Dog People....
Discussion
steve singh said:
Anyone who keeps a dog inside their living accommodation (house, apartment, flat) has a poor concept of hygiene IMHO.
Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
What's the point in having pets if you're going to banish them outside? Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
I'd much rather live in a happy home with dogs than in a sterile environment where I wouldn't dare sit down for fear of accidentally pushing a cushion out of position.
DoubleSix said:
Maybe I should start a thread about 'hosting' lol, here's a personal bug bear and sure fire sign of a s
tty host; "We didn't plan anything as we weren't sure what you might like to do...." when I hear that I know I'm in for a stty weekend!
Do it.tty host; "We didn't plan anything as we weren't sure what you might like to do...." when I hear that I know I'm in for a stty weekend!Unless specific activity is pre-planned we tend to think of about 4 or 5 activities covering all likely desires and that require different degrees of time and different weather conditions. On the other hand an overnight visit to ours usually involves eating 6 or 7 courses with lubrication so the most oft requested option is to go for a nice walk locally or along a nearby beach!
steve singh said:
Anyone who keeps a dog baby inside their living accommodation (house, apartment, flat) has a poor concept of hygiene IMHO.
Dogs Babies are for other people only, they smell, leave drool, snot, piss and dirty handmarks everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
It sounds as if the people on here don't know how to train a dog or manage the expectation of visitors. If people are coming to visit I ask beforehand how they feel about the dog. I explain that she will want to say hello (i.e. check them out) very gently when they arrive and she will then be told to leave them alone unless she is called.
If they don't want to interact with the dog then they are kept away from the dog or we meet elsewhere.
The dog is part of our life that has to be considered when we interact with others. Sometimes a compromise can be found where everyone is happy sometimes we have to postpose or cancel arrangemnts.
Your friend probably didn't consider that you would rather have your child walking on carpet and probably thought you'd be happier from a hygiene persective to have the child on a hard floor.
If you can't say to your friends 'Can we sit in the lounge where its carpeted and my little bundle of s
tty nappy can play on a soft surface' then either you don't know how to communicate of they aren't very good friends.Having watched a friend's young child grind a complete chocolate biscuitinto my brand new lounge carpet a few years sgo while it's mother sat there and commented on how accomodating I was about it especially having inly been laiud (the carpet) a week earlier, and then changed a dirty nappy on the carpet five minutes later, I fully understand why they didn't want your 'little bundle of fun' on their carpet.
They know they can trust the dog not to s
t on the carpet but your child is another matter.graphene said:
steve singh said:
Anyone who keeps a dog inside their living accommodation (house, apartment, flat) has a poor concept of hygiene IMHO.
Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
Yesiree, it's a miracle that pet owners are not dying in droves!!! Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
Tyre Tread said:
It sounds as if the people on here don't know how to train a dog or manage the expectation of visitors.
If people are coming to visit I ask beforehand how they feel about the dog. I explain that she will want to say hello (i.e. check them out) very gently when they arrive and she will then be told to leave them alone unless she is called.
If they don't want to interact with the dog then they are kept away from the dog or we meet elsewhere.
The dog is part of our life that has to be considered when we interact with others. Sometimes a compromise can be found where everyone is happy sometimes we have to postpose or cancel arrangemnts.
Your friend probably didn't consider that you would rather have your child walking on carpet and probably thought you'd be happier from a hygiene persective to have the child on a hard floor.
If you can't say to your friends 'Can we sit in the lounge where its carpeted and my little bundle of stty nappy can play on a soft surface' then either you don't know how to communicate of they aren't very good friends.
Having watched a friend's young child grind a complete chocolate biscuitinto my brand new lounge carpet a few years sgo while it's mother sat there and commented on how accomodating I was about it especially having inly been laiud (the carpet) a week earlier, and then changed a dirty nappy on the carpet five minutes later, I fully understand why they didn't want your 'little bundle of fun' on their carpet.
They know they can trust the dog not to st on the carpet but your child is another matter.
Well if you just sat there while the kid put chocolate biscuit all over your carpet then either you can't communicate or they aren't very good friends... If people are coming to visit I ask beforehand how they feel about the dog. I explain that she will want to say hello (i.e. check them out) very gently when they arrive and she will then be told to leave them alone unless she is called.
If they don't want to interact with the dog then they are kept away from the dog or we meet elsewhere.
