To think The Range has made a stupid decision

Not if they're trained not to.

I don't know anyone who uses their dog as some kind of status symbol. Or car, actually.

I really must keep good company.

How very Christian of you

📢 “cleaner to aisle two, cleaner to aisle two. Dog shit steaming in aisle two! Oh a child has stood in it. Hurry please” 📢

I have a dog, but not a car.

Yes, my rescue cross breed and my 18 year old estate car is definitely a status symbol. I take them both places so people can wish they had what I have....

I come back to this thread and it is people going on about pensions, FFS. Many people who have dogs, also have kids. The pet industry is worth billions, and employs hundreds of thousands of people... who are all paying the pensions of people what are retired now.

Why do these threads always seem to descend into vicious comments aimed at people who have dogs (and it is always the same posters too).
The dig about having dogs at funerals was totally uncalled for. You were not there, so why give a shit?

Those “vanity projects” who go on to pay the taxes which fund dogshit bins, street cleaning, parks maintenance, police time wasted by dangerous dogs, as well as their owners future state pensions, NHS treatments, winter fuel allowance, free prescriptions, free bus passes etc. You’d materially miss them if they didn’t exist.

Unlike…dogs.

That’s often added to local FB selling pages too.

Also back in the day it used to be a selling point on ebay that things came from a pet- and smoke-free home!

Clearly there was some reason why being pet-free was a good thing.

Just to come back to this, you absolutely can get rid of a "service" dog if it is clearly not behaving like one.

If it's out of control and peeing everywhere, it's not a service dog.

Even the EHRC guidance which says you can't ask for evidence, says that effectively you will know it's fine because it behaves itself. However, when it doesn't, it's a bit too late.

I don’t have to resort to anything. I can choose to shop either online or in places that are dog free. Your tone is confrontational and quite unnecessary. The fact remains that the households without dogs are the majority.

My 4 year old DS wouldn't be babbling at a random adult. He wouldn't want to and we've brought him up better than that. Dogs have no control if they like the smell of your crotch.

I've seen them in department stores and garden centres (the indoor bits). I think people do things because they can. Also, having a dog (or several) is a status symbol. Dogs are expensive. And of course you need the expensive SUV as well, so it's the whole well to do package. So you have to take the dog and the SUV shopping, even if you can walk to your local shop in 5 minutes.

Although I am not sure that fits in with the Range. John Lewis, sure.

Kids don't approach me in cafes. Maybe I just look like a miserable wotsit!

They don't generally bother me anywhere, unless they are screaming and giving everyone within a mile radius a headache.

However, many dogs approach people. And their owners do nothing. And that's what bothers people.

I have dogs but I also agree they shouldn't be in shops unless they are service or guide dogs. That said, is anyone actually taking them up on it other than for the novelty of it at the beginning?

Well same back at you when your kids approach adults in cafes and most of you just smile on sweetly thinking we want them babbling away to us. Also the population in the world is high enough without you all having to have two or three vanity projects otherwise known as your children!

I will happily love dog owners if they keep their animals, their piss (and shit) away from me and my kids when enjoying shared spaces. Leads at all times. Pick up shit. Rinse away piss. Stay out of shops and indoor cafes. Don’t approach me. Don’t jump up at me.

And please, can you leave people alone who choose to have kids to keep everyone alive into their old age. Someone has to keep the old pyramid scheme chugging along.

Stopped using the Range when the owner, a multi billionaire, transferred millions to Jersey and his wife, to avoid tax, £15m in tax.

Nothing illegal of course but why should i give him even more money to avoid tax on.

Yes be lovely to have a dog do a big dump next to the linen section...

It’s a waste of money to buy her toys and treats that she ignores 🤷🏻‍♀️

NO I DID NOT THINK THAT! I have a private pension, I just said leave people alone who love their dogs, I know how fucking state pensions work!

You paid for the state pensions of pensioners who received it immediately. Did you really think you paid it into a safe little piggy bank and that your money was literally paid back out to you ? That’s…hilarious !!

Dogs are a cost to society. Children are an investment in society.

I know, I have a private pension!

You're paying the pensions of those people that have already retired. There is no pot of government money for your pension. You're completely reliant upon future generations to pay your state pension.

No, but future workers will pay for it from the taxes they pay.

Your pension is not a "pot" - you have not paid into something which then pays out. Your pension is a benefit, covered by taxpayers.