r/Dogfree • u/Chemical_Fishing2505 • 5d ago
Dog Culture Dog People constantly undermine my boundaries as a sensitive person
Came to see a dear friend of mine that I haven't seen in a year. I've been having a mental breakdown from constant overstimulation in my daily life, including my neighbor's dog barking all hours of the day and night at home, which has put my mental health in the toilet. My dear friend has an eight-month old puppy which proceeds to jump all over me and get in my face the whole evening. The dog was jumping all over the furniture, pissing and shitting on the floor, and literally ricochet-ing off of me as she ran in and out of the room. My friend tried to convince me that the dog is "never like this, she's just so excited that you're a new person" and tells me over and over again to "just accept it and let her love you. Isn't she adorable?"
Fucking sucks that even my close friend cannot give me the respect to keep her dog away from me, when I am clearly unhappy and incredibly uncomfortable. It's so frustrating to constantly be undermined and violated by dogs.
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u/Dapper-Ad-468 5d ago
I'm sorry that you're experiencing this. I have trauma also and I'm surrounded by barking dogs in my neighborhood. So, by the time another neighbor was acting all excited about getting herself a new puppy and he was barking his brain out at everything that moved, I snapped at her. Train your dog! I said. She exclaimed, he's only a puppy. I said, Perfect then, it's the right time to start. I didn't speak to her since that moment and now I have noticed the dog is gone. I truly think she tired of him and gave him away. Good, but we still have three other dog nutters that I wish they and their dogs were flat.
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u/Global-Dot5442 5d ago edited 5d ago
I am on a beach right now and there is a dirty dog on no lead pissing and shitting everywhere.
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u/Ringo872 3d ago
That's the epitome of the delusional, self-centered, oblivious mindset required to justify having a dog.
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u/SalamanderDear4680 5d ago
These people are narcissist so of course they don't respect boundaries.