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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a dog owner who tries to keep my dog from ever going to the bathroom on anyone else's lawn and if I am unable to avoid it, I always clean it up and carry my bag back to my own trash container.

One thing I have noticed is that people with bigger dogs who can't control them really don't have the time to clean up well after their pets. The mess is bigger, and it is hard to manage a larger active dog while cleaning up that big mess. That drives me nuts.

On the subject of bringing dogs to public places, we can agree to disagree on that. I get that some people hate dogs and don't want to be around them. However, for all those who think it is so easy to train a dog to be perfect in public, please understand that you really need to get dogs out, socialized, and into different situations in order to train them. So I'm sorry that my dog barking for a minute or two at your kids' soccer game ruins your day, but he is here to work on training, seeing runners, cyclists, etc. to so that we can work on training him not to bark.  He doesn't bark at home.  Training is not an overnight process, and I've found that when I succumb to the pressure of anti-dog people and stay in all the time, the dog backslides with training.  He needs to be out and about.

Hope all of you who are so inconvenienced by dogs have perfect children. I didn't have a dog for years, but I did  have three three closely spaced children.  As both a parent and a long time non-dog owner, I can tell you that I  have been inconvenienced far more in public by folks who think that behaviors like letting their kids bang on the table with a spoon for an hour straight in a restaurant is utterly adorable or who do absolutely nothing to try to stop their kids from kicking the seat in front of them for two hours than I have by people taking their dogs to the store.  Don't even get me started on people who let their kids run up and down the hallways of a hotel late at night. Heck, I'd much rather step in dog poop in Michael's than endure the experience I  had with $250 tickets to the Lion King (at night) sitting in front of two kids and three adults who talked loudly through the entire show.

PS - those bad kid experiences didn't make me hate "kid people." It made me angry at inconsiderate parents, not for failing to have perfect children, but for failing to make even the slightest effort to correct bad behavior.  I know from experience, both with dogs and kids, that some are easier to "train" and manage than others. But effort and politeness count when bad behavior inconvenience others.

But that's where a statement like "I hate dog people" gets people riled up.  Really, you "hate" any human being willing to care for a dog and love it so much that he or she wants to spend time with the dog as much as possible?  Yeah, that's just terrible. People are the worst. :roll: [/quote]

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