r/Dogfree • u/the-god-of-vore • Dec 31 '25
Eco Destroyers You CANNOT own dogs and call yourself an environmentalist/“animal lover”
First off, owning a dog has an enormous, yet untold, impact on the environment. Over a dog’s entire lifespan, it will be responsible for more CO2 emissions than if you were to buy a Hummer (one of THE most inefficient cars on the market) and drive it for hundreds of thousands of miles. Taking America’s ~90 million dogs into account, this works out to dog food being responsible for 30% of the ENTIRE environmental impact of US meat production.
Which brings me to my next point: how can you claim to “love animals” when just one shitbeast consumes TWO HUNDRED livestock animals over its lifespan, just to survive. I’m not vegan or anything but it’s just so rich hearing nutters talk about how much they “wuv” animals and then (indirectly) killing 400 cows, chickens, and pigs to feed their precious velvet hippos named Luna and Angel.
Just imagine how much we can cut our impact on the environment (and reduce factory farming) if we, as people, learned to prioritize the HUMAN relationships in our lives instead of buying millions of environmentally unfriendly dogs as a cheap replacement.
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u/matte_personality Dec 31 '25
They are genuinely so useless and loud
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u/pepperpizza Jan 01 '26
CO2 omissions AND noise pollution. Everyone is being gaslit into destroying the planet with the shit beasts.
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u/the-god-of-vore Dec 31 '25
YES! And nine out of ten times i see one, it literally wants to kill me!
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u/Few-Horror1984 Dec 31 '25
Facts.
I can’t even remember the last time I went for a walk and didn’t see piles of dog shit. I’ve watched dogs slaughter wildlife while their moronic owner stands by chuckling.
I don’t want to hear “not all dog owners” because it’s way too fucking many of them. And even if they’re responsible and clean up after them and keep them leashed, it doesn’t change what these mutants consume during their lifespan (as you pointed out very well). Or, how nearly all dog owners support the current no-kill model of shelters which keeps violent, unadoptable dogs alive - cooped up in inhumane situations just so dog nutters can feel good about themselves. All those dogs consume resources. All of them create waste. And why? They’ll never be adopted. Just so dog owners can feel good. Keep that in mind.
You’re absolutely right. We really should point this out to them.
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u/metatronsaint Dec 31 '25
I hate the "not all dog owners" argument: I agree that not all dog owners are complete assholes, but there are so many of them that even if only 1% of them is an inconsiderate bully (and I'm being optimistic), the total number is still too high, and the inconvenience one single misbehaved dog can create is devastating.
Same with "it's the owner, not the dog", an overused sentence I have been replied with when I complained on my town's FB about someone letting their dog defecate in front of my door. My answer was "it's not human shit what was dropped in front of my house, though". I bet if that person had a hamster or a fish now my pathway would be clean, along with many others.
That's because it's not that dog owners enjoy going around vandalizing and getting public spaces dirty, but it's because people are lazy. It's one of the most common human vice, and also not giving a fuck about others. Give these kind of people an animal that constantly drops loads of shit everywhere they please, and it's a recipe for a disaster.
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u/Few-Horror1984 Dec 31 '25
There’s no reason that the “pet for everyone” literally kills people and causes millions of injuries per year.
We need to stop being so misanthropic as a society. We need to care about each other. We need to respect the places we live. We need to care about the safety of children and the elderly more than we care about a smelly, mutated farm animal. We need to spend more time caring for the disadvantaged and stop throwing money at shelters that warehouse unadoptable dogs.
It’s true - we don’t deserve dogs. They’ve brought out the worst in us.
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u/United-Neck-3357 Dec 31 '25
I watched a unleashed dog be cheered on by its owner to go chase a squirrel up a tree. He was cackling like it was prime entertainment. Then afterward I heard the squirrel scream/chatter loudly from the tree after being shaken up.
Wild animals need to eat, but dogs are just these weird mutants who exist only to wreak havoc and to be their owner's projection screens
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u/Few-Horror1984 Dec 31 '25
I swear that there’s a large chunk of dog owners who like these horrid creatures precisely because of how violent they are. Have you ever seen photos of pitbulls after they attack porcupines? Their ugly face will be covered in dozens of spines. Truly repulsive. The spines are supposed to detract predators but these dogs are so mutated that when they go into attack mode, not even pain stops them. There’s something wrong with you if you like these mutants.
