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Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Dear Abby: Man of My Dreams Has House Dogs

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

You aren't exactly batting 1000 lady! lol

Dona Worry Be Happy · Vette's SS!!

Jesus. What a stupid woman.
The man of her dreams keeps dogs in the house, and she can't get over it?

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Yeah, really, lol. Maybe he should write in saying he met the woman of his dreams but she has a lot of baggage with idiot ex husbands!

Tangerine · Guru

If she feels that strongly about dogs in the house, she shouldn't date anyone who has/likes dogs.
No one should expect a SO to give up their pets.

Divine Geek · Guru

She needs to move on. And recognize these dealbreakers earlier and end the relationship instead of expecting him to just bend to her will. Having a dog isn't a dealbreaker for me, but a serious consideration. Corgi can't cohabitate with another dog, and I'm not giving him up, nor would I ask someone else to give up their dog. Therefore, I don't seriously date guys with dogs.

Dona Worry Be Happy · Vette's SS!!

Pets are forever. You keep it until it leaves this earth.
You don’t get rid of a pet when it becomes inconvenient.
I despise the whole practice of 'giving up' animals. I get why people do it, but I have yet to hear of a case I agree with.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

WTH is her problem with dogs?

flan

Mary Zombie · Guru

Unless she's really allergic she's awful for wanting him to give up his pets. I hope he dumps her.

Ohfour · Hooker

flan327 wrote:
WTH is her problem with dogs?

flan

Some people just dont like dogs. I wouldnt live with one. So, i wouldnt start dating a guy with one.

huskerbb · Guru

Well, while I wouldn't want it, it's not unheard of for people who are married to live apart.

NAOW · Vette's SS

Another case of marrying someone thinking you can change them, at least she made her demands known before the wedding.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

I think we can see why she's been married and divorced three times. What a loony biotch.

huskerbb · Guru

There would be compromises here--but she has to be willing to make them.

Keep the dogs out of certain areas of the house--say, the bedroom, for starters. Make sure hubby is going to clean up after them (but presumably since he's had them for a time, he already does this).

She can't simply demand he get rid of them, though.

karl271 · Guru

I just got a laugh out of the letter. She is trying for her fourth marriage because of various problems with the first three. I think she needs to look elsewhere for a husband or maybe she just is not the stay married type.... I am not buying her excuses for the first three divorces... no one is that unlucky.

Cheerios4606 · Guru

She should have not gotten serious with a man that enjoys something that is a deal breaker for you. Shame on her for not seeing this before now.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

Cheerios4606 wrote:
She should have not gotten serious with a man that enjoys something that is a deal breaker for you. Shame on her for not seeing this before now.

Exactly. I was wondering how the heck this relationship even got to this point. Does she make him put the dogs outside when she visits or does he always come to her house? If I met a guy who said he hated cats & could not live with them there wouldn't be a next date.

weltschmerz · Guru

Lexxy wrote:
Cheerios4606 wrote:
She should have not gotten serious with a man that enjoys something that is a deal breaker for you. Shame on her for not seeing this before now.
Exactly. I was wondering how the heck this relationship even got to this point. Does she make him put the dogs outside when she visits or does he always come to her house? If I met a guy who said he hated cats & could not live with them there wouldn't be a next date.

Same here.

There's no reason to hate critters, and I don't trust people who do.

Ohfour · Hooker

Lexxy wrote:
Cheerios4606 wrote:
She should have not gotten serious with a man that enjoys something that is a deal breaker for you. Shame on her for not seeing this before now.
Exactly. I was wondering how the heck this relationship even got to this point. Does she make him put the dogs outside when she visits or does he always come to her house? If I met a guy who said he hated cats & could not live with them there wouldn't be a next date.

This. I wouldn't start dating a man that had a dog...

Tinydancer · Guru

Well then don't trust me welts because I don't like dogs They stink, they shed, and they slobber.

weltschmerz · Guru

Tinydancer wrote:
Well then don't trust me welts because I don't like dogs They stink, they shed, and they slobber.

I didn't trust you even before I knew you hated dogs.

Tinydancer · Guru

Well it's mutual and you like dogs so really dogs have nothing to do with it.

weltschmerz · Guru

Tinydancer wrote:
Well it's mutual and you like dogs so really dogs have nothing to do with it.

Well,as long as we understand each other.

