Fluent in barking sounds

So, useful life skill. Begin every bark with a loud nasal snarl like your CPAP mask came off in the night, fill your mouth with spit, pull your cheeks back as you bark so you sound like an animal with a long, slavering snout, and bark angrily in a high-pitched, offended-sounding ‘doh-mi-mi! doh-mi-mi! doh-mi-mi!’ pattern while sprinting towards the animal so they can hear you getting louder as you get closer. Then stop. Snarl again if you choose to.

The little face at the end lmao

Impressive. I immediately thought of a very angry dog ready to kill me even if it got itself killed doing so.

Bro’s got that dawg in em ✊🏽

Translation: “It’s 6AM… look at what that dog is doing. 🤦🏽‍♂️ The only dog who doesn’t do that it’s me because I’ve always been a polite dog 🐶 ” Proceeds to bark

I get it, but this still makes me sad.

I generally love dogs, but the way street dogs often target children and the elderly makes me feel more neutral toward them

I’ve visited a couple countries with large street dog populations and it makes me view dogs differently. Those dogs will bite a kids fingers off for a snack the first chance they get.

You had a bad experience or heard a horror story – fair, that can shape how you see things. But turning that into “street dogs will bite a kid’s fingers off the first chance they get” is a massive leap. Most strays are scared and avoid conflict, they are not bloodthirsty. They avoid humans more often than not. Generalizing all of them like they’re wild predators fuels unnecessary fear and justifies mistreatment.

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Sure, half my family on my mother’s side lives in Angola, and the other half on my dad’s side lives in Cape Verde. I’ve seen large populations of street dogs up close, not from behind a tour bus window. Most are cautious, skittish, and just trying to survive, not prowling around waiting to bite kids’ fingers off “for a snack.” That kind of language shows a poor understanding of animal behavior. Any creature can be defensive when desperate, painting all strays as bloodthirsty threats just screams sheltered tourist energy.

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Your exact words were “those dogs will bite a kid’s fingers off for a snack the first chance they get.” That’s not a neutral observation, it’s an exaggerated claim. I responded politely and tried to refute it with perspective, but you got defensive and personal. If your actual point was just “not all dogs are friendly,” then sure, that’s obvious and no one disagrees. But the way you said it painted strays as inherently dangerous, which is misleading. That’s all man, have a good day.

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Only when someone starts ranting about finger-eating dogs, I swear.

You are delusional, seek help.

Impressive. Took both neurons firing at once, huh?

Dude, it’s not a street dog specific thing. I have seen a lot of stray dogs, and I have seen a lot of pet dogs. In my personal experience, there have been more instances of pet dogs mauling kids than stray dogs.

free roaming dogs are absolute garbage and the owners are uncivilized. Unless we are talking of very low population density zones like a farm. being in a low income country is not a good excuse, you don’t need a rocket industry to learn that dogs should stay within your properties walls or you shouldn’t get one.

> being in a low income country is not a good excuse It’s an explanation though. People in these countries have no respect for animals. They will get a puppy and then discard it when it becomes too much effort to care for. Or keep it locked in a cage its entire life. Same for all sorts of pets.