Are the people on r/dogfree OK?
So I'll be honest I lurk r/dogfree, mainly because I do find it interesting in morbid curiosity kind of way to see what people who have opinions vastly different then mine are up to. I never actually post (except for one single time) because I know, much like other subreddits, they just want their echo chamber and to be left alone.
Ok, fair, but after lurking for so long it's kind of gotten actually disturbing. Tons of posts and comments lately relating to 4th of July and how much pleasure they take in knowing dogs are terrified of fireworks and how happy they are there's a day in the year where they're essentially tortured. Several of which specifically mention how dogs get hurt and how glad they are that it happens. It's one thing to not like dogs, but these guys actually seem to take extreme pleasure in a dogs pain and suffering.
Then there's so many posts that are just obviously not true? Kind of like "then the whole bus clapped" type posts. They follow a lot of similar styles of posting too, ever story with a dog in public seems to have a dog wildly out of control in a grocery store or something, crowds of people swarming the dog to fawn and praise over it, employees bending over backwards to go out of their way to love the dog, and them proudly proclaiming they stood up and called the dog a disgusting filthy violent mongrel and shut everyone up type shit. Everyone who flies apparently sees an unsecured dog, sometimes even multiple on one flight, just loose and roaming in the cabin trying to bite people. Airlines don't even let dogs in cargo anymore let alone in the cabin, and cabin rules are very strict about dogs needing to fit in a kennel under a seat. There's even hatred of service animals and how they need to lose all protections and never be allowed anywhere.
It just seems like the hatred for dogs goes beyond anything resembling sanity, like these people seem to hate dogs with every ounce of their being in an actually mentally ill way that's getting disturbing to read. The one time I posted on it ever was just today, where I tried to calmly state that wishing violence and taking pleasure in a living creature being harmed (relating to all the 4th of July posts) is not healthy and it was swiftly deleted for "trolling" lmao.
Anyways that's my rant, I could honestly go on and on the about the psycho shit I've seen on there in my time lurking.
Tldr; r/dogfree users seem genuinely unwell, take pleasure in pain, psychological distress, and physical harm coming to dogs, post wild exaggerated stories en mass that are clearly either untrue or greatly embellished, shut down commenters who state maybe wishing harm on any living thing isn't healthy, and take "not liking dogs" to this extreme level I don't think I've ever seen in real life.