Shoved to Them
**Warning** Bad language here. You’ve been warned so no complaining.
Can I get something off my chest here? I’m tired of dogs, and I used to love dogs. I’m just tired of seeing them everywhere I go.
Yesterday at the supermarket, there was a lovely looking woman in her 60s with her little poodle dog in the baby seat of her shopping cart. She fed her “baby” snacks all the way through the store as she (the dog) yapped at the other customers and growled at the checkout girl. Why was a dog in the grocery store? They sell food there. People food. Dogs lick their…..you know….I don’t want your dog’s bum-licking tongue near my produce or licking the shopping cart where I’m going to put my baby. That’s nasty.
Today there was a couple at Home Depot walking their black cocker spaniel down the aisle of the store as if shopping with their dog were the most natural thing in the world. I asked one of the employees if dogs were allowed in Home Depot and he said they are now. I asked about people with allergies and people who are afraid of dogs and who exactly was going to mop up after the little cocker who hiked a leg as he was dragged around a corner. The clerk shrugged and said that the company had weighed the comfort of some of their customers against those people who don’t like dogs in the store with them and decided that the dog people get their way. He said, “It’s unfair to ask them to leave their pets in their cars.”
How about asking them to leave them at home? They’re not people! They’re not babies who need to be constantly watched! They’re animals! If you can’t leave them unattended, crate them while you’re gone…or…put them out in the yard. I once heard that dogs liked to play in yards. It’s crazy but it just might work.
I keep trying to understand why dogs have suddenly become more important than people. Are they substitute children? I’m beginning to think so after a woman saw me with my baby in his sling and said “oh, I have one just like that for my Yorkie! My baby likes it, too!” I thought she was a kook until I ran into the couple pushing their “little one” in a stroller.
Even our local vet is buying into this insanity. His forms no longer say “Owner name”; they now say “Pet parent.” I’ve never been an animal’s mommy and I refuse to be one now.
What is wrong with people? When did it become sane to push a dog in a pram instead of walking him on a leash? We’re talking about animals here, and it’s getting to the point that I get strange looks when I call them that. I just keep thinking back to the yappy little poodle in the grocery store. One of us is human and the other is a b*tch…..what kind of world do we live in where we no longer know which is which?
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