u/AffectionateFlow1816

I’m a dog owner and have had my pup for 6 years now. He’s a rescue from Puerto Rico and I adore him, he’s a good boy. But he’s my dog, not a human being and he’s gross. He rolls in and eats feces, dead animals or whatever he finds. He licks his own ass and does other disgusting things because…. He’s a dog.

I’ve always had a slight aversion to people that put there dogs on a pedestal above other humans. To me it’s just bizarre. My best friend is a dog lover and she treats them as children. Professional photo shoots, outfits constantly, always proclaiming her love for dogs. We hike together and she lets her dogs off the leash the whole time to the point where her dogs are bombarding other hikers or dogs, and when they get frustrated she says I’m not leashing my dog in the woods.

Now my partner whom I also adore, has a miniature husky looking dog, that he treats as his child. Everything is about Minnie, (that’s her name). He gives her more affection than me at times, when we go on vacation he is always worrying about her and checking on her. He has photos of her everywhere, in his car, ornaments etc. he makes her scrambled eggs and pork chops every night for dinner, so after I’m done cooking a whole meal I have to cook the dogs fresh food…I don’t say anything I just observe the weirdness. Having her sleep in bed and constantly all over us grosses me out.

This is all bizarre to me, even on social media the praise people give there dogs and the worshipping as though their dogs saved them. I just don’t get it and I’m wondering if it’s a reflection of our society as a whole, and the disconnect we feel from eachother. The inability to bond? I don’t know I just really don’t get it and at the risk of sounding like an asshole it’s cringey to me.

In other countries dogs are dogs. Just like cats and other pets. I give my dog plenty of love and exercise and treats but I don’t feel like dogs have the same level of consciousness or emotions we do and it’s almost like people just project themselves onto an animal that’s incapable of understanding things the way we do. Am I alone in my thinking? Am I an asshole? Is the world just getting more bizarre by the day 🤣? Help me understand.

I’m a dog owner and have had my pup for 6 years now. He’s a rescue from Puerto Rico and I adore him, he’s a good boy. But he’s my dog, not a human being and he’s gross. He rolls in and eats feces, dead animals or whatever he finds. He licks his own ass and does other disgusting things because…. He’s a dog.

I’ve always had a slight aversion to people that put there dogs on a pedestal above other humans. To me it’s just bizarre. My best friend is a dog lover and she treats them as children. Professional photo shoots, outfits constantly, always proclaiming her love for dogs. We hike together and she lets her dogs off the leash the whole time to the point where her dogs are bombarding other hikers or dogs, and when they get frustrated she says I’m not leashing my dog in the woods.

Now my partner whom I also adore, has a miniature husky looking dog, that he treats as his child. Everything is about Minnie, (that’s her name). He gives her more affection than me at times, when we go on vacation he is always worrying about her and checking on her. He has photos of her everywhere, in his car, ornaments etc. he makes her scrambled eggs and pork chops every night for dinner, so after I’m done cooking a whole meal I have to cook the dogs fresh food…I don’t say anything I just observe the weirdness. Having her sleep in bed and constantly all over us grosses me out.

This is all bizarre to me, even on social media the praise people give there dogs and the worshipping as though their dogs saved them. I just don’t get it and I’m wondering if it’s a reflection of our society as a whole, and the disconnect we feel from eachother. The inability to bond? I don’t know I just really don’t get it and at the risk of sounding like an asshole it’s cringey to me.

In other countries dogs are dogs. Just like cats and other pets. I give my dog plenty of love and exercise and treats but I don’t feel like dogs have the same level of consciousness or emotions we do and it’s almost like people just project themselves onto an animal that’s incapable of understanding things the way we do. Am I alone in my thinking? Am I an asshole? Is the world just getting more bizarre by the day 🤣? Help me understand.

Edit:::: everyone here is massively triggered and it just proves my point. To me the dog obsession thing is akin to people that need a security blanket to move through life. The dog becomes there personality. Sorry not sorry I offended so many people but this has been interesting to read. I’m also convinced a lot of dog people that are like this just hate children due to the nasty comments

I love my partner so much but I always struggle with this because it makes me feel not great. I can’t help that it makes me feel this way. So whose comfort matters more? My feelings or his want to look at hot women online.

My boyfriend’s follower list is hot women on tik tok. I hate this day and age we live in, the access is unlimited and gluttonous. And it’s so normalized…It makes me feel like crap, and just disrespected. That’s the hardest part, the disrespect. I am very faithful, I go out of my way to make sure our relationship is protected on my end, I’m relatively pretty and I do get hit on a lot. I don’t entertain other men or look at things that would make my partner feel bad. I also give him sex whenever he wants. (My drive is higher than his for the most part)

I guess my question is do i just accept this? Is it unreasonable to ask him to stop? Looking for a man’s perspective. Please refrain from derogatory comments, I’ll just ignore them.