Small ratty hyperactive dogs
I've recently had a succession of short relationships where the final straw for me has been their loving adoration of some little hyperactive flea bag shit bag dog.

Highland terriers, jack russels, Yorkshire terriers etc.

WHAT, please WHAT is the attraction to a bad smelling hyperactive bag of meat that demands attention, brings fleas or other nasties into the house, craps in the garden and costs a fortune????

I personally imagine Satan himself has one and when I end up in Hell I'm bound to have to look after it.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 15:23, 10 replies)

when you first get them, as puppies
they are just as adorable as any other puppy, and as you grow with them they do acquire a lot of personality and are also quite portable. The problem comes when you meet someone ELSE'S small yappy-type dog. Without the shared history, they're just annoying.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 15:30, closed)

Whoa hold the bus there....
I've got a West Highland White Terrier aka a Westie and it's not as you describe at all.

She doesn't bark much, sleeps most of the day, and likes to bring one of her soft toys to the door when I get in from work. If I'm reading the papers on the living room floor, she likes to come in and sit down in the middle of the sports section and nudge me with her head until I tickle her tummy. How can you not like that?

However, dogs are a good judge of character. Maybe they just don't like you?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 15 Oct 2009, 15:38, closed)

Way to call someone a cunt #642.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 9:34, closed)

Clicks!!
Where can I read through #1 through #641?
(Soy milk supernova has nothing witty to add on, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 10:58, closed)

My Jack Russell
fulfils all those dire criteria, and more. Gawd knows how Mr Quar puts up with her, but he does.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 16:05, closed)

Sounds like an Ex
of Mine
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 17:41, closed)

i hate them
my neighbour has one, it yaps like a bastard every time i'm trying to watch telly. one of these days, i'm going to pull my foot back, let fly and punt the little fucker 50 yards
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 20:23, closed)

This
a thousand times this - but in some defence, not all of them are like that. Just most. My motto - if the dog intercepts your stride and becomes airborne as your leg hits it, it's not a dog, it's a rat so WHY THE FUCK IS IT IN YOUR HOUSE MAKING THAT FUCKAWFUL NOISE.
(berk, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 21:16, closed)

Why do people have them?
Two words: loving adoration.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 21:30, closed)

Just copied and pasted from Snopes, a favourite story
Author Truman Capote told a story about a blind date a friend of his once had. When the friend arrived, his date wasn't ready and invited him to wait in the living room while she finished dressing. She had a Great Dane, and the man amused himself while he waited by tossing a ball to the dog and waiting for him to retrieve it. By accident, he threw the ball out the window, and he dog went after it — all 18 floors. When his date came back into the living room, the man never said a word about what had happened — he couldn't think of anything to say.

After Capote told this story, comedienne Elaine May suggested what he might have said. "During dinner," Elaine volunteered, "he could have looked at his date and said, "You know, your dog seemed very depressed to me . . ."
(Troutbiscuits, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 10:53, closed)