Someone brought their non-service poople into the grocery store!!!

[DianeB]

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Yes ... but some people have allergies to dogs and buying products with dog hair on it is not Kosher.

No offense to anyone here on this board, but you can remind people about allergies and religious beliefs until you're blue in the face. People just don't care

They don't CARE if someone has a severe allergy attack because Foo Foo wanted to pick out her own can of food. And they don't care that some cultures would just walk right out because it's so offensive to them that they couldn't buy the food there anymore because of dog hairs and such. Everyone has limits and unfortunately some people only care when their own limits have been pushed past the line

And unfortunately, all of us want to be understood, but not many care to understand.

Personally, I think it's great that some people can bring there dogs with them when they run errands and stuff. My dogs love to ride in the car or truck as well. And I love seeing people interact with their dogs, but they don't belong where food is. Of course, service animals belong almost everywhere, and they should be.

Yes, that's right observent Muslims can't buy anything from a store were a dog has been. That women bringing her dog into the store now makes me doubly mad. How could she do that to someone else?

 

[fowler_chick]

religious beliefs...when i lived in montreal i had a family (middle eastern) who thought my cat was evil living above me, mike would lay on there stairs to sun him slef and all of a sudden get some thing thrown at him or spraiyed at him.......the land lord gave me the riot act about my cat (very queberor french) but did nothing when there 120 pound 2 year old stumped on the floor 24/7.....hhmmm people

 

[emvickrey]

I am undecided in the matter. At my house my dog is always near me, EVERYWHERE I go. I have gotten use to looking before I step back or make any step. Before I put the foot rest down on the recliner. She is usually even at the bathroom door. She lays on the floor next to me when I eat, cook, wash dishes. Everywhere. So Dog hair and dander isn't an issue with me. The dogs I have seen people bold enough to break the rulse and bring into a store are the small ones and they are in a bag for small dogs or a purse. I see nothing wrong with it as long as they stay in the bag. Now a big dog that would require getting in the buggy or on a leash should be off limits. With all the germaphobes out there they would be afraid to get herpes or something from the grocery cart. They already carry around hand sanitizer and wipes to clean the cart before they touch it or put their child in it.

I'm not a germophobe. I wash my hands after I pet my or any dogs, and after I tend to the chickens, and after bathroom breaks. Things such as that. OH and while cooking of course. But to constantly wash my hands or wipe off things worrying about germs isn't me. (knock on wood) Everybody I have been around has had the flu and I have not gotten it. (again, knock on wood)

So to sum it up, I could care less if I see a small dog in a purse in the grocery store. No matter if its in the deli, produce or meat dept. The dog is contained. What can it hurt? A big dog is another story.

 

[cassie]

I don't mind the dogs. Even in food preparation areas. It is the runny nosed little kids spreading their snot and germs all over the produce that gets my goat.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

No, it's not right to take an animal into a grocery store. Petsmart, or stores of the like are ok to a degree.

Although...I have been guilty. Many years ago I had a pom and when she was still tiny, I carried her around in my oversized purse. I was busted when I was at the checkout and reached in to get my wallet. My little Taffy yipped and growled the most vicious 8 week old pom puppy sound and even though the reaction from the clerk was laughter and awwws and how cuuuute, I learned that there was no more sneaking this kiddo around anymore. In my defense however, she was inside of a very large purse and I didn't allow her to hang her head out like I was Paris Hilton.

I think that in today's world of pocket size pooches, it is becoming too common of a practice for people to think that they can take their animals around like babies into any store they please. I know that I probably sound like a hipocrite, but my reasoning was that it was summer and i wasn't going to leave her in the car while I went in the store.
She was too cute and would have been dog-napped in a nano-second!

 

[havi]

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Whats the difference between a small foo foo dog and my 120lb lab? Why can someone bring in a small dog but not a large one?

 

[DianeB]

I looked up the law on service animals. 1) it is legal to ask if it is a service animal and if someone has a disability. It is not legal to insist on showing identification (or anyway harass the person with the disability or the service animal). 2) In California, guide dogs are considered animals that have been licensed and trained by a certified trainer or is an animal that has been through a certified school.

So, that clerk could have and (according to company policy) should have asked if it was a service animal.

I have read through some of these posts. I am a big animal lover. I even let my dog sleep with me and my chickens wahas a watch TV on the back of my couch. Would I subject anyone else to this? No!

In terms of health, there is a big difference between a clean, well-trained service animal and a pet. There is an even bigger difference between someone that has a pet walking into a grocery store and the pet walking into a grocery store.

Also, there are laws that govern how people can behave in places that sell food. When I worked at KFC as a teen, we had to constantly remind customers that they could not put babies on the counter were we service food. You cannot sit or stand on any surface they prepare or serve food. As for children with runny noses that are wiping them everywhere, it is completely within the right of the store to ask them to leave. In fact, a store manager should ask them to leave.

I have also started to tell parents to stop their children from running through stores screaming and rebuking parents that hit and scream at their children. Some people have no sense of how to act in public.

DB

 

[Rootball]

This is insane!!!!

I hope none of that dog air got on your deli.


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some people just never think about anyone but themselves.

 

[Rootball]

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What if a stray dog hair got into someones cat food, and then someone with a dog allergic cat bought that food. this could cause a serious tragedy.


LETS THINK PEOPLE!!!

 

[havi]

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How in the world would it get into the cat food? The bag/can would have to be open for it to get in there. And for that matter..I own 3 huge dogs and a few cats as well. Their hair sometimes gets on my clothes, I go to the store(without dog or cat) and what if some of that hair were to come off my clothes and onto the bag of cat food. What then? Am I still at fault?


And doesnt Petsmart and other places like that have a grooming area in the store? What about that?