I'd have had the displeasure of meeting people who have been rude to my pets. One time, we had a Mary Kay lady come to the house for a demonstration. She SHOVED Nicki out of the way (yes, Nicki was being a major pest) but SHE had no right to shove Nicki! she could have asked something along the lines of "could you please put her outside, or somewhere that she can't be in my way?" No, she decided to shove Nicki. Of course I would have been likely insulted at the request to put her outside! Its Nicki's house too!

Anyway, I decided to thank her for her time, but we weren't in the market for Mary Kay at the moment and showed her the door.

If you are invited into someone else's house, you are a GUEST and should respect the ways that the homeowner lives. You wouldn't dream of making fun of what a lousy housekeeper they were, or tease them about the outrageously expensive car in their driveway, why should they feel comfortable to make sick jokes about my pets, or worse - harm my pets?