Sailon wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
r/dogfree
That is interesting. I didn't know so many people disliked dogs.
I think there's four types of people in that general camp.
There's people who are afraid of/otherwise uncomfortable interacting with dogs.
There's people who didn't mind dogs until they had to live with one; hygiene and behavioural complaints are common.
There's people who wouldn't care about dogs either way, except for being surrounded by ones with terrible owners; again, hygiene, aggression and other behavioural complaints are common.
There's people who are worried about the ecological impacts of widespread dog ownership and/or feral dogs. Hygiene and attacks/predation on other animals are the main concerns.
None of those can really be fairly reduced to dislike, even if dislike is a component. If you don't wish to be intruded upon, you'll dislike being intruded upon, but that's because you don't want it, not the other way around. Not wanting to deal with aggression, other negative behaviours, animal waste (and the pollution that results) and environmental impacts is a big broader than simply disliking something.
Personally, my like of animals extends to dogs, so long as I don't need to interact with them. Then again, I don't want to interact with bears or raccoons or chimps either.
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