Trying to start up a new relationship with a dog-owning woman is often very challenging. Most men end up finding out that the experience is often planning date activities around the needs of the dog, which sounds a lot like dealing with a single mom and her children. This is why many men end up becoming
pet cuckolds in committed relationships.
A man who is on an early stage date with dog-owning woman finds that she's often less down for multivenue-ing or anything that's spontaneous. She's often fairly rigid and structured, even with men executing the best Game tactics. Women don't often loosen up well on these dates, because her mind is often elsewhere, thinking about her dog's needs. This is not much different than a single mom and her child. Imagine the disaster of dating a single mom with a dog! She can't be present in the moment, especially when childless women with dogs are barely even present in the moment.
If a man makes it past the early stages with a dog-owning woman, the dog will continue to interfere and negatively impact the relationship.
Cat-owning women are better in the sense of not having a pet interfere with stuff. Cats are more independent and cat-owning women can be more spontaneous, which is good. This is countered by the fact that cat-owning women in general tend to be a bit odd. Also, cat allergies are more common than dog allergies. A man who is allergic to cats is going to have an odd type of relationship with a cat-owning woman.
Finding a petless woman is ideal, but not that easy to do.
When I first moved to my current city in 2011, I was on Match, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish. I was astounded at how many dog owners there were on these sites at the time. I was 28 then and dealing with mainly 24-28 year olds, which represented the early part of the Millennial generation. At the time, I figured there was something weird about the online dating crowd that made them more likely to be pet (especially dog) owners. As time passed, I realized that it wasn't an occurrence limited to online daters.
Millennials are the most pet obsessed generation in US history.
It doesn't matter how you try to arrange dates now. If you're lingering in Barnes & Noble trying to pick up women, there's a good chance you're approaching a dog owner. If you're in a conventional supermarket (think a
Kroger or
Albertsons brand), you're likely approaching a dog owner and you don't even need to be standing in the pet food aisle. Parks and paths are filled with dog owners.
Women do pet ownership now differently than a few decades ago. When the Boomers and first 2/3rd of Gen X were in their 20s and 30s, they only got pets after they got the suburban houses and married. Starting in the mid-2000s when the Millennials were establishing their adult lives (often after a college graduation), the Millennials decided to break this mold. Millennial women led the charge with this. Millennial women did not want to wait until marriage or suburban home ownership for the dog.
They wanted their dog NOW and nothing was going to stop them. That's why single, unattached women owning dogs and
pet cuckoldry started to become a thing.