# Why most dog owners shouldn't own dogs ... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 30, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521 "2007-10-30T01:34:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/21 "2007-10-30T13:07:40Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] It’s not as bad here since the neighbors with the basset hound moved, but I was so glad when they left. Those idiots left that poor dog outside all the time and he was so lonely. That mournful howl just broke my heart. [/QUOTE] That is sad. Bassets are very clingy and emotionally needy dogs. That said, it’s hard to keep bassets from barking or howling sometimes. They’re vocal dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/22 "2007-10-30T14:32:23Z")
[QUOTE=anamnesis] I’m certainly no dog hater, but is it just laziness or is there some other motivation for letting a dog sit outside barking barking barking barking barking barking barking barking barking barking it’s head off for half an hour? [/QUOTE] Perhaps he is performing the [famous barking dog solo](http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/03-04/Billy_Collins/samplepoemscollins.htm). Is Billy Collins your neighbor on the other side? ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/23 "2007-10-30T14:47:54Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Seriously. I will not eat things that eat shit. Period. [/QUOTE] Actually, the meat is pretty fatty. But the soup it was in was damn good. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/24 "2007-10-30T14:55:11Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Seriously. I will not eat things that eat shit. Period. [/QUOTE] Ever had rabbit? They eat their own poo once a day. The neighbors behind me have dogs that always seem to be barking. I can’t even go out in my back yard without being barked at. I’ve occasionally yelled “shut up” when they are barking at inappropriate times but I don’t really want to confront them directly because they’re thuggy white guys and they have big Rotties. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/25 "2007-10-30T15:07:45Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Ever had rabbit? They eat their own poo once a day. The neighbors behind me have dogs that always seem to be barking. I can’t even go out in my back yard without being barked at. I’ve occasionally yelled “shut up” when they are barking at inappropriate times but I don’t really want to confront them directly because they’re thuggy white guys and they have big Rotties. [/QUOTE] But do they have [pigeon coops](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=441864) ? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/26 "2007-10-30T15:09:27Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Seriously. I will not eat things that eat shit. Period. [/QUOTE] But, a dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/27 "2007-10-30T15:11:32Z")
[QUOTE=erie774] But do they have [pigeon coops](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=441864) ? [/QUOTE] Not that I’ve seen but I think they have a scraper. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/28 "2007-10-30T15:13:15Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Not that I’ve seen but I think they have a scraper. [/QUOTE] So do I. I use it to get the ice off my windshield during the winter. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/29 "2007-10-30T15:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Seriously. I will not eat things that eat shit. Period. [/QUOTE] No bacon? That sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/30 "2007-10-30T15:24:57Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Not that I’ve seen but I think they have a scraper. [/QUOTE] You _think_? If you don’t know it when you see it, it ain’t a scraper. You know you can call the cops on barking dogs, right? I used to do it all the time on my former neighbors. Around here you can definitely do it after 10, and I think before that if it barks continuously for more than half an hour or something. At 3 AM when the dog has been going all night I had no problem diming the po po. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/31 "2007-10-30T15:46:16Z")
[QUOTE=cedman] Chicken? [/QUOTE] No, I’d just rather not (ba dum dum) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/32 "2007-10-30T16:47:41Z")
> [@cedman](#): > > Chicken? Cite? > [@Wile E](#): > > Ever had rabbit? Nope. Guess why? 😃 > [@Contrapuntal](#): > > But, a dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way. Yeah, personality that slobbers and pisses all over me. I’ll pass on that “personality”. Cats can at least figure out how to go to the bathroom without doing it all over your friends (and your couch, and your car, and your friends’ cars, and your friends’ apartments…) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/33 "2007-10-30T16:52:24Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Seriously. I will not eat things that eat shit. Period. [/QUOTE] But bacon tastes goooood. Pork chops taste gooooooooood! ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/34 "2007-10-30T16:54:04Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Yeah, personality that slobbers and pisses all over me. I’ll pass on that “personality”. Cats can at least figure out how to go to the bathroom without doing it all over your friends (and your couch, and your car, and your friends’ cars, and your friends’ apartments…) [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > Vincent: Want some bacon? > Jules: No man, I don’t eat pork. > Vincent: Are you Jewish? > Jules: Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all. > Vincent: Why not? > Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals. > Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood. > Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I’d never know ‘cause I wouldn’t eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That’s a filthy animal. I ain’t eat nothin’ that ain’t got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces. > Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces. > Jules: I don’t eat dog either. > Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? > Jules: I wouldn’t go so far as to call a dog filthy but they’re definitely dirty. But, a dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way. > Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true? > Jules: Well we’d have to be talkin’ about one charmin’ motherfuckin’ pig. I mean he’d have to be ten times more charmin’ than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I’m sayin’? [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/35 "2007-10-30T17:15:22Z")
I’ve bitched about her before, but the goddamn dog in the adjoining house needs to STFU!! Every little thing that goes by, even if it pays her no mind, she has to bark her head off at. It’s not like she’s protecting the house from an immediate threat; I’m talking dogs walking by way down the street. Thank goodness it’s closed-windows weather, because over the summer it was so fucking unbearable. ---
**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/36 "2007-10-30T18:24:43Z")
I used to have chickens, while I don’t recall them eating their own poo, they definitely ate the dog’s… At one point we got half a dozen chicks, supposedly all female but a cockerel snuck in. Bastard was loud too. The neighbours complained and the council came to investigate. We were breaking noise pollution laws and were given a warning. We tried all the tricks, putting him in a low cage at night so he couldn’t stand up to crow, covering him with a thick blanket so he couldn’t see the sun rise… Nothing worked. Eventually we managed to sell him and two nice hens at a Farmer’s Market. He probably ended up in a pot but that would have been the only alternative anyway… Thankfully all the dogs I’ve owned (never more than one at a time, all bitches) have been easily trained. Dogs barking all the time are not too common around my area. It’s almost always the fault of piss-poor owners, it frustrates the hell out of me. I especially hate the incessant yapping of smaller dogs (and small dogs in general…), they have an ear piercing quality that compares to none\*. \*Except maybe a particularly loud cockerel (seriously, I can’t blame the neighbours for complaining)… ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/37 "2007-10-30T18:52:58Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I’ve bitched about her before, but the goddamn dog in the adjoining house needs to STFU!! Every little thing that goes by, even if it pays her no mind, she has to bark her head off at. It’s not like she’s protecting the house from an immediate threat; I’m talking dogs walking by way down the street. Thank goodness it’s closed-windows weather, because over the summer it was so fucking unbearable. [/QUOTE] So you’re saying that she’s an insufferable, noisy bitch? ---
**Author:** ![cedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cedman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/38 "2007-10-30T23:24:36Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Cite? Uh… being around chickens??? One poops and another will peck at it; seen it with my own eyes. Spend a little time around them and you will too. Close enough to eatin’ for me. Still, I likes me some chicken! ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/39 "2007-10-30T23:49:24Z")
Gee…if you walk your dog in the morning before work, they will not bark through the day…these are just neglected dogs… ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521/40 "2007-10-31T05:30:14Z")
[QUOTE=cedman] Uh… being around chickens??? One poops and another will peck at it; seen it with my own eyes. Spend a little time around them and you will too. Close enough to eatin’ for me. Still, I likes me some chicken! [/QUOTE] :smack: Damnit! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-most-dog-owners-shouldnt-own-dogs/424521.md?page=3)