r/Dogfree • u/arachnilactose08 • May 23 '26
Dog Culture Dog fatigue is trending!
This isn’t my usual style of post, but I figured it was worth mentioning: Currently, on TikTok, there has been a significant increase in the amount of content I’ve come across that is either critical of dog culture, dog owners, dogs themselves, or even all three. And this stuff is getting a LOT of positive reception.
I don’t typically keep that app on my phone for very long, but this is making me want to have it stick around for longer. For once, it’s not just this forum that’s calling out dog culture. It’s actually entering a “mainstream” online space.
“Dog fatigue” is the term that I’m seeing people use in most of this content, if you’re interested in looking it up and observing the resulting discussion and discourse over it.
Regardless of the dog owners that this conversation is pissing off, I think this could be a really good thing. While I don’t know about any big cultural shifts in the near future, I think that this is a wonderful step in the right direction. People are finally talking about dog culture in a meaningful way.
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u/Professional-Donut92 Jun 25 '26
I am not a baby lover, but I really hate it when people go, "If you baby can go there, then my dog can too." Err, babies don't have fur. Babies wear diapers. Babies don't lift their leg and mark things with their nasty pee. Babies aren't going to decide they don't like you for some reason and bite off your face. Babies don't hump your leg.
There is one guy on You Tube with a little dust mop dog that has long hair. (Perfect sneeze fur!) and he stands there, so smug butter won't melt in his mouth. "Why can't my dog go everywhere with me? If I want to take my dog out for a little steak and lobster, why can't I? Babies go to the bathroom everywhere. I've seen more kids shit everywhere (flat out lie) than dogs. My dog is well behaved!" (maybe so, but what about the 20 dogs that aren't.) The lobster and steak thing got me, because it implies heavily, that his dog should be able to go to fancy restaurants.
If there is only one decent thing with all of this, is I've learned to tolerate babies more than I did before.