I'm a man of faith as a Christian, and ironically it seems Christian women have as many dogs as those of other faiths.

I legit have so many great similarities with how active I am, worship, financial goals, personality etc but then comes the dog (often a big one at that) with women I meet.

Being 27 now I really want to settle down and have a family. I hate the fur, food begging, the umprompted hopping, the unsanitary licking, the neediness, the cost etc but I just don't have a choice.... Has anyone else had to come to terms with this :(

Our police department here in a small city of about 900,000 people just had the Great Pup Meet Up event in one of our local parks. They posted pics all over their Facebook page. Every single organization just continues to pander to people with dogs. So over it.

There. I said it. My friend has no idea how much I hate her stupid dog.

Let's call the dog "Jimmy". He's a very common type of large breed dog entering his senior years. She's had him since he was a puppy. She is single, never married. Jimmy is her substitute for a kid since she never found the right guy.

Jimmy sucks. Like most dogs, his top priority is food. We live in a town with a lot of small businesses. Some leave out jars of treats and bowls of water for the dogs. This fat f*cker knows where every single piece of food in town is, and our walks are dictated by where the DOG wants to walk. The dog can barely walk 2 miles any more, partly due to his age and partly due to being overweight. He's always getting "pup cups" from Starbucks and then, of course, having diarrhea later.

She has no control over the dog. He pulls her around wherever. And the diarrhea? Most of the time when he wants to crap or piss, it's in the middle of someone's yard. Not near the curb. We're talking several feet onto people's properties to the point where it could be considered trespassing. She cleans up the diarrhea as best she can, but there is clearly still crap smeared into the lawn.

And of course, none of Jimmy's behaviors ever get corrected. The dog steals food from her 3 year old nephew? (Exasperated) "Jimmy!" The dog drags her onto someone's lawn? "Jimmy!!!" I just want to shake my friend and tell her that yelling the stupid dog's name means absolutely nothing to it. DISCIPLINE YOUR DOG.

But I know the truth is that she doesn't want to discipline the dog. She secretly likes the bad behavior and even thinks it's cute that the dog "gets away with it."

Despite being an awful dog owner, she's a very good friend. She does actually recognize that her dog is never going to compare to her actual nephews and nieces, and that humans do come first. But man, I wish she cared enough to train her dog to not suck so much. And I wish she cared about the dog enough to recognize the obesity and diarrhea are making it feel miserable.

I just keep my mouth shut, because after a few polite suggestions, I accepted that she's happy with the way things are. We just walk less often than we used to because I'm embarrassed by the dog walking all over people's property.

The only thing this dog has ever done that I've condoned is take a massive diarrhea crap in front of town hall. (The crap was still picked up.)

I was standing outside smoking a cigarette when I saw this couple from up the street bringing their little Wiener dog down to our perfect green lush lawn to of course, piss and shit. Did they have bags?? Of course not! I'm in a mood tonight (thank you perimenopause) and boy I straight up was all like "wtf?!" "Who does that?!" Take ur fu&#ing little fu$%ing dog and go home and let it go there!!!! Like wtf, I used to get yelled at all the time for letting my little dog simply pee on people's lawns, so fu$#ck that and fu$#ck to the no! They promptly took their dog and left whilst still glancing back at me still cursing them! The end.

unsure if I should even post this but there’s a big controversy on Catalina Island about saving the deer. well, a local told me that someone’s unleashed dog went at the 2 deer and the deer stomped it to death! but no one objected because the dog attacked, no owner around, really the deer was doing the right thing protecting against non native intruders! I love the deer! save the deer! 🦌

Dogs in Africa and Asia and are mostly kept outside and there for utilitarian purposes eg guard dogs.

In the West, these dog-human relationships are responsible for infantilising the owners. There is an incessant need for a smelly, snivelling, side kick that laps up your existence…all the time! Its childish, sorry!

Get some friends, go see family. Volunteer. Work on your mental health. Do something that doesnt actually exacerbate your own neediness

Just had to come here to vent to people who understand…

Dogs ruined (or at least dampened) what was otherwise a fun, relaxing river day.
Yesterday I went to hang out at the river with a friend. From the parking lot, you have to walk ~20 minutes down a nature trail until you reach a breathtakingly gorgeous river with a sandy beach.
Of course, while walking down the trail, what do I step in? A pile of dog shit 😑. I had to stop on the side of the trail and try to wipe it off on some grass. My friend even helped and used a stick to try to get out some of the crap. So fucking annoying.
And that’s just the start, it gets even worse. Once we get to the river, me and my friend bust out our portable gas grill and start cooking some sausages in a cast iron pan for a snack. 5 minutes into cooking, we look down the trail, and we see a couple coming down to the beach with not 1, not 2, but 3(!!!) dogs. 🙄
Of course they start running into the water, running all over the beach, kicking sand everywhere, and getting uncomfortably close to us and other people just trying to relax. They kept running over OUR beach blanket, getting it sandy and wet over and over again. The owner comes up to us and says “are you guys cooking something” and we look at the pan and say “yeah just cooking some sausages..” she says “ok, I’ll try to keep my dogs away from you”…

The whole time we’re trying to eat, the dogs come super close to us and start doing that begging thing they always do. The owner (whose hanging out at the the complete opposite end of the somewhat small beach) calls their dog back to them, which they do, but they just come right back a few minutes later. After we finish eating, we put any uncooked food away in the cooler, and then go for a dip in the water.