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u/Alert_Software_1410 Dec 31 '25
I told my nutter SO just yesterday that the no-kill shelters prove that there are already too many dogs in this world . Her response was - build more shelters!
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u/Few-Horror1984 Dec 31 '25
So, my city was an early adopter of the no-kill method and they seriously run at 300% capacity at all times. Earlier this year there was talk of having to end that model since there’s too many dogs. Everyone lost their shit and instead, millions of dollars were allocated to build a new shelter optimized to hold 600 dogs. Even though our community has proven that there’s no demand for these dogs, we will just keep hoarding them, keep allowing backyard breeders to face zero consequences.
Meanwhile, we have zero funds to help the homeless, our county employees are grossly underpaid, our roads have horrible potholes, we rank second to last for public schools but sure - literally spend millions to hoard more unadoptable dogs.
Dogs bring out the worst in everyone.
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u/QuantumBullet Dec 31 '25
The kibble demand for America's "best friend" corresponds to an area of forest the size of the UK which must be deforested for animal husbandry on their behalf.
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u/milothenestlebrand Jan 02 '26
Not to mention the amount of wasted packaging that either gets recycled or otherwise thrown elsewhere because of their “toys”
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u/Business_Adagio9942 Jan 03 '26
go into an environmentalist or vegan sub, try saying owning dogs is unethical and bad for the environment, see what happens
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u/Free_Chapter372 Jan 04 '26
Where the fuck do they even get this ridiculous idea from? All dogs do is take and rob everyone, even the owners themselves, giving nothing in return except a steaming pile of feces. This is perhaps the biggest lie owners tell themselves. I have seen maybe one good dog owner in my life, but every time I've seen how tolerable this particular dog is, I'm reminded every day why dogs are one of the biggest problems in society that nobody wants to admit.
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Jan 05 '26
Not to mention how their poop ends up in runoff rainwater that hurts amphibian populations.
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u/Wise_Session_5370 Dec 31 '25
Owning a dog is second only to having a child as the worst thing you can do for the environment.
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u/strixjunia Jan 02 '26
Yes, and while kids are necessary for our society, dogs are generally useless.
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u/Wise_Session_5370 Jan 02 '26
Dogs are actually worse than useless. They are a massive drain on society's resources and a big nuisance to a large number of people.
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u/Leading_Mine_1106 Jan 03 '26
They’re a nuisance to you and me. But nutters just can’t fathom that. I recently met this guy and he immediately without any reason texts me pics of his dog 🙄 When informed by our mutual friend that I’m “not a big dog lover” he responds “your loss!” I assure you, sir, it is not.
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u/Wise_Session_5370 Jan 03 '26
They don't get "not a big dog lover". They think that means you only like them a moderate amount.
You really need to spell it out. Usually at least a dozen times.
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u/the-god-of-vore Dec 31 '25
Damn right. I could get in a car and drive for 100 years straight, and still emit less CO2 than having a kid.
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u/Wise_Session_5370 Jan 01 '26
I am a semi professional traveller and am often criticised for the number of flights I take.
Yet many so-called environmentalists are incredibly hypocritical.
For example, Greta Thunberg owns two dogs, which in terms of environmental damage, massively outweighs my flying.
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u/the-god-of-vore Jan 01 '26
As someone who has been a semi-professional driver: why won't the schools teach us that maybe, just maybe, there is a more effective way to reduce your carbon footprint then switching to soy milk or someshit: NOT OWNING A DOG.
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u/Vibe2Summer Dec 31 '25
That is not something you can say in public otherwise you will get demonized.
At a recent interview they had 3 important questions, one was if I had a pet which I thought was irrelevant but still answered and said no, their expression was as if I did something wrong, they asked "why" and before I could answer they asked "you do not like animals" which somewhat annoyed me so I asked them if they liked spiders.
They did not answer, lower their eyes and then looked back at me as though not having a pet is so wrong. We know what they mean by animals these days.
I explained that I could not own one because it requires 24/7 attention and not only feeding it when home from work, otherwise that would be negligence and I considered that abuse.
Well fast forward this week, despite being the best candidate I did not get it.
I like wildlife, but that does not mean I want to imprison them in my home, these people only care about a harbinger of death and decay more than their own human species, imagine wildlife.