The dog is part of our life that has to be considered when we interact with others. Sometimes a compromise can be found where everyone is happy sometimes we have to postpose or cancel arrangemnts.
Your friend probably didn't consider that you would rather have your child walking on carpet and probably thought you'd be happier from a hygiene persective to have the child on a hard floor.
If you can't say to your friends 'Can we sit in the lounge where its carpeted and my little bundle of s
tty nappy can play on a soft surface' then either you don't know how to communicate of they aren't very good friends.Having watched a friend's young child grind a complete chocolate biscuitinto my brand new lounge carpet a few years sgo while it's mother sat there and commented on how accomodating I was about it especially having inly been laiud (the carpet) a week earlier, and then changed a dirty nappy on the carpet five minutes later, I fully understand why they didn't want your 'little bundle of fun' on their carpet.
They know they can trust the dog not to s
t on the carpet but your child is another matter.graphene said:
steve singh said:
Anyone who keeps a dog inside their living accommodation (house, apartment, flat) has a poor concept of hygiene IMHO.
Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
Yesiree, it's a miracle that pet owners are not dying in droves!!! Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
steve singh said:
graphene said:
steve singh said:
Anyone who keeps a dog inside their living accommodation (house, apartment, flat) has a poor concept of hygiene IMHO.
Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
Yesiree, it's a miracle that pet owners are not dying in droves!!! Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
Crossflow Kid said:
DoubleSix said:
we went to visit
Their house, their rules.(I am not a dog person by the way)
If you don't like their rules (which I don't happen to completely agree with, by the way) don't go - or leave when you think it is not acceptable.
I don't have kids, but if I did, I would make sure the environment was going to be suitable for them, BEFORE I agreed to spend a weekend at someone else's house - especially if I knew they had a dog.
steve singh said:
Anyone who keeps a dog inside their living accommodation (house, apartment, flat) has a poor concept of hygiene IMHO.
Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
Babies ain't exactly sterile themselves, but the don't spend their walkies seeking out every cow turd they can to bury their face in, I'll give 'em that.Dogs are for outdoors only, they smell, leave hair everywhere and drag their backside on the carpet - urgh!
kVA said:
Crossflow Kid said:
DoubleSix said:
we went to visit
Their house, their rules.(I am not a dog person by the way)
If you don't like their rules (which I don't happen to completely agree with, by the way) don't go - or leave when you think it is not acceptable.
I don't have kids, but if I did, I would make sure the environment was going to be suitable for them, BEFORE I agreed to spend a weekend at someone else's house - especially if I knew they had a dog.
For the benefit of skim readers like yourself, my point was a broader one that SOME dog owners allow their dog to dictate too much, from where we eat, where we go out for the day, to what room we reside in... secondly good friends (and hosts!) prioritise their guests over most other things to ensure they enjoy themselves, this notion of 'my house, my rules' is crass beyond belief, to me it's 'my house, your rules' when guests stay with the exception of smoking indoors etc. I'm repeating myself now but I guess we're at that point around 4 pages into a thread where people read the OP and dash to the end to voice their views without actually realising their point has already been discussed.
DoubleSix said:
Tyre Tread said:
It sounds as if the people on here don't know how to train a dog or manage the expectation of visitors.
If people are coming to visit I ask beforehand how they feel about the dog. I explain that she will want to say hello (i.e. check them out) very gently when they arrive and she will then be told to leave them alone unless she is called.
If they don't want to interact with the dog then they are kept away from the dog or we meet elsewhere.
The dog is part of our life that has to be considered when we interact with others. Sometimes a compromise can be found where everyone is happy sometimes we have to postpose or cancel arrangemnts.
Your friend probably didn't consider that you would rather have your child walking on carpet and probably thought you'd be happier from a hygiene persective to have the child on a hard floor.
If you can't say to your friends 'Can we sit in the lounge where its carpeted and my little bundle of stty nappy can play on a soft surface' then either you don't know how to communicate of they aren't very good friends.
Having watched a friend's young child grind a complete chocolate biscuitinto my brand new lounge carpet a few years sgo while it's mother sat there and commented on how accomodating I was about it especially having inly been laiud (the carpet) a week earlier, and then changed a dirty nappy on the carpet five minutes later, I fully understand why they didn't want your 'little bundle of fun' on their carpet.
They know they can trust the dog not to st on the carpet but your child is another matter.
