Re: Dogs in the grocery store

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@QueenDanceALot wrote:
I think smelly people and noisy gerrmy kids should stay outside and doggies should shop!

Just had to add one word to your comment ... LOL

songbird · ‎03-21-2010

There is a lady I know slightly. I see her in the supermarket all the time. She has a tiny Yorky that wears a tiara. She has no kids. Treats the dog like one. The supermarket must allow it. They never say anything when she's there. Always say hi to her and the dog. See her just about every Saturday.

itiswhatitis · ‎05-27-2016

@151949 wrote:
When we are in Pa we stay in a very small town with only one grocery store. There is a very large plan here where they have senior housing from independant homes up to skilled nursing and there is a daily bus to the grocery store. Lately we have noticed a lot of people in the store with dogs in their grocery carts. What the heck???? One dog I saw was very dirty and smelled terrible. He was beside me at the deli counter. So I asked the manager about it and she said they are "service dogs" and the law says they are allowed. i doubted this and looked it up. Actually only guide dogs for the blind are allowed and even then not if they are in an area where food could be contaminated. It is a federal law - as grocery stores are under the Department of Agriculture -that pets are not allowed in grocery stores and "emotional support" dogs whose only qualification is obtained from the internet are not service dogs but are, in fact, just pets. It seems that these individuals are just constantly pushing the limits over this and every time no one pushes back they just go further. I saw one wearing a diaper in the shopping cart -- gross!!! How far are we as a society going to allow with this?

I have absolutely no problem with dogs who are with their owners to help guide them if they are legally blind. The Americans with Disabilities Act, allows for accommodations for indviduals with disabilities. It's a federally mandated law that usurps State law everywhere.

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Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@itiswhatitis wrote:
@151949 wrote:
When we are in Pa we stay in a very small town with only one grocery store. There is a very large plan here where they have senior housing from independant homes up to skilled nursing and there is a daily bus to the grocery store. Lately we have noticed a lot of people in the store with dogs in their grocery carts. What the heck???? One dog I saw was very dirty and smelled terrible. He was beside me at the deli counter. So I asked the manager about it and she said they are "service dogs" and the law says they are allowed. i doubted this and looked it up. Actually only guide dogs for the blind are allowed and even then not if they are in an area where food could be contaminated. It is a federal law - as grocery stores are under the Department of Agriculture -that pets are not allowed in grocery stores and "emotional support" dogs whose only qualification is obtained from the internet are not service dogs but are, in fact, just pets. It seems that these individuals are just constantly pushing the limits over this and every time no one pushes back they just go further. I saw one wearing a diaper in the shopping cart -- gross!!! How far are we as a society going to allow with this?
I have absolutely no problem with dogs who are with their owners to help guide them if they are legally blind. The Americans with Disabilities Act, allows for accommodations for indviduals with disabilities. It's a federally mandated law that usurps State law everywhere.

And as an aside, while reading the two links I posted, I learned that the ADA Federal law supercedes any Public Health or similar type organization's laws. ADA trumps any other Federal organization. So the supermarkets have to tread lightly. The real problem is that no one is required to prove it IS a bona fide service animal with special training and the store isn't allowed to ask.

I too have no issues with a *service* animal *trained* to perform specific tasks or functions accompanything a handicapped individual. I'd also cut slack for those who need PTSD emotional support dogs.

I do have a problem with people who feel they can't/don't want to ever leave mummy's precious alone for an hour and MUST bring them EVERYWHERE, who happily LIE about it and claim a specialness for their animal that it does not have, in order to be able to never have it out of their sight just because that's what they WANT, not need.

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suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

In no way am I going to join in this perennial debate. I will simply put in writing my wonderment at why this OP continually posts threads like this.

Yes, she does, along with threads about annoying children and neighbors. HERE is one example of her dog in grocery stores thing: http://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Dog-in-the-grocery-store/m-p/385135/highlight/true#M1648...

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

JillyMarie · ‎03-29-2015

@suzyQ3 wrote:
In no way am I going to join in this perennial debate. I will simply put in writing my wonderment at why this OP continually posts threads like this.

Yes, she does, along with threads about children and neighbors. HERE is one example of her dog in grocery stores thing: http://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Dog-in-the-grocery-store/m-p/385135/highlight/true#M1648...

It must be an obsession with this poster.

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@suzyQ3 wrote:
In no way am I going to join in this perennial debate. I will simply put in writing my wonderment at why this OP continually posts threads like this.

Yes, she does, along with threads about children and neighbors. HERE is one example of her dog in grocery stores thing: http://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Dog-in-the-grocery-store/m-p/385135/highlight/true#M1648...

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@suzyQ3

I find it amazing that she comes across pet dogs in grocery stores so often, and they're always dirty. I've never seen one in my usual grocery stores.

I saw a therapy dog once in Michael's. That was it.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

Dogs In The Grocery Store could be a sequel to Snakes On A Plane.

Sorry, I had to get that out of my system, I've been holding it in all day.

Junebug54 · ‎03-09-2010

@MalteseMomma Why??

GenXmuse · ‎05-15-2016

@Noel7 wrote:
Dogs In The Grocery Store could be a sequel to Snakes On A Plane.

Sorry, I had to get that out of my system, I've been holding it in all day.

Lol! Who let the MF dogs in the MF

grocery store?