White Problems™: Please Don’t Take A Picture Of My Dog

Previously, we’ve looked into how one’s economic status and background features into how one treats one’s dog, be it as a pet, a member of the family or as a tasty snack.

In our latest look into the phenomenon that is people with White Problems™, we will seek to figure out why, exactly, some people are so protective of their pooches, going so far as to make sure strangers don’t take an unauthorized photo of their little darling on the street. 

Gothamist shares a little story about one young lady’s run-in with a particularly protective dog owner in Manhattan:

A contributor named Melissa says she was walking across 59th Street between Seventh and Broadway in Midtown today when she spotted an adorable dog, so cute that she decided to snap a picture of it to share with her sister. But Melissa, who does some freelance photography work for magazines, says that as soon as the dog’s owner spotted her with her camera out, he began screaming at her. She tells us that he called her “a bitch (among other things)” and writes that his verbal assault was “a maniacal tirade so big that people passing were telling him to shut up.”

Is It Cool to Take Pictures of Someone’s Dog Without Asking? [Gothamist]