So I just saw a post of a woman holding her freshly newborn baby right after birth and captioned with ‘nothing in the entire world feels better than this exact moment’. Someone commented: ‘Respectfully, I can assure you there is. Have you ever smelled the breath of a puppy?’ . Y’all I just CANNOT believe this was a real comment, no she was NOT joking because she was arguing with people replying to her telling her how ridiculous that comparison was snd how gross.

My best friend is a crazy dog person. She HAD to find a dog-friendly place, or she said we had to sit outside in the heat wave. When she told me that there were no spots that allowed dogs inside, she insisted that we had to sit outside in 104 degrees to drink. I said absolutely not, you can leave the dogs at home, or go out alone. We all ended up canceling on her because she needed to take the dogs. I’m sick of these people.

Just saw this video of a woman getting married and her little dog was in a wedding dress to and it said “because she’s just a girl”. I don’t know why but this pissed me the hell off. Like it’s a dog it doesn’t care and that’s so extra. Anything for content .

I agree that expecting to never see a dog in public isn't realistic. People have pets, they walk them, and we all share public spaces.

But somewhere along the way, "dog-friendly" started creeping into places where it simply doesn't belong.

I'm talking about grocery stores, indoor restaurants, bars serving food, cafés, bakeries, and other places where food safety and sanitation should come first. Unless it's a legitimate service animal, dogs don't belong where food is prepared or sold.

But why are we normalizing dogs sniffing produce displays, sitting in shopping carts, or wandering through grocery aisles?

I'm not asking for a dog-free world. I'm asking that boundaries still exist.

When did "I love my dog" become "everyone else has to accommodate my dog, everywhere I go"?

That doesn't seem unreasonable to me and it's infuriating

I've had people tell me this before when it's clear I don't like having pets.

Pets bring nothing good to my life. I most likely don't want any. My past experience with pets has ruined them for me. They're an unnecessary drain on your pocket and mental health.

This *obviously* means I just hate the responsibility of taking care of pets. I'm too immature for a dog. I hate dogs because I lack responsibility and accountability.

We are at a Keke’s and midway through our meal a big, loud family was seated next to us and had a small-medium shitzhu type dog. A teenager was holding it in her arms and was clearly trying to hide it. My husband and I at the same time were like “absolutely not”. To the restaurant’s credit once we highlighted the situation the manager made them remove the dog.

I think they just went and put it in the car because the person who took it outside came back. Then the proceeded to loudly talk about it in Spanish for the rest of the time. I heard in English something like “how you treat dogs is something something” it was so loud I’m not sure what the end of that sentence was.

We had literally just left Best Buy where a couple were walking a Beagle that clearly was not a service dog around the store.

The dog situation is so far out of hand, I’m becoming more and more militant about saying something each and every time I see it.

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.

So i just dropped 12 lbs and am shopping for groc eries online and see the 5 star review for Jif No Added Sugar peanut butter. Trying to be as healthy as I can and looking at what other Target shoppers have commented.

She starts the review by stating she and her hubby both choose Jif, as well as the grandkids. Fair enough. I'm almost SOLD..until..she adds that her doggo suffers from congestive heart failure(is it the peanut butter?!)and she hides its pills in the peanut butter morning and night.

"He loves it..." she writes. I'm super grossed out now and hope this review doesn't destroy my will to continue my Elvis sammich addiction.

The phrase "man's best friend" was coined in 1870 after a speech by lawyer George Graham Vest. He was hired in 1869 to represent Charles Burden in a case known as Burden v. Hornsby. The client's hound was killed by a sheep farmer by the name of Hornsby. The farmer had previously notified Burden of his intention to shoot any dog he finds on his property. He sued for damages equaling to $150 which was the maximum he could sue for at the time. During the trila Vest said he would "win the case or apologize to every dog in Missouri".

This is a piece of the surviving transcript of the closing speech
"Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.
Gentlemen of the jury: A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.
If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death."

