I will elaborate more in the replies, just be nice.

Tldr… I hate how one of the most common advice you receive as a loner without social life or a partner is to get a dog. I’m taking care of a dog for a while now as a favour, since I’m unemployed and have “nothing to do” (my brother went to his gf beach holiday house for the summer with her, his daughter, my younger siblings and my mom, couldn’t take the dog, it’s old) and I’m miserable, I HATE this. I don’t wanna have to deal with any animal after this.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    243·
    28 days ago

    Fellow dog-disliker here. I am constantly being told “no, you just don’t like bad dog owners!”* Like… no. I don’t like dogs. I don’t think that dogs are bad creatures, but I don’t like them.

    Petting a dog makes my hands feel disgusting, cleaning up after them is disgusting, the sounds they make (oh god, the mouth sounds), the licking, loud panting, the constant need for attention, their constant need to eat, holy shit, the barking, whining… I don’t like dogs.

    Dogs are fine. I just don’t want to own one or have to live with them.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      28 days ago

      I’m fully with you. It’s not a dog’s fault that they are the way they are, and I’ll always do my best to take care of them and have nice interactions - but so many things about them are annoying, especially the barking. I hate loud noises, and they are so loud compared to their size.

      I mean, a cat can annoy at worst 3 apartments at once (you, above you, below you) if they run around and scream like crazy. A dog barking in the night can literally annoy hundreds of apartments at once, even though they’re close to the same size.

    • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      This is how I feel about my dog that my girlfriend brought into our house when we moved in together. They’re just disgusting and I hate cleaning the floors daily and how fucking loud he is.

    • Jackie's Fridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      Yuuuup. We had to babysit literally the Bestest Boi. Seriously the coolest and most well-behaved, well-trained, low maintenance dog who ever dogged. And I loved him. But I was SO GLAD when he went home.

      I can’t do the clinginess. I’m just getting up to grab a pen, please don’t wake up, follow me across the house, and then follow me back. Don’t stare at me when I eat. What are you loudly licking over there? How come you smell, you JUST had a bath. You KNOW you’re not supposed to climb on the couch, and climbing on top of me doesn’t negate that. Why are you so clumsy?? All of it.

      I would pet him and then count the seconds until I could get up and wash my hands. And this was a dog I genuinely loved and would have adopted in a heartbeat if he was a cat.

      I like dogs. I am 100% not a dog person.