u/UntitledVents

I'm getting so sick of seeing pets (mainly dogs) riding with passengers in the plane. They used to be placed in the cargo hold. It was perfectly normal to medicate them so they would sleep or be calm while crated down there.

Now days, people insist on having their animals ride with them in the seat. Under the seat or on their lap. Flying is already cramped and stressful enough. I don't want to be sitting next to a shedding, stinking animal as well.

(Video might be upsetting for some)

Something I heard a vegan say a few days ago. But then a video pops up on my fyp of a mother pig plopping down right on top of her baby and making zero attempts to help it while it screams. Also, all the piglets just keep suckling, unbothered.

For context, I saw a video of an animal still acting like it was being hobbled despite not having anything on its legs. And a dog owner of course had to come and be all AcTuAlLy. They twisted my words and when I corrected them, they doubled down. Here's the thread.

My OG Comment: Reminds me those dogs that are always looking around for laser.

Them: That really doesn't happen to most dogs. Probably only a few certain breeds to be honest. One being my dog who is now 16 and has never looked for it when we didn't have the laser out. Once it was out, she would then look for it, but not when it was put away.

Me: I said it reminded me of the dogs that do end up like that. So this comnent obviously doesn't apply to your dog.

Them: Lol I was just pointing out that it doesn't apply to all. No need to get so defensive.

Me: "No need to get defensive" while you're arguing with a point I never made. I never said this happens to every dog.

Them: Okay okay calm down [crying laughing emoji] Seriously, I don't know why you're getting so angry. I have not once said anything to make you have to jump at me. I am sorry I responded to you in the first place.

Me: You misunderstood my point, wrote me a whole paragraph defending against something I never said, then called me the defensive one.

You make one comment involving a dog and they immediately have to come at you with the "Not my dog!"

Just saw a video of a stupid dog owner failing to control her dog. It's barking and lunging at its neighbor over the fence. Rightfully so, the owner was trying to fend off the dog with a stick and was reported to have sprayed it with hose. All the while the owner has to repeatedly try to call her barking demon away from the fence. Comments are mostly supporting the owner but some are calling her out to control the animal.

I was reading the comments on a post about someone grieving the death of a significant other.

This comment stood out:

"We Just had to put my brother in laws English mastiff to sleep today after living 11years. This comic made me bawl. Hug your loved ones,human or pets tight."

Once again, dog nutters have zero awareness. Someone posted about the loss of a human partner, and they thought that was the perfect time to share that a dog had died.

HOLY YIKES. This is a direct quote from a comment under a video about someone having to sell their horse. What the actual fuck. This woman is saying she'd rather her husband, the person she supposedly loves and cherishes, be dead than part with animals...

This comment is absolutely disgusting and I truly feel even more grateful after reading it that I have a partner that values MY LIFE over an animal's (which is the absolute bare minimum one should expect from their human partner). The bar is below Earth's crust for obsessive pet owners.

Not sure what was more disturbing, the fact that she said it or the fact the comment had any likes at all.

This feels like a success story. But not quite a full one but feeling hopeful.

I spent the week at my BF's mom's house recently. I had told him that I was allergic to animal dander and saliva in the past and that I would not be able to live with a pet long term. I'm not deathly allergic to where my throat will close. But I get itchy, congrsted, and get skin irritation/rashes. I've been really worried that this will be an issue in the future as he loves animals and has mentioned wanting dogs.

However, during my stay, I did develop rashes on my skin, red and bumpy, and was quite sniffly if I got too close to the pets.

He didn't seem to understand the first time I mentioned my allergy a few months ago but after seeing how my skin reacted, he really seemed to understand. He didn't pet the animals as much while I was there and if he did, he immediately washed his hands before touching me or my things. Even if I wasn't allergic, I don't like touching dogs.

It gives me hope that an argument about a dog in the future will not be an issue or will at least be much easier to handle since he has seen how I react to animals. He is an extremely caring person and I'm confident he wouldn't choose wanting a dog over staying with me. (Not to mention, his future job will likely keep him too busy to care for one anyways.)

I want to give some hope to anyone that may be living with dogs they don't want to be, have partners that want/have dogs, or are worried about being in a situation where they may have to be around people they love that have dogs. Hardcore dog lovers can change their minds. As hard as it is to believe. It's possible. It might be a rare occurrence, and this a personal account so maybe take this with a grain of salt but:

I'm 28 and up until I was in my early 20s, I was a hardcore dog lover. In every sense of the word. We had a family dog and I let the dog sleep in my bed, lick my face, even fed it off the same utensils as me. EUGH. I know. Nasty. I wanted a future where I had a bunch of dogs too. I wanted a huge pack like Ceasar Millan totes around. I saw no issue with dogs in public places like stores, buses, or even restaurants. The more dogs the merrier!! I even went as far as saying dogs lives were equal to that of a human's, if not more important. So yes, I was in deep.

