u/Tessa-the-aggressor

Quick little rant.
I was just on my way to the supermarket in my basement and this happened:
I press the elevator button downstairs, elevator opens and family (mom, dad, toddler) with labradoodle (🤮) is in the elevator, there is plently of space so I get on.

My stop comes before theirs and the exit is on the side where they stand. They say "oh let's move to let the lady get off", toddler complies. But the dog just weirdly crouches down and claws down hard on the rug (normally there is no rug, but due to construction work it got put in so the floor doesn't suffer too much).
The woman has the leash and tries to drag the thing to the side to no avail. Man tries to pull, too. Even the two of them pulling can't get it to move.
Then the man says (I should mention I have a rollator) "oh, you know, he needs to learn. just... run him over"!

Like, excuse me? Are we okay?
As much as I hate dogs, I would never use my rollator to hurt it. I wouldn't want to get my rollator dirty by having it kiss a dog, either.
What is that supposed to teach a dog, which literally has the brain capacity of a rock?
Why would you own a dog and then think this is okay?
Dog culture is confusing af.

I didn't know what flair to use, but I think Culture fits quite well.

I brought you dog labioplasty a week ago and it seems I was chosen to bring some more disgusting news:

I just watched a video about homeopathy (things you do when you're bored, eh) and Excrementum Caninum (Latin for dog feces) can be used to make homeopathic medicines.
It is mostly used for 'personal growth', apparently helping against social phobias, anxiety and panic. Some parents also use it to make their kids more independent, apparently.

Saw a funny video of a guy talking about asking a Viennese pharmacy if they have Excrementum Caninum Globuli (Globuli are the small homeopathic sugar balls) and they said "no, but if you bring us dog poop we can make you some".
Like... what??? Dog poop processing in a pharmacy? And people ingesting that stuff?

Just when I though I'd seen it all... 🥴

(In case it's different in other parts of the world, Austrian pharmacies sell a lot of homeopathic stuff like Globuli. Most pharmacies have an extra part in the shop just dedicated to selling homeopathic remedies. It is allowed.)

an acquaintance just casually messaged me "hey, my dog needs a vulvoplasty. poor girl"

A. WHAT.

"my girl's vulva is so saggy and, therefore, a lot of moisture and pee gets trapped in these skin folds, so it can stink. but she'll have a cute designer pussy soon."

like, I did not know this was a thing. it's truly a very sad day to be literate.
if the owner of 4 or 5 dogs smells the stink, I'm pretty sure I don't want to know just HOW vile it must smell.
she'll pay thousands of $ for this surgery and, while I get it's medically necessary, thinks it's fun that her "girl" will soon have a new "designer pussy".
just reinforces my belief that nutters are disgusting perverts.

... and how tf were dogs artificially bred to even have such problems occur???
& of course, it's a pit...

I live in the city and was downstairs outside my house by the ashtray to smoke a cig.
suddenly a loose dog ran up to me and the lady standing next to me.
it looked like a cocker spaniel except nearly up to my hips (I'm 5'7).
I immediately put my foot out to stop it from coming at me(which worked), made myself look taller and wider by extending my arms and stared at the dog.
and after about 30 seconds it was over and the owner came calling the dog, to which it immediately ran back to her. the lady next to me said "aww, so well-behaved!".
I opted to make a scene and tell the owner in no uncertain words that this is not okay. I also told the other lady that, no, it's not well-behaved if it runs up to strangers.
both were kinda too stunned to speak but actually agreed. so I take that as a win :)

lol, I just came across a sob story on the page of an animal foundation:

(I paraphrased parts and changed the name of the man, btw)
"This is Ali, he is from xyz but due to the bombings he had to flee to zyx. He was assigned a space in a large house for refugees where over 50 people live together, but he was kicked out right away. Why? Because Ali did not want to leave his 3 dogs behind. You see, these dogs were suffering from the constant noise of the bombing. But the other people did not accept the dogs and their behaviour, so Ali made the decision to live in a tent so he can be with his dogs.
Please donate so Ali's dogs can get food, see a vet and hopefully have their own roof over their head soon."

