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Originally Posted by Byte1
I love animals, especially dogs. And I have had dogs a good portion of my life. I even trained them in the military for a while. That said, I find people that bring their pets into a store to be irresponsible and lack in manners and common sense. They have total disregard for others. NO ONE brought their pets into a store when I was growing up, let alone pushing one around is a shopping cart. I often wonder if their dogs sit on their dinning room table when they eat meals. Leave your dogs at home when you shop, especially in a Food store or restaurant. You pet owners are showing total disregard and disrespect for your neighbor. If you can't live without a dog attached to your leg wherever you go, then get someone else to shop for you or do your shopping on line and have it delivered. If you are that needy, get some help from a human that specializes in helping needy people. When I see folks in public businesses, especially a food store, I consider them to be weak minded and lacking in respect for others.
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There are a lot of people in TV Land or elsewhere that think mostly or only, about themselves. Seeing themselves from another's point of view may be difficult mentally and beyond their skill set. Empathy is a higher-level form of imagination that not everyone possesses and might decrease with advancing age.
The Villages is considered a pet-friendly community, which theoretically should be a good thing. But, I have seen many instances of out-of-control dogs. I saw a woman walking a 30 lb dog on a long 20 ft leash and it was running around in a park with other people - and the dog (for no apparent reason) bites a man's hand that was walking by - she had ZERO control over that dog. I saw a man's dog bite another man and the 1st man grabs up his dog and hurries to his car and gets away. Apparently, not wanting to have to prove anything about rabies shots or to be responsible for any medical bills. In neither of these cases do I blame the dog so much as the HUMAN that showed a lack of judgment and empathy. I am, also, sure that situations like this happen daily in TV Land.