Pet Peeves

One of my biggest pet peeves is, well, pets. I dont like them. There's the fear of being bitten by the bigger pets, for one thing. But its more than just that. I highly dislike touching them, being licked on the face and other such things that 'pet owners' seem to enjoy like hell. But I do like them and other animals from a distance (just in case i become famous one day and Maneka Gandhi decides to use this post against me).
So everytime I visit a friend who owns a dog, I spend the first few minutes worrying where the thing is lurking at that moment, waiting to pounce on me to do one of the many obscure, hellish things it is capable of doing.
And surprisingly, the owners usually do little to stop it from barking at or pouncing onto me. "Stop it tommy. Come here now", they'd say, as if dogs have been communicating in english since the dinosaur age. Yeah I know a lotta dogs come running up to their masters when called by their names. But I am guessing that's because they recognise the voice and tone. So instead of saying "come here tommy" if you said "get your ass outta my house tommy", it'll still probably come to you yipping and yapping along the way. Just a hunch. I know nothing about dogs.