But my attitude towards dogs began to shift in my early 20s. It wasn't an exact event that happened. I wasn't attacked by a dog or anything (though I have had family members attacked). I began to realize how...unclean dogs were. It started with me saying I would just want a low-shedding dog like a poodle or maltese. But then I realized that dog hair wasn't the only thing unclean about a dog. Far from it. Their mouths, their smell, their paws stepping in everything. Dragging their bare butts across the floor...

The final nail in the coffin was the major shift in dog culture over the past few years. When I was younger, I remember only seeing actually service dogs in stores. Well behaved and a rare sight. Now they are everywhere. Everyone is bringing their dogs everywhere and they aren't training them. Which brings me to my final point on dog culture. People dog treat dogs like dogs anymore. It is so normalized to treat them like humans. It genuinely disturbs me. I remember taking the family dog into the vet once with my dad and the vet refered to me as the dog's sibling. It made me cringe to my core.

Nowdays, I cannot stand dogs. I will tolerate them at family and friends houses to be courteous but that is it. I don't pet them or fawn over them. At most they'll get a small pat on the head but then it's straight to the sink to wash my hands.

So yeah. It is possible for a dog lover to turn into a dog free person.

I saw this post online about not liking kids and it annoyed me:

"You can’t call yourself a leftist if you hate children tbh, like you can choose not to have them or be around them, but outright hating the most marginalised group of people in the world who have absolutely no power or control over the most basic parts of their lives and bodies is a dangerous mentality to have and you need to grow the fuck up and get out of your edgy phase and start treating everyone around you like human beings, even the ones that piss you off."

It just seemed to "give me brownie points!! Look at me everyone, I said the good thing!!"

First off, I hate it when people bring something that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, into it just to flare their speech. What the hell does not liking kids have anything to do with your political standing?

Secondly, if anyone was being edgy, it was the one who made the post quoted. When child free people say they hate kids, it doesn't mean they treat them like non-humans or wish them harm. They just don't want anything to do with having them, caring for them, or being around them. Or perhaps they find them super annoying and insufferable. Either way. That doesn't immediately translate to: treat them poorly.

Being a dog lover seems like the societal norm so much that not absolutely fawning over dogs, labeled you as some non-believer that needs to be shunned and shamed. It genuinely feels like a mass cult.

Dogs can seemingly do absolutely no wrong ever. It's always the humans fault. Even a feral dog that was never raised by humans at all: human's fault it attacked people! Dogs can do no wrong in this messed up culture.

It's a super dangerous way of thinking. They put these animals up on pedestals and people and other animals pay the price. It's why so may agressive dogs remain in homes because suddenly it's a crime to remove a dangerous animal from your life? Dogs with bite history are allowed to remain in shelters and get readopted? The world got so much more dangerous when people started treating dogs like humans.

I am getting so tired of this argument. I know animal activists came up with it to try and save every dog, but it simply isn't true. Yeah, bad owners exist. But they then create bad dogs. To look at a dog that mauled a child and say it isn't bad, only the owners, is insane.

There are a lot of really shitty people in the world. Me being an introvert that only left the house for necessary matters, was fortunate enough that most of these assholes were only seen online. Though, since I have recently encountered a miracle and found love, I have increasingly found myself leaving the comforts of home and experiencing others of my own species in the flesh.

For a while, I was very upset and got very worked up after encountering someone that upset me. I'd take that encounter home with me and dwell on it for days.

One night when I was driving home from my BF's place, a truck came up behind me. One of those trucks with the BLINDING LED headlights. Mind you, it was just us on the road and it was indeed a passing zone. The truck could have passed me at any moment. But nope. Truck tailgated me for 5 minutes. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but after 5 minutes of blinding LEDs reflecting in your eyes...yeah, my eyes and head hurt. I was pissed. The truck finally turned down another road.

I was pretty mad about it that night. I knew it was going to carry it with me for a few days and I just didn't want to. My BF and I had such a good time together and I didn't want our night spoiled by some idiot. I had a thought that I'd wished they'd crashed that stupid truck and smash in those damn headlights. I realized that made me feel a little better but then I thought that then they'd just get new headlights.

So then I imagined that when the truck turned down the road, it crashed into a tree, and the driver died.

And just like that, all my anger over being blinded and given a headache just went away. The fastest I've ever lost my anger. To this day, I feel no anger toward that truck driver. They're dead as far as I'm concerned, no longer tailgating people or blinding them with their obnoxious fucking headlights.

And that's my warped method of letting go of anger. If I feel annoyed by someone or someone does something stupid to me, I just imagine they died after our interaction or they are in the process of dying. It works surprisingly well.