Well if you just sat there while the kid put chocolate biscuit all over your carpet then either you can't communicate or they aren't very good friends... If people are coming to visit I ask beforehand how they feel about the dog. I explain that she will want to say hello (i.e. check them out) very gently when they arrive and she will then be told to leave them alone unless she is called.
If they don't want to interact with the dog then they are kept away from the dog or we meet elsewhere.
The dog is part of our life that has to be considered when we interact with others. Sometimes a compromise can be found where everyone is happy sometimes we have to postpose or cancel arrangemnts.
Your friend probably didn't consider that you would rather have your child walking on carpet and probably thought you'd be happier from a hygiene persective to have the child on a hard floor.
If you can't say to your friends 'Can we sit in the lounge where its carpeted and my little bundle of s
tty nappy can play on a soft surface' then either you don't know how to communicate of they aren't very good friends.Having watched a friend's young child grind a complete chocolate biscuitinto my brand new lounge carpet a few years sgo while it's mother sat there and commented on how accomodating I was about it especially having inly been laiud (the carpet) a week earlier, and then changed a dirty nappy on the carpet five minutes later, I fully understand why they didn't want your 'little bundle of fun' on their carpet.
They know they can trust the dog not to s
t on the carpet but your child is another matter.I did suggest that it might be better if they stopped their child from grinding the chocolate into the carpet or I might like to do the so at their house when we next visit.
DoubleSix said:
Well I can only assume you skim read the thread. We have addressed this already.
For the benefit of skim readers like yourself, my point was a broader one that SOME dog owners allow their dog to dictate too much, from where we eat, where we go out for the day, to what room we reside in... secondly good friends (and hosts!) prioritise their guests over most other things to ensure they enjoy themselves, this notion of 'my house, my rules' is crass beyond belief, to me it's 'my house, your rules' when guests stay with the exception of smoking indoors etc. I'm repeating myself now but I guess we're at that point around 4 pages into a thread where people read the OP and dash to the end to voice their views without actually realising their point has already been discussed.
Actually, I did read the whole thread, but felt the posts you referred to were aimed at your hosts attitude towards their dog and your visit: I think it is YOUR responsibility to make sure your needs will be met before you go to someone else's house and then publicly bFor the benefit of skim readers like yourself, my point was a broader one that SOME dog owners allow their dog to dictate too much, from where we eat, where we go out for the day, to what room we reside in... secondly good friends (and hosts!) prioritise their guests over most other things to ensure they enjoy themselves, this notion of 'my house, my rules' is crass beyond belief, to me it's 'my house, your rules' when guests stay with the exception of smoking indoors etc. I'm repeating myself now but I guess we're at that point around 4 pages into a thread where people read the OP and dash to the end to voice their views without actually realising their point has already been discussed.
h about their behaviour on the Internet!!!I sincerely hope your (ex) friends get to see this and don't ever invite you again... What an a
hole you are for being so fking rude to them (and me)
Steady on pal, I don't think I've said anything rude to you.... DoubleSix said:
Well I can only assume you skim read the thread. We have addressed this already.
For the benefit of skim readers like yourself...
...I'm repeating myself now but I guess we're at that point around 4 pages into a thread where people read the OP and dash to the end to voice their views without actually realising their point has already been discussed.
You don't think that's patronising and rude, then? For the benefit of skim readers like yourself...
...I'm repeating myself now but I guess we're at that point around 4 pages into a thread where people read the OP and dash to the end to voice their views without actually realising their point has already been discussed.
OK, so I think we now know who has the problem between you and your dog-owning friends
otolith said:
DoubleSix said:
to me it's 'my house, your rules' when guests stay with the exception of smoking indoors etc
So more "my house, your rules, unless they bother me"?DoubleSix said:
otolith said:
DoubleSix said:
to me it's 'my house, your rules' when guests stay with the exception of smoking indoors etc
So more "my house, your rules, unless they bother me"?kVA said:
DoubleSix said:
Well I can only assume you skim read the thread. We have addressed this already.
For the benefit of skim readers like yourself...
...I'm repeating myself now but I guess we're at that point around 4 pages into a thread where people read the OP and dash to the end to voice their views without actually realising their point has already been discussed.
You don't think that's patronising and rude, then? For the benefit of skim readers like yourself...
...I'm repeating myself now but I guess we're at that point around 4 pages into a thread where people read the OP and dash to the end to voice their views without actually realising their point has already been discussed.
OK, so I think we now know who has the problem between you and your dog-owning friends
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