The entrance to my house has no front yard, just street, sidewalk, and front steps. It's a friendly lake community with small homes, modest yards, sidewalks, and golf cart paths.

I moved in just two months ago. The other day, as I was stepping onto my front porch, my neighbor walked by with his large dog. The dog suddenly lunged at me, snapping and growling. The owner quickly grabbed the collar and said to his wife, “OMG, he never does that,” then hurried off down the street without another word. They looked embarrassed and didn’t look back. No apology. No “Are you okay?” Nothing.

Why is it so hard to simply say “I’m sorry” in situations like this? Especially to a new neighbor? A quick, sincere apology would have gone a long way toward building good will in the community. Instead, they just rushed off.

I use the word distaste, but I hate dogs. I really do. I've always been that way and it's never going to change. I also know that is a very popular opinion.

Years ago I put a picture of myself my a friend's corgi on my dating profile. I know a lot of people like cute stuff like it. It was a total misrepresentation of myself but I have so much trouble meeting women that I wanted to do anything that might catch their eye.

I ended up matching with a woman that I wound up dating for a couple of months. I liked her a lot. I wouldn't call her a 'nutter' as I hear them called a lot on here, but she had a lot of dogs. It was a total of 4 dogs at her house along with the other people that lived with her, including one which was a giant Great Dane type dog.

Things ended up fizzling out with us. A big part of that was she thought I was a dog person. We had to be honest with ourselves. She did not want to live a life without dogs and I did not want to live one with them. She felt like I lied to her about who I was, and I did. It was wrong of me to use that picture. I don't use that picture anymore.

It's been a couple of years and I've been alone for most of it. Through most of that time I've continued to sift through dating apps and keep seeing tons of women that have pictures and mentions of their dogs all over their profiles. Mine simply had no mention about pets or my hatred of dogs.

Recently though I put a statement on my profile that I'm not a dog person. No 'NuTtERs SwIpE lEfT!!!!!11!!' or anything distasteful. Just a simple, full disclosure that I am not a dog person.

Since then I've gotten several messages from women that are really not interested in me. Things like "You really don't like dogs!!?!?" or "Too bad you don't like dogs." They probably would have passed me by otherwise, but now they go to the effort of pointing this out, and there's really nowhere to go from there.

I'm not going to repeat the same talking points you're hear from everyone. Dating apps and dating in this day and age suck. Relationships will be full of compromise but I do not want to live a life with dogs. I just can't do it. I'll hate it and I can't pretend not to. It feels impossible to find someone who feels the same way I do.

I guess I’ll have to be a ‘Karen’. My 9 year old son was riding his bike in our yard and our neighbors pit bull came in to our yard and my son said the dog charged at him! These people already don’t like me but their dog runs loose several times a month. They have no fence and the dog is not leashed. Has anyone had to report their neighbors for the dog coming in their yard? Did they retaliate in any way? My son does sometimes play with their kids, but they should not be allowed to let their dog run all over the place!

There's a bonus crime story in the article, involving a little kid. Don't click if you don't want to read it. I'm warning you...

"The deputy entered the yard, and "after issuing verbal commands that were ineffective," shot the dog, which stopped the attack, according to the department. The dog was pronounced dead on the scene, and the victim was transported to a local hospital..."

You mean the 💩 eating creature didn't understand English/Spanish? Like how the f#$k we got to this point that police shooting dangerous people don't make the news but an always dangerous mutant does? And yeah, what a surprise; shooting it stopped the attack. Funny how it works, almost same like with humans...🤦‍♀️

Anyway, the victim is very likely a nutter so I'm guessing it's off to the breeder right out of the hospital. Money well spent, like always with these brainless people...we're really not the same.

I had a loose friend/acquaintance that I ghosted because she has major issues and I think her current dog obsession is a symptom of a bigger issue, HOWEVER, it's really opened my eyes.

I notice that this person along with all the people they made friends with at their dog training facility to be very grandiose individuals. They constantly brag about their love and service to animals but treat humans like CRAP.

