Brother has a real service dog. It went through 15 months of training. Many of these "service dogs" are what I call comfort dogs.

UNLESS it identifies as a human...:pepper2:

Folks do not become "crazy rude old people" once they move to The Villages. They were like that before they moved here.

True story - happened today.

You know the lady who LITERALLY drags her ancient little dog around Spanish Springs sometimes when the bands are playing, the dog with only three working legs, and the back left is non-functional? She walks faster than the dog can keep up so she ends up - I kid you not - dragging the poor thing.

Today I'm at the supermarket, and there she is, with the dog. Comes up behind me in the checkout line. Now mind you - I've recently had surgery to remove a malignant melanoma from my calf, and have only started walking around without keeping it covered, after 3 weeks of waiting for it to heal enough for that. Doctor says it's good to go but I still have a thin layer of ointment on it to keep it moist.

So what does that poor decrepit tortured abused dog do? It comes up to my leg and starts sniffing it.

Because nothing says "service animal" like dog-germs and fur on a healing scab. Of COURSE I said "hey!" to get the lady's attention. She doesn't even look me in the eye, and mumbles "sorry."

Sorry my left butt cheek. If you were REALLY sorry you would've kept your dog home. Or better still - allowed someone to adopt him years ago who wouldn't torture him every time you want to leave the house.

If you're that lady, and you're reading this, I hope your dog pees on your shoes every day until the day it finally is rid of you.

Ha! And all these little rascals are trained for that, right? Com'on, Man!

That's not what the article says...

You would think the state of Florida and retail businesses would be working together
through Florida's sanitation laws, (if there are any), to keep animals out of any establishment
that deals with food service.

Or insert common sense in pet owners.

Does anybody want to disclose WHY they don't want a Dog in the grocery Store? There are hundreds/Thousands of homes that have dogs in the home and they are most likely around the food and and in the food preparation locations of the home. How do you see a dog in a grocery store being a problem?

Do people take their dogs to church these days?
Not been in one for many decades.
Genuine question.

Same reason they do not allow them in Operating Theaters.

they don't let ANYONE in the OR unless they are scrubbed, gloved, and gowned. I don't think that standard would apply well in Publix.

Not for shoppers, just for dogs!:)

I have not seen them in my church. And we shouldn't.

Because that dog's butt, nose, paws are everywhere. If you read the above stories, the owners cant stop them from defecating in the store. Or ****ing on the low level foodstuffs. If they put them in the cart, then they spread that crap onto the cart and then onto the next persons food that uses that cart.

If I go to a home and see the owners dog is into everything, I wont be eating there either.
The dogs lick their behinds and kiss the owners faces? How mentally deficient can a person be to think that is OK?

There is a lady in my church in Michigan that brings hers every Sunday.