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Originally Posted by pjackson8
Why must people bring their dogs into grocery stores?
It is disgusting!!! I saw one dog licking and sniffing unwrapped food items. Today a man brought in his big, wet, smelly dog!
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Seeing eye dogs are definitely legal, but they are easy to spot. “Emotional support animals” are sort of questionable. I wonder about people who will flip out without their dog present to calm them down. I’ve seen more and more of these dogs on planes in the past couple years (not in the past few months, of course, as I haven’t been on a plane since Christmas). Some are quite large, and the owners aren’t paying for extra seats for their dogs. I’m just glad I’ve never had, say, a golden retriever sharing my legroom. My understanding is that federal law doesn’t actually require stores and airlines to allow emotional support animals the way it does require provision for seeing eye dogs. Some airlines are considering either banning them or requiring them to be shipped in crates in the baggage compartment or requiring passengers to purchase seats for them. Stores could ban them, too, but at what cost? Would customers with such dogs stop coming?
There’s another aspect, though. In The Villages, much of the year you don’t dare leave your dog in a closed car in the daytime, even for five or ten minutes. Even walking your dog in the daytime—especially on concrete or asphalt—verges on animal abuse, right? I’d rather see a live animal in a store than a dead animal in a car.