Reasons not to get a dog 😁

[ArklePig]

My friend came over yesterday and we were looking at the local rehoming pages for her. Shortly after she left I sent her the attached message, letting her know my dog had just rolled in her own

Any other reasons I should tell her not to get a dog?

 

[JBM]

my pup once got out of her crate in the night and pooped EVERYWHERE and chewed pretty much everything.
I burst into tears when I found her

 

[ArklePig]

my pup once got out of her crate in the night and pooped EVERYWHERE and chewed pretty much everything.
I burst into tears when I found her

Need a boak react emoji poor pup and poor you.

 

[Cortez]

Nope. I got nuthin'.

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

My pup chewed through the wire of my heated throw think that’s the most annoying thing he’s done haha

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

I overfed Zak and Bear raw salmon in my enthusiasm to start raw feeding back in the day. The resultant sea of diarrhoea was horrific. I couldn’t even open the kitchen door without it going over stuff on the floor.

Other reasons might include not wanting to drag a freshly healed leg round pitch black woods at midnight when your OH has abandoned the search for 2 runaway springers to go to work and you’re alone, or not wanting to come home covered in mud then having forgotten to close the kitchen door, they spray mud up the walls and even when hosed, mud falls off all over the downstairs. Hoovering several times a day is no fun, nor is having dog hair absolutely everywhere. Anything you have delivered but need to return or want to sell needs ages spent with a wet glove to remove said dog hair. Mitch recently chewed my favourite trainers. Then he destroyed a biro. He put holes in pretty much all of his beds.

Tell her that and send her this picture of Goose to put her off.

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

i can think of a million irritating things that have happened over the years with various mutts, but not one of them good enough reason not to have a dog....or two.....or more.

 

[oldandgold]

Can't think of anything really except they break your hearts when you lose them. I do remember many years ago we had our first retriever and left her with my mum and dad for the afternoon. Dad had spent all afternoon putting horse manure round his veggie garden and mums roses. What he didn't notice was that our pup had followed him around picking up said horse manure, put it in the garage and then laid/rolled in it. Dad wasn't impressed - I thought it fairly funny.

 

[ArklePig]

i can think of a million irritating things that have happened over the years with various mutts, but not one of them good enough reason not to have a dog....or two.....or more.

I definitely believe in 2 or more. Saw a lovely litter of Irish water spaniels advertised today and was told not to even think about it so not everyone thinks like us

 

[TheresaW]

They often eat poo as well!

 

[meleeka]

Mine is pretty good as far as poo is concerned, but does look like a swamp monster most of the time, so perhaps a short coated breed if your friend doesn’t like all the floor and walls being brown, or the smell of wet dog for 6 months of the year

 

[rabatsa]

My friend kept several jack russels. Every year she had to buy new seatbelts for the back of her car to get it through its MOT.

 

[Cortez]

I definitely believe in 2 or more. Saw a lovely litter of Irish water spaniels advertised today and was told not to even think about it so not everyone thinks like us

Oh gods, not IWS's! We've had two; never again.....

 

[Gloi]

The more money you spend on dogs the less you have to spend on horses.

 

[Mahoganybay]

My friend tried in vain to stop her dog eating a poo that had been left in a walkway! It was a human poo

 

[SilverLinings]

As @oldandgold posted, the only thing about owning dogs that could IMO be off-putting is having to lose them at the end.

Fortunately I haven't had any poo-eaters, and only one that rolled in the stuff, but unfortunately she would always choose the stinkiest fox-offering around. It was also slightly funny though as she'd have a really thorough, back-rubbing roll, but as soon as she stood back up she would sniff her side and then look horrified and disgusted at the smell/herself She was no more pleased by being hosed off and scrubbed as soon as she got home either, but sadly it still didn't put her off

@ArklePig I hope Fodhla has learnt her lesson and NEVER does that again Although maybe you could some how use the experience to persuade Mr AP to agree to another dog? Something about her missing the company of other dogs and wanting to smell like a pack, or that she is forgetting how to behave like a nice dog as she only lives with humans (admittedly I'm clutching at straws here)?

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Can't think of anything really except they break your hearts when you lose them. I do remember many years ago we had our first retriever and left her with my mum and dad for the afternoon. Dad had spent all afternoon putting horse manure round his veggie garden and mums roses. What he didn't notice was that our pup had followed him around picking up said horse manure, put it in the garage and then laid/rolled in it. Dad wasn't impressed - I thought it fairly funny.

I expected you to say that the pup had followed your dad eating up all the horse manure, so I'm actually impressed your retriever instead chose to only retrieve all the manure, and roll in it.

@ArklePig Even after having spent my first New Year's Eve dogless since I was 16, there's absolutely no way I would exchange all my happy memories to not have this heartache. Besides, their life expectancy isn't only a downside, I'm 49 now, if dogs in average lived for about 50 years, I'm not sure I would've dared thinking about getting a new one.
Though I will admit that not even I can find anything positive in that if/when they vomit, or get diarrhoea, it is you who have to clean it up, clean their butt fur, and sometimes also their tails, and anything they might have sat/laid on because they ran inside before you managed to stop them/escaped when you were trying to get them to the bathroom.