Vest won the case and Burden received $50 from the ordeal. A bust of the dog sits outside the Missouri Supreme Court containing a summation of Vest's speech "dog is man's best friend". So if you've ever wondered who you had to thank for that asinine quote I hereby give you your answer

I hear nothing but silence aside from the fireworks. No barking or howling, it truly is bliss to not hear those mutants make their ear bleeding sounds. I hope my fellow American dog free people have a great night, we don't get this often 🍻

Pizza delivery, even for a few months will do this to you. Just a few things ive commonly had to deal with:

Dog busting out the door and escaping while I try to get the owner their pizza

Dog chasing me, making me feel unsafe before I can even get to their door

Dog sniffing my crotch when trying to do my job

Constant dogs barking aggressively before the owner opens the door

Owner struggling to put away dog before opening door, thus delaying next delivery

The worst offenders are ones who allow their dogs to roam their front yard unleashed at night with poor lighting to where I can't possibly see the breed. Obviously though even a rat dog can do some damage if they want to, but ive gotten legitimately scared when im not sure if the dog(s) are a pit/pit mix and they are forcing me back to my car. These people never tip or tip 2 bucks on a 100 dollar delivery as well. Gee, thanks. 2 bucks for my time, gas, and additional trauma. Never an apology in sight either. I guess its my fault for... doing my job?

There has been maybe 1 well trained dog that did not get up when I was at the door out of hundreds. That family over tipped me and were quite kind. They are very few and far between.

All of these encounters have been when im pregnant too :D

It's out of control. The city tries so hard to maintain trees and plants on the sidewalks, and tonight after coming home from the fireworks, I saw a woman intentionally lift her dog into the plants to let it pee/defecate there. The dog had actually been going on the curb. Confronting doesn't work, by the way.

I'm a new mom, and I was in a group during my pregnancy for moms having baby in a certain month, then it turned into a group for us to talk about our new babies and seek advice.

But recently there was a post with a shitbull with its head over this woman's newborn with the caption "Does anyone else's dog think they're actually the baby's mom (insert laugh and heart emoji here" and there were tons of comments, all with large dogs, mostly pitmixes/shepherds/high prey drive dogs, laying directly with the newborns. It was super triggering to see, with all the recent news stories and just knowing how dogs are.

A lot of them were bragging about resource guarding, "She wont even let me get near the baby sometimes, so protective!", or unsafe practices "My dog sleeps under my baby's bassinet every night."

I just left the group because unfortunately there was an incident of someone harassing someone's family on facebook over a disagreement, and I've already faced harassment and even someone trying to come for my former job due to criticizing shitbulls publicly.

But no wonder we're seeing all these horrific news stories recently involving dogs and babies. It disgusts me so much and breaks my heart.

So to start this off a small pet peeve of mine is when people post their dogs eating super gourmet expensive food that would be better appreciated by a human. I finally decided to comment on one of these videos saying that it’s wasteful to give the dog an expensive steak because dogs will appreciate dog food just as much and it’s cheaper and has all the right nutrients. There’s now people going onto my instagram profile and finding a post I made right after I had survived septic shock and was having to learn how to walk again and they’re telling me to die. It’s fucking insane I didn’t say anything even close to hateful just rational. They keep saying “you’re ignorant” even tho it’s literally true that dogs don’t appreciate flavor the way humans do and I even looked it up just to be sure.

I am a carer for my mum and I was helping her with food shopping today as she has mobility issues and can't grab things that are high.

First I saw a dog sat inside a trolley being pushed by it's family (Ew) and I thought to myself that I was disgusting and unhygienic, and also unfair for people who are allergic to dogs who use that trolley next. The dog was also sat on some of their shopping too which was vile.

And when we were done I went outside which there was another dog (a little white one idk breeds) tied to a post and it went right up to me which I cringed at as I get anxious around dogs and then it kept blocking my mum (she was on a mobility scooter) she literally could not get past it without running it over as the lead was really loose so the dog could just walk wherever it wanted.