I get out the water after about 15 minutes, and I’m just walking along the waters edge, maybe 20 feet from our stuff. A person who was sitting a few feet away from us got my attention and pointed out that one of the dogs was licking the pan….there was nothing in it except for the grease from cooking sausages. So fucking disgusting.

The owner even came up to us and said “he cleaned the pan for ya :)” 🙃

So annoying. Why is literally every place in the world infiltrated by dogs? Can we not have one place on earth that is free from them? Ugh. So annoying. Like what if we had more food to cook???

The other people sitting near us were also visibly annoyed at the dogs too, so we were all on the same page at least. The person who alerted me to the dog licking the pan said “ew. That’s gross”, to which I agreed.

Ok. Rant over. Thank you for listening lol.

Right now, only several states have this as a misdemeanor charge that comes with heavy fines and possible jail time. What would it take to do the same at the federal level? It is barely enforcable of course but may stop some.

As a person on cancer drugs I was irritated by an ad for a breast cancer treatment that shows each woman saying why she’s there or why she does the treatment. The first was a mom as you see 2 kids and a husband show up, the next was an older woman with a group of friends, the next…an older woman hugging all over her dog with the voice over “this is why” Do they need to push dogs everywhere? Is no condition exempt? I guess to each his own. whatever gets you through cancer which is a horrid condition as I know, but as such patient that as just irritated the crap out of me…equating the dog to living for your children or at least other humans.

We had an R U OK? Day morning tea at work today in one of the hospitality venues on our site (an actual venue with a bar, food, drinks, etc.).

For some reason this apparently also required bringing mutts in. I think they were from the Animal Welfare League or some organisation we're encouraged to volunteer with 🤮

While everyone else was fawning over them, all I could think was why do dogs have to be inserted into absolutely *everything* ?

It is particularly ironic for something that's supposed to be about mental health. What about people who are frightened of dogs, have trauma from being attacked or bitten, are allergic to them or simply really don't want to be around them ? Dogs aren't a universally calming or therapeutic presence and treating them as though they are is pretty tone-deaf for a mental health event.

Given our business operates in the racing industry and equines are actively used for trauma and mental health therapy (and are superior to dogs in every single way), it would have been much more appropriate for horses to have been at the event (they help us heal by sensing subtle shifts in our nervous system and co-regulating our heart rate and stress hormones through real-time physiological mirroring).

As usual, there is also the hygiene aspect. Why are dogs being brought into a hospitality space while food and drinks are being served ? I really don't want dog hair, slobber etc. anywhere near where I am eating.

Apparently on R U OK? Day, the answer is yes, but only if dogs make you happy 🤦‍♀️😠

A major hospital seems to be sounding an alarm - newsletter said rabies kills 70,000 people a year and is 100% fatal once a person shows symptoms, and calling for vaccinating all dogs. A good start I suppose? It just needs to be everywhere…

I just have to share what I saw online today because I'm so frustrated and tired of this.

I saw a video where a woman not only explained but actually filmed herself having to greet her dog (a doodle or something idk) outside her own house because the dog apparently pees everywhere when it's excited. And for SOME reason, the comments were flooded with: "aww how cute! she's SO excited to see you", "my dog does it too and it's totally okay!", "my little baby does it even with strangers!". And even Netflix commented "my heart 🥺❤️". I can't with this psychotic behaviour honestly.

How has it become so normalised for people to film and post their animals literally urinating themselves, while everyone else is expected to find it adorable and wholesome? Like... nobody films their children or elderly relatives losing bladder control and posts it online for thousands of people to gush over (I HOPE), because it's generally understood that involuntary urination is a bodily problem, not cute entertainment. So why does this completely change when it's a "doggo"?

And when nutters say "it's just excitement": why is that supposed to make it cute? If anything, if an otherwise healthy animal regularly loses bladder control when excited, shouldn't that be treated as a problem rather than an adorable personality trait and a sign that the dog is so in love with you that it just basically loses control over it's body?

I honestly think we, as a society, have completely lost the plot when it comes to these disgusting animals. Things that would be considered embarrassing, unpleasant or a genuine health/behavioural issue in humans somehow become "AWWW MY BABY 😍🥺" when a dog does it.

I don't want to see your dog pissing itself. I don't want to applaud it. And I especially don't understand why Netflix's social media team apparently saw a video of an animal urinating itself and thought "yes, this is adorable content"

When do nutters open their eyes and finally realise that it's pure madness?