That sounds truly awful. I have some kind of weird social anxiety around kids, I’m getting stressed out just thinking about this.

I’m interested in the whole office-kid policy thing because I was an Office Kid for awhile. There were a few years where my dad would pick me up from school and bring me to his workplace until he was ready to leave. It was actually kind of good for me, because literally all I was allowed to do was sit quietly at a…

The point you’re missing is that anyone who says cats are gross because of their litter boxes has no intention of picking up their dog’s poop. So it’s a pet with a litter box versus one they never clean up after.

Really? What about all the untreated cat, rat, squirrel, raccoon, possum, and cockroach urine and feces deposited on our streets and buildings and vegetable gardens?

I just cannot fathom the amount of untreated dog urine that is deposited on our streets

Ehh, this does not bother me. Waste (horse, dog, human) has been a part of city living since there were cities, and many cities are cleaner than ever through programs that encourage good behavior. And as a resident of NYC, I smell a lot more human waste than dog waste, unfortunately, and humans are both less cute and…

Yeah, I’m often told by people that they prefer dogs over cats because they find litter boxes gross. Like, more gross than having to bag up dog poop in the rain? I’ll never understand.

I have to appreciate the irony that the animal that actively cleans itself and chooses to crap in scented gravel is the one less likely to be accepted.

Dog training is hard and it takes a lot of work and you can really piss people off if you live in the city and don’t have the time to do it well. This is the reason I don’t have a dog yet, though I want one terribly. It’s also the reason that so many dog owners infuriate me. Like, you think I don’t want to go down to…

There was a woman at a job I was at who had an emotional support dog that she let run RAMPANT all around the office. The building was a pet-free zone, but she’d insisted anyway. She finally gets told to stop bringing in the dog after it pooped on the floor or something, and she threw an absolute fit about it. Lady, if…

I absolutely want to fight about this. While I’m not anti-dog, per se, I am anti many dog owners. I don’t own any dogs, don’t plan to ever own dogs and think it’s not too much to ask four things of dog owners:

You know what I hate? The fact that “pet friendly” is usually code for “dog friendly only, no other pets”. Notably for hotels. Thank goodness its been years since I’ve had to travel such distances with a cat that required a hotel stay, but it does happen (especially for moves) and most of the time when a hotel says…

Let’s not pretend that Amazon and other companies are allowing people to bring their dogs into work because they care about employee happiness. They are doing it because employees will work longer hours if they don’t have to go home to take care of their dogs.

Jeff Koons & Ilona Staller

She has abusive tendencies toward animals, hence she needs one for emotional support? Yeah, not buying it.

If she truly is that mentally disturbed, then she should not be allowed to have an animal unsupervised. You don’t give an emotional support animal to someone who’s likely to kill it. Some person’s emotional needs aren’t more important than an animal’s life.

Like, maybe this is why she apparently needs an emotional support animal?

Nope, an ESA is useless if the person has no bond to it and is willing to kill it when it becomes a minor inconvenience. People who genuinely require an ESA to function by and large are extremely bonded to their given animal and killing it is the last thing they’d do.

But it wouldn’t just be decreased inhibition and increased suggestibility. It would have to also be a severe disregard for animal life,  vastly decreased problem solving skills, and an inability to make competent decisions while caring for a pet.

Yea, I was thinking the same. Like, it was an “emotional support” pet, yet she killed the little critter instead of just looking for another option?