Dude.. Don't interact with a dog without the owner's consent.
That's very bad behavior. Bad human!
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Don't go powering people's dogs without getting an okay from owner. You don't know how friendly or skittish the dog is.
Ok realtalk though talking to a dog is how I met my absolute FAVE group of homeless dudes. One of them had a dog I stopped to say hi to and we chatted one day on my way home from work.
A few weeks later I stop to say hi again and he he says "hey you're a nurse right? Do you have any bandages or anything? A raccoon bit her two nights ago."
I'd recently stole some saline flushes from work to clean my fiance's pet rat's wound, and had some ace wraps and gauze and bacitracin left over from the last time I got hurt myself. I always have gloves on hand because lbr sometimes life is just nasty.
Him and his buddies held the dog down while I flushed the wound and shoved the bacitracin in and wrapped it (it's ok though she forgave me, lol). I did tell him he really REALLY needed to take her down to the ASPCA and beg them to vax the dog which he did.
Anyway we all hang out for a beer on the corner sometimes now but we try to stay away from the main road since Joe got scolded by the po-po for drinking in public. They're not usually too hard on any of them because the real city protip is to only pick up the truly unruly and harassing motherfuckers and leave the regular dudes chillin'.
I grew up rural so having an urban version of the old dudes drinking beer and people watching on their rickety-ass porch all day is a welcome sight to me. Them motherfuckers always have the best gossip. It's a tad more multicultural than where I grew up but tbh that's just a bonus!
Homeless people always seem to have the fucking sweetest dogs ever. I can see why many avoid shelters since they don't allow dogs.
I can imagine when society sees you as a problem rather than the situation you're in, having a companion who loves you unconditionally becomes a lot more important.
I am a homeless advocate in San Diego. They do have some sweet dogs, but some are not at all sweet. I've been bitten by a couple of them while handing out water and snacks.
The real problem is that there is an entire subculture of breeders among the homeless that refuse to get their pets spayed or neutered. I will be the first to admit that no one that is homeless, that I have ever met, would ever think about their needs before their dogs' needs, so those pets aren't living nearly as hard a life as their owners. That being said, we have too many dogs and cats in this country. I don't know what the solution is. It's inhumane to take their pets from them. It's also inhumane to allow them to breed their pets willy-nilly, causing even more stray and feral dogs.
I am absolutely terrible at remembering people’s names, even mere seconds after meeting them and introducing ourselves
But I most certainly remember their dog’s name and will refer to them as “dog-name’s human.”
what do you do when they don't have a dog?
Not worth remembering
Run
Half the comments in this thread are people to stupid to take a joke lmao the meme was funny just laugh and move on
No,! we have to make a moral lesson about it!!!
Yes,! I agree with you!!!
We'd laugh if this meme is funny.
That is not how it works...
Speak for yourself, I wanna know the dog's name, their breed, how old they are, and their favourite treats, and the owner has to talk for me to learn that info. Also, you know, asking permission to pet first is important.