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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Janine Israel

Pet hates: what’s it like to dislike dogs in a dog-loving country?

A border collie
Between 2019 and 2021 alone, Australian households took in more than a million additional dogs. Photograph: SI Watson/Getty Images

Jess is aware her dislike of dogs is limiting her dating prospects. “When I’m scrolling through a dating app, if there’s a dog in the photo, or reference to a dog in a prompt, I quite quickly swipe left,” she says.

That consigns a significant chunk of eligible heterosexual males – and the pooches they are pictured smooching – to the doghouse.

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