P.s. Not all breeds smells as much wet dog as some other breeds, e.g. when I owned a Smooth Collie it always surprised me a little how much more wet dog she smelled when wet, compared to the Norwegian Buhunds, and Finnish Lapphunds.

 

[Morwenna]

It doesn’t matter what I’m doing, as soon as it gets to 4pm my dog starts barking at me for her dinner. She is not fed on the dot of 4 every day but she has decided that is dinner time and there’s no convincing her otherwise. Her internal clock is amazingly accurate. It’s especially fun as I work from home and often have meetings from 4-5.

 

[ArklePig]

Fortunately I haven't had any poo-eaters, and only one that rolled in the stuff, but unfortunately she would always choose the stinkiest fox-offering around. It was also slightly funny though as she'd have a really thorough, back-rubbing roll, but as soon as she stood back up she would sniff her side and then look horrified and disgusted at the smell/herself She was no more pleased by being hosed off and scrubbed as soon as she got home either, but sadly it still didn't put her off

@ArklePig I hope Fodhla has learnt her lesson and NEVER does that again Although maybe you could some how use the experience to persuade Mr AP to agree to another dog? Something about her missing the company of other dogs and wanting to smell like a pack, or that she is forgetting how to behave like a nice dog as she only lives with humans (admittedly I'm clutching at straws here)?

This is a great suggestion and a strategy I will employ.

I should have mentioned I didn't notice said poo until she hopped on the sofa and I rubbed her

@Cortez I know they're absolute hooligans but I can't help myself I want one! As a curly headed brunette we can enter those 'dogs that look most like their owner' contests

So sorry about your dog FL, I agree even at her most disgusting I wouldn't be without her

 

[Spotherisk]

When you do KC agility competitions you are disqualified if the dog has a ‘code brown’ in the ring. My friends dog tends to shit then whip around and eat it. Every single person watching tends to turn away with an ‘uuurgh…’.

I am probably jinxing myself now but at nearly three years old Rew hasn’t had diarrhoea yet, or rolled in anything gross. He has regurgitated a few times but not been sick. I recommend a lurcher!

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

You will spend hours of your life watching as they dance back and forth and round and round until they have found the exact correct spot to pee/poo. They will squat multiple times before actually settling on the right one. It is incredibly tedious.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Oh gods, not IWS's! We've had two; never again.....

We went to see one when looking for a pal for a dog years ago. We did not come home with it

 

[maisie06]

I overfed Zak and Bear raw salmon in my enthusiasm to start raw feeding back in the day. The resultant sea of diarrhoea was horrific. I couldn’t even open the kitchen door without it going over stuff on the floor.

Other reasons might include not wanting to drag a freshly healed leg round pitch black woods at midnight when your OH has abandoned the search for 2 runaway springers to go to work and you’re alone, or not wanting to come home covered in mud then having forgotten to close the kitchen door, they spray mud up the walls and even when hosed, mud falls off all over the downstairs. Hoovering several times a day is no fun, nor is having dog hair absolutely everywhere. Anything you have delivered but need to return or want to sell needs ages spent with a wet glove to remove said dog hair. Mitch recently chewed my favourite trainers. Then he destroyed a biro. He put holes in pretty much all of his beds.

Tell her that and send her this picture of Goose to put her off.
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He looks just like my Goose - whom enjoys the same activity!

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

He looks just like my Goose - whom enjoys the same activity!

You have a Goose too?! We need a Goose club! He’s the cutest little thing, but omg, a speed devil when out.

 

[Birker2020]

Because you can never go abroad for the rest of the dogs life after your dog got a burnt bottom at the boarding kennels you left her at previously.

Therefore, we can never risk the same thing happening elsewhere.

 

[Spotherisk]

Because you can never go abroad for the rest of the dogs life after your dog got a burnt bottom at the boarding kennels you left her at previously.

Therefore, we can never risk the same thing happening elsewhere.

How on earth did that happen? We regularly leave ours, it’s not home but they’re safe and happy enough with the situation.

 

[Clodagh]

I am probably jinxing myself now but at nearly three years old Rew hasn’t had diarrhoea yet, or rolled in anything gross. He has regurgitated a few times but not been sick. I recommend a lurcher!

I am sure you are using a little media hype here. Regurgitating is vomiting, and he’s done it in your bed, on your sofa, and on you, if my memory serves me right.

 

[pistolpete]

The cost of insurance has put me off a second although I do think two is better. My loony Lurcher would love a playmate but raw food insurance and vet bills. Can’t do it!

 

[Splash2310]

Mine rolled in a cowpat yesterday… We’re having building work done so I couldn’t take him home to bath him, so had to spend £8 on the Jollyes bath!

 

[CorvusCorax]

Because you can never go abroad for the rest of the dogs life after your dog got a burnt bottom at the boarding kennels you left her at previously.

Therefore, we can never risk the same thing happening elsewhere.

I'd say that's very unlikely to happen more than once. It took me ages to find somewhere I was happy to leave mine, but I did.