Annoying Things People Do To/With Your Pet(s)

[Mistfox]

Friends/family often give my dog treats and table scraps even though I insist they don’t because he will get fat (which he was once before.) and also may have allergies to certain foods that cause him to be itchy.

Because people do this, my dog has a food addiction. He will steal peoples food and fuss when he doesn’t get a piece of someones food. He isn’t super fat or anything, but it annoys me people have done this to my dog. I had a uncle even let my dog lick his ice cream bowls because “he felt bad for him.”

My granny and cousin have exactly the same excuse! I tell them they are killing their dogs but they don’t listen! Atleast my stepdad would kill them if they tried to give my dog Bella any human food.

[CustardFox]

This has been mentioned a lot, but feeding them!! I'll let my dog eat human food when I think its okay. I've had people try to feed her the worst things like BBQ and jalapenos! Of course, she will eat them too because she doesn't know any better! Then I have to watch her carefully for 42 hours to make sure she doesn't start vomiting/etc.
Another thing I hate is when my family will "punish" my dog over nothing. She used to pee on the floor so I have worked out a schedule where she won't do that. I have told my family multiple times her schedule is to go outside at 9, as she is more likely to have an accident after then. One day I came home exhausted and they never let her out! I woke up at 11 by chance and she had peed not once but TWICE!!! Now my dad is very angry and he throws her outside anytime he sees her in the house, which is very unfair because its hot outside and the other dogs are allowed to stay in even though one of my other dogs has accidents too.

[fiirstcrush]

in march i got a betta, hes my best friend and oddly he's grown very attached to me. anyway, i live at my uncles house and when my 6 year old cousin comes over, she starts stomping everywhere! shaking my betta's tank ridiculously then whenever she sees my betta I caught her 8 times in one hour trying to grab him, I told her to stop many times, and even had to pull her away from my desk.
Infuriates me beyond belief, Same with her grabbing my dog and purposefully making him choke himself on his leash by staying out of range and jumping so my dog cant run up to her

[risotto]

So we moved and my cousin and her 3 year old daughter live near us,, she'll bring her daughter over occasionally and now we have to lock my cat in my bedroom because if we don't she throws her, pulls her tail, and hits her. She gets upset when she wants to pet Kitty (her name was an accident) and Kitty gets mad and leaves. (She can't come over anymore for another reason) Kitty is extremely attached to me, so when I play with her and get her to claw me she can calm down and sleep in my lap. My cousin does nothing about her kid terrorising my cat though, she thinks it's funny. But because of this, she's annoyed by smaller children and gets mad when they touch her tail. My 2 year old nephew is extremely gentle with her and she's still scratched him because he was petting her very fluffy tail.

[Lostfairy]

I don’t have my own pet but I walk this little sweet Yorkshire Terrier-Pomeranian mix dog. Her name is Mocha and my family is friends with her owners.

Anyway, one time I was holding Mocha’s leash and going for a walk with her and my sister. We’re going down our street all calmly when all of a sudden, this big black dog that I’ve never met or seen before charges out of its home and goes straight for us. I don’t like having big dogs run at me when I don’t know how the heck they act around Mocha or people in general. So I admit, I let out a scream by accident. This dogs owner comes out all slowly, just going reeeeeeallllll slowly after her dog. The dog has reached us and I quickly pull Mocha into my arms to keep her from being trampled. (She’s tiny compared to this dog and idk how she is with new dogs) The dog runs around me and my sister and leaps onto my legs, trying to get to Mocha. I’m guessing it was happy to see a dog and that’s nice and all but HELLO, I DO NOT KNOW THIS DOG AND I AM KINDA PANICKING. So me and my sister are calling at the owner, trying to ask her to get her dog off me (I love it when dogs leap a bit on me but I’ve heard that there’s some more aggressive dogs on our street) and the lady just keeps SLOWLY MEANDERING TOWARDS US, and calls back in an annoyed tone of voice “He’s friendly, he’s nice, don’t worry.” But like wow, thankssssss for helping two girls who are panicking. Finallllly, she reaches us and grabs her dogs collar and drags him away. But I was shaking so hard cuz yeah, it wasn’t very fun. I felt bad for Mocha too, she almost got trampled by the dog.

Don’t get me wrong. I love dogs SO SO MUCH. But something about this dog made me feel uneasy. Idk. XD Again, I didn’t know how Mocha would act around a new dog or the dog would act around her and all that stuff.

[ChocoDog935]

When my family talks cute to my pets

[caught in your frost]

When my brother leaves out food in our room in which my rabbit can easily get to. He's left out:
-sour gummy worms
-regular gummy worms
-coconut flakes
-a giant bag of halloween candy, mainly chocolate
-sour cream and onion chips
-barbecue chips

Then he gets mad at me when she eats them. Like no, it doesn't work that way. You could've killed my rabbit by leaving your food out. I'm not saying you can't eat in the room at all, just put them somewhere she can't get to them. Simple as that.

...did I mention that he's 25 years old?

[leeleecat]

When my sister pulls my dogs ears and sits on her...

[Ruffimutt]

My extreme pet peeve with pets is when people buy a pet and then abandon it because its no longer 'cute'
like why.

Also people who say animals don't have souls and/or feelings annoy me  

[AtlasHyperion]

People who know nothing about horses who try to tell me about horses, sigh.