I don't dislike dogs in the slightest, but thought that in the interests of fairness a thread should be started really.

They can be a bloody nuisance. My neighbour's dog comes into our garden and craps everywhere, growls at our two cats in the window even though it is their territory and has been known on a couple of occasions to growl and bark at me when I try to get shot of it.

I got a mouthful of abuse from the next door neighbour when I threw a glass of water at the dog.

So, according to the cat-hater's logic I should really hate dogs, seeing as my experience of neighbouring ones is similar to some views of cats.

As I say, I like dogs, but does anyone have tales of woe about them?

I don't dislike dogs ... infact apart from spiders, I don't dislike any creature or critter but I do have a bit of a fear of dogs. It's the jumping up and over excitability that makes me so afraid ... and their mouths are sooooo big! Although having said that, my cat is prone to similar behaviour when he's got a strop on

My dog tale of woe is recently being chased down the road by a yappy Yorkshire Terrier. A truly terrifying ordeal!!!

Sort of. Mine are mostly about other dogs/owners when taking MY dog out.

Now, she's a rescue and for whatever reason, does not really like other dogs (with exceptions, usually big male dogs, the tart). So it reallllly annoys me when I'm in a park or open space, dog off the lead because it's safe, and someones dog from over the other side comes bounding up and won't go away.

My dog ignores it best it can but when she's tired of the bloody thing trying to sniff her bum will snap and growl. So there's me trying to control my dog and trying to shoo the other away, while hoping it won't growl back and start attacking my dog! (which has happened) Meanwhile the owner is over the other side with not a care in the world

BAH!

I dislike small, yappy ratty dogs, and I'm scared of large dogs of any breed-have been all my life. And yes, the jumpiness makes me jumpy!

I HATE it when a dog is barking aggressively and the owner quips 'he/she's only being friendly', 'he/she won't touch you', etc. when you know given half the chance it'd take a flippin' great chunk out of you!

Don't like that 'dog' smell either-yuck.

And don't get me started on owners who don't clear up after them!

I only like small dogs, like Yorkies for example, Big Slobbering yappy dogs are Irritaing.
I love cute small ones.

I love dogs but I don't like dog owners who don't control their dogs and who don't pick up dog poo!!!!!!!!!

I don't like my dog very much tonight. He rolled in something horrible at the woods earlier (I think it was deer poo) and now he stinks to high heaven!

He's about to have a bath which usually involves me getting more soaked than him too, so he's officially in the bad books.

Agreed, love dogs, hate their lazy owners standing by watching whilst they leave a huge "deposit" and then sauntering off
Also hate the usually fat and balding (probably impotent) aggressive middle age guys with vicious dogs straining at the lead cos they've been trained to attack anything that moves.

Dogs are horrid and vile. The smaller they are, the more noise they make, stupid things. The more strong and silent, astute breeds WOULD be OK, but that the males get their willies out at the slightest provocation. Just uuurgh.

I second this. I walk across a popular dog-walking area nearly every day, and I'd say the majority of owners appear to have little control over their dogs. I've seen them chase sheep, annoy cattle, and had one very wet and muddy dog leap on me a few weeks ago! (I was very good, I didn't swear - but they knew I wasn't very impressed!)

I used to love dogs, and then I owned one. Not that I didn't like my dog, just that I realised I never want another and not simply because we had to put him down through cancer Dogs are too needy for me. I do like cats, though.

I have a dog, and a cat, and an elderly 5 year old goldifish.... Very fond of them all....

But when I actually catch the hound that continually P!$$es on the wheels of my Porsche (which is parked WAY out of anyone's way in a corner far away from all the other cars; so that someone's going out their way to do this) I shall pressure feed it's minced remains backwards through its owners digestive tract...

I am really disliking a lot of bigger dogs... they scare me I don't mind smaller ones.

If you want to stop this, go out and scrub your wheels with a solution of biological washing powder. It breaks down the enzymes in dog's pee that makes it smell. Dogs use their nose to decide where to cock their legs, usually over a spot they've already marked or to mark over a spot where another dog has gone. If they can't already smell pee there, they won't tend to go there

(It's a pain in the hole that you're the one who has to take action against something that isn't your fault, though. I can sympathise - picking up other people's cat crap from my garden really annoys the hell out of me)

Strange how people's opinions differ isn't it?

I really like larger dogs in the main. They tend to be much quieter and better behaved in general, mainly because they have to be. You can't have a large animal thinking it is dominant.

Whereas smaller ones, especially Yorkshire Terriers but things like Jack Russells as well, I find to be pathologically evil. Snappy, aggressive, noisy, yappy, belligerent little bastards almost without exception.

I'm really, really petrified of dogs.

So was I. Then, suddenly something clicked and now I love dogs.

I have a phobia of dogs, been trying to get over it for years! I'd love to have one, and the kids keep asking but just can't at the moment.

I don't like dogs either (as in I don't like cats). I'm just not an animal lover.

I was bitten by a dog as a kid and for years was terrified of them. Didn't matter what size, whether they were on the lead or not, I would shake when they came near me, it was awful.

Then our neighbours got the biggest, calmest lump of a collie lab cross ever and I was forced to deal with the reality of a dog at close quarters cos my brother and sister had it in our house all the time Frightening at the time but the best thing for me, I kind of realised there was no need to be scared of ALL dogs and how important it is for dogs to be kept under control.

Now I have my own dog, something I never thought would ever happen when I was a kid...

If you neighbour wont listen about your complaint regarding his dogs excements being left. Then shovel it up, and post it through his letterbox... It will cease, trust me!

Although I actually grew up from birth with my grand mothers dog and adored him, I had a huge phobia of any other dog, I would literally have a panic attack whenever I saw one coming and would have to go out of my way to avoid it.
But one day I decided I wanted to get fit and I thought I'd get two things solved at once and cure my fear of dogs as well and went out and got one and it was the best thing I have ever done.
Dogs are one of my biggest passions in life now, they are all beautiful, clever, strong, intelligent animals, not to mention very adoreable! This is why it annoys me greatly when people abuse and neglect them. Mine is the best company I could hope for. He has gotten me more fit than I ever would have alone. He is really special to me and I'm not sure I'll ever be without a dog now

We're looking into a getting a dog, to cure my fear.

The phobia has got to the point where I won't go to friends houses if they've got a dog, will cross the road if I see one and will shake just at the thought of having to go somewhere where one might be. I know there's nothing to be scared of and I've never been bitten etc, but I just can't seem to shift the fear.

That said, I was petrified of cats too until we got one. Now I love them to pieces.

I was exactly the same with the knowing that a dog on a lead that's walking calmly by it's owner's side can't hurt me, but there was always that 'what if'? in the back of my head.

Exposure to a dog is a great way of dealing with your fear but just bear in mind that it might take a while to get over it and some aspects of your fear might never go. My dog 'smiles' and gnashes her teeth when she's excited, it's a breed type behaviour so nothing unusual, but the first time she did it, it scared me. Even now I know it's not in the slightest bit aggressive, I still have to remind myself that it's fine and nothing to worry about

That will be the fox poo for you Stinks I know, but the dogs love it The fox urine is even a stronger musky smell.