Silliest place you’ve seen a dog owner take their dog

It's just a dog peeking its nose under a cubicle divider, not some peeping Tom with a camera

If people have difficult and complicated lives, adding a dog to it has to be managed. It's not fair to therefore expect other people to tolerate it.

My God, this was 25 bloody years ago.

Ok - apologise for allowing the animal you had responsibility for behaving in an inappropriate way.

I'm not sure it's a good idea for dogs to be in clothes shops but as someone else said, some people's lives are complicated. I have a ten year old Bichon who's just lost his best friend. Bichons are notoriously clingy at the best of times so I can't leave him at home (although he's ok in the car while I nip into a shop).

I live alone and have a chronic health condition so often, by the time I've walked my dog, I've got no energy to go back out to get food/run errands. It's much easier if I can pop into the post office etc. whilst I'm out on the dog walk. Even if I'm ok, I have to take the car out so I guess that's not acceptable either.

It wasn’t me looking under the cubicle.

No you can't
You may have seen a dog in a supermarket, but by law, dogs are forbidden in grocery stores (with the usual exception for assistance dogs)
That's why butchers and bakeries generally have a hook in the wall to leave the dog outside.

Non-farm dogs off leash in fields of ewes and lambs in the Lake District.
Only being friendly.

That's not true and you know it. Cheap point scoring.
And not even a dog to show for it.

Possibly

My mums dog as a kid for example went with them to the beach, and would be tied up by a lamp post while they went off to shops etc.

When we went away as kids, our dog would come but be left in caravans at haven, British holidays etc

Now it's a lot more complicated

Haven allows dogs for examples in a significant portion of their vans. But they don't allow you to leave them, you also aren't allowed to take them where the day time activities are

Realistically I'm sure that most of them expect you to leave your dogs but it a shit situation. People always seem surprised when we follow the rules

You're either a terrible owner breaking rules and the cause of much scorn

Or you're a terrible person according to mumsnet with your dog in museums, shops and restaurants.

Something like 45% of people on holiday in the uk have dogs, it's a large chunk of people/ tourist income to be stuck in eating takeaway each night, never going in shops and only doing woodland walks for the whole holiday.

We took our dog to the polling station once. She had a toe fetish. The polling clerk was wearing sandals and got an unexpected lick.

Things like static holiday parks don't allow you to leave dogs unattended now days. I swear that want the case 30 years ago

That will be because more people have dogs than 30 years ago and the caravan owners can't trust the dog owners not to allow Fido to trash the place whilst they're out for the day. If check-out time is 10am and the next family check in at 4pm, that doesn't leave you much time to sort out new cushions, bedding etc if someone has allowed their dog to chew everything to bits.

Dogs at Polling Stations is totally A Thing. BBC News are All Over It on Polling Day. See @votingdogs on twitter.

Dogs. This thread is about dogs. The trans threads are that-a-way👈🏻 ..... and that-a-way 👉🏻 and that-a-way 👆🏻and tha......... 👆🏻👉🏻👈🏻

I go to a lot of festivals, mostly older people, Rock/Prog/Blues, usually 4 nights camping. Never used to allow dogs but most do now.

I don’t have a dog, badly attacked as a child so a bit scared of them tbh, sorry. But I do wonder whether taking them to the stage, right by the speakers, is actually fun for creatures with such acute hearing.

Also not keen on those who take them into the shower.

I am 100% pro human rights which includes the rights of trans people.

@Differentforgirls
So the Supreme Court is vilifying TW? Biological reality vilifies trans women too?
A viewpoint showing why the SC ruling was needed in the first place.
(apologies for the derail. I like dogs but would not have one -- can't stand the shit. The shit thing applies to the crap owners too. )

I'm pro dogs rights. Can we possibly keep the ongoing trans row to the many threads already about it - we are rowing about dogs here.

I take my dog on the tube or the train all the time. My dog can easily do a 4h train ride without needing the loo.

A dog just doesn't pee like that, they know to hold it and need certain conditions to pee. A dog who's quietly sitting in the tube is not going to suddenly pee or poop out of the blue.

I also wonder if the increase in dog friendly places like petting farms, museums, shopping centeres etc is due to the increase in strict rules in rentals.

Things like static holiday parks don't allow you to leave dogs unattended now days. I swear that want the case 30 years ago

Weve definitely been in the position of a windy/wet day on holiday, trapped in a caravan looking for family friendly indoor activities that are dog friendly

@TerrifiedPassenger- how acclimatised can a service animal be?

You clearly don't know the answer to that question, because if you had the remotest idea what the training for a service dog is, you would never have asked it. It is also ableist and very insulting to suggest that people with disabilities do not care about the welfare of their service dogs, upon whom they depend. Nobody with a service dog would put their companion at risk.

Are you pro trans women's rights?

Wasn't that the plot of an episode of The Vicar of Dibley?... 🤔

The BBC roll out a feature every general election on dogs in polling stations. The text gets recycled every time and for a few years there was an amusing section that read "dogs may not yet have the vote, but [filler article on dogs on polling stations]." The addition of "yet" tickled me as it read as though the author thought that canine suffrage was just around the corner 😆

Last time i saw the article alas the text had been updated to remove the "yet"!

Our local cinema does dog friendly screenings. I love dogs but FFS... does a dog really want to sit in a dark room for 2 hours?