Tinydancer · Guru

Nope. I'll never understand you.

weltschmerz · Guru

Tinydancer wrote:
Nope. I'll never understand you.

Fine by me.

FNW · Guru

Ohfour wrote:
flan327 wrote:
WTH is her problem with dogs?

flan
Some people just dont like dogs. I wouldnt live with one. So, i wouldnt start dating a guy with one.

I wouldn't either.

Dona Worry Be Happy · Vette's SS!!

You two are getting so ridiculous.

And not all dogs smell and drool or shed excessively. My dog is clean and drool free, and sheds very little.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Dona Worry Be Happy wrote:
You two are getting so ridiculous.

And not all dogs smell and drool or shed excessively. My dog is clean and drool free, and sheds very little.

Ours too Dona. We bathe them regularly and brush them regularly. The older one does shed some but they don't smell or drool.

TrudyML · Guru

I am not a fan of dogs. I am sure you guys are great owners but see so many bad owners...then a bad dog.

FNW · Guru

I went to a class yesterday held at a neighbor's house. They had a dog. Some kind of french bulldog or boston terrior, I don't know. I'm not familiar with breeds. Anyway, it didn't seem to shed, didn't smell that bad, but it was a little annoying. I'm sure it was a lovely mutt, but should have been put in another room. Pet owners expect everyone else to love their critters as much as they do, and it's not always the case.

TrudyML · Guru

FNW wrote:
I went to a class yesterday held at a neighbor's house. They had a dog. Some kind of french bulldog or boston terrior, I don't know. I'm not familiar with breeds. Anyway, it didn't seem to shed, didn't smell that bad, but it was a little annoying. I'm sure it was a lovely mutt, but should have been put in another room. Pet owners expect everyone else to love their critters as much as they do, and it's not always the case.

This is what I can't stand!

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I'm not sure why people expect that dog owners feel they will fall immediately in love with their dogs. I don't. I'm fine with people who don't like dogs. But don't come to my home and bitch and gripe and moan about my dogs. They live here. You don't. I don't expect you to like them, pet them, or even get near them. But this is still they're home. Eventually you'll be leaving and they won't.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

FNW wrote:
I went to a class yesterday held at a neighbor's house. They had a dog. Some kind of french bulldog or boston terrior, I don't know. I'm not familiar with breeds. Anyway, it didn't seem to shed, didn't smell that bad, but it was a little annoying. I'm sure it was a lovely mutt, but should have been put in another room. Pet owners expect everyone else to love their critters as much as they do, and it's not always the case.

Why was it annoying?

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

Animals have a sense for people who don't like them. They always seem to gravitate to that person. I think they have a need to prove they are really not so bad or something.

TrudyML · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I'm not sure why people expect that dog owners feel they will fall immediately in love with their dogs. I don't. I'm fine with people who don't like dogs. But don't come to my home and bitch and gripe and moan about my dogs. They live here. You don't. I don't expect you to like them, pet them, or even get near them. But this is still they're home. Eventually you'll be leaving and they won't.

Keep them out of my crotch! My old friends two dogs spent the whole time there. Annoying!

FNW · Guru

It was a CPR class. It kept trying to yank the dummies, nudge in between while we were doing compressions, with a tennis ball wanting to play. There was food so he kept going from person to person, nudging us with his nose for food, etc.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

I love my dog more than I like most people. She's sweet, loyal, dependable, and never talks politics or religion. She is the perfect companion, which can't be said for most people.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

FNW wrote:
It was a CPR class. It kept trying to yank the dummies, nudge in between while we were doing compressions, with a tennis ball wanting to play. There was food so he kept going from person to person, nudging us with his nose for food, etc.

I agree. That had to be very annoying and the dog should have been put away. A class is not the place for a dog. Well, except an obedience class, of course, which it sounds like this dog needed.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

TrudyML wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I'm not sure why people expect that dog owners feel they will fall immediately in love with their dogs. I don't. I'm fine with people who don't like dogs. But don't come to my home and bitch and gripe and moan about my dogs. They live here. You don't. I don't expect you to like them, pet them, or even get near them. But this is still they're home. Eventually you'll be leaving and they won't.
Keep them out of my crotch! My old friends two dogs spent the whole time there. Annoying!

Can you really blame the dogs that your crotch is so irresistible?

