If I see any more comments on Mumsnet of it's just a dog

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Do people not realise that for those who welcome them into the family they are part of the family. And if you have a dog and say it's just a dog, I'm not sure you should have one.

I wouldn't worry as I doubt that ever actually happened!

I agree with you on that one.

All I am taking from this thread is that I'd probably enjoy a drink down the pub with @YeOldeGreyhound and @NeverDropYourMooncup

with our dogs. Obviously.

Did someone say pub? 😄

The owner was either absent or didn’t dare speak up when I marched the dog out.

Someone complained thinking it was MY DOG who was threatening kids in the pub playground - when in fact I was the only one who dared get up and get it the hell out of there.

Once upon a time, in the land of things that never happened...

Baffling how you so wish something didn’t happen.

Why is it so implausible to you ?

Why the need to diminish a situation I was forced into by a twat of a dog ?

Say it's a dog.
Don't say "just" which minimises its importance to someone.
My dogs are my everything, I love them more than I can articulate - my sole mission is to make their lives happy, and in return they enrich mine immensely.
They are dogs yes, but NOT just dogs.

I would recommend getting a dog.

It was at the White Horse Inn in Overstrand, in July 2013.

You can be as condescending as you like, I don’t care.

Just along the coast from there, when I was a kid, I stood in a stone-cold dog turd on the beach at Hemsby.

Dogs have never done anything at all to improve my life, they’ve just constantly and repeatedly been antisocial pricks.

I love my cats very much and they are a part of my family but they will never be as important as my children are to me and I’ll never love them in the same way or to the same level that I love my children. I would love to have a dog again would shower it with love and very much see it as very important to me and a part of my family but it would never be on par with my human children.

I pulled up to the kerb on my motorcycle in a city centre to text someone. A drunk man came up to me and pissed on my leg.
Ban all men.
City centre living means you see lots of human turds too.

I'd 100% save my cat first before a stranger's child or other (human) family member, and I'd completely understand if a stranger saved their pet before my (human) family member.

I saved my cat from the streets of a big city when she was only a couple weeks old and weighed less than a small loaf of bread. She's now 15 years old. She's family to me. She's a cat, but she's a member of my family. Others don't have to understand or agree.

That’s grim, that guy should be arrested.

It shouldn't be your "sole mission" to make your dogs happy, that isn't healthy. It isn't healthy for your "sole mission" to be making anyone happy tbh, human children included.

My dog's sole mission seems to be to make me happy. And she does, so I try to make her happy too. She's my best friend. I suppose she's my life, pretty much.
And I'm not even a dog person really, I love cats more.

But you think it's healthy to sit viciously psychoanalysing strangers on the Internet in the middle of the night, just because you are not an animal person yourself, and lack the imagination to put yourself in their shoes?🤔

What's healthy is getting out and touching grass, which is what these guys have you doing every day.🥰

Just having a quiet snigger at the thought of some angry wee bam sat furiously writing a superhero movie script about avenging their childhood dog turd trauma by going round pubs evicting errant dogs.

Sorry doll, Hollywood's not coming for you!

To other people he may just be a dog. To me he is my best friend. He is one of the reasons I’m still alive after going through a horrifically traumatic experience. He was the one who knew when I needed a cuddle, or just needed someone to be there. In the middle of the night when I would be sobbing he was the silent presence that comforted me.
He doesn’t come everywhere, for his own sake I wouldn’t put him in a position that was unsafe or uncomfortable for him.
I take him to local cafes and the pub which he loves as he gets lots of attention. There are plenty of places that don’t allow dogs so if people do have an issue with them they can go to those places.

if you see any more comments saying "it's just a dog" you'll do what? Cope, presumably.

A child bites a dog - nothing at all will happen to the child beyond a scolding. A dog bites a child - it can and in most cases should be put to death.

This is because, as society and the law recognises, it is - compared to a child - just a dog.

You are entitled to your own beliefs about your pets. People generally only remind you that it's "just a dog" when you're being precious, entitled or acting mental.

I am an animal person, as I've said multiple times on this thread. I've had pets all my life. I foster mother cats and their kittens for rescues. Why have you assumed I'm not an animal person?

And I was awake with my sick baby, who was asleep on me.

It's a mental issue, isn't it.
Much like treating dogs as human children.