what is the proper etiquette for garage sales..dogs acceptable or not?

[redhen]

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LOL! Debi's on a roll tonight... but i agree with you.... yep...

 

[debilorrah]

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You said period.

Honestly the whole topic is beyond me. I have had garage sales and dogs were present. Never an issue.

 

[debilorrah]

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I see NO mention of a rottie here. I see a person who was walking their dog and came across a garage sale!!

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Im not trying to be mean or anything. But when you say take your dog somewhere else. I down right do not agree.
There is one neighborhood that i always walk my dog in, and if there is a garage sale well thats fine.
But i am not going to change what i do when one time out of the year someone decides to have a garage sale.

ANY street is free range to walk your dog on. And until it is illegal to walk you dog on a street i will walk my dog next to the garage sale.

"On a street" IS "somewhere else" besides a yard sale

"Next to a yard sale" is not the same as GOING to the sale.

Taking them to a park would be "somewhere else"

No one said"change what you do" other than saying don't take your dog to a yard sale.

Passing by one on the street is not the same thing at all

I don't want strange dogs on my property for lots of reasons, no matter how "well behaved" the owners say they are.​

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

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Nuts is not quite the word...mine would be going ballistic cause that dog is on their territory and who knows if anyone inside the house is sick/resting/sleeping after night shift.

 

[Mattemma]

I would not be happy if a neighbor brought their dog. I would do a walk and if I saw something I would take the dog home and go back to the sale.

 

[Delmar]

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That is why I would ask you, from the edge of the property, if you mind. You would tell me you would rather I didn't and I would come back, if I saw anything I wanted to look at more closely.

 

[chickened]

When you ask someone at a garage sale "can I bring my dog in?" that puts them in an awkward position as they want you to browse or buy and of course they are going to say OK as to not offend a potential shopper but I consider that intrusive to put someone in the position to have to answer that question.
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[AnaD]

I always bring my dogs. No one ever reacts negatively to them. They are too cute. If anything they distract from the items on sale and everyone gathers around them to pet 'em... including the people holding the sale. A few people have gone into their homes to bring out dog treats. If I held one I'd allow dogs so long as they are well behaved.
There are too FEW places where dogs are allowed. As an avid vacationer we are always disapointed at how few places we can go with our dogs...I'd love to go to yosemite, but of course, dogs are not allowed on trails. BOO.

 

[Laurajean]

Honestly, I don't see why this is being hotly debated, and also surprised that I disagree with my own friends here, but so be it.

You don't just pull into a store and bring your dog in right? Or a coffee shop? A yard sale is just an outside store in the sense that it's a business, there are customers, things for sale, and often people sitting around with beverages hoping to sell their goods. It's not the place for a dog. It doesn't matter how perfectly behaved your little Foo-Foo is, SOME people don't like dogs, have a fear of dogs, have allergies to dogs. And the owners have a right not to have their lawn peed on, which is no different than walking into a shop and letting your dog pee on the floor (except to the dog, who obviously thinks the yard sale lawn is just fine to pee on, it being outside and all).

People seem to be basing their opinions for being okay with bringing dogs to yard sales on two main things 1. they like dogs, and 2. THEIR dog is an angel. Okay, but I like dogs too, I love them. And I've seen lots of well behaved dogs, yes. But being loved by their owner and even being an angel behavior-wise does not matter to someone with allergies, or perhaps a fear of dogs. It doesn't have to be a vicious doberman to frighten a person with a fear. Don't they have the right to browse and buy without fear? Just because you love your Foo-Foo, and the owner's haven't complained, doesn't mean everyone else appreciates Foo-Foo sniffing their feet. ME, no personally I wouldn't care, I'd be one of the people stopping to pat him and talk to him like a baby.

But I'm just thinking that other people may not feel that way.

I'm amazed to see this so hotly debated. It's just common courtesy. You don't bring your dog in/to a place of business unless it's known to be pet friendly. Redhen pointed out that you could ask the owner's if it's okay, which is fine, but what if they say sure, and as you're browsing around with the dog someone goes to stop and sees the dog and says never mind and keeps going? Now you've just cost the owner money by toting Foo-Foo around.

None of this even gets into the liability issues of being on someone else's property, and then some other guy probably named Bud shows up with Killer, at least you assume that's his name as you suspiciously eyeball the dog's spiked collar, and before you can leave Killer attacks Foo-Foo and as you try and separate them the table of junk-turned-valuable antiques when the lawsuit happens gets turned over and little Jenny from out of nowhere says Foo-Foo bit her, or was it Killer? And the lady doesn't have homeowners insurance but now you have three lawsuits; one for Killer biting Foo-Foo and the vet bills and pain and suffering and the cost of Foo-Foo's pink collar which you're pretty sure Killer actually ate, one for Foo-Foo biting little Jenny or maybe it was Killer, so witnesses have to miss a day of work and pay to testify to which it was, and one for the lady claiming that those empty Avon bottles were worth a fortune and she wants her $5,000 small claims limit because she's pretty sure she would have gotten that for them despite the 50 cents on masking tape that was slapped on the bottles the day of the infamous yard sale. Then the Avon yard sale lady has the audacity to bad mouth YOU to everyone in town instead of Killer's owner, only because she never really cared for you and your fancy car anyway, and soon the gossip spreads and your husband Jack is sick of hearing about it from the guys at work, and you begin to argue about it, and one day he's at the local pub after work and a woman with no Foo-Foo or lawsuits is a little too understanding to Jack, who you call Dad because you've been married for 800 years, but suddenly Dad finds youth again in this new understanding young friend, and soon you're alone with Foo-Foo and one day as you're standing in the kitchen window chopping chicken into tiny neat squares for Foo-Foo you see now-ex-hubby as he drives by in a Corvette and you wonder how his new toupee isn't blowing off his head with the top down like that..... Oh, and you also lose your job because the gossip eventually gets to your boss and he realizes you went to a yard sale that day you called in with Swine Flu. Just leave Foo-Foo home.