This woman began to disgust me. She openly told me she HATES her kids. Hates them. Wants CAS to take them. Its summer break, she wont do ANYTHING with them but is going on SOLO VACATIONS WITH HER DOG! Shes now refusing to feed her kids and spends so much money on her dog. She is always, always sending videos of the dog doing basic shit and going LOOK! LOOK HOW AMAZING SHE IS! LOOK HOW GOOD I AM AT TRAINING HER

She only loves the dog because shes trained it to obey her. Im convinced that dog obsessed people are just control freaks who only love things that validate their own existence

I have a family member who knows how I feel about humanities 3rd worst mistake, and yet still feels the need to send me unsolicited d pics. This time it was one of those wire-haired abominations in a diaper. W H Y!? I was extremely tempted to reply with "If it has that hard of a time holding it, it should just stay home." but opted not to and just replied with "Why?" "...". The location is what I assume is at a Petco which is why I wasn't tempted to saying anything about the location. The Petty Betty within me wants to send him a picture of the pride flag since the sight of it triggers him. I would rather look at a pretty flag than a mutant that shouldn't exist. I then proceed to send him a picture of one of my banana trees with the caption "The banana tree is hanging in there.". I also sent a picture of my bell pepper plant, so I don't have to look at that hideous mutant the next time I open his texts. I really wish he'd quit sending me these unsolicited d pics. >:( I could understand it if he just sent me pictures if his mutts. I would still loathe it, but at least it would make some sense. Not these random mutant beasts I'll never meat nor care to familiarize myself with.

Any advice that might help discourage this cringy and obsessive behavior? Should I just keep responding with plants? Should I just response with completely unrelated subjects until he stops?

the comments on facebook are crazy. the YouTube news ppl are something else. TODAY NEWS CHANNEL . the ending of the video one woman said . “ they would say to read to his little brother or sisters but they aren’t as cute and don’t stay still” like are you serious??? you’re telling me that dogs are cuter than human babies and listen when you talk? lol. I can’t believe they said that seriously. dog people are truly mental

Why do i have to be scared whenever i have to go outside?

for context me and my family are in village to visit my grandmother. since there are 3 seperate houses we have to travel between them frequently to get to our relatives.

People here are a massive fans of dogs too. all i hear is bark bark bark all night long when trying to sleep. they won't shut their dogs up.

but the worst thing comes at night. when i have to go to another relative's house, im dead-scared that someones off-leash and roaming-free mutt might try to bite and maul me.

this isn't based off of nothing. it happened to me a year or so ago. i don't know if it can be called a trauma, but it has stuck with me like the gorilla glue on that one woman's hair.

why do i have to be scared to step outside and get groceries? why do i have to be scared to step outside and go to my relative's house? why do i have to be scared about getting mauled because of other people's irresponsibility?

...on a wide variety of searches I've been performing, but this isn't the tech support sub, lol.

So, I was looking for one of those TV stands that has a caged storage area. Spoilers: It's something Ikea to used to sell.

But, you wouldn't know that at first, because EVERY SINGLE RESULT WAS FOR A DOG KENNEL TV STAND. WTF!

I didn't even have the word "dog" anywhere in my search result, but that's what came up.

Honestly, I'm blaming both Google's algorithm, which pretty much ignores the user's actual search terms, and sellers looking to make a buck. Which, can you blame sellers for wanting to make money? For them, the dog plague is just another source of income.

It was just so infuriating.

I'm already plagued with undesirable sites (Pinterest, Facebook) spamming my results; to the point, I had to get an add-on to block some of it.

But then this happened, with Google just defaulting to "dog" for the search.

And, oh! While I was writing this post, I checked, and Ikea still sells the TV stand I was trying to identify. So, that's what Google should have actually put in the search results. Even if I play devil's advocate and note the fact that Ikea doesn't use the word "cage" in the results; I also didn't use the word "dog" in my search. Yet Google search was practically giving me fleas.

This isn't the first time something like this has happened, either. On another occasion, when I was admittedly being facetious, I searched for "dog free grocery stores", and I got results from websites pushing dog-friendly shopping, as well as some "pet food banks". Really.

Anyway, I just needed to rant somewhere that would understand. Oh, and once I added "-dog" to my TV-stand-with-cage search, I found someone's interesting project to turn an old TV stand into a rat cage. So, silver linings and all that.

So many people just... have huskies.. including my cousins who live in a single-wide trailer with THREEEEEE huskies!!!! THREE!

Dog nutters claim they "love dogs" and then get these literal bred for the sole purpose of SLED PULLING in the snow and put them in warm climates in apartment complexes.

But I'm not done, they are so so ANNOYING and NEEDY. And people love the ear-piercing shrieks and howls that are constant. Their whine is so shrill and unbearable, yet people absolutely adore it. I cannot stand them.

Their prey drive too. One time my cousins brought one of their huskies to a family gathering hosted by my uncle, and their husky just casually killed two of his chickens while running off leash. My uncle just laughed it off because he's a nutter too. Me personally, I felt disgusted by that behavior. It made me think, would it also do that to a human baby? Probably, there's stories about them mauling babies too.

That's my rant