Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Animals in Stores
View Single Post
 
Old 02-07-2022, 06:11 PM
Topspinmo's Avatar
Topspinmo Topspinmo is offline
Sage
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
Posts: 15,390
Thanks: 7,727
Thanked 6,355 Times in 3,294 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
Also, dogs don't belong at the Squares when the bands are playing. This is incredibly cruel to the dog. A dog's hearing is around four times greater than ours. Imagine going to the square with hearing aides turned up to full blast, and standing right in front of the speaker, which is also turned up at full blast. Now imagine being tethered around the neck so you -cannot- leave that spot.

That's what you do to your dog when you bring him to the square to see Rocky and the Rollers.

"Oh but he just loves it!" you say, because the dog is chill and sits there and doesn't misbehave. No - he doesn't love it. He's overwhelmed. You're also damaging his hearing with that exposure - especially those of you who bring your dogs to the squares every week or even more often. You are DEsensitizing your dog by causing damage to his hearing.

But, it’s my service dog……