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Originally Posted by ditsy My pet peeve is kids.
The way they come running up and screaming and shouting, three or four at a time, and then they don't ask if they can pet my Yorkie but just start grabbing at his head (which obviously scares him silly and he just backs away).
Now I know I'm not very tolerant of badly behaved kids, I'm not a parent myself and have no intention of being one and yet I can kind of forgive kids because he's adorably cute and I want to pet him every time I see him too and they have to be taught to behave.
But my REAL pet peeve is when the parents are there, and I'm trying to get the kids to calm down (ie: "let him sniff your hand first" or "sit on the ground and let him come to you") that they parents don't do anything to enforce the boundaries I'm laying out. Allowing there kids to get away with anything and then glaring at me if I have the cheek to be firm with their kids.
I had one kid who kept trying to pick him up and squeeze my dog, which obviously I don't allow, and his mother actually "tisk" at me when after telling her kid three times he couldn't pick up my dog, and he still does, I used a firm voice and told him "No!" and took the dog off him.
Now I just avoid walking him after 3pm until it gets dark to ensure I don't have to deal with that. |
That would definitly piss me off, I wouldve probably said a few choice words to the parent too. Yesterday at petsmart this little boy kept coming up to Rocky, first he sat on the ground and Rocky ran up to him in his arms, but he was by the ground so I didn't care. Then I was talking to a lady with a Lahso Apso and Rocky was sniffing out her dog, and this kid comes around and just picks him up like Rocky's his! I grabbed Rocky from him and told the kid "He doesn't want to be picked up" and the kid walked away. I felt so bad, my baby was trying to get away and this kid thought it was his dog!! I couldn't get too mad, the kid was young, but the parents should have been with him (the whole time in the store I never saw the kids parents)