Is it just me, or do you hate the cult of canine too?
- Stats show there are now 11 million dogs in UK homes, up from 9.6 million in 2021
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The UK has gone utterly canine crazy. Far from treating them like the domestic pets they are, I know people who hire ‘babysitters’ on the rare occasions they are forced to go places where ‘man’s best friend’ is not allowed.
The rest of the time, they drag them along to everything, from birthday parties to book clubs, too worried to leave them home alone for even a few short hours.
These owners talk and post endlessly on social media about their pooches, though surely they must know that others aren’t interested in something that doesn’t do, or say, anything worthy of a wider audience?
Statistics show there are now 11 million dogs in UK homes, up from 9.6 million in 2021.
Statistics show there are now 11 million dogs in UK homes, up from 9.6 million in 2021 (stock image)
This surge in ownership is being blamed for a rise in attacks on poor old posties — there were just shy of 2,000 last year.
I have some insight into how they must feel, having been knocked to the ground, from behind, by an over-excited mid-sized poodle cross while running in a park earlier this year.
As I nursed my sore wrist and knees, all the doting owner could say was: ‘Sorry, we should have had him on a leash.’ You don’t say!
Friends had dogs when I was growing up, but they were always peripheral to family life, lying in baskets in the kitchen and ordered to stay there.
Yet today’s pets are utterly deified. Their owners wait expectantly for you to go gaga over little Fido.
I have some insight into how they must feel, having been knocked to the ground, from behind, by an over-excited mid-sized poodle cross while running in a park earlier this year (stock image)
Yes, I get it: people love their dogs. I just wish such owners would stop expecting the rest of us to worship at their altar, too (stock image)
And if your face gives away the fact that you’d rather not be licked by a tongue recently used to clean a bottom, they look at you like you’re a psychopath.
I’m not sure why canines have found themselves in this VIP position, but suspect there’s a link with the falling birth rate.
Yes, I get it: people love their dogs. I just wish such owners would stop expecting the rest of us to worship at their altar, too.
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