When did people get so dang rude????

 i know what you mean. it sucks. the worst is when people stereotype all the people of one region of the country because they had a handful of negative experiences.

as a southern born and raised person, most of the rude people i encounter are have moved here from elsewhere or are natives who are damn tired of dealing with rude people from elsewhere.

perhaps if people move to the south and find it an unsavory place to live they would do all of us a favor and move back to from whence they came? 

Cita

 Okay... so people on here have complained about people asking what breed of dog it is, and people complain about other people guessing what breed of dog it is, so what's the right answer here? Shut up and say "nice puppy" and move on? (Just razzin' you guys... as a very un-breed-savvy person I sometimes get pretty nervous reading these things. I'm terrified to inquire about dogs anymore for fear of offending someone by not instantaneously being able to ID their PWD or bearded collie or whatever... I mean, of course YOU guys know what breed your dogs are, but not everyone has been exposed to that breed before! Don't take offense just because people are ignorant...!)

Anyway... I don't understand why people think it's okay to insult other people's dogs, any more than it would be okay to insult someone's child, or their clothes, or their hairstyle... people who would never dream of making fun of, say, my car, will make fun of Rascal and his big ears. Um, yes, I know my dog's ears are rather large, thanks for pointing that out? It totally blows my mind.

And then there are the (surprisingly large number of) people who have to BARK at my dog. Thus far this has been a phenomenon reserved exclusively for middle aged men - they see the dog, and they must bark at him, and then think it's just hilarious when he freaks out and barks back. Yeah... thanks for setting my training back another couple of weeks, jerkwad.

Jennie, I hope the stupid people don't make the grooming business any more difficult for you :) And best of luck with it. Maybe you need a new papillon puppy to draw some oooohs and ahhhhhhs.... nudge, nudge... :)
 

Okay, what IS it about Papillons & middle aged men?  Aspen will just look @ them like they are the idiots they are.  Maghee will bark back.  Thanks fools.  I'm trying to socialize her & not be reactive.  That helps a lot. 

Insult me but NOT MY DOGS.  I was at a antique show a while ack.  I had Aspen & my then foster, Trucker with me.  Someone said after we passed that my dogs were ugly.  I was so upset.  Okay, they might not be what others might like as far as dogs go but I think they are freaking aDORable.  Keep your yap shut.

Jennie, FWIW, I think that your kiddos are so cute & I'd be honored to give them all the luvins they could handle.

Oh, one of my all time favorite things is people telling DH to watch his head.  He's tall.  Um, like he wasn't aware of his height & might suddenly whack his head on something he's been walking under for years?  Now when people say "whoa, you'rea big fella.  How tall are you?" One of us will say my height.

Ugh! I'm sorry! People are incredibly rude lately and I wonder when it started. I hate going out in public, but I hate worse when I get breed guesses about my dogs. Constantly about Maggie too.

Here's a good one that's NDR but still a good one. Driving through a park on this long stretch of road, its a two lane. So this truck comes flying up behind me (its a 25 mph zone and they are really strict about it), so I move into the right lane so he can pass. Well he gets to my car and slows down so he's next to me, and I keep slowing down so does he. I look over and he's staring at me in my car. So I fly passed get in front of him in the left lane, he gets into the right lane flys up at me and just is staring at me. Its one of those perverted stares too!! I mouthed he's a pervert and slammed on my brakes and he kept going. I was sooooo annoyed. I hate when middle aged men stare at me, sooo gross!

BTW, I don't think your dogs are ugly, you know what, I don't think any dogs are ugly, its just the same as me not making fun or talking about other people. It's just respectful and I hate people that poke fun of others for how they look. A girl at work will say how ugly a dog was that just came in, and I always say it wasn't and we argue over it. I just hate how she's like "eww that dog is sooo ugly". Then I go play with the dog and its the sweetest thing, and that's what matters to me...

People are rude lately. I'm not sure what it is.

The other day at a restaurant I ordered soup and a sandwich, and the waiter looked at me and said "Lady, you don't want the soup AND the sandwich". So rude! And this guy expects me to tip him? I was hungry, and yes I did want the soup and the sandwich.

Over the weekend at a box store I was buying some toys for the dogs, and one of the food reps came up, and was trying her normal pitch. I don't like to be rude so I normally don't cut them off. After she was finished I told her that I was happy with my food. She asked what I feed and I told her and she said that Cheza is too skinny on it, and that papillons do well on her food. I told her Cheza was not too skinny, and not a papillon at all, but a bc, and the woman insisted she was a papillon. She said you can tell by the ears, lol. I laughed and left at that point. Cheza is 30 pounds!

I'm not particularly breed savvy either, but I find  that people don't get offended if I say something like "Pretty dog.  What is he?" Someone at the dog park once overheard me telling somebody that Max was a mutt from the shelter and he jumped in and insisted that "No.  He's not a mutt.  He's a purebred Southern Blackmouth Cur." Okay.  Maybe he is.  Who knows?  Who cares? BTW, I really don't think there's such a thing as an ugly dog. Some just have a better handle on "cute" than others.

Joyce

Cheza the papillon might be the funniest thing I have ever heard.

Luna gets called a BC all the time, which I can understand since she is an Aussie. However, people will insist it's because she is a black tri and Aussies have the "marble coats". Then I will get strange looks when I explain that they come in multiple coat colors from solid black to red merle, like I have no clue and my dog must be a BC. Aggg.

"Yes, I understand that I have hunting dogs.  No, I do not hunt with them as they do agility and obedience"  "What?  No!  I'm not being cruel to my dogs by denying them the hunt!"

Then, I walk away to pick up their hunting dog's poop for them cause they apparently will not do it.  The problem is that these guys (always a guy) insist that I should be hunting with my dogs but their own dogs are a)wearing an ecollar b)have no recall whatsoever and c)are just as rude as their owners.

I love Minnesota!