I've been looking at adopting a dog for a while, and for the longest time I was dead set on a Coonhound/Foxhound and considered any dog under 30 lbs to essentially be a cat for effeminate men and a purse accessory for women. But honestly the more research I did the more I realized that all my hang ups of getting a dog are related to big dogs and the breed I really wanted (baying, being able to grab potentially dangerous things on the counter/in my cabinets, food costs, dog walkers, bad recall training etc).
While I was thinking about this I came across
Anyway, look at this cute dog and tell me what disadvantages you've come across having a smaller dog compared to like a 40-60 lb dog. She's a 1 y/o Min Pin mix and 20 lbs but she's so cute 🥰. 
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DO IT. EVERYPONY WILL KNOW U ARE COMFORTABLE IN YOU'RE MASCULINITY SO YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TOO PROVE IT
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I have a small 8 lb dog and am always worried about her safety. She can't play with most other dogs and kids aren't allowed to pet her. But she's small enough that I can put her in a carrier and travel with her, so that's a plus. You can probably take a 20lb dog on a plane too. I kind of wish I had gotten a slightly larger dog so I wouldn't have to worry all the time.
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Hmmm yeah I'll have to assess how big she is when I go check her out at the shelter to see where she falls on the scale. Why kind of dog do you have?
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Yorkie mix
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Ive had small terriers. Well behaved and naturally hate rats and mice it seems. They arent going to stop a home invader in his tracks but they will sure let me know a stranger is around
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Your brain has completely rotted. You are a vile person, I hope you go outside one day. There is so much wrong with what you are saying, but I'm too tired and you are too horrible of a person to learn.
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These would all be 100% your fault
If you can't properly train and handle a dog you absolutely shouldn't have one.
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Have you ever owned a coonhound? Ours was “recall trained” and never had an incident for the first five+ years of owning it until one day he caught the fresh scent of a buck while we were sitting on the beach and took off to god knows where for the next 8 hours. He also never bayed/barked until he picked up the habit in the later years of his life and then would not stop until the day he died. It's just genetics. The counter surfing thing is an issue because I use a lot of garlic my cooking and looking away for one second could be enough time for the dog to have to get his stomach pumped, not that I just leave out random poisonous shit on my counter all day.
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Ive still got 1 husky, I'm familiar with loud butt dogs that don't want to shut the frick up and love to run off non fricking stop.
Sounds like you pay other people to train your dogs and don't know how to actually train or handle them yourself.
You are the exact kind of person that has no business getting a dog.
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Had a Huskey growing up, nothing like a coonhound.
God you sound like such a cute twink redditor. If I was going to do that I would just get a purebred from one of the 1,000 puppy mills in my state and send it away for a year like all my friend's parents did with their bird dogs, not volunteering at the SPCA with shitbulls and emaciated hounds for 6+ months.
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Then why the frick is your dog noisy and running off? Why can't you retrain them, which is something that should have never ended in the first place, and address their behavior issues? You were literally describing how you can't train and control your shit.
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Dude I'm not going to write you a fricking thesis on the psychology of rescue hunting hounds, this was a cute posts about the pros of small dogs.
If you really want a full explanation/backstory then send me 1,500 DC, we need to buy a pin award for the fantasy football league and I gave all mine away.
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I like Greyhounds
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Greyhounds are awesome but I'm in an apartment so that's pretty much a nonstarter, same reason a Bluetick won't work for me
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Little dogs are cheaper and live longer, but their barks are more annoying.
How antisocial are you? When I walk my little dog, people try to pet him a lot. When I walk my big dog, people cross the street to avoid us.
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Those are good points, I'm kind of hoping around 20lbs it's less of a yapping and more of a proper bark which I find much more tolerable but I guess I'll have to find that out because you're right I cannot stand like a Pomeranian. And that makes sense, I guess I wouldn't mind that too much but that is something to think about.
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