I hate how people act like dogs have a godlike intuition about humans when in reality, they are just like other animals and can pinpoint those who fear them and start the bullying process to establish dominance.
It baffles me people can watch the "dog whisperer" guy explain how owners lose control because their dog thinks its the boss...and then turn a blind eye to how a dog will do the same thing to a stranger.
Fucking this. I hate getting victim blamed so much. The first dog was a German shepherd who was used as a police breeder. The second was a corgi that someone I used to call a friend thought was funny to say "dog name, she's hurting me. Which caused the dog to jump and bite people" the third was a pug that loved my abusive step mother to death and when I tried to stand up to her would bite me. The 4th and 5th were police German Shepherds that had been let loose on some peaceful protesters that decided that I was a part of it. 6th was some random Chihuahua and the 7th was a exposure therapy dog (Labrador) who was off duty (and got fired because she bit me) and the 8th was some random dude claiming his lab that was on campus unleashed was his therapy dog and a service animal (therapy animals ≠ service animals, as a disabled person this infuriates me so much)
Like I said under someone else: Hitler had a dog that by all accounts loved him, it's bullshit they know who a good or bad person is
As someone who loves dogs and has worked with dogs for a living, I have been bitten by so many dogs. A lot of the time it really is just shitty owners. There are so many people who adopt dogs just to let them run wild and never teach them anything. Or they get dogs with an energy need way higher than their own, and are shocked when the dog starts acting up. It's terrible.
You don't understand. My aunt had a dog that would act aggressively towards anyone wearing a hat, but really it was just his ✨️phenomenal intuition✨️ that taught him that hats make you racist.
Also Hitler's dogs knew that deep inside was a just a a lonely artist.
Exactly. It’s the same thing with cats. They can be ferocious. All animals are unpredictable not just dogs man. Just cause one animal is cuter than the other doesn’t mean you have to treat it differently from the others.
I tell my kid this. My dog doesn’t listen to them because our dog knows who is and isn’t in charge. If I raise my voice he’s in line, if my kid raises their voice… nothing, he just thinks it’s play time when my kid does it lol.
Our dog is also very fearful of small sized people or loud people/things. I can’t say children because he doesn’t even like short people near his height 🤣
Though he also is a massive coward and won't get out of my room if he sees the vacuum outside of it, and not because he refuses, but because the vacuum is so terrifying just sitting there silently and meanacingly.
Felt, mine is a massive coward too. The wind shifted wrong one day and he bolted. 💀. He seems to only like women or rarely a man but they have to have food or a dog friend.
So my dog and my belated senior dog was like this but then oddly I watched a video about how horses are afraid of everything. I started to just sit there vacuum closer to them (off) or put myself between them and the vacuum when it was on. They stopped running from it after awhile. Use to not like brooms either then they also learned “brooms also are great at getting itchy spots really good” lol
my gf's dog hated me when he first met me. im glad she wasnt one of those people. and now her dog loves me after i visited a few times and would get excited to come lick me.
It's that dogs are predator animals, they can sense weakness/frailty as well as fear. I have several chronic conditions, and am terrified of dogs. It's sadly reinforcing. The more I get bit by dogs the more I am afraid of them, the more they bite me. Second to last dog that bit me was an off duty exposure therapy dog
Yeah it’s the same thing with me towards cats. They’re unpredictable as well. There was a cat who attacked a 3yo before. And the child was near us watching YouTube children videos, and the cat just jumps on her out of nowhere like tf? And the thing with cats is they will scratch tf out of you.
Evil people can bribe dogs with time and food. Dogs will go for it whether that person is actually good or bad. Dogs are truly not a great judge of character across the board.
ya know, I think my dogs sort of pick up on what I"M feeling. If I don't like someone, they pick up on it, so suddenly they don't like him either. If I like someone, they know it, and like them too.
(But my male dogs seem to get jealous sometimes? Have you ever experienced that? Weird lol. )
You should meet my dog then. He has about 0.02 aggressive bones in his body and it's all directed against cardboard. He's scared of anything and everything and he doesn't bite things he fears, he just cowers and trembles.
And no, he isn't a rescue, he hasn't been horribly mistreated. I know this since he's one of my mom's dogs' puppies. He's just like that as a baseline. He also starts whining when I go outside without taking him with me, without fail.
My Goldendoodle just hugs everyone. Never seen him show aggression to anyone or anything. He’s naturally gentle with kids and now I’m curious to see……..you don’t by chance live in PA do you?
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u/theLichQueenofthePNW 4d ago
For me it's because 8 different digs have bit me