Muslims and dogs

[Anonymous]

If you are a practicing Muslim, do you own a dog? I’m Muslim and many of my Muslim friends have dogs, but some say dogs are impure. I’m considering getting a dog as a pet, but also as an emotional support animal for my anxiety/depression and to get me out of the house for walks without crippling anxiety. My husband travels for work frequently and I think it would be good to have a dog around for protection, but we also have a Ring doorbell and ADT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a practicing Muslim, do you own a dog? I’m Muslim and many of my Muslim friends have dogs, but some say dogs are impure. I’m considering getting a dog as a pet, but also as an emotional support animal for my anxiety/depression and to get me out of the house for walks without crippling anxiety. My husband travels for work frequently and I think it would be good to have a dog around for protection, but we also have a Ring doorbell and ADT.

If you are one, you should know. I call troll. Muslims and dogs... You are a sick person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are a practicing Muslim, do you own a dog? I’m Muslim and many of my Muslim friends have dogs, but some say dogs are impure. I’m considering getting a dog as a pet, but also as an emotional support animal for my anxiety/depression and to get me out of the house for walks without crippling anxiety. My husband travels for work frequently and I think it would be good to have a dog around for protection, but we also have a Ring doorbell and ADT.

If you are one, you should know. I call troll. Muslims and dogs... You are a sick person.

???

I'm not a troll, just trying to get opinions from other Muslims in a nonjudgemental way. Culturally (I'm Pakistani), dogs have been stigmatized as being unclean, but the more I look into it, the more I see that there are differences in opinion Islamically. Just wondering how other Muslims justified owning a dog and faced criticism.

If anyone sees this as an attack on Islam or something sinister, please don't.

[Anonymous]

My advice would be to consult with your Imam.

[Anonymous]

I lived in an apartment building in tysons where usually there was only 1 elevator working some days.

There were Muslims that used to scream on the top of their lungs when they saw my dog, I am not exaggerating.

So I think that most practicing Muslims are totally against dogs for the sole purpose of being unclean.

[Anonymous]

I'm also Pakistani Muslim, own a dog, as do my siblings. I know at least a dozen other Muslims personally who own dogs, and know there are many many others who do. There is nothing in the religion that prohibits them, in fact the opposite. Any negative feelings people have are based on a cultural thing, not religious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are a practicing Muslim, do you own a dog? I’m Muslim and many of my Muslim friends have dogs, but some say dogs are impure. I’m considering getting a dog as a pet, but also as an emotional support animal for my anxiety/depression and to get me out of the house for walks without crippling anxiety. My husband travels for work frequently and I think it would be good to have a dog around for protection, but we also have a Ring doorbell and ADT.

If you are one, you should know. I call troll. Muslims and dogs... You are a sick person.

Ridiculous. Lots of Muslims own dogs. You have to realize that this is very local and cultural, not a blanket Muslim thing. There are a billion Muslims spread across the Asia-Pacific region. Just like there are different flavors of Christianity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived in an apartment building in tysons where usually there was only 1 elevator working some days.

There were Muslims that used to scream on the top of their lungs when they saw my dog, I am not exaggerating.

So I think that most practicing Muslims are totally against dogs for the sole purpose of being unclean.

I'm a Muslim with a dog, no Muslim that I know would scream at a dog, a lot love dogs, a lot are indifferent, some don't like dogs. These people in your building sound like immigrants - perhaps like the African and Asian immigrants in my building who are scared of my dog, some who scream, some who exaggeradetly avoid him.
It's a cultural/immigrant thing and the fact that in a lot of other countries pets aren't common like in the West, and their only interaction with dogs has been the street dogs who can be dirty and aggressive, so that paints a negative picture of dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in an apartment building in tysons where usually there was only 1 elevator working some days.

There were Muslims that used to scream on the top of their lungs when they saw my dog, I am not exaggerating.

So I think that most practicing Muslims are totally against dogs for the sole purpose of being unclean.

I'm a Muslim with a dog, no Muslim that I know would scream at a dog, a lot love dogs, a lot are indifferent, some don't like dogs. These people in your building sound like immigrants - perhaps like the African and Asian immigrants in my building who are scared of my dog, some who scream, some who exaggeradetly avoid him.
It's a cultural/immigrant thing and the fact that in a lot of other countries pets aren't common like in the West, and their only interaction with dogs has been the street dogs who can be dirty and aggressive, so that paints a negative picture of dogs.

No, more like fictional characters

[Anonymous]

If you are Sunni, it depends on which school of law you follow. I believe most say it’s fine to own dogs for a specific purpose, but that they are religiously unclean or najis.

Our family follows the Maliki Madhab (Egypt). Dogs are not ritually impure. But most people keep them out of the room where they pray.

[Anonymous]

I am not Muslim, but know Muslims who have dogs. I was under the impression that they were allowable if they had a purpose (could be guard dog). Are you on Instagram? Nye Armstrong, a very devout convert to Islam, has a dog. You can find her on Instagram and other social media by googling the name.

[Anonymous]

I am Muslim. Both my sister and mother have owned dogs as pets.

[Anonymous]

Get a saluki

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the responses!! I truly appreciate them!

As for the person who says Muslims get scared of their dog, I have an aunt like that, she’s deathly afraid of dogs but it’s not because of religion (I think a stray bit her when she was young, pretty common back home where there are a lot of stray dogs wandering around).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not Muslim, but know Muslims who have dogs. I was under the impression that they were allowable if they had a purpose (could be guard dog). Are you on Instagram? Nye Armstrong, a very devout convert to Islam, has a dog. You can find her on Instagram and other social media by googling the name.

I’ve heard of her! I actually saw another instagrammer (bodmanzaid) who got the cutest dog and I’ve been wanting one ever since lol