I love dogs. I own a dog. Dogs are great.
I also have a friend who is married to a woman who works at an animal shelter, and every time I look at my Facebook feed there's an update from her about some dog that needs a home. This woman, bless her heart, is constantly trying to find these mangy looking mutts a place to live. It's a noble cause, but it's also incredibly annoying because it's not just dogs that need homes that she's posting. It's basically any damn dog she comes across ends up flooding my Facebook.
She makes me hate dogs I've never even met. Maybe I subconsciously hate her and I don't know it, and this hatred is manifesting through the dogs. I don't know. All I know is that I want to adopt these dogs and then release them into the local forest preserve.
Run free, Fido! Get back to your roots.
So why am I telling you this?