I've had a glass of wine and feeling radged.. :lol: :lol:
TBH, I've always had a grumpy old man view of dogs and dog ownership in general, even from being a liberal young teenager. And its not cause I had some sort of bad experience with one biting me as a toddler or owt.
It's not that hate dogs in and of themselves, I've just never really understood their elevated status in society/family situations and their status in society has gone stratospheric in the last decade or so. They're often cosidered by far and away the most important member of the family and allowed to behave in ways that would be considered utterly shocking and intollerable if they were human.
Take pub dog for instance, are you telling me that if someones 8 year old was just laid sprawled out in the middle of a pub, right in the way, with folks stepping right over it every time they went to the bar/toilet, and that the parents made no acknowledgement of the fact, let alone apologise, or get the child to move,
To me, their breath stinks, they slober, their shit needs cleaning up, they piss up against bins and lamposts, they chew shit to death (including my prized stussy beanie that got destroyed by a mates great dane), they kill and maim wild life and livestock, they kill and maim humans, and they just fecking get away with it scott free. Nobody seems to bat an eyelid.
And when someone does perhaps pipe up, then people are askance, they can't get their heads round the fact that not everyone adores their little fido and then we're accused of being grumpy old intolerant blokes with old fashioned attitudes (or worse).
But of course your fido would never do any of that. Its always other owners/dogs that do any of that.
Like lagers, I should just recognised that we're in a tiny minority of the population that don't consider dogs to be some sort of demigods and shut up..
Anyhow, where's that glass of wine gone. :alky: