It's a Crime in Minnesota to misrepresent a Service Animal in public
 

Minnesota recently passed a law making it a misdemeaner to falsly represent your animal as a service animal. Several organizations, including Can-Do-Canines of New Hope helped write the legislation. We need this here in FL.

Sec. 609.833 MN Statutes

That statute doesn't include a little tidbit that makes the entire statute a moot point:

It is against federal law to ask someone for proof that their animal is a service animal. And furthermore, there is no "official" service animal certification, federally authorized training or license. Anyone can train an animal to perform a service for them, and by law, that animal is, by definition, a service animal.

It was put into practice some time before this thread started. That's really all that matters. Anyone could have looked it up between then and now, and would've seen the information right there.

Also I fixed your post - you misspelled animals.

I agree, Instacart, Amazon, Walmart etc all deliver. And there has to be a way of officially proving that a dog is a service dog - a pass like handicap parking pass etc to be produced on request like a license to bring an animal where otherwise it would not be permitted.
Please don’t say it is my private business what’s wrong with me, the license would not have to say that you have epilepsy or something, or whatever service dogs help with, just that this dog is required to assist you. On the license maybe a photo of the dog. Like a handicap pass it should not be reproducible.

Definitely NOT
 

Gross.

Some dogs should be allowed, others not. However, some people will bring their dogs even if they shouldn't be allowed, and in fact, fall outside of the description of dogs that are allowed.
I like dogs. I don't love seeing them in grocery stores. But, I don't let it bother me.
The fact is, that fresh fruit you are looking to buy, that came from South America, or Southern California, has spent some time in a warehouse with all kinds of vermin crawling all over it, so you should wash it carefully when you get home anyway. That dog in Aisle 3 is the least of your worries if your concern is food contamination .

100% no. Went to Publix on 466 and there were 3 dogs in the store, it’s 96 out and all I think about was how selfish the owners were.
Leave dogs at home were they are cool and safe.

REAL service dogs, yes. Pets, absolutely not! In fact, I actually think pets are prohibited by federal law (FDA) law, AND it is against the law misrepresent your pet as a service animal.

Unfortunately it's also against the law to require proof that someone's animal is a service animal. You can ask someone if their animal is a service animal. You can ask what kinds of services that animal is trained to perform. You canNOT ask them what it's trained to perform "for the person" - or whether that is THEIR service animal. The law is incredibly nitpicky and specific. And clear. If the person says yes, then you are required to accept their answer.

HOWEVER

If that dog misbehaves in any way, you still reserve the right to order its handler to leave, and take the dog with them.

Four on the floor (no carts, strollers, carried in arms).
On a short, non-retractable leash.
Heeled at all times, out of the way of other customers.
No sniffing at the food or other customers.
No one other than the handler should be permitted to touch the dog (if you say "sure you can pet him!" then he's not there as a service animal).

Huh? What does that even mean?

I don't own a dog but it doesn't bother me if a well behaved dog is in a store. Some times the dogs are better behaved than the humans in the store.

I'm more concerned with our food being made in laboratories and the filthy restaurant kitchens, you can add Waffle House to the long list of restaurants that have received violations for bad food handling recently in TV.

I lost track of how many times IHOP has been closed due to rodent infestation.

I love Publix and if no dogs is their policy so be it, I'm not losing sleep over it but I would still be more concerned with what so called food we're putting in our bodies.

Oh, just checking are cats still allowed in the store in a baby carriage. lol.

It's not just a policy. It's Florida law.
Time To Call Law Enforcement? More Dogs In Publix, Despite Sign - BocaNewsNow.com

Good point!

It’s against the law to require proof if an animal is a service animal makes as much sense as asking a person for their driver’s license when they drove questionably. Because there is so much abuse of it right now, that law needs to be modified.

Thanks for the visual. I may never eat again.

it is what it is. It won't kill you. I've also worked in the restaurant biz. That won't kill you either, but if you think it's a sterile atmosphere, well....best you just keep on thinking that.

And, in the "it is what it is" department, there is this...

"The FDA allows up to 30 insect fragments and one rodent hair to be detected in every 100 grams of peanut butter. A standard jar of peanut butter is often between 300 to 500 grams.

This means that a single jar of peanut butter can have around five rodent hairs and 150 insect fragments and still pass inspection. " (source: The Daily Mail")

No and that's why I no longer shop at Winn Dixie on 441.
 

Correct! I saw this about six months ago at Winn Dixie as a woman had two dogs inside the cart and they were making a big mess. I mentioned it to a clerk, who said they couldn't do anything about it (even though there is a sign on the door that pets are not allowed). I asked for a manager and told him and he said there was nothing they could do, except that they would be sanitizing the cart after the lady left.
I watched and she left the store with the dogs still in the cart, put them in her car and then the cart was added to the others in the parking lot. No sanitization was going to be done. :MOJE_whot:

Lately, Its an upside-down country, but most :0000000000luvmyhors like it that way...

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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.

There are many kinds of trained service dogs. Some can even warn their owners of an impending seizure, then help the owner to the ground as well as maneuver to provide a cushion for the owners head so that it does not hit the ground repeatedly.

Specially trained service dogs are one thing,
but pets and comfort dogs are not welcome in food stores IMHO!

With the delivery services available, no one actually needs to go into a store, especially if they need to drag a dog with them.
Also, many people who have medical issues wear medic-alert tags incase the have attacks or seizures. For the protection of the patient and the dog, both should have tags issued by government.

Dogs in stores.
 

Every time this topic comes up, it reminds me of the time when a black lab was brought into Ben, Bath and Beyond and proceeded to take a "dump" on the floor. The dog's owner quickly took the dog back outside, but never returned to clean up the mass. Leave them home. I don't want them in a shopping cart that I put my perishables in. I really love dogs, just not in stores.

Your home is your business what dogs do or where they go.

Public places is a different then your home where products are consumed
and bought without dog/cat hair in/on them.