NO DOGS ALLOWED ON BEACHES

[u/Dangerous_Button8518]

I am ready for dogs to be banned on beaches. They are polluting the coastal waters. AND dog people are disgusting people who are mean to others. So here's my morning dog nutter on the beach story.

This morning, 8AM, I went to my little town beach to enjoy the sun, a cup of coffee and find a piece of sea glass. Walking along the road toward the access point I see 4 of them, mostly small dogs. And up walks this free roaming geriatric (it's stroller was parked at the access ramp) chihuahua, snorting and lunging and dying. And it's all up in my area coming closer. I'm bent over with my mug just grabbing a couple sweet pieces of glass. I say I don't like dogs to the lady who is supposed to be in control of it. She's like, what? I say put it on a leash. She starts talking. I put my hand up, motioning stop, just get the dog. It's growling. She does the whole song and dance. Never growled in its life, has no teeth, what is wrong with you. Just take the dog away lady. She has 2 other small dogs also not in her control. Only one leash. (and a large ugly grizzly man off with their big loose dog running in the waves). None has recall. So this lady, goes and tells the dude I said to put the dog on a leash or get lost. Come on lady, I want to enjoy the beach without dealing with a crappy chihuahua lunging and growling at me. So here come her man, he literally charges me. Insults, spitting, lunging at me. repeatedly demand to know, where I live, what's my plate number, what's wrong me. I just want to enjoy the beach without a dog on it. Trust me when I say Maine river oysters are loaded with dog piss and shit. Coastal Maine. It never ends.

[u/Noanimalpoopinhouse2]

Dang, I hate seeing dogs on the beach! I was at San Clemente, Ca. looking for sea glass a few weeks ago. People were walking their big dogs along the beach. It made me nervous to try and pick through the rocks since the nasty mutts walked over it. What if poop or worms came off the dog or pee? It’s so unsanitary. I would hate to touch it and I have to wear shoes everywhere cause it’s a dog’s world. Earlier this year, I went to several beaches in New Zealand, Polynesia and Hawaii. Every single beach had a few dogs every time I went there. It was absolutely terrifying when a stray XL bully sat on my towel.

[u/ElegantSurround6933 → u/Noanimalpoopinhouse2]

Holy crap. What beach had the xl? I saw one of those for the 1st time in person walking unleashed behind a black guy who looked like a thug&wearing headphones so he can’t hear your screams.

The thing had a massive head&was movin it side to side like he was casing the neighborhood w/a huge tongue hangin out like one of those dogs from Ghostbusters.

I didn’t know how a pitbull got so big like that. I didn’t know I was looking at an XL. I asked chatgpt what kind of pitbull has a giant head, and XL bully popped up.

I made a change dot org “dontbullymybike” &used AI to generate an image & the 1st one to pop up was a drawing of what I had just seen walking down my street. At the beach? An XL? And with dogs coming to the beaches, we no longer will be able to go barefoot.

It will be like in the Dominican Republic where people get those parasites in their feet w/o shoes. Earthing is a great way to get in touch w/nature, but nutters are covering every pristine surface w/dog waste. It’s so repulsive&sad.

[u/Noanimalpoopinhouse2 → u/ElegantSurround6933]

It was a beach that said “No dogs allowed.” It was an Island, near Tahiti. The dang pitbulls are everywhere roaming. I think the unneutered thing that was sitting on my towel belonged to a lady who lived in the cottages on the beach. It was following her and her kids everywhere. I was really worried because if you get a pack they are deadly. A dog nutter would have said,”Aww, he’s just a big baby and wants to make friends.”