I’ve joined the “why are there dogs everywhere” Club

Dogs in changing rooms! Ffs just no!

I think some people have lost sight of a dog's needs & role & treat them like people.

i do find it amusing that a colleague, who is staunchly anti-children, has dogs who are so pandered to they are like toddlers who'll never grow up. They can't go out without getting a babysitter, a cough is an emergency vet visit, the dogs get her up in the middle of the night to let them out to toilet & then get her up at 6am for breakfast. Every night. When one passed she claimed paid bereavement leave. Her DH is the boss so she gets away with it!!

They used to have kennels at Legoland (I'm going back years ago) where you could leave your dog while you went in.

The dogs in school is concerning. There's all this stuff about improving school attendance but if I'd had to worry about dealing with a large dog at school that could well have been the thing that tipped me into school refusal.

That's funny😂What a pair of t*ers

You seriously expect someone with a genuine assistance dog to leave it at home?

Do you also object to wheelchairs?

Your part of the every Tom duck and Harry brigade also 🙄👍

im not standing there working out which dog owner has more rights to be in a human space 😂

I think your dogs are all annoying and wish you’d leave them at home.

PTS? My dog is literally having her best life 😅, loads of exercise, walks in the peak district, stimulation, playing, food and naps. She just struggles with being left on her own at home because she had a really hard start in life, which we are working on and is gradually improving.

Or they were trained properly. IDK.

But a dog that nervous is life restricting and a risk to other and I dont know why humans restrict their lives in this way for an animal that isn't even that self aware and doesnt apprecaite the sacrifice..

The only dogs we need to tolerate is guide dogs. Dogs otherwise are not essential to life. Keep you dog at home or in your garden … it would be happier and so would we especially those of us with small children 👍

I feel sorry for the allergy sufferers and for that reason think that only assistance dogs should be allowed inside shops. That's a human need. Ordinary dogs don't need to be inside shops.

Sadly even being in an indoor environment where dogs or cats have been, but no longer are, triggers asthma attacks and eczema flare ups in my dad.

I am fed up of dogs on trains. I was on a super crowded service recently and the only place I could find to sit was next to a woman with a dog that sat on my feet for the whole journey. I didn't mind so much but the dog smell, ugh, when you can't even open the window on the train anymore. There was a couple with a dog nearby on a four seat table, where I couldn't sit because they had bags over the spare seats. When a bolder traveller than me got on later and asked them to move the bags, they said they'd put them there to stop people their dog didn't know sit by them because it was aggressive with strangers and could bite!

We are a weird lot though, we British. A lot of ppl think its ok to stand outside a hotel with a flag terrorising vulnerable asylum seekers. And yet its wrong to take a dim view of an owner whose dog is pissing and shitting and growling and licking everything in a park or shop or whatever. I'm not having a go. I'm simply onserving that we are a funny bunch in this country with weird priorities.

It is. The schools these days only obsess about nut allergy’s. Which I don’t get cause those pupils who cant eat it can sit in a separate table.

But dogs roam around the school and there’s no avoiding that. Not to mention the smell, shedding hairs, phobias, allergy’s, cultural sensitivity’s are over looked 😡

That's something else I wonder. I don't remember all these anxious dogs that couldn't cope with being left alone for a few hours when I was younger. We're they just more likely to be put to sleep?

Of course you could, I regularly do that with mine and he is none the worse for it. Start as you mean to go on and ensure the dog works around your life, not the other way around. You own it, it doesn't own you.

Same af my kids school. We was not consulted it just happened. The dogs are smelly, not on leads and big.

What I do not get is peanut butter is banned because of allergies. but the school isnt bothered about kids allergy’s/phobia’s /cutural avoidance about dogs 😡

its like there’s this blind spot when it comes to dogs 🙄

At the risk of sounding unpopular it sounds like no life for you or the dog.

Why is PTS never considered with such a troubled or distressed dog.

Like you say it’s not going to affect anyone else 🤷🏻‍♀️

what do you mean by that? 🤔

I’m put of going cause of it. If the dogs was actually in short leads, not aloud on grass and not aloud indoors I would go! Shame it’s another place that has been shut of to my young family. Do many places have become dogs places as the expense of children. I do not get how animals are viewed as more vital than children. 🙄

We have dogs and I would never dream of bringing them into a shop or a restaurant or pub.

You missed out the word some. Some people are smelly, dirty and dangerous but most are not. It's the same with dogs. There are places that dogs should not be allowed, I don't think a shopping centre is a healthy environment for a dog, unless it is a trained service dog.

But this is very binary view of how people live their lives. You went out clothes shopping. But many people in John Lewis won’t have gone out for the purposes of going shopping. They will have nipped in to grab something on their way to and from something else.

Aside from Christmas when I like the general buzz I can’t remember the last time I ‘went out shopping’ - as opposed to picking something up from a shop when I’m on my way to or from something else like work/socialising/dog walk etc

Why do you feel the need to take an animal in to a shop? It’s not an animal space and lots of shoppers don’t like dogs for range of reasons. A dog can stay at home or something else suited to dogs

The kinder part of me gets that there are a lot of people who have a lot of love to give but can't actually do reciprocal relationships. I get that a pet can be a good stand in. I just don't want to have to deal with the resulting dogs when I'm shopping or trying to enjoy a cafe lunch.