I don't dislike dogs, but I'm done trying to be a dog person.
"Oh, you just haven't met the right dog!"
I have. Several. I met the first two Air Bud dogs in person, and my parents have a wonderful one, his name is Chevy, he's a black lab and he's fucking awesome. I'm still done trying to be a dog person.
Age three I was bitten in the face by our family's yellow lab, age seven a rottweiler bit my ass while I was delivering newspapers, a golden retriever bit my wrist while getting into a customer's car when I was an apprentice "Oh, he doesn't like men!" well why the fuck did you bring him to a mechanic shop you absolute twat?! My aunt's terrier bit my calf when I was jumping into a lake, etc, etc, etc.
Last week, I'm getting out of my car (at home), walking to the house and something just grabs my ankle- it's a pyrenees mountain dog, and it's not happy with me. Typically I'm in workboots and have some kind of tool within reach, but this time I was in running shoes and holding a key fob for a Volvo. I yelled, I pulled my leg free, it took a break for a sec and I kicked it in the teeth to get it away from me. Keep in mind, this leg is already in some pain because I broke my knee in October. Oh it's been a year.
I recognized it as my odd hillbilly neighbor's dog, went over to let them know that their dog attacked me out of the blue. "Oh, don't worry, she has all her shots! She's a guard dog."
Well, why is your guard dog in my fucking driveway, and why do you need a guard dog when you lived in an abandoned cheese factory?
Not "are you okay/was your kid with you/wow, you're bleeding a lot".
So after I was talked out of sacrificing the thing with my bare hands on their front lawn, I called animal control and they quarantined the thing for ten days. The vicious fucker is back, and I see this on our local community facebook page:
That's the inbred granddaughter who lives in the hillbilly house- so no, the dog didn't have its fucking shots. Thanks for letting me know, you retards.
So yeah, I know "there are no bad dogs, just bad people" but fuck it, there are definitely some shitty dogs (albeit, a result of shitty people) out there and I want them to not be near me.
Bonus pic of my sweet ankle.