Tired of "Dog Moms"

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Anonymous wrote:OP you're being harsh. The dog lives with her. The dog is part of her family. Not a child (and I agree that wayyyyyy too many dog people are overly liberal with their dogs) but asking someone to get rid of their pet is excessive.

If she were bringing the dog everywhere, to stores, restaurants, other people's homes, I'd agree with you. But in HER home? I mean that's where pets are *supposed* to stay.

How does it affect you personally if anyone views their dog as their fur baby? It does not

Oh except it does. It means she will bring it on planes, into restaurants, into the grocery store, and then enact high drama if anyone suggests that Priscilla shouldn't be sniffing the meat cast. It's her BABY after all. These people (mostly women IME) have become such unmanageable brats that we all just let them get away with it.

People can have all the fur babies they want AT HOME. Dress them up, feed them steak from the good china, let them lick your mouth, I don't care. But keep them out of public places please. They are not children; they have no potential for a future in productive society. They will die at 10-13-15 years old and their bereft "mothers" will run out and buy a replacement.

For the record, the most unhinged, entitled "dog parent" I know is a man. He's my neighbor and he professes to love animals and then uses his dogs as an excuse for being a hostile, terrifying ahole. I feel bad for his dogs but I feel more bad for me who has to live right next to him.

I don't think the horrible dog parents issue is something unique to women. My best friend is a self-described "dog mom" and she and her dog are extremely kind and wonderful and she never takes her dog into the grocery store or restaurants (the occasional patio where they are allowed, but not inside), plus her dog is well-trained and well-behaved.

This is not a gendered problem. Crap dog owners are a universal scourge.

I knew a guy like that. Met him at a dog run, and he proceeded to tell me everything I was doing wrong with my dog, and everything he was doing right with his. Ugh. It was the worst overlap of mansplainer and dog parent. Very aggressive and entirely socially clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did you ever let it get so far as to talking about moving in with a woman who is a dog mom though? That was dumb on your part.

You’re nuts if you think it’s within your powers to separate a dog parent from their dog. As the old saying goes, for a woman a big dog is a substitute husband and a little dog is a subsitute baby.

I had a 95lb husky very beautiful and pure bred from Russia. He was my brother, my mom's baby, my brother's baby too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you're being harsh. The dog lives with her. The dog is part of her family. Not a child (and I agree that wayyyyyy too many dog people are overly liberal with their dogs) but asking someone to get rid of their pet is excessive.

If she were bringing the dog everywhere, to stores, restaurants, other people's homes, I'd agree with you. But in HER home? I mean that's where pets are *supposed* to stay.

I agree. I have pets, not fur babies. They stay home, and the canine walks outside (not in stores or restaurants). I cannot just ditch them to go live with someone. I am responsible for these animals while they live out their domesticated lives.

OP, lots of people have pets. I'm sure a lot of men and women get immensely annoying with their pet obsession, but your blanket statement is too general.

This. I have a pet, not a "fur baby" (barf). And I am responsible for that pet. I take that obligation very seriously. Removing a pet is a serious business, to be done only if necessary.

Why is it "barf" to you to.think of a dog owner who thinks of their pet as their fur baby? Each dog has a personality of their own that isn't replicated by another dog or pet. My fur baby would kiss me out of the blue and hug me when he was well. I say to enjoy what little young and healthy years each dog parent has with their beloved pet. It only gets harder as the years pass by.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I disagree with the OP about dogs. However, I feel the exact same way about (in my case woman) who post and/or own a mug that says "Don't talk to me before coffee" or some variation of that sentiment.

I say this as a man who drinks too much of the stuff myself...it isn't the lack of coffee that makes you unpleasant in the morning. You aren't clever.

Dp. It isn't meant to be clever.....just they don't want to be chatty or it's just a joke.

Lighten up Francis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

Sounds like she has her priorities correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

Guy here: She made the right choice.

[Anonymous]

Even if I never had a dog, I wouldn't want to be with someone with that attitude

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Dog mom I could tolerate to a point. But if you have a stupid saying as a decoration in your home, that is a no go red flag for me.

[Anonymous]

I married my dog. I am not a loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

Why did you two date each other? I'm not a pet person, my OCD would shoot up if I had an animal sharing my living space so its better to not date pet people, instead of having to give ultimatums. You two could've cleared it up on first date.

[Anonymous]

Dog moms are out. Cat moms in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How did you ever let it get so far as to talking about moving in with a woman who is a dog mom though? That was dumb on your part.

You’re nuts if you think it’s within your powers to separate a dog parent from their dog. As the old saying goes, for a woman a big dog is a substitute husband and a little dog is a subsitute baby.

I had a 95lb husky very beautiful and pure bred from Russia. He was my brother, my mom's baby, my brother's baby too.

You had a malamute not a husky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

Your first mistake was to date a dog mom. What were you thinking? You should know better.
Stay away from them. They aren’t single. They are married to their dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

I think she made the right choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

I think she made the right choice.

Most of us agree. You don't have to be a "crazy Dog Mom" to not want to ditch a beloved pet the second some guy demands it. JFC, people who would go along with OP shouldn't even have animals and OP is being totally unreasonable. I don't even see anything about why he wants the dog gone other than he seems to feel weirdly competitive with it. There are red flags all over this post but it's not from the dog owner.