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To think The Range has made a stupid decision

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hellolittleduck · 16/09/2024 23:45

“CDS Superstores has announced a major change to The Range stores' entry requirements. Dog owners will no longer need to leave their pets outside or at home as stores across the UK are now completely dog-friendly.“

What’s the point of this other than to make shopping in The Range a miserable experience? Am I the only one who thinks it’s disgusting to have filthy dogs running around soft furnishings and fragile displays, potentially pissing on things? I assume people with dog allergies are just irrelevant then. Navigating the shop is already a nightmare when it’s busy, who wants dogs who have been rolling around in God knows what to be taking up the aisles? Think it’ll be online orders only from now on… Hmm

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CherryValley5 · 17/09/2024 00:32

I have no issue with dogs but I am genuinely wondering why on earth you’d want to take them to the range? Seems very silly to me - and I’m a dog owner + lover!

It’s not a pet friendly shop in the slightest.

Hecatoncheires · 17/09/2024 00:31

I love dogs and I have one myself so this wouldn’t bother me greatly. But I understand that it’s not for everyone and there should be boundaries. There’s no need for dogs to be in shops other than Pets @ Home or the likes. As an aside, I used to look after a friend’s kids after school. She’d always bring her dog into my house to collect them even though every single time the wee buggar would pee with excitement, often on my living rooom rug. I asked her not to but she’d ‘forget’. Leave the fcuking dog in the car, pal!

Mama2many73 · 17/09/2024 00:30

Kentuckycriedfrickin · 16/09/2024 23:53

I'm a dog owner. I love my dog, I like going places with my dog, never in a million years would I go shopping with my dog. My dog doesn't give a shiny shite about home furnishings, she isn't going to derive enjoyment from shopping and she isn't going to enhance the shopping experience.

I don't understand this relatively recent trend of people taking their dogs fucking everywhere. Unless it an appropriate place for a dog to be just leave them at home like a normal bloody person.

(Obviously service dogs are excepted).

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100% my position
100% agree

Whatevershallidowithmylife · 17/09/2024 00:28

I love my dogs and, tbh, like most dogs better than most humans. There is however a time and place for them and absolutely no need for them to be in any shop or restaurant.

ThatAgileGoldMoose · 17/09/2024 00:25

I think you've been OTT in what it will be like in there with dogs allowed but as a dog owner I'm not particularly supportive of this either. I love taking my dog where she is allowed and expected - pub beer gardens, garden centres and the odd dog friendly cafe. But we really don't need dogs in regular shops.

Balloonhearts · 17/09/2024 00:18

Meh. They're no more disgusting than toddlers so I really can't get too worked up tbh.

Clarabellasingsthisbit · 17/09/2024 00:15

Yup.I was in the bedding department of John Lewis last week and there was a couple browsing around with two largish dogs.Said dogs were having a jolly good old sniff at all the bedding on display while their attached humans were preoccupied with finding pillowcases containing the correct thread count,or whatever.

I always wash bedding and towels before first use,but there were some large expensive quilts and bedspreads folded on the lower shelves and I wouldn't expect to be spending £200 -ish on something like that after someone's dog had been sniffing it!

I checked when I got home and apparently JL's policy allows all dogs in the store,apart from the food outlets (assistance dogs excepted of course).I'm really surprised.Perhaps I shouldn't be though 😕

DarkForces · 17/09/2024 00:06

I hadn't heard this. Ddog is looking forward to a visit. Thanks op

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 17/09/2024 00:03

I don't want to take my dogs shopping in the Range and I am pretty sure even tho they would like to be attached to me like velcro that they don't want to be taken shopping in the Range either.

yes they may like a trip into Pets at Home as they will like the smells of the treats etc. but my dogs stay at home when I shop.

I choose where to take my dogs - somewhere I know they will enjoy i.e. the park or the beach or the woods These places are places for dogs.

otherwise it's at home in their multiple beds or on the sofa.

kluesme · 17/09/2024 00:00

The amount of times I have found a dog poo on the floor in pets at home proves to me no other shops should allow dogs in

Kentuckycriedfrickin · 16/09/2024 23:59

IME, it's hardly ever the nice dogs that go everywhere with their owners (probably because good owners wouldn't take their dogs to unsuitable places to begin with). It's always the yappy fuckers or the "fur babies" or the jumpy twats hanging out at the very end of their lead or the genetically fucked up science experiments... Sorry, designer breeds ... stumping around, struggling to breathe and looking at you with a pained expression.

AngeloMysterioso · 16/09/2024 23:55

Fuck me, is there anywhere dogs can’t go now? My town is overrun with them… dogs in the pub, dogs in the pharmacy, dogs in Fenwicks, I’m surprised people don’t take them to church…

ExquisiteEmelda · 16/09/2024 23:54

Doesn’t bother me either way but I wonder why they’ve done it? Feeling the pinch with their competition B&M and Home Bargains is my guess.

Kentuckycriedfrickin · 16/09/2024 23:53

I'm a dog owner. I love my dog, I like going places with my dog, never in a million years would I go shopping with my dog. My dog doesn't give a shiny shite about home furnishings, she isn't going to derive enjoyment from shopping and she isn't going to enhance the shopping experience.

I don't understand this relatively recent trend of people taking their dogs fucking everywhere. Unless it an appropriate place for a dog to be just leave them at home like a normal bloody person.

(Obviously service dogs are excepted).

Sparklebelle1024 · 16/09/2024 23:49

I’m a dog owner and I agree with you, I think all shops etc should be service dogs only. You do not NEED to take your pet everywhere. Mine wouldn’t be happy anyway she quite likes her time alone when we do pop out.

Jc2001 · 16/09/2024 23:49

I went to the Range once. Never again. Awful experience. I suppose dogs will make it just that little but worse.