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napalmnacey
2008-11-27 10:22 pm UTC (link)

Ahhh. See, my only problem is the smell and the fact they don't bury their own poop. My indoor cat does tiny little poops and my outside cats - I don't have to deal with their poop at all. Dogs lay big juicy turds and you have to shovel them up and if you have kids, they invariably step in them if they're running in the yard - it's not fun.

D'awww, sounds like a big silly doggy! I love dogs, though. I get in trouble with people that own dogs cause I'll get all playful too and rile the dog up. I think half my problem is that I'm too dog-like myself.

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varethane
2008-11-28 05:07 am UTC (link)

Haha, the smell and the poop certainly doesn't help any. It's the simple reason I give people when they ask why I don't want a dog as a pet.

She is a big silly doggie! You'd probably like her in that case. She's very sweet and most people like her just fine. I'm just.... neurotic or something, and so like to put as many walls and doors between the two of us as I can whenever I'm over. (I pet her sometimes in quiet moments, but then she'll start pawing at me and trying to jump up at the slightest provocation, which causes me to need to stifle the urge to run in the opposite direction...)

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napalmnacey
2008-11-28 05:30 am UTC (link)

Yep. My line is, "I love them but I can't walk them like they need to be walked due to my health, also I have cats that grew up without dogs. But I love the dopey bastards."

Female dogs are always so sweet! My cousin has a huge rottweiler-ridgeback cross, but he's a firm hand and she's very well behaved. A sweet, sweet dog. Very good guard dog too, I wouldn't want to cross her. She lives with an elderly Maltese terrier, which tells you how gentle she is.

I get overwhelmed sometimes by dogs, I just kinda sit there and go, "Aaargh! Help!"

My best friend has a lovely sedate beagle that just flattens himself on the kitchen floor and looks cute, I could have a dog like that, I think.

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varethane
2008-11-28 07:54 am UTC (link)

Walking a dog isn't as much a problem with me, so much as is getting over whatever irrational fear I have of them. (Overwhelmed by dogs is a good way to put it...)

You know though, I think it might be true about female dogs. Another friend of mine has a medium-sized dog of no discernible breed (there may or may not be some whippet in there), who is one of the few dogs that I'm not wary around. She lives with a ferret, and they get along kind of hilariously.

People come through the park I work at sometimes with HUGE dogs, Rottweilers and Great Danes and Dalmatians and things of that like (as well as tiny dogs like teacup poodles)... sometimes people I'm with (most of my friends do not share my neuroses) will go up and exclaim over them or ask to pet them or something, but I can never bring myself to get within a few meters of strange dogs. XD;

_{_{_{Holy crap though, one time someone came through with two MASSIVE shaggy dogs whose breed I don't know... they stood almost as tall as their owner when down on all fours. Their legs must have been longer than mine. They barely even looked like dogs from a distance, more like some sort of strange hairy elephant-creatures on leashes walking sedately along the path... just crazy.}}}

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napalmnacey
2008-11-29 12:54 am UTC (link)

My sister has the same problem, but that's because she was a tiny little girl and she'd had a few big dogs be horrible to her. So she likes dogs, she just doesn't really know how to interact with them, I don't think. Has that immediate fear reaction, which immediately puts some dogs on edge. They know if you're afraid, and they're kinda like kids - they need the big person to be unafraid and in control.

It's why I like cats. It's hard to go wrong in owning a cat.

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