Sooooo, let me get this clear:
Ali has three mutts that are obviously disturbing the peace in the house he would have been allowed to live. (He was accepted into this house with his three mutts, so something must have happened already in the very short time he was there.) So now he chose to live in a tent. And the animal welfare foundation wishes for these mutts to have a roof over their head (they did not say "Ali and his dogs" or so, they were literally not mentioning the human in need of a proper roof over his head).
The whole thing literally read like "fuck Ali, buy these ugly mutts a house".

hello, I'm back from another 3-day-ban I got for... "inciting violence" against mutts lol. apparently, BE for sick animals is violence :)

anyway, while off Reddit I was over on insta and saw a reel about the FIFA 2030 "preperations" (the "3 millions dogs until 2030"), as I'm sure everyone else has heard about by now.
obviously, there is no denying the way they go about it, it's a whole industry rn and there is unnecessary cruelty. not denying that.

but it got me thinking about other animals, for example rats. they are cruelly killed by the millions each year and barely anyone cares. barely anyone would care a rat is suffering, even though they are:
- less disease-ridden
- more social
- not known for noise pollution
- not disturbing the environment
- not attacking and killing humans
- etc. etc.

but even BE for a rabies-infected dog is seen as wrong?

I went to the comments of that post and, oh Lord, it's bad nuttery.
examples:

1. a literal LOCAL DOG-LOVER who has her own DOG RESCUE (for 30 years) was based enough to comment that: "yes, it should not be done the way it is, as cruelty is unnecessary. but I am local and have had a dog rescue for 30 years and love all dogs and own many myself. sadly, these strays in Morocco, many of them have rabies. and even the healthy ones are known to constantly, violently attack and kill humans. the way it's done is not right, but we need to free ourselves from the danger of these strays"

*insert the Patrick Star 'I love you' GIF, because even though I do not like dogs at all, this lady, an absolute dog lover who lives and breathes for dogs, said it perfectly. wow!

the replies to her were all nutter abuse plus one account started citing statistics.
their reply was: "no, these dogs are good, they aren't a danger. adopt them out to the US and Europe maybe? they don't need to be destroyed, I just found a statistic from 2015 that only 30% of these 3 million strays have rabies!"

OH WOW, ONLY 30% of them (as of 11 years ago) have rabies??? hell yes, sign me up!!!
so I imagine by 2026 this would have doubled, at minimum?
but who cares, us Europeans and North Americans should just adopt them, it'll be fine 🤡

2. how quickly the people in the comment section became COMPLETELY racist!
   a man, from his profile clearly from India, commented: "they need better ways to go about this, but dogs should not be in society. all they do is kill and roll in shit!"

yes Sir, another very based take.
so what were the replies?

no discussion, no critique, but instead:
"no, you Indians always kill and roll in shit"
"I can see by your skin colour that you rolled in shit"

this is absolutely vile racial abuse and I was so disgusted reading this. I can't imagine what it must be like for the man who wrote the original comment!

these other commenters had normal profile, where they shared their progressive values.
HOW is it possible that a negative comment about mutts short-circuits a progressive person's brain so much, that they would resort to racial harrassment???

anyway, I guess that is my rant about the insane double standards and dog nuttery.
nothing new, just same old, same old.

I just stumbled across an account of a woman with a service dog. 'service dog', ahem, even though they passed their state test and have official papers and acknowledgement (in a country where that is a legal requirement). Shame on that country to certify such a thing.

Not only does she constantly post how it 'nips' everyone for every reason under the sun ("because she is a herding breed that's just what she does").
It also constantly barks, but no, actually it woofs! She keeps talking about how it is very vocal, "but she is not like other dogs! She doesn't ever bark, she just woofs!". According to her, barking is annoying and only badly behaved dogs do it... hers just woofs at everything it sees 🤡

Another woman, who commented on one of her posts, also has a service dog: a service chihuahua. Also state-certified in the same country. And this woman mentions that "my chihuahua licks around and inside my mouth to alert me of low blood sugars".

I just can't.

I just read about an attack in this or another forum and it had me thinking, as it said "before the incident, the dog wasn't known to be a dangerous dog".
but, due to their nature:
EVERY dog is a dangerous dog!
EVERY dog should be seen by the state as a dangerously dog & out of control animal!
that is literally what they are.