The dog then decided to go back to me and was jumping up and then it grabbed my leg and tried to start humping me 🤢 so I went no no get off in a very stern tone and it only went off me as it saw it's owner come out which the owner also saw that happen. He did not say a single word to me, not even an apology. He just started talking to the dog in that stupid baby tone dog nutters tend to do and walked off with the dog. I was speechless and mortified.

What really irks me about dog nutters is that they're quick to attribute intelligence to these animals in the sense of
"MaNs BeSt FriEnD" and saying they can sense when someone's a bad person or subliminally "just know" when their owners are having a bad day, etc. But any negative traits that would suggest they're "intelligent" enough to exhibit are immediately shut down with "but but but, it's just a dog! They don't understand!" Oh yes they fucking do. They understand ENOUGH to exhibit vindictive manipulative behaviour because I've watched it with my mother in laws dog.

She's got a Labrador and whenever her husband is home with the dog, it will do as it's told. When he lets it out in the garden for the toilet before bed, it will go to the toilet.
When he puts the dogs dinner down, he eats it nicely.
When he puts the dog in the back room to bed it just goes to sleep. But when my mother in law or their son take care of this dog, it'll be let out to go to the toilet and even if this mutt is clearly desperate to go as it's been alone for hours, it'II just stand there wagging its tail staring at my mother in law. She will say to it "go to the toilet" (it understands this when her husband says it) but it will ignore her and just stand like a statue staring at her wagging its tail and not go.
This will be for example when me and my husband have visited for a weekend and it'Il be 11pm-midnight before bed. It's like the mutt knows it's the bed time toilet break so it deliberately stalls/takes the piss. Again if she puts him to bed, he will chew their skirting boards and wreck their back room. If she puts his dinner down to eat (he's on meds and has it on his food so it's important he eats it and he normally eats it in .5 of a second when her husband puts it down), he won't eat it and will again, deliberately stall and stand staring at her wagging his tail. Like he thinks it's some sort of game to not do as he's told when he knows the routine.

God I just despise these annoying, manipulative, useless creatures. They're absolutely good for NOTHING. I can't stand them.

"But but but it's just a dog he doesn't
understanddddddddddddd", yeah so you wanna admit he doesn't understand when you're DePrEsSeD and when someone's a BaD pErSoN too then? Fuck dog nutters and their disgusting animals.

Like the title says, my local Costco has a problem with people bring their "four legged friends" to their establishment, just like every other store in my God forsaken town. Just a few days ago, I went to Costco to get my new glasses, and out of the store there is a large man walking out with one of those brown lanky dogs. And after I get my glasses, and I leave the store, some kid and his mom walk in to the place with some poodle-like ankle biter. We need to establish new laws in place to have restrictions on owning dogs. The future shouldn't be coated in dog shit. In my opinion, we need to have the same restrictions we have for dogs like we do with guns. Enough is enough!!!

"My limb got ripped appart and I'm bleeding to death... HONEY don't forget to take my dog out 😵"

Full sotry in the link. Got the first part about the attack, now I got the "final words". So weird.

You can't make this stuff up. You've been eaten alive by an alligator and your last words are in relation to your Dog Nutter Fanatism 😳

This lady tragically got attacked and died in a terrible way. But somehow, her final words are towards "fido" that 100 percent sure doesn't give a F about how will give him a slice of meat. I'm totally baffled.

I’ve been seeing videos everywhere of people posting their dogs shaking and saying “reminder that fireworks can do this to a dog.. :( “ I don’t care 😭

Suddenly the loud animal can’t handle loud noises. I hate fireworks too but people aren’t gonna stop to accommodate to MY inconvenience.

“That’s why we should ban fireworks!” No, no, no, I can understand having a position on fireworks because of how dangerous they are but we are not going to stop because your animal gets a little scared for one night. Talking about empathy too 😭 that dog is FINE and grown.