September 16, 2025 • 5 mins
Dogfishing has worked it's way into dating profiles again - people are borrowing other people's dogs and taking photos with them in order to seem nurturing on the apps. Britt & Laura unpack this and admit it MAY have worked on them in the past.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
High Heart podcasts, he more Kiss podcast playlist and listen
live on the free iHeart app Laura.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
There's a lot of things that people are supposed to
be looking out for in the dating world, like a
lot of red flags flapping about in the wind.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Narcissus it's the one that always pops up.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Double life, yep, cheating, people that don't want to share food,
like Pans.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That's another one that was one that I feel like
I came in contact with quite a lot. Peter Pans,
the type of people who just never really want to
settle down and they think they're twenty by their forty.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, there's also there's like catfishing, you know the term catfishing,
somebody pretending to be something that they're not.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Or someone that they're not.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, and then there was this trend of people being
really turned off on dating apps by people that had
like fish in their profile pictures. You remember, like every
guy went through a phase of like they caught their
fish and they thought that that was a turn on,
and everyone was like instant no.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, I don't know where it came from. Fish became
the shirtless photos. So like for a while there, it's
like Jim.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Brows would post photos with themselves without shirts on, and
on the flip side of that, it's men holding up fish.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay, now the one it's now called dog fishing.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Now what's a dog fish?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm going to tell you, but I don't know how
I feel about it yet.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I do want to unpack it.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So dog fishing people are now sick to death of men,
and it is mainly men, Like this is one sided
for this conversation, but it's men that have dogs in
their photos, like they've replaced the fish with a dog,
but the dog's not theirs. They're dog fishing you because
it's cute, it's wholesome. It's like, look how much better
I look with a little puppy on my shirtless photo?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Gives a reason to be at the beach with your
shirt off or whatever. So people are.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now getting really mad and calling them out like it's
a red flag, like if they're pretending that dog is theirs,
like that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Is a no.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't think people are getting mad.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There is a reddit thread that is dog free dating
subreddit thread how can you filter out people online so
that anyone with a dog doesn't come up?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That people are mad?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I feel like this about men who have photos with kids,
but they're not their kids. If they're an uncle, it's
their niece or nephew. And it's just like them with
a cute baby photo and then they'll say and then
they'll say directly underneath, like not my child.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
The thing is.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Though, it's like fun uncle that, Like women don't seem
to do that, Like we don't post photos with other
people's babies because that's not a turn on for men.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So like we.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Don't have in our dating profiles, we don't have photos
of us with the babies, whereas like guys do. And
I think it's the same effect, the puppy effect and
the baby effect, it's the same thing. It makes us
think that they're nurturing and caring and soft and empathetic.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And I from personal experience, I have been sucked into
hot dog man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I know you are, and I know you have been
brit But isn't that the only the reason why you
got Delilah?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
At the start you're like, no, you got Dalilah with
your ex boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Ye, well, rub in my heart.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But the amount of times that you've said that she's
come in very advantageous down on the dog walk boulevard.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I didn't have a lot of lock in dating.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And when I say that was like I didn't usually
get hit on by a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
There wasn't a lot of interest. You know. Maybe that
was with the back of the Bachelor. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
But I got to my dog Delilah with my partner
at the time, and then we broke up when I
was out pumping that.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, I was gonna say pumping the pavement when I
was When I was pumping the pavement.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
With Delilah, my dog, it's such a conversation start, and
somebody just looks more like appealing, more open to conversation.
But you probably remember this law because you and I
have been on quite the dating journey the last six
seven years. But there was this guy that I got
sucked into his vortex because I knew nothing about him
other than he had a dog and I'd seen him
(03:42):
with his shirt off, and I was like, it's the
puppy for me, And I ended up like tracking him
down on the promenade one day with his dog. The
dog was the convo starter and then bam bam, thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's because it's an easy in if someone has a dog,
it's an easy thing to spark a conversation about. But
the person that you're specifically referring to, britt we coined
him hot dog Man, not hot dogs in the dog
you Eat.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But he was hot, he had a dog and he
was a man.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And he also was on the Instagram page, which I
think it still exists, Grace, do you remember it? It
was Hot Dudes with Dogs, Hot Dudes with Dogs.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I was actually looking for it this morning and could
not find it.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Okay, so it might have maybe it's been shut down
that he used to be.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Did you shut down Hot Guys and Dogs?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It was Hot Dudes and Dogs or hot Guys and Dogs?
And it is literally just an Instagram account that's dedicated
to people in Australia.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Men in Australia. It was worldwide, Oh well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
World whie there we go international, and it was just
photos of very very attractive men with dogs. And this
guy that Brittany ended up dating for a very short
period of time was on that Instagram site. And I'm
pretty sure that that's how you tracked him down Britain.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But do you want to know the part that I
feel bad saying this right because the reason I follow
hot dudes with dogs the Instagram right because I like
to look at dogs and hot men used to be
a favorite pastime, so soone me. Anyway, he got fed
into my feed one day and I was like, oh
my god, that is the guy that is on the promenade.
But the thing that would like put me off was
(05:04):
that for him to get featured on that page, he
had to tag himself on is with dogs and that's.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And that was the part for me where I was like, man,
do I still do it? Obviously you did? Yeah, you did.
