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Old 02-05-2022, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by donfey View Post
IMO, people who take their dogs into restaurants or grocery stores are, at best, rude. Anyone who would allow their pet to urinate in a store is rude and crude.

We, who see it and say nothing, are stupid. These buffoons need to be confronted, loudly. Stores and store managers who allow it should be boycotted.
Many store managers are ordered to NOT do anything about it, unless the animal is behaving badly. They CAN do something about it if the dog is barking, or if it's off-leash, or if it's in a shopping cart. That is unacceptable behavior.

If the dog is heeling, and leashed, with "4 on the floor" and not snorting around the cereal boxes in aisle 7, then the store manager *cannot* do anything about it, because they are NOT allowed to demand proof that the animal is a service animal. That is the law.

An unfortunate law, but the law nonetheless.