and lifetime of chores if they could get one too, but understand that it’d make me ill so stick with a gecko & turtle combo instead.

The reality that everything is now ‘dog friendly’ can be really difficult for people with allergies like me - caffès, hairdressers, hotels/airb&b, even something as elemental as getting a train to work has already triggered a bad asthma attack because dogs are now ever-present, no questions asked.

My choices of looking for a new job have suddenly become pretty reduced as so many of prospective employers in my industry now allow dogs at workplaces.

A child in my town who had dog allergies had to be moved from their (private) primary school where they had been happily settled for years because one of their teachers acquired a pup in lockdown and pronto turned it into a school-dog when pupils returned to schools - the child only had a choice to medicate or move, madness!

If I had a severe nut allergy, the schools/restaurants/travel providers would normally go out of their way to work around it; sadly there’s no such consideration when it comes to dogs which are now really everywhere.

I'm an ethical vegan and as much as I love all animals, I can't disagree with all of your points.

Dogs are everywhere because we continually allow the perpetual breeding of them. This shouldn't be happening - they are not commodities that should be bred and sold. You could focus on directing your concerns to the government and encouraging others to do the same.

I've had 4 dogs in my adult life, and they've all been rescues. Here is where I disagree with you, they do so much more than nothing. They bring challenges, joy, friendship and happiness. They also come with the biggest heartache when it is their time to go. They are looking for love and when they receive that, they provide you with loyalty and a look in their eyes that can't be described and a feeling that you've done something good in this shitty world - a world potentially a lot shitter for them.

It isn't any dog's fault. When people have issues with dogs, they need to remember that it is always the fault of a fellow human, whether that is due to greed, selfishness, neglect or pure violence.

You are "allowed" to say what you please, always.

But as soon as you retire, every working person is funding you directly or indirectly. And those working people of tomorrow are the annoying little shits of today so yes you do need them, soz. (Your dog will be unable to make financial contributions to your pension plan.)

I totally agree. You can’t go anywhere these days without there being hundreds of the little (and often big) critters! Can go for a drink or a meal, because as OP said everywhere is ‘dog BLOODY friendly’. Was in the bar on a holiday site last week (dog friendly of-course!) and one of the bar staff was petting one of the customer’s dogs and then returned to behind the bar and served customers, how unhygienic 🤮. And even hotels and holiday accommodation are now ‘dog friendly’ OMG the thought that I might be sleeping in a room where a dog was sleeping last week 😱. They are animals. How can people keep animals and claim to be clean, it’s not possible.

Well @Orteul there are various reasons people associate a dog with being like a child, for me I became very attached to my (at the time) 13 week old puppy when I lost my child (who was only 14 weeks old) Others don’t get the opportunity to have the excitement of having a baby that was big enough to hold their heart, and all my love goes to them💜

My fur baby is fully trained and is forever gracious to the children with no boundaries (aka children who have never been taught how to go through life - you can do whatever you want).

5 years down the line please believe I’m taking my dog with me to places I can have a coffee and she can have a treat, just like she will go nowhere near you, I have nowhere near a fuck about your opinion 👍

Exactly

How can people keep animals and claim to be clean, it’s not possible.

@Bignanny30 what an absolutely factually wrong statement. Please can you provide research as to why people who keep animals aren't clean?

I wont make retirement age, and my dog makes my life worth living right now.
"Soz", but she is worth so much more than the playing up kids I see out and about right now.

Just look at what your booking then? If somewhere is dog friendly it is well advertised! Don't go! Generally hotels keep dog friendly rooms to dogs only and non dog friendly rooms separate. When I take my dog out I research where I can go. If your THAT bothered research where your going! Also I imagine you probably get ill often being such a germaphobe.

I'm sick of dogs too! Don't get me wrong I quite like the ones I know but there's a time and a place and I'm sick of having to put up with them yapping in cafes and making places less hygienic just by being there.

One dog even went for and bit another in our local pub recently🙄it was quite unsettling for everybody there. Every owner says "My dog would never do that" including the chap whose dog attacked the other!

What annoys me is the way dogs have been allowed to take over everywhere. The only green space available for me to go that is not packed with off the lead dogs running here there and everywhere is gated playparks, but even then someone will occasionally take their dog in. There is no way for me and millions others to relax in green spaces and parkland that I pay for the upkeep of through my taxes. Most dog owners don’t care at all
that their decision to get a dog affects others ability to enjoy green spaces. If they did they’d keep their dogs on a lead.

What utter tosh! Stop being lazy and get somewhere other than your local park for a walk.

There's plenty of mooreland and rural spaces for walking, most of which you'll probably not even see another person yet alone a dog!

I like dogs. If i can be tolerant of your kids being everywhere, you can be tolerant of dogs

I am bored with the expression “bored OF” I do not know when “of” replaced “with” but it grates on the ear every time I hear it. Why oh why did it happen? Incidentally, I adore dogs and at 89 I have 2 of them and spend my time and money on supporting dogs that are so let down by humans and end up in Shelters because thoughtless humans let them down. Some states kill lots of dogs every day. Texas is the worst for this. I am not an American but I live close by so I concentrate my efforts on dogs in USA.

Yes, dogs are animals. So are humans. Or weren't you paying attention in biology class at school? 😉

This thread makes my mind boggle.

I could never have imagined that these views would be held by anyone. Some dogs are annoying even to dog owners. But honestly - all dog owners are unhygienic and their homes smell? And we all have to modify our lives to suit those with irrational dog fears and dubious allergies? I have some experience with allergies but haven’t come across anyone with a dog allergy so bad that they can’t be in a public room where a dog has been.

We aren't expected to put up with badly behaved children, "wreaking havoc" because of something they might do in the future. The point is that as a society we need to raise future generations to be all sorts of things that we will need to continue the human race. If we decide, as some clearly have, that getting a dog is preferable to supporting the replication of the human species then we will find ourselves up shit creek. You'd better start training your dog to drive an ambulance and milk a cow.