No One Cares About Your Pet But You!!!

All right peoples, being a not quite so mild mannered postal worker by day, I get attacked by a lot of dogs. And the people who own them, when they even bother to NOTICE the fact, seem completely SURPRISED that their dog would EVER do such a thing, or that I could ever possibly be annoyed that their stupid little dog would follow me around barking and nipping at my heels.

Allow me to spell things out, because people like that are obviously too stupid to understand. No one in the entire world gives two damns about your pet. In fact, no one in the world gives a single damn about your pet. Wait, let me check. Yeah, I'm just completely out of damns to give about your pet. When your pet is being a nuisance, making lots of noise, chasing people around, attacking them, it is INCREDIBLY annoying. We don't think everything your pet does is cute. We don't find their behavior acceptable because they're just so lovable. We don't care one way or another if your pet lives or dies, but when it's being a complete nuisance and completely unsupervised by YOU as is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to that pet, we're leaning closer to hoping it dies.

If you own a pet, dog, cat, whatever, you have a responsibility to take care of that pet. This means feeding it, loving it, giving it a place to sleep, all of that. It also means NOT LETTING THE DAMN THING HAVE THE RUN OF THE ENTIRE FREAKING NEIGHBORHOOD 24/7 WITHOUT ANY SUPERVISION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! News flash people, THIS IS NEGLECT. You are SERIOUSLY neglecting your pet if you allow it to run free. You are also RESPONSIBLE for EVERYTHING that your pet does whilst running free. Destroyed property, YOUR FAULT! Mauled children (or mailmen) YOUR FAULT! Any injury that your pet takes, YOUR FAULT!

I live in Utah, and the leash laws here are rather strict. It is illegal to allow your pet--notice I do not say dog here, but PET--to roam free at any time except in designated park areas. If it is not on a leash, on a chain, or tethered in any other way, behind a fence, or inside your home, you are breaking the law. You are also neglecting your pet. This law applies to cats as well as dogs, and every other animal as well. I do not care if your dog is running around your unfenced front yard whilst you are in it. YOU ARE STILL BREAKING THE FREAKING LAW!!! Also, and I have looked this up, it is perfectly within my lawful rights in the state of Utah, to KILL any dog that is both unsupervised and making a nuisance of itself. This law should probably be changed, yes, but if your dog is barking at the wrong person and chasing them around because you are too stupid to know that this is what dogs do when they are not supervised, it is perfectly lawful for that person to KILL your dog and suffer no legal consequences whatsoever.

Let me explain something to you about dogs. No matter how much you may feel that your dog is a part of your family. No matter what size or temperment your dog may be. IT IS STILL AN ANIMAL! If will still run after strangers. It will still bark and them. It may even try to attack them if it feels threatened. Why? BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT DOGS DO YOU FREAKING RETARD!!! And YOU are responsible for EVERYTHING that it does whether it is under your close supervision or not.

So, to recap. No one else on earth cares about your pet. No one else on earth thinks that your pet is cute, or feels any sort of attachment to said pet whatsoever. When your pet is not supervised and roaming free, you are neglecting its care. Anything that happens to that pet is YOUR fault. Anything that your pet does whilst roaming free is also YOUR fault. It is perfectly lawful for anyone to KILL your pet if it is being a nuisance, and suffer no legal repercussions for it.

Think about that, the next time you let your pet roam free and out of your supervision. I'm not saying all of this because I hate pets. I love dogs. I grew up with dogs. I hate to see people who neglect their pets to such a degree that they do not even know or care that that pet is roaming free and possibly attacking random strangers. If you cannot have the simple decency to take proper care of your pet YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO HAVE ONE!