For me:

  • Monkeys and apes: they look too much like humans and expose many terrible traits of humans.

  • Greyhounds: their thin long body shape look weird to me.

  • Delphia@lemmy.world
    9111·
    2 months ago

    Horses.

    Its an easily startled 900lb retard with sledgehammers for hands.

    No its not majestic, keep it the direct fuck away from me.

    • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      2 months ago

      I was gunna ride a horse when I was real young. Was at a party or something cause there was a good amount of people there. I was next in line to ride said horse. The guy in front of me, being it was his turn, went to walk up to another horse. That horse was not a fan a bucked. Hoof straight to the side of the face. Down he goes.

      Last thing I saw was him laying there motionless. Never learned anything else of it as everyone had to leave. Never tired to ride a horse from that day foward.

      I’ll chill with some cows though

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      I wish I could find the original quote, but Sam Vimes, in one of Terry Pratchett’s books, says something to the effect of “being one of nature’s pedestrians. Never trust anything that looks at you with its teeth”

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      I’ve always found horses to be weird animals. They have personality, but have no expression outside of losing their shit. Their posture also looks uncomfortable as fuck, always being stood up, and being on small hooves despite being huge.

      I’ve always said that they’re prisoners in their own bodies.

    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works
      91·
      2 months ago

      I, too, share your hatred for horses. They are arrogant fucks who think they are better then everyone else. One exception: there’s these large horses with fluffy hooves and fat asses that seem to be chill and more like large dogs. You’re OK.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    361·
    2 months ago

    Monkeys are total assholes. They act just like 7 year old children would if they were high on sugar and there were no repercussions for their actions.

    • fireweed@lemmy.world
      221·
      2 months ago

      I don’t understand why some people find monkeys cute. They’re so ugly and obnoxious! They don’t even have the presence or majesty of great apes either. The further from humans on the evolutionary scale, the cuter primates tend to be IMO. By the time you get to lemurs, bush babies, etc, you’ve hit standard mammal cuteness.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
    261·
    2 months ago

    I hate how modern pugs look. I would love to launch them into orbit with my foot but I try to treat them like any other dog. It’s not their fault they momma made them fugly.

    E: Ye, we all know it was people.

  • Akareth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    2 months ago

    FYI, the reason why humans look so much like apes is because humans ARE apes (specifically, great apes).

  • fireweed@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 months ago

    Dogs with blue eyes look absolutely psychotic to me for some reason, like it’s indicative that they’re the serial killers of the canine world or something. It’s super unnerving. This doesn’t translate to any other animal for me; for instance I think blue-eyed cats are gorgeous.

  • Visstix@lemmy.world
    276·
    2 months ago

    Pandas. They are too dumb to be alive. Their diet mostly consists of plants that have hardly any nutrition, and can’t be bothered to reproduce.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 months ago

      This is a common belief thanks to terrible science comunication by journalists. I recommend the book The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife by Lucy Cooke. It’s a fascinating read and has a chapter dedicated to how we’ve misunderstood and misrepresented pandas and sloths in the media.

  • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Squirrels. Cute as hell in the wild, not so much in my attic. They are tiny little destructive machines.

    • Vandals_handle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      According to the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources department:

      “Ground squirrels are associated with the spread of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rat bite fever, tularemia, Chagas’ disease, adiospiromycosis, and encephalomyocarditis. Notably, they can serve as reservoirs for sylvatic (bubonic) plague, a highly infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis…People and their pets can get plague if they visit or live in areas where ground squirrels or other rodents are infected.”

    • jasep@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      As a fellow Jay who has also had to deal with Squirrels in the attic, I wholeheartedly concur. Squirrels - what a bunch of bastards.

  • Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    Moths, especially the big ones… idk, they are just insanely terrifying to me. I know they cannot hurt me, I know they are harmless, they terrify the life out of me

  • einkorn@feddit.de
    13·
    2 months ago

    Spiders for the simple fact that I have been “conditioned” by my mothers behaviour to fear them, cause she freaked out at the sight of even the tiniest one.

    They are incredibly fascinating creatures.

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
    143·
    2 months ago

    I’m not a huge fan of dogs in general. They’re capable of unsettling amounts of violence and you have no idea if/how they’ve been trained.