I think there is more than a dislike of puppies involved.
And, I repeat, it sounds like you want to turn off everything in the mod, not individual sounds and effects. There are general options that you can set to do just that. For example, setting "Enable Biome Sounds" to false will disable all biome sounds. You don't want to hear the footsteps? Set "Footsteps" to false. You could also disable all sounds generated Dynamic Surroundings by setting "Master Sound Scale Factor" to 0 and setting "Footstep Sound Factor" to 0.
Oh, another way to block all sounds from Dynamic Surroundings is by creating an entry in "Blocked Sounds" that will block all sounds from dynamic surroundings. That entry would look like dsurround:.*