I’m a big dog person, but I love all dogs. Big dogs are usually trained to some degree because they are big, but if you’re going to get a little dog, don’t expect me to enter your home unless you’ve trained it. I don’t want it to bite me, I don’t want it to jump on me, and I especially don’t want it to snarl and snap at me when I get anywhere near it or you, because no, I don’t think it’s cute just because it’s a little dog, I think it’s incredibly obnoxious for people nearby and I think it’s insensitive to the dog itself, who is behaving that way because it is insecure.
And while we’re on the subject of untrained little dogs, it is also obnoxious for you to not housetrain your little dog, just because its turds are small and its puddles tiny. It’s still fucking nasty. It’s only slightly less nasty for you to train it to use paper or pads. Dogs should relieve themselves outdoors, they also need to be walked for stimulation and exercise, and if you can’t be bothered, you shouldn’t have a dog.
I know so many people who have little dogs they never bothered to train. If you have a little dog that thinks it’s okay to snarl and snap and crap anywhere it likes, you should be embarrassed.
I hate untrained small pit threads. Train your fucking pit thread to go in the original thread where it’s relevant. It’s obnoxious for you to not respond in the relevant thread. Your little pit thread, just because its shits are small and its puddles tiny, is no reason to call attention to yourself and pretend you have wit.
People–in general–enough with the so-called parody threads. If you have a disagreement with a poster, try posting in all caps in their thread. It keeps the bullshit from piling up in the pit. There are plenty of threads that need a parody pitting, but just fucking think about it for a moment before posting. Is this really something that deserves its own thread? Is it realy the OH BURN! you’re looking for?
Or are you actually engaging in some form of self-mockery?
Maybe I’m being whoosed but I agree with the OP. Big dog - sure I’ll come in your house. Cocker spaniel or toy poodle - put that thing away first, then it will be safe to sit down.
Same for me. I have a Springer Spaniel, which is a pretty medium sized dog. All my neighbors have Maltese or Shitzus or some such tiny white monsters. I won’t go within three feet of any of them. They all seem to be permanently worked up to super high excitement, yapping, snapping and jumping when they see my dog and me walking by.
By the way, if this was meant to be a joke thread, then it failed. The OP should have picked something that didn’t so need to be pitted.
I don’t think it was a parody or joke of any kind, more of a rebuttal thread.
I do agree, quantity wise there are way more untrained small dogs than large ones. Being capable to toss them like a football doesn’t mean they are any less annoying.
The biggest mistake I see small dog owners making is that they pick up their dog when it’s misbehaving. This just reinforces that bad behavior = cuddles. Oh, and a lot of them think it’s just too cute when their dogs snap and growl at big dogs. It’s not cute. It’s threatening. Yes, big dogs do feel threatened when small dogs are aggressive. They don’t see size the same way humans do.
Generally I agree with you except on the bolded portion above. If you live in a house with a fenced in yard you can train them to go outdoors only but if you are in an apartment and you can’t just open the door and let them run out to do their business then you should absolutely mat train your dog. Our french bulldog is mat trained and it is one of the best decisions we ever made. She gets walked several times a day but for a long time my husband and I were both working full time jobs and we didn’t think it was fair to her to expect her to hold it all day long, especially considering we are at the mercy of public transportation and occasionally your 20 minute commute can turn into a 2 hour wait in an underground tunnel because someone on the train ahead of yours needs medical attention. Now that I quit my job to be home with the baby she gets out more often than she used to but she still needs to be able to go when nature calls and I can’t exactly reason with my newborn daughter to please stop being hungry right now so the dog can poop, you know? We don’t expect people to go from the time they leave the house in the morning to the time they get home from work and not go to the bathroom so I don’t see why I should expect that of my dog.
Yup. My dad and my father-in-law both have poorly-trained little dogs, and I worry more about the baby being bitten by the King Charles or the Pekingese than about our dogs (German shepherd, great Pyrenees.) Just because a dog is small doesn’t mean that it’s cute when it snarls and snaps, nor are little dogs untrainable, dammit! And it’s really pretty cruel to have a dog and not train it, imho. Like any other member of one’s household, pets should have a consistent set of guidelines for behavior. Everyone, including the dog, is happier that way.
I was amazed to meet my Mother-in-law’s chihuahuas - there were really the first small dogs I ever met who were well trained, calm, sedate, and self-confident. Such a wonderful difference! Small dogs that didn’t snap and growl and weren’t little furry pests.
I wish ALL dog owners made that effort.
(While the dogs were trained to go outside we couldn’t let them out by themselves - the property was near a national park and not only coyotes but bears would visit the backyard from time to time, not to mention the raptors which were capable of flying off with a rabbit-sized dog. So the dogs were pad trained as well. They actually preferred to go outside, but when people were away long hours or it wasn’t safe the pad training was a reasonable back up for them.)
But princess Stoid couldn’t bring herself to respond there.
Fucking weak as a Paris Hilton Diamond-Studded Vagina Dog.
Oh, I hate unruly dogs. Big ones, little ones, take the time to train the fucking thing, and whatever you do, don’t let it start whiny bitch-threads in response to something thinking it’s clever. That shit is old, tired, and does little more than make people realise what a yappy annoying shit it is.
This is the thing I will never get. I’ve had dogs and have been doing various sports with them for decades, and people who just let their dogs go potty in the house still amaze me. It isn’t just the little dogs but they are the majority - yes, it’s harder to housetrain a little dog but Jesus H F Christ do you really want to clean that up for the next 12-14 years? (Well, some don’t - when I moved into this house I discovered some fossilized poop in the dining room…).
I am currently housetraining a small breed puppy and yes it’s a pain the ass, especially since he had a bad start at the breeders, but MUCH less than cleaning up after him for years later.
Not lately, but when The Osbornes was on, yeah, totally! Their dogs were completely out of control and there was little to no concern or attention paid. And they had a houseful of little dogs, around 10 of them. And the whole series was peppered with dog shit. In the house.
My friend has a little chihuahua. I swear, that dog depends on her more than her 3 year old child does. When my friend isn’t holding her, she shakes in terror. Seriously, she’ll sit there with this look of fear in her eyes and tremble like a child forced to sit on Santa’s lap. And when she isn’t shaking, she runs around like a hopped up junkie. She’ll run after my friend from room to room.
So many people do ZERO research into breeds (or anything else) before they get a dog. It seriously blows me away. They decide they want a small dog, like Paris Hilton or something, and then they go to the flea market and buy a tiny chiweeniepoo puppy from a filthy cage. Now, several breeds tiny dogs are notoriously hard to housebreak. They are frequently strong willed, and they hate the cold (which, with little fur, so close to the ground, is quite cold). Then, since this dog is a “tiny baby” (and yes, that impossibly tiny puppy from the puppy mill IS too small; it was taken from its mother far too soon) they carry it around everywhere and proceed to take a disadvantaged dog and fuck it up further. It receives no socialization, no training, nothing.
Well, surprise surprise, the dog shits all over the house, is completely neurotic, and has a laundry list of other issues. It’s a tragedy. There is nothing inherently wrong with tiny dogs; they’ve been bred to be pets longer than almost any other type, and theoretically should fit most naturally into the job that Americans want for their dogs today- companion. But we fail these animals at almost every step, and now they have a terrible reputation. But, just as with pit type dogs, their bad rep is OUR fault.
