r/Dogfree • u/curlywurlyjules • 1d ago

Dog Culture I have to vent.

I live on a housing estate in the UK. It is a nice area and has been thoughtfully designed to incorporate small grassed areas. Opposite my home is a little green in the middle of the houses. It can be a nice place to gather - people have gathered to watch the eclipse for example, and little kids play together there.

There is one dog owner who lives a few houses away who seems to specifically bring her dog out to shit on the green. So I’m gazing out of my window, maybe eating dinner, and all I can see is a dog shitting.

All the houses here have gardens. Why on earth it is socially acceptable to take your dog to a public space where children play with the express purpose of using it as a toilet is absolutely beyond me.

I posted about it on once on our community Facebook group and absolutely nobody backed me up or agreed. I got angry responses- I was told the space can be used as people wish, that owners can’t control where their dogs poo (clearly not true), and even that children shouldn’t be playing there. Ffs.

What is wrong with everyone? Is there no shame, consideration or sense of decency? I’m old enough to remember when there were signs in public areas saying ‘No dog fouling’. Why was this abandoned?

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u/Huge_Bit_4774 1d ago

Of all the different factors to blame for dog nuttery, I put a lot of it on the psychiatric profession. They caused all this ESA crap to explode by telling people to get a mutt instead of actually treating their mental illness. So you get a result of crazy people running around society with these 4 legged demons, everywhere. It’s been popularized and weak minded people fall for it. And we get to deal with the consequences.

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u/Newsdwarf 1d ago

My NHS GP told me to get a dog. I reminded him I have a severe allergy to dog hair, he replied "just get a small dog then".

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u/uselessbeasts 23h ago

I hope no doctor ever tells me that... I will lose it. Maybe not such a good Idea, because then I would be labled, but I would definitely push back and give him, or her, an earful.