Is it normal that i can't stand pets?

I can't stand to be around animals, particularly animals with fur that shed. I've had to terminate a lease early because I couldn't stand living with a dog. It has to do with the cleanliness issue... I feel dirty after being in a house that has an animal where there's fur on everything. If I have to spend the night at a friend's who has a pet I have to take a shower before I can sit on anything at my house. It's like I feel I'm contaminated. I know that in some ways dogs are cleaner than humans (like their mouths) but I can't get past it in my mind when I think I have their "germs" on me. I am allergic to cats but I have this issue even with animals I'm not allergic to. I like to look at animals, I think they're cute and everything, but I cannot for the life of me touch them.

Am I normal?

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46% Normal
Based on 59 votes (27 yes)
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  • NorthernStar

    I don't like pets either, especially not in the house and I hate dogs no matter where they are.

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  • Moonbow

    I hate effing dogs! When I see one, I just want to kick it or bash it with a baseball bat! You're normal!

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    • Since you seem so judgmental and against dogs in your other rants on other posts I just have to address this one.

      You think its a rational response to want to kick or bash a defenseless innocent animal anytime you see it?? That isnt just not normal, its mental illness. Way more mental illness then people who hoard animals and live with 15 dogs in one house, which is a mental illness. How you function in society is a mystery to me, hopefully you live far, far away from me.

      You also seem to enjoy mentioning carbon footprints and other negative environmental impacts that dogs make, something about Save the Planet, Eat your Dog. While I dont profess to know much about environmental studies or global warming or anything of that nature, humans and our irresponsible overpopulation of this planet have caused and will continue to cause more environmental problems, carbon footprints, greenhouse gases and whatever other buzzword you would like to interject then dogs ever will. If dogs outnumbered people on this planet, which they obviously dont, the percentages still wouldnt be close at all. Humans industrialize every possible area they can, destroy all animals that would pose any threat whatsoever to their safety, leech fossil fuels from the earth itself to power those industries which in turn spew pollution into the environment.

      Humans are the only ANIMAL (and yes we are an animal no matter what we accomplish as a species) which does not and will not eventually reach an equilibrium with their surroundings and environment. We move to an area, multiple multiple and multiple with no natural predators to keep us in check until all natural resources have been consumed. Dogs, along with all other animals, do not and will not EVER do that.

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  • CraneyCrow

    Pets, especially dogs, are filthy, disease-ridden vermin. It is normal not to want to be around vermin.

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  • dappled

    I don't like tea. So I just don't drink it.

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  • 1000yrVampireKing

    Simple solution "DON'T GET A PET"!

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  • littlelulu1999

    Normal. You have every right not to like an animal or the way it makes you feel. Assert yourself and distance yourself if you have to.

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  • Sweetz

    Same as my sister

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  • DannyKanes

    Omg just htfu

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  • ms_funion

    you are normal to not like what you don't like

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