WHY THE F#:K IS IT...

I endorse this rant and would add the wonderful dog owners who leave their anklebiters out to yap all night/morning. The medium/big dogs usually don't do this but it seems the kind of person that buys a useless oversized rat doesn't care if it barks all day/night.

My wife and I both grew up with a dog bark meaning something, so an occasional meaningful bark (stranger for example) wouldn't bother me. Hours on end is too much. People used to buy dogs that were smart or could work. Now they just want cute.

One of our neighbors has six cute yapping "fur babies." :(

Another neighbor has an awesome black lab that plays with all the neighborhood kids and doesn't make a peep. Keeps the bunnies out of my yard too!

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Originally Posted by lex137

my only gripe is I wish they wouldn't let them piss on street light bases, switch cabinets, per boxes, or anything else I have to work on.

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Sheet Lex, I would bet most all the members here and even the guests have done that at one time or another........

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Originally Posted by foxtrot

I think many Colorado Dog Owners are much like many Colorado Bicyclists on average. Entitled assholes. Notice I said "Many".

I see leash laws everywhere here, signs posted, everywhere. You know how often I see a dog on a leash? Probably less than 10% of the time when out. People have as many as three or four pits running lose everywhere I go. "Oh it's ok, they are friendly." BULLSHIT. You don't know what will provoke a loose dog, especially a pack of them. I almost killed one at the river trail once when it attacked someone elses LEASHED dog unprovoked. "Oh, he's never done that before". Yeah, they all say that. You know how hard it is to get a dog off someone or even shoot an attacking dog? If one ever did that to a child I'm not sure I could keep myself from the owner as well.

Here's the thing, entitled dog fuckfaces. (probably not you, but then again, maybe).
#1: Not everyone likes your dog. Not everyone wants it to jump on them. Some people are highly allergic to them. You're an asshole.
#2: They don't know your dog or what would provoke your dog. They don't know at what point it time it might want to bite their infants face off. You're an asshole.
#3: Outdoors is for all of us. Because of assholes like you, horse people cannot go ANYWHERE. All those nice river trails, forest service trails, etc. that have the horse sign? Yeah, you'll never see one. There's a guarantee some asshole's dog is going to harass a horse which is beyond a safety issue for the rider. They can't ride anywhere. You're an asshole. Oh and btw, even if your dog is "trained" and "wouldn't do that", the simple fact it is off a leash prevents the horse rider from going anywhere as an unleashed dog can get them killed. Sorry bro, they aren't going to trust their life to you, because you're an asshole.

In sum, LEASH your dogs. I really, truly think their needs to be an affirmative defense for civil and criminal liability in killing a dog if it was not leashed.

If it's leashed, I don't have a problem with it. If you aren't blind, it better not be in the grocery store. Home depot, not as big of an issue.

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I feel the same way about most people with horses. Especially in places where the horses live in close proximity to peoples homes. Obviously people don't take horses and walk around HD or other stores. But living in a neighborhood where someone has a home on a couple of acres and keeps horses inside a small pen is just disgusting. They stink, they ruin the property, create dust issues, can contaminate wells, and they can be loud and obnoxious.

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Originally Posted by CavSct1983

Count me in. My general dislike of cats stems from a cat lady grandmother combined with my severe allergies to them. I'm not so allergic to dogs, but I can't stand the way they smell.



If dogs didn't stink and were hypoallergenic, I'd be down. Thankfully, my wife is highly allergic. Even being around someone who has a cat or dog can cause her breathing problems and potentially an asthma attack. One less idiotic expense and emotional issue to deal with, being unable to have pets.

The worst is when people at work smell like cat piss. How one doesn't notice that, I have no idea.( Hides their meth habit)

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You must deal with people who don't take care of their dogs.

Standard poodles and schnauzers are a few low hypoallergenic .

Wife's family had two standard poodles. She still had major problems when she lived at home prior to us getting married. I'm not talking about street dogs stinking, but dogs themselves, even when freshly bathed, to me, stink... because they smell like dogs. And dog smell stinks. Dog owners, being used to this, do not understand it. Just like smokers don't understand how much they stink until they quit smoking.

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Originally Posted by rondog

We went on a vacation recently and I couldn't believe how many freakin' people I saw with dogs at DIA! Not just service dogs, but regular ol' pets. DOZENS of them! In the concourses too, not just the main terminal. At other airports too, but DIA was crazy.

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Originally Posted by MrPrena

I don't like hair on my food. Now I gotta also worry about dog/cat/hamster fur on my food.

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I don't like hair on my damn luggage or backpack either.

If you're gonna have hairy pets, at least brush off your filthy fukn clothing/jackets and luggage before going to the airport and slinging it on the conveyor. You may have started out hair free, but probably picked up a transfer from your car. Clean your shit.

We do have a small short haired cat, but I also keep several lint roller brushes at hand and never leave the house without checking myself/jacket/luggage.

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Originally Posted by OneGuy67

I also have an issue with some of my former Soldiers who feel their short time in either sandboxes qualifies them for a service dog, even though they saw no action, saw no death and do not need a "support" dog. It is a "Hey look at me, I'm a Vet and I deserve something" type of attitude that I want to slap out of them violently.

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I see this all the time and every time its some dirt bag that was probably a horrible soldier that drove NCOs up the wall and bitched about everything. Then you have their damn dogs hair all over your uniform and when you keep telling them to put their dog somewhere they say, 'it's a service dog."

I literally just got a text from an acquaintance that was asking about rental properties and the exact statement, "I can't believe most places won't allow dogs or cats, I can't see why. I'll have to register my dog as a service dog just to find housing."

There has to be some serious criteria on service animals, which I know nothing about. My first question would be, "What does your dog do?"

I'm the kind of guy that wants to get in and out of the store as quickly as possible, so I leave my dog at home or in the car if I must. I will take her with me to dog friendly breweries sometimes, but that's really about it.

As for the service dog stuff, I have a big problem with how it's currently setup. Paraphrasing the law you basically cannot ask for paperwork to verify that dog is a "service dog" because it's deemed discriminatory, thus as we've seen people really abuse it and will ruin the purpose of service dogs for others.

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Originally Posted by KevDen2005

My first question would be, "What does your dog do?"

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It eases my anxiety so I can come out of my "safe space" long enough to be a functional member of society.... [sarcasm]