My pet peeve is on social media when someone who works in the vet med field/grooming field/boarding field/training field and has been bitten, scratched, lunged at or so on and so forth by specific breeds and the second they say those breed names people are in the comments going like "MY baby would never!"
Like good for you??? Glad you've never had to experience an animal attacking you but people are allowed to feel a certain type of way as a result of those breeds having attacked them a lot. Or people immediatley start attacking small dogs in the comments because they get angry that a large dog could oh...I don't know...kill someone?????
Like those posts aren't going after your specific dog. The person is literally just talking about their experience handling all these different breeds and how from their own PERSONAL experience these are the ones that have caused them the most issues. It's not an attack on that breed. I don't think people get that those who work with animals on a day to day basis typically aren't those animals favorite people ?
So as a result they aren't going to get the sweet cuddly pet version of animals that people get to see when they have these breeds as pets. So it feels beyond dismissive and belittling to have people jump in and be like "Uh I would beg to differ!!!!"
I'm glad you haven't had that experience...but those of us who work with animals on a daily basis do not have that luxury. It's frustrating.
P.S.A this post isn't directed at any specific breeds I just hate hate HATE people dismissing people's experiences because they have a good dog themselves that likes them....the OWNER....you know the person the pet is supposed to like?????