Invite your friends over for dinner, to hang out, to shower. They don't need to move in. If we lose power we and our dog will stay put. And if we have power and friends with pets don't we can't invite them to stay because our dog is not friendly to other dogs in her house. It's not a requirement that you house your friends pets.

I am as big a pet lover as they come, as are many of my friends and acquaintances. Not one of us would ever be offended if you didn't want our pets in your home. In fact, I'm shocked when people tell me it's ok to bring the dogs over. That said, if the power goes out, I will be staying with my dogs. I certainly wouldn't be offended if someone offered a place to crash but I wouldn't take them up on it.


As for the vehement anti-pet crusade on this board, you are so full of it. No one is getting pissy with you about not allowing their pets to come over. You talk so much smack constantly about people with pets, why are you so obsessed? I can assure you we aren't thinking about you and your hatred for our animals. We're living normal, healthy lives while you're apparently taking every opportunity to snarl about us and our pets on the internet.

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Anonymous wrote:Dog owners should realize we're doing you a favor by inviting you over to share power. You don't want that favor, totally fine. But don't assume that I'm going to extend the favor to include your dogs if I don't want dogs in my home. Yet dog owners tend to take offense at this and act like I'm asking them to leave DH at home.

I would not try to bring my dogs over if they weren't invited. But I wouldn't go. And I'd think less of you.

NP Why would you think less of her?

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Anonymous wrote:Dog owners should realize we're doing you a favor by inviting you over to share power. You don't want that favor, totally fine. But don't assume that I'm going to extend the favor to include your dogs if I don't want dogs in my home. Yet dog owners tend to take offense at this and act like I'm asking them to leave DH at home.

I would not try to bring my dogs over if they weren't invited. But I wouldn't go. And I'd think less of you.

And yet I'm ok with people thinking less of me for this. My friends know I am NOT an animal person and do not allow them in my home. Again -- it's different than saying please don't bring your DH or kid.

Anonymous wrote:Dog owners should realize we're doing you a favor by inviting you over to share power. You don't want that favor, totally fine. But don't assume that I'm going to extend the favor to include your dogs if I don't want dogs in my home. Yet dog owners tend to take offense at this and act like I'm asking them to leave DH at home.

I would not try to bring my dogs over if they weren't invited. But I wouldn't go. And I'd think less of you.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been through a lot of city evacuations and this is a huge issue. At least 50% of people are animal owners, but shelters don't take animals too. So people either don't evacuate or have no where to go. Who would leave their dogs behind to die? And if they did leave their dogs behind to die, they should be prosecuted.

In forced evacuations, the dogs should be shot.

huh? I'm talking about here in America. There are lots of fire evacuations, hurricane evacuations and even city evacs for mudslides. Who the eff would shoot a dog? You people are horrible.

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No one will be shooting anyone's dog. Maybe kids. You know, because NRA. But no dogs. That's ridiculous.

I would invite the humans if asked, but let them know I am not comfortable with the animals. I have allergies and its difficult to get the animal hair out of everything.

Dog owners should realize we're doing you a favor by inviting you over to share power. You don't want that favor, totally fine. But don't assume that I'm going to extend the favor to include your dogs if I don't want dogs in my home. Yet dog owners tend to take offense at this and act like I'm asking them to leave DH at home.

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Anonymous wrote:I simple do not like pets, hence they are not invited - humans only. If that's a problem, well, I offered - they can choose to stay home or go someplace else if the dogs are SOOO important to them.

You're a hideous human being. You don't have to like pets or invite them but to lack the understanding that an animal needs heat, food and shelter like any other living thing? Gross. Asshole.

I understand it, I simply don't care bc I think the needs and even the comforts of humans trump those of pets. So if it's about you and your human family being warm and comfortable and your dog runs into issues in a cold house - well you know you can BUY another dog, right? It can be replaced unlike a human.

Oh ok. You're a troll. A weak one.

Actually not - this is really what I believe and I'd rather be stuck in a cold house than to share space with anyone's filthy dog.

Woah. My dog takes weekly baths and is clean, groomed and well behaved. People like you disgust me.

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Anonymous wrote:I simple do not like pets, hence they are not invited - humans only. If that's a problem, well, I offered - they can choose to stay home or go someplace else if the dogs are SOOO important to them.

You're a hideous human being. You don't have to like pets or invite them but to lack the understanding that an animal needs heat, food and shelter like any other living thing? Gross. Asshole.

I understand it, I simply don't care bc I think the needs and even the comforts of humans trump those of pets. So if it's about you and your human family being warm and comfortable and your dog runs into issues in a cold house - well you know you can BUY another dog, right? It can be replaced unlike a human.

Oh ok. You're a troll. A weak one.

Actually not - this is really what I believe and I'd rather be stuck in a cold house than to share space with anyone's filthy dog.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been through a lot of city evacuations and this is a huge issue. At least 50% of people are animal owners, but shelters don't take animals too. So people either don't evacuate or have no where to go. Who would leave their dogs behind to die? And if they did leave their dogs behind to die, they should be prosecuted.

In forced evacuations, the dogs should be shot.

huh? I'm talking about here in America. There are lots of fire evacuations, hurricane evacuations and even city evacs for mudslides. Who the eff would shoot a dog? You people are horrible.

I really cannot have friends bring dogs to my house. I have terrible allergies, as does my son, and it would make us both really uncomfortable. Most people have more than one friend, and if they need to bring their dogs, they need to ask a different friend if they can stay with them.

Anonymous wrote:I've been through a lot of city evacuations and this is a huge issue. At least 50% of people are animal owners, but shelters don't take animals too. So people either don't evacuate or have no where to go. Who would leave their dogs behind to die? And if they did leave their dogs behind to die, they should be prosecuted.

In forced evacuations, the dogs should be shot.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be OK with people, not with dogs. And there's nothing wrong with leaving dogs in an unheated house with some extra blankets, checking on them twice daily. Good grief, people. They're DOGS!! My kids ride horses that wear a blanket and stay in the pasture through this weather.

Yeah but childless people with dogs don't consider their dogs to be animals. That's basically their kids and they wouldn't leave them behind anymore than they'd leave a kid behind. These are the people who say things like fur-parents and fur-babies, so I imagine if they go, the dogs go.

Those people are mentally ill. They must lead incredibly miserable lives, and clearly they're filling a vast emptiness caused by the lack of children with an anthropomorphized domesticated animal.

Anonymous wrote:I've been through a lot of city evacuations and this is a huge issue. At least 50% of people are animal owners, but shelters don't take animals too. So people either don't evacuate or have no where to go. Who would leave their dogs behind to die? And if they did leave their dogs behind to die, they should be prosecuted.

Well that's crazy. If it's an evacuation situation and it's go or die and the dog can't go, that sucks but the family can't stay behind because the dog has to. I have loved many dogs but damn, I'm not dying for one.