You did. It was a touchy point.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Look, people can be outraged by it all they like
in the Reddit threads.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It clearly works. Men who have dogs.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Are more attractive, Men who pose with dogs are more attractive.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
We like dogs, you know what I think?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Though. The thing is, you have too many things to
worry about in the dating world already. Let's not add
a man with a dog to it. Like, if you
are filtering through your dating apps and you think that's
a red flag, I think you're probably gonna be alone
for But.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, if you can't deal with the men who have fish,
men who have dogs, no, men who have no shirts
and men who are posing with other people's children. There's
not many men left. That's all the men you don't
High Heart podcasts, he more Kiss podcast playlist and listen
live on the free iHeart app Laura.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
There's a lot of things that people are supposed to
be looking out for in the dating world, like a
lot of red flags flapping about in the wind.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Narcissus it's the one that always pops up.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Double life, yep, cheating, people that don't want to share food,
like Pans.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That's another one that was one that I feel like
I came in contact with quite a lot. Peter Pans,
the type of people who just never really want to
settle down and they think they're twenty by their forty.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, there's also there's like catfishing, you know the term catfishing,
somebody pretending to be something that they're not.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Or someone that they're not.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, and then there was this trend of people being
really turned off on dating apps by people that had
like fish in their profile pictures. You remember, like every
guy went through a phase of like they caught their
fish and they thought that that was a turn on,
and everyone was like instant no.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, I don't know where it came from. Fish became
the shirtless photos. So like for a while there, it's
like Jim.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Brows would post photos with themselves without shirts on, and
on the flip side of that, it's men holding up fish.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay, now the one it's now called dog fishing.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Now what's a dog fish?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm going to tell you, but I don't know how
I feel about it yet.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I do want to unpack it.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So dog fishing people are now sick to death of men,
and it is mainly men, Like this is one sided
for this conversation, but it's men that have dogs in
their photos, like they've replaced the fish with a dog,
but the dog's not theirs. They're dog fishing you because
it's cute, it's wholesome. It's like, look how much better
I look with a little puppy on my shirtless photo?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Gives a reason to be at the beach with your
shirt off or whatever. So people are.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now getting really mad and calling them out like it's
a red flag, like if they're pretending that dog is theirs,
like that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Is a no.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't think people are getting mad.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There is a reddit thread that is dog free dating
subreddit thread how can you filter out people online so
that anyone with a dog doesn't come up?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That people are mad?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I feel like this about men who have photos with kids,
but they're not their kids. If they're an uncle, it's
their niece or nephew. And it's just like them with
a cute baby photo and then they'll say and then
they'll say directly underneath, like not my child.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
The thing is.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Though, it's like fun uncle that, Like women don't seem
to do that, Like we don't post photos with other
people's babies because that's not a turn on for men.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So like we.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Don't have in our dating profiles, we don't have photos
of us with the babies, whereas like guys do. And
I think it's the same effect, the puppy effect and
the baby effect, it's the same thing. It makes us
think that they're nurturing and caring and soft and empathetic.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And I from personal experience, I have been sucked into
hot dog man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I know you are, and I know you have been
brit But isn't that the only the reason why you
got Delilah?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
At the start you're like, no, you got Dalilah with
your ex boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Ye, well, rub in my heart.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But the amount of times that you've said that she's
come in very advantageous down on the dog walk boulevard.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I didn't have a lot of lock in dating.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And when I say that was like I didn't usually
get hit on by a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
There wasn't a lot of interest. You know. Maybe that
was with the back of the Bachelor. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
But I got to my dog Delilah with my partner
at the time, and then we broke up when I
was out pumping that.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, I was gonna say pumping the pavement when I
was When I was pumping the pavement.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
With Delilah, my dog, it's such a conversation start, and
somebody just looks more like appealing, more open to conversation.
But you probably remember this law because you and I
have been on quite the dating journey the last six
seven years. But there was this guy that I got
sucked into his vortex because I knew nothing about him
other than he had a dog and I'd seen him
(03:42):
with his shirt off, and I was like, it's the
puppy for me, And I ended up like tracking him
down on the promenade one day with his dog. The
dog was the convo starter and then bam bam, thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's because it's an easy in if someone has a dog,
it's an easy thing to spark a conversation about. But
the person that you're specifically referring to, britt we coined
him hot dog Man, not hot dogs in the dog
you Eat.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But he was hot, he had a dog and he
was a man.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And he also was on the Instagram page, which I
think it still exists, Grace, do you remember it? It
was Hot Dudes with Dogs, Hot Dudes with Dogs.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I was actually looking for it this morning and could
not find it.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Okay, so it might have maybe it's been shut down
that he used to be.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Did you shut down Hot Guys and Dogs?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It was Hot Dudes and Dogs or hot Guys and Dogs?
And it is literally just an Instagram account that's dedicated
to people in Australia.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Men in Australia. It was worldwide, Oh well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
World whie there we go international, and it was just
photos of very very attractive men with dogs. And this
guy that Brittany ended up dating for a very short
period of time was on that Instagram site. And I'm
pretty sure that that's how you tracked him down Britain.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But do you want to know the part that I
feel bad saying this right because the reason I follow
hot dudes with dogs the Instagram right because I like
to look at dogs and hot men used to be
a favorite pastime, so soone me. Anyway, he got fed
into my feed one day and I was like, oh
my god, that is the guy that is on the promenade.
But the thing that would like put me off was
(05:04):
that for him to get featured on that page, he
had to tag himself on is with dogs and that's.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And that was the part for me where I was like, man,
do I still do it? Obviously you did? Yeah, you did.
You did. It was a touchy point.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Look, people can be outraged by it all they like
in the Reddit threads.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It clearly works. Men who have dogs.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Are more attractive, Men who pose with dogs are more attractive.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
We like dogs, you know what I think?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Though. The thing is, you have too many things to
worry about in the dating world already. Let's not add
a man with a dog to it. Like, if you
are filtering through your dating apps and you think that's
a red flag, I think you're probably gonna be alone
for But.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, if you can't deal with the men who have fish,
men who have dogs, no, men who have no shirts
and men who are posing with other people's children. There's
not many men left. That's all the men you don't
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