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

TrudyML wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I'm not sure why people expect that dog owners feel they will fall immediately in love with their dogs. I don't. I'm fine with people who don't like dogs. But don't come to my home and bitch and gripe and moan about my dogs. They live here. You don't. I don't expect you to like them, pet them, or even get near them. But this is still they're home. Eventually you'll be leaving and they won't.
Keep them out of my crotch! My old friends two dogs spent the whole time there. Annoying!

My dogs won't get near enough to you to sniff your crotch. If they are then they are probably already eating you for lunch. My dogs do not go near unknown people unless they have reason to believe you are doing me harm.

huskerbb · Guru

FNW wrote:
I went to a class yesterday held at a neighbor's house. They had a dog. Some kind of french bulldog or boston terrior, I don't know. I'm not familiar with breeds. Anyway, it didn't seem to shed, didn't smell that bad, but it was a little annoying. I'm sure it was a lovely mutt, but should have been put in another room. Pet owners expect everyone else to love their critters as much as they do, and it's not always the case.

It's hardly ever the case.

TrudyML · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
TrudyML wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I'm not sure why people expect that dog owners feel they will fall immediately in love with their dogs. I don't. I'm fine with people who don't like dogs. But don't come to my home and bitch and gripe and moan about my dogs. They live here. You don't. I don't expect you to like them, pet them, or even get near them. But this is still they're home. Eventually you'll be leaving and they won't.
Keep them out of my crotch! My old friends two dogs spent the whole time there. Annoying!
My dogs won't get near enough to you to sniff your crotch. If they are then they are probably already eating you for lunch. My dogs do not go near unknown people unless they have reason to believe you are doing me harm.

It was like they promoted it! And the dogs weren't clean.

huskerbb · Guru

I hate my sons dog. The damn thing growls at strangers. It never used to be like that.

NAOW · Vette's SS

My dogs annoy me when I have company, so I put them outside or in a bedroom. They don't jump or crotch sniff, just get really excited and want attention from our guests.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

NAOW wrote:
My dogs annoy me when I have company, so I put them outside or in a bedroom. They don't jump or crotch sniff, just get really excited and want attention from our guests.

That's how Hemi is. He's so old. He brings his ball to anyone new who comes into the house. First thing I say, DON'T throw the ball. I don't know why people don't listen. I tell them right up front. Don't pick up the ball. Don't throw it. But they always have to toss his ball. Half an hour later they're like how do I make him stop bringing me the ball? I say You don't. You never should have thrown it in the first place!

Mellow Momma · Sniff...sniff, sniff. Yay! A Bum!

I have never met a dog owner who thinks their dog is a problem. They all think their VSS is perfect.

chef · Guru

He's not the man of your dreams, LW. Time to wake up.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Mellow Momma wrote:
I have never met a dog owner who thinks their dog is a problem. They all think their VSS is perfect.

I don't think my dogs are perfect by any means. But they're dogs. Everyone who knows me knows I have dogs. If you hate dogs that much don't come to my house. My problem is with people who come to my home knowing I have dogs and then bitch and whine and moan the whole time about how they hate dogs. It's like those people who hate kids. Then they come to your house and spend the whole time complaining about the noise, the mess, the everything. Nope. We'll just either meet somewhere else or probably not end up being friends if that's such a big deal for you.

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

TrudyML wrote:
I am not a fan of dogs. I am sure you guys are great owners but see so many bad owners...then a bad dog.

I dated a guy once. He had a lovely lab. But he didn't train the dog and refused to neuter it so the dog was out of control. That relationship didn't last long.

I have a dog. Didn't really want one but DD did. He doesn't slobber but even though is hair is short his fur is every where. I hate it (the fur). He is small and thinks he should be able to sit on all the lap of all visitors. I won't get another dog.

huskerbb · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Mellow Momma wrote:
I have never met a dog owner who thinks their dog is a problem. They all think their VSS is perfect.
I don't think my dogs are perfect by any means. But they're dogs. Everyone who knows me knows I have dogs. If you hate dogs that much don't come to my house. My problem is with people who come to my home knowing I have dogs and then bitch and whine and moan the whole time about how they hate dogs. It's like those people who hate kids. Then they come to your house and spend the whole time complaining about the noise, the mess, the everything. Nope. We'll just either meet somewhere else or probably not end up being friends if that's such a big deal for you.

Then don't invite me. I go to houses all the time not knowing they have some dog in their house. I would certainly decline if I knew.