I often read that after incident xyz the dog was declared a "dangerous dog" and has to be leashed and muzzled at all times.
the heck? that should be how every dog is handled from the beginning. and one strike should be the end.

update:
thank you so much for all the love and all your experiences! still have not identified a trigger, but keep my phone and pred on me at all times (Epipens will be added tomorrow).
will definitely also look into an emergency button bracelet or similar, as well as maybe Xolair.
I already have a lot of GI distess currently, as my gastroparesis has gotten worse, so I lost 33 lbs in the last 6 weeks. maybe this exhaustion could have contributed to this or the gastroparesis and MCAS are somehow making each other worse? I will look into it, too.

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hey, so, what the title says.
I have had MCAS dxd since 2020, treated with fexofenadine, ketotifen, etc.
I have had mild anaphylaxis a few times, it was always like sudden diarrhea, tingly mouth feeling. then took rescue meds (fenistil, pred) and waited it out and was fine.
well, today (I live alone) I suddenly felt a tummyache. went to the toilet, diarrhea and my vision went blurry and then black. I had a cup of water next to my toilet, so tried to drink. it came half out and I half choked on it and realised I couldn't swallow or breathe. had my phone in hand, made it one meter and opened the front door, dialed 144 (emergency services) and then my muscles gave out. managed to wheeze my address and anaphylaxis into the phone and found pred in my purse on the floor that I just put under my tongue, as much as I could find.
ambulance arrived and I was still unable to move and laying in the entrance of my flat.
pred did work, was taken to hospital, treated, observed.
will see my doc to discuss upping MCAS meds on Friday and will get EpiPens.

how do I deal with this? I legit thought this was it, goodbye world.
how do such experiences shape a person? how did you feel about such experiences?

I never normally take my phone to the toilet with me but today I was watching a funny video. and I had left the pred in my purse by accident.
the only reason I'm alive rn.
it was all so fast and my brain hasn't really caught up with this trauma. I just had therapy yesterday as I nearly died from a wrongfully administered medication 10 days ago. I am also autistic and it takes my brain some time to catch up, which is why I'm posting here, too. to let it out and talk about it as much as possible, so I can kinda catch up with my own trauma.
ty in advance for any replies ❤️

update 2 hours later:
it's gone now, but left a big yellow puddle where it had sat.

I live in the middle of a city in a shopping center. I see lots of dogs, every day, but I've just about fucking had it:

I went downstairs in front of my building to have a cigarette (a stinky, expensive and unhealthy vice, still superior to mutts though) and a young girl (beggar kinda) sat by the ashtray there with her fucking huge GSD.
about three people were around her, fawning over the shitbeast, giving it water and treats. the girl told them all what a "good boy" he was and people pet it and let it jump them and "ooooh, look how excited he is".

this last week alone we've had someone or something defecate and pee twice in front of the ashtray and in the building. not saying it was that dog as I'd never seen it before today, but that's just another thing constantly happening here, making me even more sick of dogs.

I stood away in a corner, headphones in and all, trying to not even look in the direction of that shitbeast.
as soon as the other people fawning over it left, it tried to walk up to me. "ooooh he wants to say hi" and "haha, your keys are jiggling in your hand, he wants to play".
I just told her to not let that dog anywhere near me as I am not afraid to use my lighter or my keys, should it approach me.

the girl looked at me totally mad and shocked, did a whole thing of "no, he's friendly, he just wants to say hi" and "please don't smoke, he doesn't like that".
oh well, it's an ashtray, not a dog-tray. maybe don't park your ass and your mutt's ass right there?

of course it was off-leash, too, and it took her way too much wrestling to hold it back by its collar after I made clear it's not coming anywhere near me. "I swear he's the sweetest, everyone likes him" - aaaah, yes, that sold me! mass psychosis is a well-documented thing. I just said "not everyone, I sure don't like it".

I have mast cell activation syndrome and react to dogs. they are filthy. they are loud. they stink.
are my feelings not more valid than a mauler's?
is it really too much to ask to not be expected to go touchy-touchy with a random cloaca on legs?