To think The Range has made a stupid decision

You used to be able to Leave dogs tied up outside and you can't anymore safely (well you can where I live) but being able to combine a walk with nipping* to the shops. Is handy.

But I do raise my eyes at people taking their dogs to Liverpool One and wandering around John Lewis....

Fair enough, but I’m not the one who started a thread designed to accumulate hateful posts about one group of people for no other reason than they probably love ganging up on others and finding similar people to help with that. It’s natural to retaliate if people step out side of a live and let live way of thinking, leave me alone and whatever life has given me and il do the same. Have an issue with company policy, take it up with the company, not think let’s all say nasty things about something others have.

I’ve seen so many disgusting things in shops, not even bad behaviour, just genuinely disgustingly unhygienic things, that I’m actually surprised anyone made it through Covid.

I was walking around a shop the other day, an actual grown man walked it front of me and decided to full on put his hand down the back of his trousers for a rummage about. Lovely, I thought.
Once he'd rearranged himself and took his hand out of his pants, I realised that his underwear was absolutely covered in shite.

I left the shop without buying anything.

I'd rather share a shop space with a toilet trained dog than that man - but the truth is we actually have no idea who has touched the products we buy before we do, dog free shop or not.

Please show where someone has said they want guide dogs out of shops. I’ve seen people explicitly say that no dogs except guide dogs should be allowed.
Don’t make things up.

Are you serious? Yes, the unborn kids (or current kids/teenagers/young/adults etc, depending how old you are) will be paying the pensions of the time from their taxes.

If you pay tax now, you’re funding the pensions being paid out now.

And please don’t compare dogs to human children. It’s ridiculous and offensive.

The number of genuine service dogs is quite small. I can go weeks without seeing a guide dog. How can you say ‘well, you’ve got to deal with service dogs so you can deal with a shop that lets all dogs in’?

And the Range have made a decision that results in some people being excluded from going to their shop, or having a less pleasant shopping experience, so that they can please the vocal and demanding dog-owning community. Is that ok? I don’t think so.

But it's not in the dogs best interests to be dragged around shops. Take the dog for a proper walk then leave it at home while you shop

Deflecting, you still haven’t answered the question. Creepy what a weird thing to say.

You seen so defensive about this, really creepy.

You are assuming the dogs owner wasn’t already on their way to report it. Now if the child’s parent knew it was urine & still let them walk through it who is to blame? Accidents are just that, accidents. not on purposes.

John Lewis has allowed dogs for years. I've never seen one slobbering over the soft furnishings.

I work for Costa, the company has recently started allowing dogs into the cafe. It's awful!
The noise, the mess, the smell, the customers complaining about the dogs, the dog owners entitlement. Some have put dogs onto chairs and even tables. They kick off if we tell them to put them onto the floor. Honestly it's awful

I went to the beach the other day and there was a big sign on the beach saying no dogs on the beach and a dog sitting on the beach right next to the sign 😂 The owner had the dog on a lead and was sitting with it while she was watching her kids play so I don’t know if she thought she just wasn’t allowed to walk the dog on the beach but it could sit with them, she somehow missed the big, bright yellow sign or she just didn’t care.

I'm amazed how many people flout the "no dogs on this beach" rule. We went to the beach the other day- lovely warm day up in Saltburn 😂 but loads of dogs off the lead running up to us despite signs saying no dogs on this beach before 30th September, fine £1000.
Why would anyone run the risk of a £1000 fine? Is it that it's not enforced?

Doesn't remotely bother me and I have never had a dog but would worry about a wagging tail knocking breakable stuff over 🤣

Why, pray tell?!

Kids are allowed in the range.

It’s great to see dogs will be more preferred and treated better than kids!

What's silly is ignoring all those that have already explained it's a numbers game. There's far fewer assistance dogs than pets. I can count on one hand the amount of guide dogs I've ever encountered and one of those belonged to my visually impaired father in law and another belonged to his friend. If we were going somewhere with DS2 and a guide dog was present or arrived later we would not go inside or leave. This has never happened. In over a decade of DS2 having a dog allergy we've never had to do this because of an assistance dog however not going into places because of other peoples pets is a regular occurrence.

Good one!

This is, for me, the best post on this thread 🤣

Meanwhile in the real world, Mumsnet aibu votes and comments are not legally binding and despite all the many tantrums here over dogs being allowed in stores, this has been shown to increase profits. It's entirely up to the shop if they allow them in and taking your dog somewhere it's allowed to be isn't entitled behaviour. Pretty much every dog I've seen out and about has behaved fine.

Sorry that just made me think. A dog in the shop in question would be a Range Rover.

/sorry

/notsorry

ban dogs